Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-10-24
THIRD Term
QUACK PLANK
Fraudulent Blanket Policy" OF.
tered For Protection Of
Health and Life
IN INTEREST OF TAKERS.
Theodore Rex" Promises TO Shield
Thorn Against Discrimination BY
Educated Physicians.

Theodore Rex" Promises 70 Shield
Thorn Against Discrimination BY
Educated Physicians.
The political tentacles Of the third
term candidate have been extended in
every direction from which might bp
gathered voters irrespective of sex.
race. color o-.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 IN
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
piration to the farmer in blissful bet.
terments of rural life. etc. Now he ap-
peas 10 the quacks. those true and
hitherto despised mel of predatory
wealth. offering them tenderest regard
and freedom from prejudice "for OF
against" The following blanket poli-
cy" is offered for protection of our
most precious possessions health and
life:
I'VE favor the union of All the exist
ing agencies for fundamental govern
ment dealing with the public health
! into single national health service
without discrimination against or fol
any one set of therapeutic methods
school of medicine or school of healing
with such additional powers as may
be necessary to enable 1t to perform
efficiently such duties in the protector
of the public from preventabe dis
eases as may be properly undertaken
by the fundamental authorities. III
Guiding 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 Res
be multiplied
Insults Educated Physician.
This quack plank of the Progressive
| platform not only insults the inteill
gent voter. but wounds the educated
physician. in that it places the latter
in the same category with empires o
high and low degree. rubbers. SUI
curists, magnetic and other henlers ant
all other pretpnderS who fatten upoi
the creduity of the helpless sick ant
their terrified relatives The sun hi''
advprteu to the outrageous violation
of propriety and justice which charac
teriZeS the medical laws of severn
states in the Union. the last instance OF
which we depiored in the medical reg
ulatiOns of the canal zone and which
the bull moose platform threatens t.
intict upon all the states in the Union
|
all persons who propose to becomt
physicians not only to pursue II more al
| less thorough course of preparatory
| education. blt also to he trained in al
branches of medicine and. besides. t.
be subjected to rigid examination by
appointees of the state All these serve
to protect the public against Ignorant
pretenders and would be perfectly fail
| did not the very same ennctments eX
empt the latter from the provisions ap
plying to educated practitioners
Favors For Cormorants.
Thus do our sagaciouS Legislators
stultify themselves in the interest Of
the cormOrants to whom they gram
special privileges, because. forsooth
they claim to heal" without medi
cines. There is now no discrimination
against schools of medicine" There
fore the special protection demanded
for them by the bull moose platform Is
gratuitous and intended only to entrar
votes The ''healers" belong to no
school. Now comes Theodore Rex and
I ulSuittS tucuI u SpcSli piON lSlOL
and. expressing a most tender regard
for their sensibilites. promises to
shield them against discrimination by
educated physicians.
This platform would raise the QuacE
and healer above the men who daily
exemplify their personal and profes
sional superiority by some unselfist
devotion to the public veal. In his
eagerness to placate the Influential
horde of empires Mr.. Roosevelt would
have us obhvious of the fact that the
educated physician is the only rea
altruist in the community instead OF
arodsing the pubfi. conscience tT-@R'e
favorite sl9g'i1l lis SCI. appointed fe
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