The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-08-08


are preparing to reap harvest out Of
so-called intelligent people who read
newspapers. The big three-ring circus
tent daiIies are flled with DR.. Koch'i
latest discovery that humans can't get
consumption from animals, but they no"
claim that you get It from the bacilli in
the des.icated sputum, and the sputum
is something out Of sight, floating in the
air. The great DR.. Koch is also the
father Of another discovery, that tthe hu'
man sputum can give tnberculoSs to
birds, guinea pigs and rabbits but hardly
ever to dogs, but they haven't found out
yet that they can give It 10 vegetables,
30 the cabbage and sauerkraut are safe
articles Of diet yet awhile. All the biolo-
gists are calling in question Koch's la
test discovery, that we can't catch cou'
sumption from cows or other animals.
Most Of these fellow don't believe any
thing but are continually supplying the
rest OF the world with beliefs that cost
them pile Of money, make no end oil
trouble and expense and then are later
on discovered 10 be false. For twenty
years the world has been asked to believe
that we we're in constant danger o.
getting bacilli and microbes that were
the direct cause Of consumption from
the milk we drank, and tbere wasn't
even any kind Of cheese. perfectly
immune unless II was Limburger, and
that had its own class Of inhabitants
whose rich flavor drove out ell the other
bugs aud could be eaten with impunity.
Thousands Of head Of dairy cows were
killed on the order Of some veterinary,
who IL now told II was all mistake and
that by no possibility can We catch
tuberculosis from cattle. The great
divine who erected a wall between
animals and humans, that can never be
crossed by any sort OF scientific quacK-
cry, looked after this matter Of bacilli.
While the alleged scientists have been
following theory that these little mi
crobes we're transmissable from beasts
10 people, and that rats carried the
plague, and the "harmless necessary
cat" was a walking Storage battery fol
diphtheria, and the mosquito retaileC
malaria germs.The Almighty who Great
I'd the universe, and made man but littl'
lower than the angels, knew better al
the time, and II they had consulted
spiritual wisdom instead Of DIR. Kocf
any Of them might have known the truth
about the matter. Now Koch has un
discovered his discovery and they have
got 10 chase after him In the opposite
direction and get up some new way u
skin the public ON the biological
theoTem. Koch's latest discovery il
about equal in point Of importance Il
that Of man who had been planting
onion sets wrong end up for twenty
years and then filled the newspaper
with accounts Of how he had got Il
through his head At last II was all a mis-
take. We have been catching bovine
tuberculosis for twenty years that w
couldn't catch, and yet there is nc
apology, no TspaTation, no paying the
bin for cattle killed or human lives losi
on the part OF the profession, and th'
state will 20 ON paying professor o
Biology $4,000 year 10 help along thiI
fraud. Much as is said by materia
scientists about the charlatanry Of Mrs
Eddy, II she had turned square around
IN twenty years on 80 vital matter al
Kooh's bacilli theory, all these probes
nional men would vote 10 send her Il
tho nearest eleetrocntionist and the,
would be right. Bat the baoteriologisi'
and biologists and biologists and al
the other money ey-making niger the
woodpile professions Of 80 called pateria
science. which are little more than dis
coveries that some previous discover,
was . mistake, win chase alter some
new shadow picture 10 humbug th'
people, They pretend 70 doubt Koch'I
latest undIscoyery, that animal tuber
culosis IL not lransmissable 10 humans,
and say the "question Of immunity il
hsdged about my subtle conditions" tc
leave you hanging Ia the Air and leave
some excuse for the eow-doolors TO kill
ilne herds for the fees there Is Ia il. Ia
the meantime the public can read the
that viii rage columns pro
md con in tho big dailies until the
readers won't know whether they
,elong 10 the race Of Adam and Eve or
o the cattle Of the Geld
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