Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
PEOPLES PULPIT.
Hitan1an,s Wants,


Editor of the Courier: Please pub.
lish the following in the Daily and
We are in want Of a physician and
surgeon in this place and the popula-
ton is large enough to support one.
There are between eight and nine hun
dred employees under the Wapello Coal
company and several business and
tradesmen outside of the above men
toned employees. A large majority of
these people pay monthly to the doc
tors. Married men pay $1.00 per
month and single men so cents per
month.
Then. there is the opportunity for
doctor to pick up considerable prac-
tice in the surrounding country, and
| haze reason TO think by previous on
perience in this method of advertising
that there are good many doctors in
Ottumwa and other large cities who
are not earning so much cash money
monthly in their profession, as they
could right here in Hiteman.
But Just little timely warning to
would-be applicants-you must clearly
understand we need no quacks. 1t is
a good physician am surgeon who can
produce certificates of surgery and
medicine that is needed. Neither do
we need a young student raw from
the college, but one who has had some
years of practice since his college
days 2Ed one who can be relied upon
to live up TO and serve under contra ct
with his subscribers. We draw the
line on the prevailing tablet treatment.
This tablet treatment reminds one Ct
the quacli who has two kinds of medi-
cine only He had what he called high
cockaloram and low cockaloram. The
whole thing was simply wild cherry
bark But the high cockaloram was
the bark peeled Off the tree upward
and the low cockaloram was the bark
peeled off the tree downward. So it
seems to me some doctors work pretty
much on the same principle.
But, by the way, in short time we
will need no doctors. Why? Because
we are going to build or buy half a
dozen hospitals. That is. the miners
of Iowa are going to do this Then
you know, when we get all those hos
pitfalls fixed up and equipped with med
icine, surgical instruments and every
thing that It takes 10 furnish and
equip modern hospital, and staff
of attendants. and a good CRATER 70
manage it, we can then engage all the
Inon-employed doctors and nurses there
are in the state of Iowa. Then by the
time we get all this done and ready
! to do business, it is right thenNwe will
| discover the true situation. We will
have all those things on our hands
1 and or labor union burst as t1atSas a
pancake.
Fellow workmen, | hope when the
time canes to vote on the hospital
question, that YOU will kill it SO dead
] that its advocates never will be able
to inject life into it ony more.
My advice is to get good doctors
s into your camps and have a writer
4 contract for them to be governed by
and make them live up to it. Then We
would not need ell those hospitals st
much discussed and talked about How,
lever. enough said at. the present time
Now. you smart Alecs, who are inclin
led to c-iticise and ready to do 1t CT
the first offer of a doctor. please dom
T. hit me so hard and be man enough
Tito place your name on the tail end o
your letter, so cen get a whack a
fyou again.
a Hoping this will find space in thu
4 Courier, remain,
S. B. Jamison,
Box 1877, Hiteman, Iowa.