The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-31
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To the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 An editorial article in The Courier or Monday, December 21st, is revelation in advanced knowledge on the subject of treating smallpox epidemics.
 For more than fifty years the apiest writers on hygiene and sanitations have urged with all the force or loglc and science gained from exhaustive study and enlarged experience the ob- servanee of these two great agencies in suppressing epidemics. But at this time there has come to light in the great State of Pennsylvania one Wno has in his superior wisdom discovered that the laws of hygiene and sanitation are not necessary adjuncts in such work; but the sole dependence of the people is in having their blood poisoned with vaccine lymph. their vitality, the disease resisting power of the human organism diminished by the introduc- tion of the rotten product of a diseased animal, to save their precious health, and by the same token enrich a lot ot blood poisoning scoundrels called doc tors.''
 This in the face of the overwhelming amount of testimony to the contrary from some of the ablest writers in the world. The result of the Pennsylvania Health Board Secretary's plan in Phil ade1phia alone gives the lie to his claims for his system. For three years they have been sav- l ing the citizens of that benighted city by the most persistent and thorough compulsory vaccination, and yet in the | report of this week we read that small | pox is steadily on the increase. Three ! weeks ago sixty-five cases were report ed. the following week eighty cases.
 this week ninety cases, proving. if any thing can be proven, that the increase
 of smallpox keeps pace with the in
 crease of vaccination, demonstrating beyond a doubt it's ineffieiency as a preventative.
 ! With some millions of dollars invest ed in the manufacture of the vile stuff
 called vaccine, and the large number of limpecunious M. D.'s to be kept out of the poorhouse, this infamous fetich is forced, by the aid of the police, upon intelligent Americans; men and women, many of whom know more about the
 science of life and the laws of health than 90 per cent. of the medical neo-
 phites who are detailed to do this work. This too, in America, in the Twentieth century.
 Such countries as Switzerland, Hol- Hand, and England. have removed the compulsory features of this law. The Testimony from statistical records of it's fearful evil effects upon the human trace is enough to appall any one who Twill take the trouble to. examine them
 Allow me to recommend to your read. lers the following writers on the sub lject of vaccination Alfred Russell Wal llace in "The Wonderful Century" Pro
 fessor Creighton in the ninth edition lof Encyclopedia Brittanica," William White in "The Great Delusion," pub. Ilished by Allen of London in 1885, Dr
 Thomas Scott Tebb, in "A Century oI IVaccination."
 1 In England alone there have beer lwritten two hundred and thirty y-nint books and pamphlets by one hundred land two authors against vaccination In America, seventeen authors anC thirty-six books; in Germany thirty
 nine authors and one hundred and fou books; in France and Belgium, eigh iauthors and twenty-nine books; Hol Hand, two authors and four books Sweden, three authors and seven books an amount of testimony against thi