The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-23
DR. D: MORk'S ADDRESS
Delivered at Annual Convention of Liberal Medical Union
 Held in This City

city. president of the Liberal Medical Tnion. at the annual convention Of that body. held at the Atlantic Hotel the fore part of tnis week. The un- ions Is composed of physicians and others interested in reputable schools of healing. Dr. De Mork. who has been president for the past year. was reelected for the coming yeaa. Dr. De Mork'S address follows:
 My Friends and Brothers:
 Our assembling on this occasion marks the first annual mile stone Of The Liberal Medical Union a Ma tioral or worldwide organization say worldwide. for it's platform is broad enough for the harmonious re- posing of all reputable schools and systems of healing. so is it's terrttor- ial boundaries uneircumscrio by con it stands as The Liberal Medical Un- ion and from every country and every cline where is cherished the sacred principles Of Liberty and Freedom from legislative or other unjust re- striction in relieving suffering human operation When accepted the. great honor you conferred upon me one year ago, in eIecting me as President of this grand organization, did so in deep appreciation of that honor, and full realization of the great responsi- bilIties entailed, and firm resolution GO fill to the best of my ability it's ar Siuous requirements. This have done, and without going into historical de- tails. suffice it for the present to con- eTafuiate you on the increase in our membership, and on the fact that we have, beyond question, one of the greatest organizations in existence, and one which has in the successful carrying out of its objects. more in ac- ton1plishrnent for the benefit of afflict- ed humanity. than any orsanlzatIo lon ion face of Gods earth To unite all the different worthy schools and systems of healing into one harrnonizing, up- 1lxr r7vO ganization, is one of the noblest efforts of man to further the best interests of the assistance and cooperation pos. eibIe- That the undertaking seems gi- Fautic. and declared by some impos- efnle of consummation, is all the greater reason for our united efforts, ever Bearing in mind, that the harder the battle, the greater the victory. different systems of healing was much more pronounced than now A certain element in the Medical Profession, has bitterly opposed every advanced idea in healing that has been evolved and established. and is responsible for an the. nefarious legislation entitled the statute books of nearly every state in the union. and is to-day, the black est and most damnable blot upon the bright escutcheon of American Liber- ty. And when in this b0asted land of freedom. ~the land of the free and the home of the brave. her best citi-
 
 persecuted. deprived of their liberty and Incarcerated in felons cells be- hind prison bars. for honestly. honor ably and humanely endeavoring to all 1evsate human suffering. whose only crime. God save the marlxo. is actual f5a s;e ana o Sfniefed e6n tf ha is hig lime the Goddess of Liberty was awakened from her hypnotic slumber, by the clarion tones of outraged humanity de- znanding from the hand of justice, the God given right to relieve and cure illness and sufferings without the in human, tyrannicad curse of persecution because methods of successful results are substituted for disappointing, cen1- etery enriching failures. In a word language they may be couched, are designed not for the benefit of the people. but are promulgated solely and wholly to protect certain incom- petent practitioners of some system of dealing, to the exclusion of many oth- CTS equally competent, if not more 60 judging from results obtained, and who need no protection, law or license zo save them from everlasting dissolu- tion, under fair. square. honorable
 Most of us have lived long enough to realize that one school cult of healing has yet evolved system of tFsat 1t can rest upon it's merits and bid absolute defiance to disease and deaths under positive guarantee Of cure And yet we find a class Of prac- 15tfoners called political doctors, who never manifest possession Of special 5rethren in st1perior brain oua1i6ea- tfon or secret Knowledge concerning the eradication and cure of diseased way through life Is ernb eliished with more marble monuments in the cities of the dead, than living testimonials Of their qualification and ability in curing diseases who seek to cruelty through pernicious legislation, all who have not thum'bed the same text books or been educated in the same theory. The more successful their competitors, which should be co-workers. in be- slowing health in place of sickness, strength in place of weakness, normal in place of abnormal conditions, the greater their efforts to prevent them from pursuing and enjoying the prae-- tice of their profession, and depriving hundreds, of their choice as to method of treatment they desired And be- ueve this feeling has been brought eEe0su more through ignorance and sell <ishness than from an innate desire or inclination to do evil and injustice. And tIsat had they sought through as- sociation and investigation, before con- tlennation the merits of systems differ eTat from what they had been educat- ed into. and cultivated the acquain- tance of the practitioners thereof, at the same time making comparison of results obtained, they would willingly. have admitted some of the facts they sia.ve been and are being, compelled to Acknowledge. Time was when the Al 1opa tI1ic school condemned and vi1lifed the Homeopaths. Homeopathy came into existence because of the need or necessity for the more successful com batting Of disease and death, and AL 1opathy has lived to realize that it has no special advantage over t'EIo- 1neo'' or any other pathy.
 But both of those, opposite to the limit in theory and practice, failing to vanquish the dread destroyer in va rious abnorma1 conditions, along with other side issues, came Eclecticisrn with it's claim of t'best from all the rest and was born the existing drug medical trinity, bitterly divided in both main and particular, but united ns the God head in some instances through iniquitous boards of health