The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-01
DOCTORS TESTIFY
AGAINST EFFICACY
OF VACCINATION
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O1 ASSllfA IVlN
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that conclusion through study and ac-
tua1 experience.
If ten thousand physicians have not
sufferings and horrible deaths from
vaccination, it is as no evidence in
comparison with single one, who has.
If twenty thousand don't know vac
cination is a crime and making 1t
compulsory a liberty blighting curse, it
cannot count as evidence against the
testimony of those of US who do know
it, and have the facts to prove 1t. In
fact gentlemen, believe a majority or
those in favor of compulsory Vaccln-
alton do not know much about it any
way; for if they did, they would OPP
pose it as earnestly as we do L nave
heard men extolling the merits OF TINS
Etthy body pollution as a preventlEe'
VITO never even saw a case of small
pesx. And what does their opinion am
cunt to? Why gentlemen there are
hundreds of members OF the American
Medical Association, the organizatlon
that is fostering compulsory VAGINA
ton in the interest of vaccine produc-
ers, that have had no more experience
with smallpox than ] have with lep-
rosy.
] know we are opposed by that same
Medical Association the most power,
full, autocratic and dangerous medical
monopoly in the world. / know TOO
that they have fathered and support
ed, and hoodwinked legislators into en-
acting every pernicious medical law
that disgraces the statute books of va
fious states in this Union. know that
while they claim they have been fur
thering legislation for benefit of the
dear people, there is not a single med
icaI law that was not drawn Tor ad-
vancing their own selfish interests. L
know they have assumed the guard
ianship of the public and pose as the
great humanitarian friend of afflicted
humanity, but IL you desire TO test
that interest and friendship. you need
do nothing more than request them to
consult and labor with practitioners of
different medical schools in efforts to
rave you or some loved member OF
your family from sickness, suffering or
death. Gentlemen, we would FISK our
lives to save your children from the
bite OF mad dog or the poison laden
fangs of Ia venomous serpent; then IN
the name of Justice, humanity and far
play is it asking too mucn Wnen we
solicit your favorable recommendation
on a measure that will give US the
privilege of protecting our children
from compulsory poisoning before they
can enter the educational institutions
in this liberty loving Commonwealth!
We come in all seriousness and ear
nestness soliciting a privilege we nave
a right to demand. Great God, gentle
men, Just think OF 1T being necessary
in this era of civilization and in this
boasted land Of the free. to have to
solicit your favorable recommenoa-
tion to a measure that simply gives
the parent and guardian the privilege
of protecting the children Of this state
from what we know, from what thous-
ands of the best physicians In TINS
country know. from what hundreds
have proved to be an uncertain, unre-
liable and decidedly dangerous opera
ton. We bring you testimony from
more than 400 physicians, and we could
have brought 1000, who are opposed to
cofnpu1sory vaccination under any and
all circumstances We bring nearly
400 who believe vaccination to be dan
gerous because OF it's liability TO m
duce or produce eczema, scrofula, can.
Ger. tuberculosis and syphilis, ana
nearly 100 physicians who say their
conclusions have been reached through
years of study and experience. These
men have tried it, have been olsap-
pointed and disguised with it. Have
witnessed the intense suffering, the
DISGUSTING soul sickening dishgure-
ments, even unto the deaths OF It's VIC,
TINS, and realize from professional
as well as a humanitarian STANDPOINT
the Injustice, the imposition, the hor-
rors Of compulsory vaccination All
text book theories, all dogmatic as
sumption Of superior professional
knowledge and wisdom of our auto
cratic boards of health, pales into IN
significance before the statements OF
sthose whose verdict my friends, Is
founded and rests upon the rock OF &C
tual personal experience In my OWL
practice with chronic cases I find very
many conditions the origin Of Which
can be Just as logically traced to vac
i cination, as can the scar on the arm
or the leg.
Our appearance before you in behalf
of this measure is solely and wholly IN
the best interests Of the people. We
have no multi-mill1onalre vaccine pro
ducing companies to remunerate as fol
our time or efforts, and no financial Oh
from their plethoric purses has lubri-
Gated the wheels of our transporta-
ton. am fully aware OF the power
full influence they bring against us
but bear in mind it is their business
and the profits therefrom that they
are after that they can well AFFORD tt
spend few thousand dollars to de-
feat a measure like this, that they
care nothing for the welfare OF the
people And while I am confident
there is not q compulsory vacc1na1loI
physician In the state VINO woulo no
deplore the advent of an epidemic o.
smallpox. we all know nothing woul(
please these poison producers more
than to have our people afflicted VIII
a smallpox scourge- These people ar
the power behind the throne, they ar
the ones who thrive on vaccination
and into whose pockets our compul
sorry vaccination friends pay dollars
while they get only dimes for them
selves.
There are many honest, honorabl
and humanity-loving physicians in tn
American Medical Association, bu
they are not compulsory vaccination
lists at heart They dare not openl.
declare themselves, but their sigma
lures are affixed to hundreds OF l1ttl
slips of paper on file in the schoo
rooms of this state. saying that Il
their opinion said child is not at thi
time in fit. physical condition for vac
cination.' Thereby evading what the
know to be an unjust, unholy and un
necessary law These men are anon
8 orr best law respecting and law abid
ing citizens, and they only evade thu
law, because they know 1T is an IN,
position, that there is no necessity 10
its existence or enforcement and tina
they are evidencing better citizensh1
and performing their conscientious du
ty to humanity better in evad1ng
than complying with 1t.
1t will perhaps be held out 10 20
as point of great weight that com
= ,,a,lsnrv vaccination is advocated b