New-York tribune., 1912-04-30
WORKS DEGREES DOCTORS
Senator Brands EIlopaths as
Dogmatic and lntolerant.
TRUST EXISTS. HE ASSERTS
Californian Accuses Drug Users
Of Trying to Crush Chris
tian Science.
lFrom The Tribune Bureau.

Washington, April oa--Doctors Of The
old fashioned kind, sllopathic doctors. came
| in for drubblng to-day AT the hands OF
| Senator Works. tho Christian Scientist of
| the senate, who delivered q four hours
| speech against the bill introduced by SEN
stor Owen providing for the organization
Of the medical branches Of various govern
moutsl departments into bureau Of public
! health.
The galleries We're crowded with persons
! apparently on the alert to hear the Senator
/ from California douounce tho doctors
! trust" which, he said, is trying, under the
cover Of humanitarianlsn TO induce Con
grees 10 lesislste the Christian Scientist
ont OF existence The attack OF Mr. Works
on devotcos or the allopsthic school Of
medicine. who were described az being
wholly dogmatic and intolerant," apparently
! found responsive echo Of approval.
Senator Works said:
! There arc various healing agencies at
! work In this country to-day. Some are
| schools Of medical healing, which DEPEND
! upon drugs as the means Of cure: Others
! depend upon manipulation of the body /;
others depend upon the action OF one nina
! UPON another rs a means Of healing, ana
! sun another upon the operation OF the a.
! Nlno nllnd III the ESTABLISHMENT Of ndIIholiy'
! The regeneration of man and his rcstora
! ton To healtn by that means. To the lat
! ter the use OF drugs IL regarded as a
menace to life and health and opposed TO
| their conscientious religious beliefs.
No two OF these schools Of medicine or
! other modes Of healing agree with eacn
other. While some OF them agree IN the
! use OF 0 Jugs as means OF healing, they
arc entirely AT variance as TO the kinds OF
medicines 10 he used, the quantity TO be
administered and the principle upon Whlch
! the system OF drug healing is based. the
! allOpathic school OF medicine is the oldest
| and best known. It's ievotecs are wholly
dOgmatic and intolerant. They assume
| that there Is no other efllcaciouS mode OF
titoners are incompetents and menace
to the public health. They have formed
one OF the most powerful organizations OF
any kind In the country. They are ruth
practitioners of their own school only, but
10 ccerce all people TO accept their remedies
| and TO suppress, by law and by persecution,
the practice Of other means OF healing.
They are using all the money and in
| fluenCe they can bring to bear and are
practising on the Credulity Of an ignorant
public sentiment by the pretence that al
OF this is for the public gooG. Through
their efforts the much dreaded practice OF
vaccination, which has, in my opinion,
sacrificed more lives than it has saved, and
manned and made invalids of thousands,
has been made compulsory by law, and now
other serum remedies, alleged TO be pre-
ventves Of various diseases and equally
dangerous, loathsome ana Objectionable,
are being forced upon the people whether
they want them or not.
The officers OF the army and navy are the
willing instruments Of these medical men
to compel American citizens to submit 10
he poisoned with their loathsome prepara-
tons. II a soldier or sailor refuses to sub
NIT TO vaccination or other serum treat
mert for typhoid fever and other diseases
he is promptly dismissed from the service
or placed in irons until he submits, or Is
otherwise punished. And now these doctors
want Congress so to ieeislate as to give 10
them 'ul control Of The medical sanitary
and hygenic activities and bureaus Of the
government, that their powers may be COM
plete.
The alIopathic school Of medicine is noted
for the quaDtity OF medicines they admin
lister and their nauseouS and diStastetul
chara cter-so much so that their mode ot
treatment Is often characterised 90 cruel
and mhumau. So deleterious and harmful
are their drugs that the homeopaths claim
that a large part of their practice comes
from those who have temporarily or per
msnentlv suffered from the effects of allo-
patlic drugs.
But am glad To say that the better and
moro intelligent physicians OF their school
have given up the use OF their strong drugs
in o great degree. Their experience has
taught them that such drugs do not heal,
but eugender and cause disease.