The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-05-21
Of Press Until the Evil
dence Showed.
WELL ORGANIZED OPPOSITION
To Vaccination Was Also I'm.
known To This Trooper
In the Ranks.
A MISTAKE HERE CORRECTED

Editors Herald lin not going
to say one word about vaccination.
When DR.. Hodge said, "It is a
crime, and to call 1t anything else
is to temporize,' and when a lead
ing physician of Philadelphia said,
1.-The man who puts vaccine virus
in a child, ought to be put in the
penitentiary," that was enough, and
I'm not going to squander your val
liable space by thrashing around
and telling your readers that it is
passing strange and suspicious that
some of the American reprints of
the Britannica omit DR.. Creighton
article on vaccination, or about
Prof. Cruikshank who, in defense
of it, went into an exhaustive in
vestigation and came out in tvs
volumes against il.
Why should say more of loath-
some virus, the purest of which is
but putrid matter running from
the sore of a diseased calf, original
ly taken from human being who
may have had tuberculosis, scrofu-
la, tetanus or some other fatal dis
-ease, -as.-was 50 frightfnllY. demon
strated in the we'll known Jennier
experiment when the virus was ia
ken from man who had been
handling the hoofs of a diseased
horse?
No, stree. Not another word
about a practice which is admitted
to have resulted in thirty-six cases,
most of them fatal, of tetanus-
Oockjaw)-in Philadelphia in the
fall of 1901. But I do want to re-
fer to some of the surprising and
interesting results of my off-hand
article published in your issue of
the 3Oth ult.
That the Hartford Herald got
way up in Bridgeport. Conn, in
less than three days and so aroused
the enthusiasm of Major Thomas
'Roudren, with his warm praise of
your liberal policy of opening your
columns to the fair discussion of
public question, fills me with Won
der. not so much att the strange
power of the press, as that. The
Herald is so widely and carefully
read. Why, it never occurred to
me that even the 'Puritans-whom
] may owe many apologies-read
The Herald.
Napoleon said. -Four hostile
newspapers are to be dreaded more
than thousand bayonets."
never knew there was organic
ed opposition to vaccination, al
though my reading has been pretty
general. if somewhat desultory
would this justify me in half sus-
pecting the press has not been al
together ,fairD In fact, while
knew there was strong, instinc-
tive undercurrent of revolt,
thought | was about the only one
in the U. s. who had ventured to-
towel. to jump into the river and
boiler, "Fire!" So, damn my ig-
norance if you must, but you can't
gainsay my moral courage.
AS to the secretary of A.-C. v. s.,
Mr.. C. G.. Fowler's criticism of my
unguarded statement, his over
wheIming official proof convicts me
of an error very much regret. AL
ways careful of my statements of
facts and figures, | was sure of my
ground but novel feel like an old
preacher whom the late Rev. ID. ].
X. Maddox used to tell me about
tions, made statement before
large body of fellow preachers
which proved to be immensely I'M
and they all jumped upon
him and tromped around till he was
metapb orically reduced to a mass
of quivering pulp-till he looked
like a composite, pot-metal cup of
grief. humility and rout. When he
regained his speech and arose, the
picture of utter subjugation, he
feebly walled. Brethren; l wisht
hadn't a spake unto ye." Mine is
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