Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1908-10-01
The LEGAL Side
JUSTICE ., !. BREWER ADDRESSES
THE INTERNATIONAL ~.
BERcULosls CONGRESS.
TAKES 4 BRIGHTER WEN
The Supreme Court Justice Was Mo-
Altogether In Accord With the
M Gloomy Views Of the
Scientists.

Washington, Sept. SO.-That justice
David J. Brewer Of the United STATED
supreme court does not fully share
the rather gloomy views held by some
Of the world-famed authorities on tn
berculosls was reflected In his address
Tuesday before the International Tu
berculosls congress. Justice Brewers
topic was "The Legitimate Exercise
OF Police Power for the Protection Of
Health" and he had been preceded on
the program by Prof. Irving Fisher Of
Yale, who declared that 100000 peo
pie now living in the United States
are doomed to oil consumptive graves
unless something is done to prevent II
and that the $4,000 deaths in this
country annually from tuberculosis
costs in cash over S1,O0O,OOO,OOO Q
year.
Justice Brewers remarks were NOT
directed particularly at Prof. Fisher,
but included the declarations made by
other speakers in similar vein. He
said:
1.-THE police power cares for the
health, for the life, for the safety, fol
the good morals Of the community. mi
each OF those cases 1t is the individual
who Is directly benefited, and 1t is only
indirectly that the state, as an or
ganized entity is benefited by having
good, healthy citizens, good moral citi'
zens and staying the progress of the
disease" Continuing, he said:
To-day we are facing questions Of
q slightly different character There
are a series of cases in which shorter
hours Of labor are demanded in behalf
Of the employe. Now whenever the
employment is one which Is attended
with special risks the state may come
and say to the employer: You shall
not let that man work above a certain
reasonable length Of time But If the
occupation is not freighted with dan.
ger, 1t is something beyond the power
Of the legislature to disturb. II man
thinks working IL hours is better for
him and will inure to his happiness to
4 greater extent than the avocation
he 10 pursuing, and Is attended with no
risks, then he has the right to pursue
that avocation and the employer has
The right to make contract with him
Sor that length Of time.
I'm Oregon the legislature passed
statute limiting the hours in which
woman could be employed had the
honor to write the opinion in that case
ind / said: You may not contract
lway all the hours which man may
contract for labor because you have q
to perform which he has not. !
rhe race needs you; your children
need you; your friends need you In a :
way that they do not need the other !
lex, and had no doubt that that was
good law to which the unanimous
opinion Of the supreme court assented."
DR.. Ladsilaus de Ire Of Budapest,
liscoverer Of new method Of dag !
losis that will disclose the type, de. !,
gree and stage Of infection through !,
he inocculation Of the patients arm :
With human, and bovine tubercule !,
lacilli. delivered notable address !
With blackboard Illustrations. =
Tuesday night at Assembly hall, DR.. !,
Arthur Newsholme of London deliv- :
sred lecture on the causes OF the !,
past decline of tuberculosis, and the !,
light thrown by history on preventive !
measures for the immediate future" :
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