The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-03-10
CHICAGO NEWS LETTER.

Chicago, March g. 4 doctors
trust as one remedy against quack,
cry in the medical profession, was
openly advocated at the session OF
the American Medical Association
In Chicago. DR.. Charles R. Hender-
son, of Chicago University, that free
competition in the medical profession
had its limits of usefulness. "a doc.
tors trust is desirable,' he said, "on
certain conditions. 1t must admit all
who are competent and honest and
must use fair means of excluding
all others, and it's prices must not
be prohibitiVe to the poor" He failed
to outline means of determining
the competence which would warrant
ADMISSION to the trust or to define
method of fairly excluding those
whose competency was held to be in
doubt. Prof. Geo. E. Vincent. presi-
dent-eiect of the University of Min
nesota, declared; "One cause of dis
trust OF expert opinion and profession
al probity of physicians is the wide
spread belief that doctors can be in
duced to give testimony on either
side OF legal case. The public can
not enter into the intricacies which
make possible honest disagreement
between we'll trained men on the
same scientific subject The easy in
terence is that medicine is mere
guess work or that doctors are either
hypocrltes or menials Obviously
the profession suffers not as much
from the quacks and charlatans out
side the pale of the ethics of the pro-
fession as it does from the self-seek-
ing and disloyal members in good
standing, who violate the spirit of
medical ethics, while they keep with
in the technical rules" Corporation
Counsel r. j. Brundage declared that
! TOO many doctors performed opera
lions that We're not necessary for
the money there was in it."
The proof in the Chicago election
that the direct primary is the practi-
cal and efficacious method of driving
the political boss out of business no
is regarded as the greatest achieve
ment OF the recent milliou-doliar
primary vote. Some of the candi-
dates who We're known to have ma |
chine backing, had at the polling
places hundred of workers, but their
usefulness was found to be practical
ly Mill, and they performed very lit
tie service for the pay they got. |
Strict watch prevented any general
use of the "chain system of voting
for the ballots were carefully counted
and checked The time honored re-
peater was not able to get past ex-
cept in a few precincts. Candidates
Charles q. Merriam when his nomin-
alton was certain, expressed less
pleasure at his personal victory than
at the vindication of the primary of
which he has been an ardent cham
pion. He said: ''This is a sweeping
victory for the direct primary law.
! believe the people universally now
will recognize the value of the pri- |
mary law as it was applied today. and
that the time meyer will come when
they will submit to having a candi- |
date thrust down their thrOats. Il
depended entirely upon the direct
primary with no organization back of |
me. Had there been a delegate sys-
TEN in force I would have stood no
show whatever. Progressive republi- |
cans figured largely in my selection
as the republican candidate for may
or The voters of Chicago are lust
as appreciative Of the value of con-
servatism as applied to municipal af-
fairs as in its relation to state ana
national interests. They believe the |
resources Of the city should be con-
served for the benefit OF the COM
mun!ty at large and not for special
interests