The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-05

data on his treatment other than a
typewriter statement of cures he
said that he had made.
The barring of DR.. Friedman has
caused a hold-up of his demonstra-
trations here; has resulted in scenes
Of suffering and misery that are heart
rending in the extreme. Believing
that his coming would be hailed as
akin to a visitation of providence and
that he would be given every oppor-
tunity to demonstrate his claim that
he had discovered real cure, thous-
ands of tllbercular patients fiocked
to this city from every part of the
United States. Many had only enough
to pay their way here, but buoyed up
with that wonderful hope that is al
ways part Of the dread disease they
came here certain that they would be
cured.
The inevitable result has been suf-
fering that has simply appalled, those
who have known of it. Many of the
sufferers are in the last stages of the
disease. They are of the type that
Dr. Friedman has admitted he can
do little for. But they have rushed to
the Waldorf-Astoria and have impcr-
tuned the clerks and attendants there
Ito let them see Friedman. They have
been turned away. Some came from
the dry air of the Adriondacks; others
from warm. far off Arizona and New
Mexico, and the change to the in
clement weather of this city has ag-
gravated their complaint. DR.. Fried
mann has made it plain that he is
not responsible for this condition, and
new that his efforts to demonstrate
his cure have been checked by the
red tape of the medical law of the
state, it is feared there will be many
deaths here of unfortunate victims.
FinIay Protests.
NEW YORK, March 5.-Declaring
that every effort was being made to
embarrass DR. friedman and prevent
him demonstrating the worth Of his
cure for tuberculosis, Charles III. Fin
lie the cure proved a success, today
issued an appeal for fair play for the
visiting physician. Banker Finlay,
who is the president of the Aetna Ma
tional bank, stated that not alone
were the New York doctors interior
| ing but that it had been found i'm
possible to rent suitable quarters for
Offices anywhere in the city.
Give the man a chance to work as
we'll as a chance to talk said 'Finlay.
IF they will give him half a chance
he will try to demonstrate just what
| is in his cure. But to condemn the
man before he has had chance to
show his wares is un-American and
unfair. Thousands of consumptives
are waiting, begging for chance to
be cured DR.. friedman is begging
for a chance to cure them. Is it fair
| to condemn this man who has not
had chance? 1t is more than unjust,
| it is inhuman.
II am in the real estate business,
| but have been unable to rent suit
able quarters for the doctor. We
simply have been unable to get a
place to which consumptives could
come. And while this talk is going
on, people are dying. And great God!
DR. Friedman is not to blame
read of two deaths this morning.
Then there Is little Miss Miller,
daughter OF the postmaster at Little
Neck had promised she would be
one of the doctors first patients. And
she had hoped so much But today
she died.
Eve have had thousands of letters
asking help but we can do nothing
New York won't give the doctor a
| chance to show what his remedy will
do. We may yet have to go some.
where else
] 1t was stated that DIR. Lederle