Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-05
MAKES A STRONG PROTEST
AGAINST VACCINATION
Los Angeles Man Writcs scathing De-
nunciation of System Of "lnocu-
Iating Children with Virus and
Shuns Investigation"

LOS ANGELES. Oct. 4.-(Editor Her
add: In view of the spectacle now pre-
sented on certain days at the board OF
health office, this city, ~of throngs OF
school children waiting to be fnoculateo
with vaccine virus, as condition fol-
school attendance, would ask how long
is it probable that the parents of Los
Angeles and of California intend to sub
NIT to this?
For more than century has this
stream of virus polluted the life-current
of the race, not only with its own in
trirsic impurity, but with the seeds OF
transmitted disease. This fact has been
established so absolutely and thoroughly
that it seems childish as we'll as superfiu-
Gus to reiterate such well-known matters
of medical history. Such names as DR..
Alexander Ross, DR.. w. j. Collins, FRO
fessor e. M. CrooksAank, DR.. Gregory
Dr. Creighton, Professor Boens, ct al-all
distinguished specialists on the supJeco-
guarantee it's truth.
Is it not astounding tnat so-called sci
entific" men, who talk so feelingly OF
the dangers OF the ''microbe" and the
germ" should inject deliberately and
directly into the blood of helpless chill
dren matter from the sore OF a diseased
beast. containing they know not what'
and be supported in the deed by the IN,
dolence and inertia of careless puphc'
And is it not infamous that the law,
given right of a child to a pubic school
education should be held up, as 1t were,
by medical trust till this old fetch OF
pol,ution has received its tribute? Let
us not jeer at the days when medlcal
men dosed the sick with mixtures OF m
sect and reptilian debris and other nltn,
while we today boast of a system OF
forcing directly into human veins the
product of animal disease!
The practice of vaccination, Wnen care,
fully investigated, has not leg to stano
on. 1t Is condemned from all points
health, cleanliness and science. Long age
would it have died natural death bu'
for the money--the private proht-whlcn
it commands. 1t is well known that tne
last epidemic in London netted SlO,0Vo,-
600 in vaccination fees alone to the doc-
TORS there; and every large city and
town has similar record
Out upon system that dares not race
Investigation, but shields itself either III
silence or in empty boasts regarding the
opinion on the subject of the majority
Of the profeseionv' AS If that same ma
jority' had not in times past been always
found in support of medical abuses now
condemned and derided! The truth is not
one of a Thousand of the medical pro-
fession has ever candidly investigated the
matter; and when they do they oppose
the practice.
AS to compulsory vaccination (and such
Is scnooi vaccination as now enforced),
words are too weak to adequately de-
schibe 1t. Said the late Professor Francis
w. Newman, one of Englapds most dis
tinguished literary minds: Against the
body of healthy man parliament (gov-
ernment) has no right of assault what
ever under pretense of the public health,
nor any the more against the body of a
healthy infant. To forbid perfect health
is a tyrannical wickedness just as much
as to forbid chastity or sopriety. NO
1awgiver can have the right. The law
Is an uncomfortable usurpation and creates
'''' - ]. M. GREENE.
4s1 California street. Los Angeles.