The Washington herald., 1907-09-09
Compulsory Vaccination.

Editor The Washington Herald:
Is science greater or wiser than nature2
The wild animals which are living ac-
cording to natural laws-obeying their
natural instincts-are practically free
from disease. while man is the most DIS
eased creature on the globe.
Does nature ordain that lower animal
shall be inoculated with poison. and be
made diseased and have the filth from
that disease injected into mans lifeblood,
to prevent disease in him?
How can any sane person hold such a
preposterous theory as that2
Smallpox is the penalty nature sends for
wrong living habits-a system loaded
down with filth. No internally clean per-
son could possibly contract a severe case
Of the disease
If physicians would only instruct people
how TO keep their blood pure. by right
living habits. instead Of inOculating them
with filthy vaccine virus, they would
merit the everlasting respect Of humanity.
Dr NJ. r. Leverson, the greatest living
authority on smallpox, recently said, at
meeting in Philadelphia: There is no
subpNLL N ECltNCts ileuitlut. OF APAlLityii
sense for this shameful outrage upon the
human race. Vaccination was begotten in
greed and vanity, delivered in murder.
and maintained by shameless ignorance
DIT W Z. Kelly, Of Independence, Kans.,
writes: 4 do not believe vaccination pro-
tects any one from smallpox. believe
vaccination is dangerous believe that
all contagious diseases are harmless If
the blood Is fortified with all its normal
ingredients also that filing the blood
with poison will not prove a good sub
stitute for natures plan. Were health
boards 20 enforce vaccination upon my
children I should set about removing the
poison with the same determination as II
bitten by rattlesnake. In these days Of
our boosted civilization We ought TO be
removed a little farther from barbarism
Ia our practice Italy Is the most thor
oughly vaccinated country In the world
and the deaths in 1858 from smallpox were
1900,
More people have died from vaocipation
than from smallpox IN California in the
past ten years but the doctors keep
pretty quiet about such statistics as that.
Vaccination Is directly opposed 20 every
law OF nature. As soon as the poison
virus is put into the blood she strives 20
throw Il out as soon as possible, IN her
wise effort 10 keep the system pure, how
ever man endeavors 10 pollutc It, The
awful sore produced shows what nature
thinks of having such vile stuff put into
the llfebloodl
DR. c, S. Carr writes IN Health" (Sep-
tember. 1850: The only evidence they have
that vaccination protects Is based on sta
tistics" (Which are made by those who
are making money from poisoning their
fellow mem. 1T is my firm conviction
that the most OF these statistics are lies.
and those statistics that are reliable are
either lucky coincidenccs, or, as IN some
cases. differences from them have been
drawn entirely Illogical"
How an intelligent parent can permit
the deliberate poisoning Of their children's
lifeblood, which they have striven so TO
keep unpolluted. by inocuiation OF such
filthy stun as vaccine virus. il is beyond
my reasoning powers To explain,
The practice OF vaccination cCrrupts the
system. lowers the vitality. and makes
the person more susceptible 10 ali dis
eases.
Dr. c. NJ. MoTford. Toledo. Iowa, writes.
| Il know that constitutional diseases. such
as scrofula. eczema. syphilis. and con-
sumption are liable 20 be conveyed bv
vaccination. do not believe that blood
poisoning tetanus. and Assesses can with
any certainty be avoided In cases Of vac
cination. I have no time for vaccination
in any form and firmly believe Il 10 be
a potent cause Of cancer"
HENRY p. BRADFORD.