Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-02-22
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and women in the. State of Maine who be-
heve in it. They have a right to do IT,
What would the Allopaths say II they
came in here for registration board
they have one today-and we should get
UP and say that they should not have
one. We have just as good right to say
you should not have one as 10 say the
Osteopaths should not have one Let US
raise the standard of treatment of all
diseases By requiring higher qualifications
| SO that our lives will be safer.
I know that we do not all thing alike:
I know of good many men in the city
of augusta who believe in this kind of
treatment and they are not low class
Of people. You will ind some Of the best
men and some of the highest educated
men and women in flis country and city
| who believe in this kind of treatment
| Whether you have a registration board
or have none, il Will not make any differ
encc to the hlopaths or the Ilomcopaths.
FOR they will be employed just the same.
| did not intend TO speak upon this mat
| ter. They only ask for a registration
board They lay down the fee and the
aualica tons, and when tliey are doing
so much in this country with, eight col
l
try OF ours. turning out men and women
| as Osteopaths who believe, and great
many people in this country believe, tic,
karc doing mighty sight of good in this
country of ours in curing people of dis
cases the other systems cannot touch
| do not know their method particu-
| LARRY. But ] know that I am acquainted
| with prominent men and women who
/ t,1,-n Il !,
know that they say they have secured
great benefits from that treatment. But
| should not, my friends. oppose it so
much upon that ground as / would upon
| the principle of equal rights to all par
| ties, as long as they keep within the law.
| and that is the doctrine of Democracy
| There is no question about it. IT is a
| question refined by the Declaration OF
| Independence and handed all the way
| down from the Revolution to the present
| time. We may not deny equal rights to
| anybody. Suppose you pass this: will
| anybody get hurt By IL? Do you not sup
| pose the five thousand .Allopaths will keep
| on practicing just the same? They say,
| we want to be on equal footing with the
| others: we will comply with the require
| ments of the bill which passed the legal
| affairs committee. unanimously, as I'M
derstand it. a committee composed of men
of good judgment, ledge and abi-
| ity.
| And now the Alopaths come in here to-
| day and say they must not have it, What
| is the reason? What is the trouble? Why
| dc you object 10 it? ! have no doubt you
| WA have just about as much practice If
| this bill passes as you win if it does not.
| Now. upon that question we. as Senate.
| il seems to me- should do exact justice
I to all parties. Their method Of treat
ment was gone over before the legal af-
| fairs committee thoroughly and complete
| ". as understand it. and that committee
| said it Ought to pass
I believe that We should do wrong to
our own feelings. wrong to our form of
| government, wrong to the principles
which we believe in. If We do not give
| everybody. as long as they ask for any
| thing that is legal and right. an equal
| chance before the law.
| With these remarks. Mr.. President
move that the minority report be not ac-
ccpted and that tie majority report be
| accepted.
| Mr.. HARRINGTON OF Kennebee:
Mr.. President. I merely want to call
the attention of the senator's to the Diff
| terent manner in which this case is
being presented TO this body today, to
| that in which it was presented before
! the coInmittec, in one particular. In
! the hearing before the committee there
was not one word said. no. one inclt-
| nation. not one announcement, against
the method these people practiced.
| or that point those who were oppos-
| ell to the bill were entirely silent. and
| ] wondered at the time. why. l soon
| learned. Instead of meeting those VINO
asked for the bill, and stating then
| and there their objections to this
| method OF treatment, when they could
| be then and there answered, what WAS
the course" The next day was taken
| privately to one side and very smooth
| Is and kindly told that this was
| fake. They did not say that before III"
committee. I know that old Hell have
some olufashioned notions. | have Old
| Fashioned notions as to What Is fair. |
| say that the fair way t. try Il prupu-
sition is for the parties tn meet face
| to face. as they would in q court of
| law. I say it is not fair to hold back
and wait until the otter fellow Is out
Of sight
| Now it appears the plan was that
| they would not attack this method be-
fore the committee where the other
| fellow could answer. but 1--WE have oGf'
! friends on the floor Of the chamber,
and they can then and there attack
this method, and there will be no one
| there to defend it, Was that fair
treatment. or would it not have beer
| fairer for the people to have presented
their whole case to the committee that
heard it? --.
4 We spent n lot of time. n good deal
| OF talk. and the doctors told Us what
they We're and how they lad improved
the last 50 years. And God knows
i hope they win improve as much in the
I next 80 years. The strongest point be
n fore the committee and the point most
I strongly urged, was that there was nu
need of such board: that we already
had a registration board. 1t struck me
then and / think it is the same nov.
that if an Osteopath appeared before
| the present Board of Registration he