Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-24
THIRD Term
QUACk PLANK
Fraudulent BLANKET Policy" Of
Tered for Protection Of
Health and Life.
IN INTEREST OF FAKERs
Theodore Rex" Promises to Shield
Them Against Discrimination by
Educated Physicians.


Them Against Discrimination by
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 or previous condition, of all
vocations, factions and trades into the
Progressive fold. BY speoious prom.
lses cunningly adapted to each the
colonel beckons them to follow with
bleating 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 Socialists in the enlargement OF
government ownership, to the WON
en- in the furtherance of suffrage as
p%irations, to the farmer in blissful bet
torment 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 ol
against" The following blanket pol
Icy is offered for protection Of ou1
most precious possessions-hea3th
and life:
I'VE favor the union of all the exist,
mig agencies for fundamental govern
ment dealing with the public health
into a single national health service
without discrimination against or for
any one set Of therapeutic methods
school Of medicine Of 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, in1
Guiding the execution of existing laws
regarding pure food, quarantine and
cognate subjects, the promotion Of api
propriate action for the improvement
of vital statistics, the extension of the
registration area of such statistics and
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
c%urists, 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 deplore in the medical reg,
ulations of the canal zon and which
the bull moose platform threatens ID
infict upon all the states Of the Union,
These Legislative enactments require
all persons who propose 10 become
physicians not only to pursue q more OF
less thorough course Of preparatory
education, but also t. be trained in all
branches Of medicine and, besides, tt
be subject to q rigid examination b.
appointees Of the state. All these serv
to protect the public against ignoran,
%pretenders and would he perfectly fa!l
did not the very same enactments ex
empt the latter from the provisions ap
plying to educated practitioners.
Favors for corrnorants.
Thus do our sagacious Legislators
stultify themselves in the inter t o
the cormorants to whom they giant
special privileges, because, for 10Th
they claim to heal without lnedi
cines! There is now no discrimination
against schools of medicine" 'Encre
fore the special protection de ,"de{
for them by the bull moose pla' m i:
gratuitous and intended only t. r:?tra,
votes. The "healers" belor. TO ne
school. Now comes Theodore aax ant
dignifes them by a special provision
and, expressing a most tender regart
for their sensibilities, premises t.
shield them against discrimination by
educated physicians.
This platform would raise the quacl
and healer above the men who daily
exemplify their personal and profes
sional superiority by some unselfsI
devotion to the public veal In hi,
eagerness to placate the Influential
hord of empires Mr.. Roosevelt woult
have us oblivious of the fact that tn,
educated physician is the only rea
altruist in the community. Instead o
arousing the public conscience IT. r.
~favorite slogan) this self appointed re
former deepens the crying shame AM
thus exempliies again that under n,
circumstances" need he be bound b,
his prior professions
President Taft ha. won the approva