The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-25

cester. During that period several smallpox epidennics ragged in England, but Leicester pulled through unscath- ed while other thoroughly vaccinated towns all about were sorely afflicted.
 Leicester's experience was so convinc- ing that 122 English towns have abol- ished compulsory vaccination except for Government employees. In the last Parliament 186 members went on rec ord voting for the repeal of the com pulsory law over the entire king dom.
 Small wonder that the spokesman for the publicity committee says There fore the question is one of very inn mediate and wide importance
 Golfers Weekly supporting the cause of the pro-vacs is not in itself an ir- refutable argument in support of vac cinatfon. It is well known that every important paper and magazine has an M. D. on it's editorial staff to deal with all such questions from the stand point of regular of the regulars, with orders from higher up'', even the supreme medical trust, the Amer ican Medical Association, the most dangerous trust in the country because it threatens personal liberty.
 I can safely venture the assertion that the experts referred to so com placently by the publicity committees the men on the opposite side who have exhaustively investigated this subject and utterly condemned it.
 Has this comparatively. unknown Major James given as careful ana1yti- cal study to the subject as Alfred Rus sell Wallace? Dr. Wallace is a recog- nized dean of English literature and science, and by the late King Edward was awarded the Comedy medal for distinguished service along those lines
 Are the "experts'' referred to the started to write his encyclopedia ar ticles favoring vaccination and as a result of most careful and painstak- ing study of the question. finished by iT1o n Q arguments against the vile practice ever penned?
 pr. Edward J. Edwardes, (noted de- fender of the practice, and whose History of Smallpox and Vaccination in Europe'' furnishes the pro-vacs with most of their data for argument) in December, 1906, held a public discus sion with Dr. Creighton at the Ma tonal> Liberal Club, London. before B. 900 people, and it is said that when Dr. Creighton finished with his oppon- ent, Dr. Edwardes left the building through the keyhole
 Dr. Creighton's work made such profound impression on the public up- on it's first appearance, that the pro vacs were compelled to make some eff fort to counteract it, and pr. E. W. Crookshank, professor of bacterio1ogy signed the task. After years of con- scientious research, which necessitated travel all over Europe, and parts of Asia, for material to confirm his views,
 
 every honest investigators steadfast opponent of the vile disease breeding practice.
 Dr. Crookshank published the result of his researches in two octave vol umes of 500 pages each. closing with the sentence that nothing would so rebound to the credit of the medical profession as the discarding of the practice of vaccination.''
 I have recently imported a set of these books. and presented them to the Bridgeport Public Library, where the young experts may add to their knowledge and learn more about the history of vaccination than they now know, and need not rely upon the eff fusion of Major James, or the repre- sentations of the American Medical Associat ton which controls the columns of Golfers Weekly.
 There is the report of the Royal Commission to aid conscientious seek CTS after the truth. The time devot- ed to a perusaI of the entire report will be well spent and all who take the advice so freely rendered therein will probably arrive at the same conclu- sion which every intelligent conscien- tious investigator reaches in time; that vaccination instead of being bless ing is one of the greatest curses in hicted upon mankind.
 MAJOR THOMAS BOUDREN.