Duncan Arizonian., 1912-12-11
THIRD TERM
QUACk PLANK
Fraudulent Blanket Policy Of
fered forsProtection of
Health and Life.
IN INTEREST OF FAKER )
Theodore Rex" Promises to SHE 4
Them Against Discrimination by
Educated Physicians.

| Inc poI1t1cal tentacleS of the tn j
term candidate have been extended In
every direction from which might ba
gathered voters irrespective of sex,
race, color or previous condition, of al
vocat1ons, factions and trades into tt g
Progressive fold. BY specious prom.
ises cunningly adapted to each the
colonel becfons them to follow with
bleating approval wheresoever his bell
Wether adJutants may lead In order
that Theodore Rex may again sit N
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 woln-
en- In the furtherance of suffrage as
pirations, to the farmer In blissful bet
terment of rural life, etc. Now he ap-
peals to the quackA those true and
| hitherto despised men of predatory
wealth. offering them tenderest regar I'd
and freedom from prejudice "for or
against" The following blanket pol
ICY is offered for protection of cur
most precious possessions health
and life
I'VE favor the union of all the ex. St
mig agencies for fundamental gov rn-
ment dealing with the public. hca lth
into single national health serv ice
without discrimination against OF for
any one set of therapeutic methC DIS,
school of medicine of school of healing,
with such additional powers as nay
be necessary to enable It to perform
efficiently such duties In the protec ion
OF the public from p1eventable dis
eases as may be properly underta zen
by the fundamental authorities, in
Guiding the execution of existing Iaws
regarding pure food, quarantine and
cognate subjects, the promotion of ap-
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
curists, 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 zone and which
the bull moose platform threatens to
inf1ict upon all the states Of the Union.
These legislative enactments require
all persons who propose to become
physicians not only to pursue a more or
less thorough course of preparatory
education, but also to be trained in all
branches of medicine and, besides, to
be subject to a rigid examination by
appointees of the state All these serve
to protect the public against ignorant
pretenders and would be perfectly fair
did not the very same enactments ex-
empt the latter from the provisions ap-
plying to educated practitioners.