The Bourbon news., 1912-10-18
THIRD Term
QUACK PLANK
Fraudulent Blanket Policy" OF.
fered For Protection Of
Health and Life
IN INTEREST OF FAKERS.
Theodore Rex" Promises to Shield
Them Against Discrimination by
Educated Physicians.

Educated Physicians.
The political tentacles of the third
term candidate have been extended in
every direction from which might be
gathered voters irrespective Of sex,
race, color o. previous condition, of all
vocations. factions and trades into the
Progressive fold. By specious prom
iSeS cunningly adapted to each the
colonel beckOns them to follow with
beating approval wheresoever his bell
wether adjutants may lead in order
that Theodore Rex may again sit in
the White House.
Tempting bait is thrown to the work
ING people in the minimum wage, to
the Socialist in the enlargement OF
government ownerships, to the wo-
men in the furtherance of suffrage as
pirations, TO the farmer in blissful bet
terments of rural life, etc. Now he ap-
peals TO the quacks, those true and
hitherto despised men of predatory
wealth, offering them tenderest regard
and freedom from prejudice 'for or
against" The following blanket poll
cy" is offered for protection of our
most precious possessions-health and
life:
We favor the union of all the exist
ing agencies for fundamental govern
ment dealing with the public health
into single national health service
without discrimination against or for
any one set of therapeutic methods.
school of medicine or school of healing,
with such additional powers as may
be necessary to enable it to perform
efficiently such duties in the protection
of the public from preventable dis
eases as may be properly undertaken
by the fundamental authorities, in
cluding the execution of existing laws
regarding pure food, quarantine and
cognate subjects, the promotion of ap-
propriate action for the Improvement
of vital statistics, the extension of the
registration area of such statistics aud
cooperation with the health activities
of the various states and cities of the
nation"
Thus would votes for Theodore Rex
be multiplied.
Insults Educated Physician.
This quack plank of the Progressive
platform not only insults the intelli-
gent voter. but wounds the educated
physician, in that it places the latter
in the same category with empires of
high and low degree. rubbers. sun
curists. magnetic and other healerS and
all other pretenders who fatten upon
the credulity of the helpless sick and
their terrified relatives. The Sun has
adverted to the outrageous violation
Of propriety and justice which charac-
terizes the medical laws of several
states in the Union, the last instance Of
which we deplored in the medicai reg
ulations of the canal zone and which
the bull moose platform threatens to
infict upon all the states in the MON.
These legislative enactmentS require
all persons who propose TO hec"nie
physicians not only to pursue more or
less thorough course Of preparatory
education, but also to be trained in all
branches of medicine and, besides, to
be subjected 70 a rigid examination by
appointees OF the state. All these serve
10 protect the public against ignorant
pretenders and would be perfectly fair
did not the very same enactments ex-
empt the latter from the provisions ap-
plying to educated practitioners.
Favors For Cormorants.
Thus do our sagacious legislators
stultify themselves in the interest of
the cOrmorants to whom they grant
special privileges, because. forsooth.
they claim to "heal' without medi
cines, There is now no discrimination
against schools of medicine" There
fore the special protection demanded
for them by the bull moose platform is
gratuitous and intended only to entrap
votes The "healers" belong to no
school. Now comes Theodore Rex and
dignifes them by a special provision
and. expressing a most tender regard
for their sensbilities. promises to
shield them against discrimination by
educated physicians.
This platform would raise the quack
and healer above the men who daily
exemplify their personal and profes-
sional superiority by some unselfish
devotion to the public veal In his
eagerness to placate the infuentia!
horde of empires Mr.. Roosevelt would
have us oblivious of the fact that the
educated physician is the only real
altruist in the community. Instead of
arOusing the public conscience Ct. RS
favorite slogan this self appointed re-
former deepens the crying shame and
thus exemplifies again that under no
circumstances" need he be bound by
his prior professions.
President Taft has won the approval
of the quacks and healers by his med
tcal regulations Of the canal zone;