The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-18
SANITATION BETTER THAN
 VACCINATION
Major BOudren Offers Some Facts Relative to Vaccine
 Virus

is pending before the Legislature a bill for the repeal of the compulsory vaccination law, which law makes vaccination a requirement. in order to obtain a compulsory education. would it not be well for the Senators and Representatives from this vicinity full ly to understand what z it is they are forcing upon the rising generation? {
 Vaccine virus-What is it?
 The fatalities from vaccination are frequently ascribed to impure virus and physicians are instructed to use only pure virlls.'p'----as if there ever was or could be such a thing as 'pure virus, s,''-'-pure poison for one dictfon- ary defines virus thus: "A morbid poi son that is the means of connmunicat- ing infectious disease' CStandard, Funk & Wagnal1s). Disguise Is as one may vaccine virus is simply the putrid matter running from a sore on a sick calf.
 Further than this, as is shown by abundant evidence, no physician or manufa cturer can tell what vaccine virus is The doctor who obtains vaccine points from druggist re- ceives no guarantee that his purchase Is harmless. A striking Illustration of this condition is contained in a Unit ed States Government report on the epidemic of foot and mouth disease which occurred in 1898.
 The proprietors of vaccine farm near Philadelphia had procured from Japan what was supposed to be new culture of cow-pox and this culture was sold to the proprietors of another vaccine farm near Detroit. Then fol- lowed the disastrous outbreak of foot and mouth disease among cattle which spread through several states and was suppressed at great expense. In the investigation which followed it was proven that this outbreak was the di- rect result of the use of the new Jap anese ''cow-pox culture'' which was found on examination to be nothing more nor less than the culture of foot and mouth disease.
 Many of our Legislators are farmers. No doubt they would hesitate a long time before allowing their stock to be inoculated with foot and mouth dis ease vaccine and might even consider well before passing law making such inoculation compulsory for their neighbor's stock until the subjict had been thoroughly discussed 1t the Grange meetings. Yet how niany of these same farmer Legislators pause to investigate the history of smallpox inoculation? A horse, COW, a hog, each has it's market value in dollars yet who would presume to put a price on the life of a healthy girl or boy? The animal Is protected for fear. of loss to its owner; the child becomes a sacrifice because of the ignorance of his parents.
 Of whatever disease it may be a cul- ture, all vaccine virus is the putrid product of the disease 1t Is claimed to cure, and this putrid product or ''pus'' is the substance our minimizing Leg islators would compel us by law to in ject into the bodies of our children at the request of that element, in the community which IS interested from a pecuniary standpoint
 feel positive that very few of our Iegislators could be persuaded to fa- they could be induced to study into this subject with the up-bo-date knowledge we have gained from care full investigation by competent com missions and from Government re- ports. Tn my experience with a large number of intelligent men whom I have interested in this question have found only two who were not con vinced by the iniquity of, compulsory vaccination. -nkc
 The blood is the If egivfng stream upon which all the functions of the body depend. Maintain its purity and the body win be healthy. defile it and disease will follow. This needs no demonstration. It Is self-evident, yet vaccination involves a denial of this truth The vaccinator would improve on the blood formed in the laboratory of nature. He would perfect it by adrnixture with pus. For the support of a theory so contrary to the in zttncts of reason a large measure of proof is necessary. What proof has been zzfven2 Simply shifting of the ory and practice; broken down claims of immunity, discredfted statistics and a virus the mystery of whicn Is eQuall- ed by its danger
 Tn order to justify the enforcement of the Compulsory Vaccination Law the members of the Legislature should prove beyond the shadow of a doubt three things, v1z-f
 F-irst-That vaccination and not health is the only safeguard against smallpox. Is it possible to do this If not, then the whole argument Tor the enforcement of this law falls to the ground.
 sacoDd-Tvhat the 1rnvaccinated DOT +ton of a community is so liable to contract smallpox that some protec- tion Is necessary. Has this ever been prevent If so, when? Where? By wI1om7
 5rv14rd-Tvhat the vaccination of ev- ervbody is necessary for the protec- ton of all.
 As there is no record of an epfdem- ic of smallpox breaking out among pupils of a public, frivate or paro- cI,iaI school, yet there are many un- vaccirated or unsucceSSfully vacc1n- ete6 children among them, we must infer that when epidemics have oc- cured it has been the adult Who hAS started the ball rolling.
 rTThis heinz the case I would beg to suggest that protection be afforded the ryeopIe of Hartford and vicinity by re- uuiring all members of the Leg1sla- ture. all lobbyists, press agents, em- r,Iovees and frequent visitors to the Capitol, forthwith to be vaccinated and in case of failure to take that they be re-vaccinated, and re-re-Vac- cinated until the public is properly protected.
 I would also suggest to the General Assembly, that it raise LID a 'IpOisOn