The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-12-15
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.


chief had taken a couple of sacred apes
along. Hannman apes had been wor-
shipped BY there forefsthers and they
thought IL impossible to get along with
out them.
And for no better reason emigrants to
our free Republic have brought an assort-
ment of cowpox bullies along Nine out
of ten immigrants hated vaccination as
they hate poison, filth and disease. but
their fathers and their grandfathers be-
lieved In the efficiency OF vaccination.
and like the Hindoo they think IL flying
In the face of Providence to repudiate
the rite.
Even thus the settlers OF Salem ap-
pointed witch hunters and the Spanish
West indian colonists hereto catchers.
No Phenician colony would have thought
itself complete without an expect In
and d, roasting %o;aGg chSren for the
is not pained at the mention OF these
atrocities done In the name OF religion.
But what shall We say of the fifteen
hundred that were injured by our own
DR.. Leonard. who claims that only per
cent OF the 5000 he vaccnated resulted
badly? And yet Dr. Chaplin deplores the
fered with by those ''sntis'' at the state
house last winter. As was one OF those
that spoke against compulsory vaccina-
this opportunity to reply to DR. Chaplin.
What he cannot do by logic he tries to do
by playing on the fears Of the Ignorant.
when he talks of 100. 900 people In Provi-
dence that are liable to contract smallpox
unless vaccinated
The late DR.. w. B. Carpenter OF Lon
cate. who made personal researches in
Montreal eight years after the smallpox
epidemic II, 1s4-ls7b. declared In his
pamphlet ADDRESSED add to the house OF com. com.
vaccination that vaccination was so well
carried out in Motreal that smallpox had
become almost extinct:
Two years later In 1885 nearly 1000 died
from smallpox In that city, a large per-
centage OF the victims having been vac
cinated
Smallpox is a nithy disease and Mon
treal has for years been one Of its abid-
Ross gne of the aSiest Canadian doc:
cent Of our smallpox deaths have oc.
Cured In the filthy lanes and alleys Of
the east end OF the city"
in Montreal in isss through perfect
system OF vaccination, according TO the
great London vaccine expert. Dr Car.
penter. and two years later the greatest
smallpox epidemic that ever occurred In
anv city In America
With the full knowledge OF these facts.
Or. Chaplin declares for Jenner's prophy-
Tactic and yet forsooth ne has good COM
pany. for did not Huxley say. Two CEN
turies ago England was devastated by the
plague; cleanliness and common sense
were enough 10 free us from Its ravaees.
One century since smallpox was about
as great a scourge; science though work
ing empirlcally. and almost In the dark
has reduced that evil 20 relative insignif-
canoe" Medical doctors rejoice 10 quote
the above.
Considering that In London in the
eighteenth century In no year did the
smallpox deaths reach a total OF four
thousand, and that In one year In the
seventeenth century sixty-eisht thousand
were caused then by the plague we can
simply term Huxley's statement as bla-
tant clap-trap. This II logically his cate
chism.
o-Centuries ago the sweating sickness
killed thousands. What caused N ~ dis
appear
A.-Nstural causes. and not vaccina-
ton.
o-rhe plague killed myriads. what
caused Its disappearance7
A.-Natural causes and not vaccination.
Q-Leprosy. scurvy and fever were ter
ribly fatal In old days. what caused
their disappearance7
tion7
Q.-where diseases die out or become
milder. What is- the cause7
A--Natural causes and not vaccina-
tion7
o.-when smallpox declines what 4.
A-vaccinatisn nothing but vaccina-
tion
Dr. Alfred n. wallace OF England.
scientist ana co-discoverer with Darwin,
Of the principle OF natural selection. SAYS,
II stepped out of my special path 20
strike blow az this wretched supersti-
ton"
Dr. T. Mackenzie. r. r. c. r. Edin.
borough. says. II can produce children Of
three different families, whore scrofula
vas never heard 81 till they were vseoi-