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ed. on the outside who perhaps could not.
meet the requirements of the board. Per-
haps in few years there would be as
many as eighteen or twenty or even
more. Now they will want board. they
will say somebody is irregular on the
question of mechano- therapy. and so on
ad infinitum, until everybody is regulated
and is required TO pass an examination
before he can GO into the field to hoe po-
tatoes.
Now there is one other point as to
who nays the bills. II has been sug-
gested by the gentleman from Paris.
and as / judge from the tenor of has
remarks he regarded ii as point III
favor of the bill that II was not to ne
any additional to the State. That in my
Judgment is one objection to the blit.
The only excuse for the passage OF Il
bill OF this kind is because the people
of the state demand il. or certainly
respectable number OF them. Now II
the people OF this State demand. re-
uuire or wish to he protected against
the OsteOpaths or anybody not quail
fled to practice tire branch Il medicine
that ne claims to do, let the state pay
the bills. If any man wants 10 inves-
tigate anything and lind out whether
anybody is qualified to do n particu-
lar business. does he try to fasten the
expense on the other fellow? Don't
he stand up like a man, generally
speaking. and pay his own bills? IL
the State of Maine wants these things
done, let the state raS the bills ike 4
man, and If il Is not willing to pay the
bills, let the people take their chances
on selecting whoever they have
mind to. AS to the matter of expense,
| desire to point out one thing further.
/ had the figures but l have misiald
them, but / think if you consult the
reports Of the auditor for the last four
years in regard TO the medical regis
tration, the board of pharmacy. and
two or three others, you VIII find that
in practically every case the expenses
have always eaten up the income and
it did not make any difference what
the incone was. In one case there was
one of these commissions where the
Income was sl3s3.15. if l remember the
figures correctly. and the outgo was
have so much as q postage stamp 10
begin business with on the first day OF
January. l cast no imputations on any
gentlemen who may belong to any of
these boards. They are of human KIND
just rs We legislators are: they are no
better and 10 worse: and TO finish
this briefly say the one objection to
this bill Is that it makes some man
on the outside. who has perhaps paid
out the last dollar that he had and that
his folks had and all he could borrow
on 4 life insurance policy or any oth-
er credit that he could get-it asks him
to ray SIS for the protection Of tho
people of the State.
The point was raised about the de-
mand from the people OF the State.
Whom, presumably. does that demand
come from that this bill should he
passed? 1t did not come from the
regular physicians. They will be very
generally opposed to il. IL did not
come presumably from any patients
OF the regular physicians. 1t presum-
ably does not come from the irregular
Osteonaths. There is no reason why
they should petition for legislation to
shut the door in their own faces. 1t
presumably does not come from the
patients of those irregular .Osteopaths
if such there be. 1t presumably does
not come from the patients OF the
regular Osteopaths because they are
under no obligation TO employ regular
physicians or anybody else on the out
side. There is only one class of people
from whom the legitimate demand can
fhof 80,
themselves. Now wish to state once
more that have no prejudice against
Osteopathy OF any prejudice against
any man. l believe in freedom for
those who are working out remedy
for the ills of society. and If they can
not be directed by freedom they cam
not be worked out at all.
Mr.. PATTANGALL of Waterville:
Mr.. Speaker. [ want to say just few
words in support of the majority re-
port of the committee on legal affairs.
1T has seemed to me that if the menl-
bers of the House would read the bill
presented by the committee and con-
fine their attention to that bill, that
the majority report of the committee
might commend itself to the good sense
and fairness OF the House, and it has
occurred TO me not only in listening
to the very interesting debate that has
gone on this morning but in reading
the extremely interesting debate In the
Senate yesterday that up to date no.
body who had gone into this thing far
enough and decided to make a speech
upon 1t with the exception OF the gem
tleman from Paris has read the bill
There are certain things that this bill
does provide and a good many things
which it does not provide, and it would
seem to me. if the House was going to
act upon 1T intelligently and fairly,
that the matters which the bill does
not provide and does not AFFECT. should
be eliminated from the minds Of mem
bers and their attention given to those
things provided for In the bill.
Now 1 do not understand In this
bill that there Is word that pro-
hibits the gentleman from Augusta
or any other member of this House
from still employing his own family
physicians. If there is anything of
that kind want the bill amended.
do not understand either that register