The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-02
DR.. Leyerson, in His Argyll
ment Against Vaccination,
Advises Hearers to Kill
Those Who Would Violate
Persons of Their Children
Asserts That Inocula-
ton Increases Death Rate
From Smallpox.

Kill the wretches who would vio-
late the persons of your children!"
rms is the advice DR.. Montague r.
LeVerson, Of Brooklyn, N. Y, gave to
ms audience yesterday afternoon at
| the Metropolitan theater during his lee
| ture on the evils of vaccination.
He had just exhibited a particularly
loathsome looking 'stpreopticon view of
child hopelessly diseased and de-
formed from the alleged effects of vac
clnat1On; and while the picture was in
the slide had asked:
DO you intend to let your children
become as that one?"
Naturally, some parents in the audi
ence shouted ~sSNO," and then it was
that the venerable doctor vehemently
shouted: No; kill the wretches who
would violate the persons of your chill
dren! Some of those in the audi
ence applauded.
Lecturer Was InaudibIe.
AS a lecturer, wholly apart from the
merits or dement's jof the subject in
~hand, DR.. LeVerSon was a decided dis
appointment to many who attended.
HIS delivery in opening was pleasing,
but towards the end he lost his voice
completely and could not be heard ten
feet from the stage. Added to this,
his diagrams and tabulated statements
did not show up well enough on the
screen to permit of being read from
the orchestra chairs, so that whatever
effect they might have produced was
entirely lost.
The pictures, he admitted, in answer
TO question from the audience, were
all taken in England for use before
the royal commission it being impossi-
BILE, he explained for him to obtain
suitable photographs in the United
States, as people here had a peculiar
horror of having their deformities and
diseases so exposed.
lecturer made:
Some of DR.. Leverson's Assertions.
ut is superstition that smallpox is
dangerous disease. In fact, if no
harm be done by physician or nurse,
1t IS the ughteSt and safest Of all di-
SeaSeS.
Vaccination does not prevent small
pox nor protect against it's ravages..
On the contrary, whenever the per-
centage of vaccination increases, there
Is a visible increase in the death rate,
and in the number of smallpox cases.
Smallpox is not an infectious az
sease. 49, .....
NO advances have been made in the
so-called science of the practfee of med
1clne during the past hundred Xears.
The old school, or regular physicians
OF the present day, are as ignorant,
unscientiffc and INSCRIPTIONS as those
of the eighteenth century, -~e,
The new and fatal practice Of in
nocuIating disease under the pretense
OF preventing it is the result, off, a
foul and INFAMOUS superstition.
ho1na s-tRaeingto MacadTay as u
historian is humbug es@sq4.ss..sz-ze
'-"-1AAssFr 4affpox amongst the poor in Eng
land in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries was no worse. than a. bad
celdswz0klyasthe rich died of Smallpox
in those days, which was due,itoetheir
fifth and ihtemperance.
ze.@PeQplershould welcome SMALLPOX as
a friend to save them fronsot4aer worse
diseases for the reason that smallpox
cleans out the system thoroughly and
gives it a chance to begin again.
AT the close an appea1-~was made
to the people of Minnesota to support
the anti-vaccinationist cause and pub
licly denounce every politician who
would not use. every effort in his DOW
er to repeal tle-iaW compelling pub
lie school children to be vaccinated.