The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-10-25
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QUAck PLANK
M. -A-~ KIN --n- -~ A--- --rA
Fraudulent Blanket Policy" o.
fered For Protection OF
Health and Life.
N INTEREST OF TAKERS.
"Theodore Rex" Promises to Shield
Them Against Discrimination by
Educated Physicians.

Educated Physicians.
The political tentacles of the third
term candidate have been extended i'm
every direction from which might be
gathered voters irrespective Of sex,
race, color or previous condition, of all
vacations, factions and trades into the
Progressive fold. By specious prom,
Uses 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 i'm
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 furtherance OF suffrage as.
pirations, to the farmer In blissful bet
terments of rural life, etc. Now he ap.
peaIs to the quacks, those true and
hitherto despised men of predatory
wealth, offering them tenderest regard
and freedom from prejudice "for Or
against" The following blanket poll
cy" is offered for protection OF our
most precious possessions-health and
life: ....m.
1--WE favor the union OF all the exist
Ing 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 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 pre7entable dis
eases as may be properly undertaken
BY the fundamental authorities, in
Gluding the execution of existing laws
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 1ntelli
gent voter, but wounds the educated
physician, i'm 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 severa
states in the Union, the last instance OF
which we deplored in the medical reg
ulations of the canal zone and which
the bull moose platform threatens to
infict upon all the states In the Union
These legislative enActments require
all persons who propose to become
physicians not only to pursue more or
less thorough course of preparatory
education, but also to be trained In all
branches of medicine and. besides. to
be subjected to Il 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.
Eavors For Cormorants.
Thus do our sagaciouS Legislators
stultify themselves in the interest nf
the cormorantS to whom they grant
specia privileges. because. forSooth,
they claim to heal" without medi
ctnes. There is now no discrimination
against schools of medicine" There
for them by the bull moose platform i>
gratuitouS and intended only to entrAl'
votes. The "healers' belong to no
school. Now comes Theodore Rex and
dignifieS them by special provision
and. expressing Il most tender regard
Tor their <rnSilrlitieS. promises tn
shield them against Discrimination b,
educated physicians.
This platform would raise the tluark
and healer above the men who dali
exemplify their personal and prOftS
s1onai superiority by some unSeltisll
devotion to the public veal I'm his
eagerness to placate the influential
horde Of empires Mr. Roosevelt would
have us Oblivf>ls of the fact that the
educated physician is the only real
altruist in the community. Instead Ut
arousing the public conscience Ct. r. i
favorite slogan this self appointed re
former deepens the crying shame and
thus exemplfies again that under NO
circumstances" need he be bound by
his prior professions.
President Taft has won the approval
OF the Quacks and healers by his med
zeal regulations of the canal zone:
hence this Machiavellian policy. Flu
ture generations will substitute "RoOSe
veltian" for MATHEMATICIAN" Politics
makes strange bedfellows indeed. Be
mold Taft and Roosevelt under the
same blanket!-New York Sun.