The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-10-25
Third TERM
QyACl PLANK
Fraudulent BLANKET Policy" o.
faTGd For Protection Of
Health and Life.
IN Interest OF FAKEaS.
"Theodore Rex" Promises to Shield
Them Against Discrimination by
Educated Physicians.

Educated Physicians.
The political tentaces of the third
term candidate have been extended il
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 cunuingly adapted to each the
colonel hgckons them to follow with
! bleating approval wheresoever his bell
Wether adjutants may lead in order
that Theodore Rex may again sit iu
J 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 furtherauce Of suffrage as-
piratious. to the farmer in blissful bet
( terments of rural life, etc Now he ap-
peals to the quacls, those true and
hitherto despised men of predatory
wealth, Offering them tenderest regard
and freedom from prejudice for OF
against" The following blanket poll
cy" is offered for protection of our
most precious possessions health and
life:
1--WE favor the union of all the exist
Ing agencies for fundamental govern
ment dealing with the public health
into a single natioral health service
without discrimination against or foi
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 preyentable dis
+ eases as may be properly undertaken
/ by the fundamental authorities. in
cuding the execution of existing laws
regarding pure food, quarantine anG
cognate subjects. the promotion of ap
/ propriate action for the improvement
/ of vital statistics. the extension of the
registration area of such statistics an
cooperation with the health activitr
of the various states and cities Of th.
nation"
Thus would votes for Theodore Res
be multiplied.
Insults Educated Physician.
This quack plank of the ProgressiF'
platform not only insults the intel
gent voter, but wounds the educate
physician. in that it places the latte"
in the same category with empires @
high and low degree, rubbers, SUI
curists, magnetic and other healers anl
all other pretenders who fatten upa
the creduity Of the helpless sick an
their terrified relatives. The Sun ha.
adverted to the outrageous violatl"a
of propriety and justice which chame
terizes the medical laws of sever:
states in the Union. the last instance 81
which we depored in the medical reg
ulations of the canal zone and which
the bull moose platform threatens t.
inaict upon all the states in the Union
These legislative enactments require
all persons who propose to beccm,
physicians not only to pursue more o.
less thorough course of preparator3
education, but also to be trained IN All
branches of medicine and, besides, f
be subjected to IA rigid examination b'
appontees of the state All these serFs
to protect the public against ignorat
pretenders and would be perfectly IA
did not the very same enactments eH
empt the latter from the provisions uu
plying to educated practitioners.
Favors FOR cormorants.
Thus do our sagacious legislator
stultify themselves in the interest 81
the cormorants to whom they graz
special privileges. because. forsoot''
they claim to heal" without NEE
cines, There is now no discriminate
against schools of medicine Their
fore the special protection demandct
for them by the bull moose platform h
gratuitous and intended only to entra,
votes. The "healers" belong TO IL
school. Now comes Theodore Rex an
dignifes them by a special proviso'
and. expressing n most tender regart
for their sensiblities. promises =
shield them against discrimination b
educated physicians.
This platform would raise the quac!
and healer above the men who dali.
exemplify their personal and profes
sional superiority by some unseltisl
devotion to the public veal. In hi
eagerness to placate the Influential
horde of empires Mr.. Roosevelt woul'
, have us obivous of the fact that th
educated physician is the only rea
altruist in the community Instead o
Rrousing the public conscience Ct. r
favorite slogan this self appointed re
former deepens the crying shame an
thus exemplihes again that under II
circumstances" need he be bound b.
his prior professions.
President Taft has won the approva
of the quaclls and healers by his med
ica regulations of the canal zone
hence this Machiavellian policy. Fr
, ture generations will substitute "Roos'
, veltian" for "Machiavellian." Polite
makes strange bedfellows indeed r,
hold Taft and Roosevelt under tn
same blanket!-New York Sun.