The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-06-06
STATEMENT OF PHYSICIANS
Continued From First Page)

tnaJ OF Company, ana IT tne SUCK
were all made of one kind and
majority of it controlled the institu-
tion, we were willing and ready to
take our share, and as 1t would then
be clean and fair proposition open
and above board, we would not hesi-
tate to urge our friends TO subscribe
to it. Another condition was that
every doctor in the town should be
offered an equal share, and If he did
not care to take 1t then some one else
could.
Now since the organization is hav.
ing so much trouble in putting this
scheme on the public, we are charged
with being the cause of the obstruc-
tion because we were jealous. Pray
tell us what we would have to be
jealous OF? We are being charged
with talking against the Institution.
We only did so when people came to
us about It, which was very seldom
as most people fell for the scheme
without asking.
This Company now have in its pos
session a very good building for hos.
pital II it can ever be supported.
Suppose the management should find
it necessary to borrow some money or
issue some bonds to raise the money,
who would own the property ? The
bondholders or the ones who loaned
the money? What would become Of
the stockholders and their. interest
and Of the dear pubic?
IL these are not sufficient and valid
reasons for our position, then we
would like to know what would be?
There are many more reasons that we
might give, but these would seem to
be enough.
We have repeatedly been charged
with opposing this hospital scheme
which is not true, but we do oppose
the plans and methods as promulga
ted by the promoters We are not
opposed to a hospital, never we're and
never will be, provided it is put on in
the right way. We have always
stood ready to support the right kind
of an institution both with money
and influence We have always stood
willing TO support any institution
whether Protestant or Catholic, Cen
tile or Jewish, or any other civic or
ganization that might undertake to
maintain and support County Hos
pital so long as that hospital is open
to every physician in the community
without any restrictions whatever.
We have always been willing TO aid
and abet any hospital or institution
that seeks public support so long as it
is organized on broad philanthropic
and humanitarian basis.
We, ourselves, do not care to try to
organize the ills, sutlerings and in
lirmities OF humanity into a monopo-
listic company. We don't even want
to control 1t, and would not If we
could, but we do want TO know that
all patients as we might have who
seek its services are to have the ply
siclan or surgeon they want without
hinderance or influence from any one.
Whatever money we might give we
want to give outright and without
any strings in the way OF stock or
anything of the kind From the start
we have been opposed to one man
institution, and we are still opposed
to 1t so long as public aid and support
is sought. When such Of us as we're
asked to take the remaining 20 per
cent. OF the controlling stock, refused
to come in on the terms that were
proposed, we were informed that we
were not wanted. We most assuredly
do not try to butt In where we we're
not wanted. We have never tried TO
butt in on some other mans private
game. Our position from the start
has been that If this we're to be run
and managed by the physicians, that
every doctor should be in on an equal
basis. We don't believe and never
have believed that the management
Of public hospital should be In the
hands of the doctors. Only the man
agement of the medical and surgical
part should be under their direct con-
troll. So far as we can ascertain there
is not another organization of this
kind in the state OF Ohio and proba-
bly, not in the United States. Hospi-
tails are not organized for profit, nor
are they run for profit, they are run
for the benefit Of humanity. They
are, or should be, philanthroplc insti-
tutions and should be run as such. III
a hospital is to be built here. and the
public is to support it, land somebody
will have to do this If 1t exists,) why
not put IL into the hands OF some
church, society, or body Of disinter-