The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-04


dressed an open letter to the governor
and members of the General Assem-
bly,. The letter follows:
An Open Letter to the Governor and
Members of the Legislature of
the State OF Connecticut.
Gentlemen:
The year 1911 affords an opportun-
ity for the opponents of the compul-
sorry enforcement Of vaccination, by
law Or otherwise, to renew their eff
forts to secure their just rights at the
hands of new Legislative Assembly.
That their efforts may meet with
complete success this year Is to be
wished for, but, should victory in their
fight for pure blood and the sanctity
OF the body, be further postponed, it is
certain that the right to accept or re-
ject vaccination, without fear or ia
vor OF any man Or set Of men, will,
in the end, be gained.
The violation Of the body of heal
thy person and the def1lement Of the
pure blood of child Or adult by
pus incubation as in vaccination, and
without their consent, is assault and
q crime in the nature Of rape. A
law compelling such a procedure is
unjust and opposed to the dictates Of
common sense.
In the very nature of things the
practice of vaccination under compul-
sion must cease; and from the wde-
spread and rapidly growing, OPPOSE
ton to the practice, both at home and
abroad, among physicians as we'll as
laymen, it Is safe to say that the time
is not far distant when it will be
deemed crime for a person to vaccin-
ate another.
This statement may seem rash, es-
M q
greatly extended by the medical pro-
fession. Hardly a day passes but
sees the announcement of some new
vaccine-virus for employment against
diseases other than smallpox; and,
could the doctor have his way, there
would soon be laws enacted to COM
pei vaccination with all sorts of vac
cines for every sort of ailment
But the Introduction of a virus
q o.son, whether of human or ami
NAL extraction, directly into the blood
is not natural, not in harmony with
natures methods. and cannot be pro-
ductive of anything but evil, and, in
spite of the fact that it is the fash
ion now, time will come, and soon
when the evil wrought and the fulfill
ity of the practice will be seen, and
q return made to safer and more RAJ
tional and natural modes Of treat
ment.
One has only to read up on the his
tory Of smallpox and vaccination, from
the manuscripts of official records
to learn how the public has been mis-
led by the vaccinator into an absurd
panic of fear of smallpox, which can
be shown to be one of the least things
to be feared, as a cause Of death by
children or adults in our times and
cl mes, and as something no one
need worry about whether vaccinated
or not, and that lightning is about
as much to be feared as a cause of
death as smallpox.
The common lighting gas in your
houses, the vehicles in our streets are
ten times more likely to kill us than
smallpox ever is. And to prove this
Of New York City for the past year,
where 200 persons were killed by mur-
der, 300 killed by gas and only three
died from smallpox in the whole
State in the same year.
One has only to read how Leicester,
England, prevents smallpox, pro-
notes the general health, and has re-
duced the death rate to one Of the
lowest, without vaccinations; and per
contra, how the Japanese people. one
of the best vaccinated in the world,
have suffered from the worst recent
epidemic of smallpox, from which the
most extensive compulsory vaccina-
perience of Japan is one of the strong
est object lessons Of the century on
the question and should have great
weight with every one who would ar
rive at correct conclusions on this
question.
Our own vaccine virus makers sent
to Japan for their so-called "seed vi
rus" which was found to be much
more virile and protective than our
own virus. For indeed it seems to
be fact that smallpox infecto on dies
out naturally in our temperate Gle
mates if left alone, or is not spread
by deliberate propagation or inocula-
ton and neglect of santa ton and iso-
lation. Hence our Medical con-
freres had to send to tropic infected
Japan, not for more health but for more
and more virile disease. Well, this
Japanese virus proved indeed SO vi
riIe to US that it produced a terrible
epidemic of foot and mouth disease
among the cattle,-the foster mothers
and wet nurses of the human race
in the United States. in 1908 which
was traced to our vaccine factories
and which caused the slaughter of
80 600 farm animals and cost the Unit
ed States Government over 100000 to
suppress and caused our farmers a
large additional loss.
Will some medical philosopher kind
ly figure out for trusting public
the great benefits of vaccination in
this case, and this is the second cpl
demic of the kind caused by vaccine
virus in this country.
The vaccinators are thus not con-
tent to poison the blood of our chill
dren, but they also have to poison
the blood of our cattle, the wet nurs-
es Of our children.
In making this vile stuff see 25th
report of U. S. Bureau of Animal In
dustry, 1908. it is notorious that many
deaths have occurred among school
children and other persons under the
ban of compulsory vaccination laws,
but Just how many will never be
known; while nearly 100 deaths from
vaccination have been reported in the
press of the country during the past
year, and most of them from lock-