West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-06-13
ANTI-yACCINATiON.
Another Interesting Article ON the
Subject.
Editor of The Argus.

read with much pleasure the
interesting articles you have been
publishing pro and Con on the
question of vaccination, and hear
tily admire your generous liberality
in equal, hearing both sides of
this important discussion, in the
confident belief that error alone can
loose and truth must eventually
win.
Until proven indisputably true,
every unreasonable or unnatural
proposition virtually remains untrue
hence advocates Of vaccination
must indisputably establish their
claims, else it is a mistake, nay, a
crime, to vaccinate, and the benefit
of every doubt in the argument
must weigh against vaccination.
That vaccination has caused dis
ease, suffering, amputation and
death in numerous cases cannot be
denied. Hence, before administer
ing or taking such a fatal remedy,
its benefits-if any there be-should
be shown to indisputably outweigh
its injuries, and then it should be
taken only when absolutely neces-
sary to mitigate disease already
contracted and not one that might
not otherwise attack the individual.
That vaccination does not pre-
vent smallpox is evident from the
fact that persons who had been
repeatedly vaccinated shortly be-
fore have never the less contracted
smallpox and died therefrom. AS
constitution weakened by disease
is more susceptible to disease of all
kinds-smallpox included-it nat
urally follows that to weaken the
body by giving it cowpox (vaccina-
tion) renders it actually more sus-
ceptible to smallpox than if 1t had
not been vaccinated. Any disease
sufficiently powerful to prevent
another disease must naturally be
more formidable than the disease it
prevents, in which case it were bet
ter to have the disease itself-small-
pox-than its preventive-cowpox.
When the benefits of cure or
preventive are quite evident, the
people are anxious to voluntarily
take the benefits thereof, but the
fact that it was necessary TO pass
compulsory laws, forcing vaccina-
ton on the people, indicates that
its benefits(if any are so obscure as
not to be perceived, appreciated
and sought after by the populace.
As smallpox did not exterminate
mankind before Jenner "discover-
ed" or 'invented" vaccination, it
probably would not do so now
especially as smallpox is filth dis
ease, and the modern use of "store-
soap" bathtubs, laundried clothes,
pure hydrant water, we'll heated and
ventilated houses and thousand
other things promote cleanliness
now a hundred fold more than ex-
listed in ancient times.
After citing statistics, the Balti-
more Sun recently said editorially
that, without sanitation and isol-
alton vaccination is practically use
less" This is a mild way of saying
that vaccination is a humbug and
that sanitation and isolation are the
real preventives of smallpox.
lnoculating persons with the
filthy, poisonous virus of a scab
from sick calf IN order to cure or
prevent filth disease-smallpox-
rightly belongs to the dark, super
stitious, unscientific age in which it
originated, and should not be adj
vocated or practiced by any modern,
intelligent, progressive physician
today.
In the { March "North American
Journal of Homeopathy" DR.. Stuart
Close, of Brookly, N. Y, in a
thirteen page article thoroughly and
exhaustively reviews and refutes the
claims Of vaccinationists, and the
(March) Physical Culture" a very
popular health monthly, in a lead
ing article exposes the fallacy of
vaccination theories, and numerous
other journals and newspapers are
doing likewise, while the (Terre
Haute, Ind. )"Vaccination' month
ly) bristles with characterization
facts and arguments.
Let the good work go on until
this abominable practice of vaccin-
alton that originated in the slave
stealing, witch burning, hereto
hunting, martyr torturing, ignorant,
benighted, fanatical, superstitious,
unscientifc past be relegated along
with its associate fallacies to the
| limbo Of eternal ohlivion