The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-31
one OF VICTIMS
MAKES PROTEST
SAYS MEDICAL BILL WILL GRE
ATE "AIR TIGHT" TRUST AND
DOCTORS WILL SOON BE EN-
DEAvoRlNG TO REGULATE EV-
ERYTHING.

If ever there was a time in the his
tory of North Dakota when Mr.. Roose-
velt's advice to swat bad trusts was
applicable, now is that time. Many are
not aware of the vicious, even danger
Gus features of the bill now before the
legislature to regulate the practice of
medicine" House Bill Mo-.
AS citizen of this state / protest
against this bill as embodying the very
worst features of class legislation. 1t
seeks to do the people of the state a
great injustice by depriving them of
the right to employ the doctors of
their choice. With brutal directness
it would make outlaws of respected
and conscientious men--men who with
much labor are accomplishing much
good.
AS is always the. case when dominant
classes are seeking monopoly legisla-
tiOn that will place the people at their
mercy, the =ostensible purpose is the
public good. when the only aim and de-
sire is to secure privileges that will
enable them to take from us the right
to choose our own doctor in case of
sickness or ili-health and employ only
the medical doctors. whether we pre-
fer them or not.
Now, in what way is 1t for the pub
lie good to outlaw everything but med
ical treatment? AS the drugless doc
tors use only natural methods there
can be no injurious results from their
treatment, as the medical doctors
themselves admit that nature is the
only thing that cures and that in Civ
ing medicines they are only assisting
nature. A great many persons are of
the opinion that the drugs hinder ma
ture, at least as often as they help. To
give pOisons to the sick is itself I'M
natural. Only recently at Valley City,
man and his wife were both killed
by strychnine under doctors pre-
scription. These died suddenly; how
many are being slowly poisoned to
death is impossible to say.
But they say that they want to keep
us from spending our money on
'quacks." Well, as it is our own money
that we spend we should be the ones
to decide who are quacks. Thousands
of dollars are paid for medical treat
ment every year without atparticle of
benefit in return, but nothing is said
about that. If the medical doctor could
undergo some operation that would
remove the beam from his own eye, he
might more closely see how to remove
the mote from his brothers eye.
The constitution prohibits religious
monopoly, but at the time ii was franz
ed medical monopoly was not even
dreamed of; if the trainers of the con-
stitution could have lifted the veil that
separated them from the twentieth
century and seen the danger that
threatens the people from this source.
doubtless they would have protected
us from medical monopoly as WELL We
now have compulsory vaccination of
healthy children and compulsory med
ical examination of school children.
Unless a halt is called we will soon
have compulsory annual examination
and treatment of all persons: we will
be compelled to submit to periodical
vaccination, and anti-toxin and tuber-
culin injection. Our appendixs will be
removed for us as a preventive meas
ure We will be told how we must
build and furnish our homes, what we
must and must not wear. For the
medical trust aims to place the people
completely under its dominance in all
things relating to health and SANTA
ton ~
am aware that in medicaI matters
the opinions. of layman are apt to be
ignored. but this subject il one per-
tanning to justice, with which we are
all concerned We may not be edu-
Gated in medical lore, but it REQUIRES
no skilled physician to recognize in
the American Medical association |
the father of this bill--one of the. slimy
of the octopus, monopoly, that |
is slowly choking the life out of the |
American people
One Who Pays Doctors Bills