The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-10
TO OHAGE
sOCIEry many
TO MEET HIM IN DE-
BATE
PRESIDENT GRIGGs WRITES
Society Does Not Believe Admission
Fee Should Be Charged, but DR..
Ohage Insists on This
Provision.

II Health Commissioner Ohage is agree
able, the st. Paul Anti-Vaccinatfon So
cleIy VIII meet him in joint debate on
the evening of May 2. The discussion on
It's side Of the question will be con-
Quoted by a physician Of unuuestioned
autlloIlIy' ana the society viii pay all ex-
penses attendant upon the meeting.
In reply to DR.. Ohage's letter published
Yesterday, ]. W. Griggs, the president
OF the local organization, last night die
tated the following answer a copv Of
which has been mailed to the health com
missioner:
JUstus Ohage. NJ D. Commissioner Of
heaIth' c1ty-Dear Sir: Ignoring your
entertaining gallery play in your letter
puphshed in the morning paper, we wish
TO bring you back to your own prOuOsaI
Tor debate that has been pending for
more than a year.
Feb. 49, 1901, we proposed 2 newsnaner
discussion and claimed we could estab-
Hsh the following four propositions:
firSt-N acclnauOn is a medical delusiOn
ana not Inc result of scientific research.
6econd-FaccinatiCn is the inOcuI .tfOn of
Htalthy person with pus or SO-caIed
IynPn ot GoWpoX extraction from ulcers
! on diseased lnocuIated calves j. FL, with
animal matter in a state of decOmposi-
ton, which is a poison
Ihrd-VaccinatiOn has been the means
q deSeneraung the human system by in
Producing destructive pOisOns and deyaI-
Oplng numerous diseases
r ourth-N accinatiOn cOnfers no certain
immunity from smallpox, but on the
contrary has tended to keep alive this
WE. preferred this plan 50 the public
couiu see the arguments side by side, and
WIN no opportunity for misquOtatiOns or
debate
1T The following day you wrote in reply:
want q public meeting SO people who
are interested may hear be instructed
f4,r
rSnt: / want to meet them man to man
ana lace to face and no other way They
plead they are a young society. only a
month ola, and perhaps lacking mettIe
apparently unfair l accord them the priv
lleg9 Of bringing the champions of their
cause from other cities"
IN II q letter Of Feb. II last we accepted
tILIS chdIlehSe Now, if YOU meant what
you said we have a physician to meet
you The hall we will pay for Your
500 to go to the Coliseum fund. We
want a free discussion so that EVERYONE
the truth. -- van i''i' =
Fearing you will undertake to impose
! Qtner unreasonable conditions. we name
Friday evening, May . Uhe date of OuT
next regular monthly meetingl. and shall
look Tor you to drop all ingenious side i'll
sues and bellttling talk. and meet our,
man in sensible discussion. Respectfully
submitted,
The Anti-Vaccinatfon Society Of st.
Paul; by J. w. Griggs President
st. Paul, MINI, April O. 1902
Relative to the ST. admission fee, which
DR.. Ohage stpulates shall be charged
the society says it will have none a.
1t. Or. Ohage, on the other hand, saws
he will insist on it, in fact, gave out d
statement to that effect last night.
Il think" said President GrOggs. Of
the local society, last night, chat we will
furnish DR.. Ohage for this debate a man
that he will be more than pleased to
meet. This is no demagogicaI di-.ussioa.
We want everything fair and above
board We can ass Sc DR.. Ohage that
our man Will meet him as a gentleman
should. We are as confident Of our po-
sition as he is and will stoOp to nothing
that would degrade or belittIe it,"
The local society claims to be gaining
recruits fast, and points with pride to its
latest publication. a weekly paper now
being issued by the Minneapolis socAty
There the agitation is as great as 1T Is ia
st. Paul.