Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-06
GOV. OF TENNESSEE
~ -. VE1OES BILL
California Legislature Refuses to
,|'{ Legalize Chiropractry.

Senate ELL No. 116, asking Tor
legal recognition of the Chiropractor
is now up before the legislature; OF
soon will be. We beg the privilege
of putting forth a few facts for your
consideration.
rhe chiropractic situation of TO-DAY
Is not similar as You have been toto
it is..' to the osteopathic situation OF
four years ago. At that time the Os'
teopathic college course embraced SIX
terms of four and u half months each.
At the time the o%steopathic pro1es'
sion was legaIized, the movement was
distinctly newt principle OF heallhs
was being introduced to the people
namely. THE CORRECTION OF An
ATOMlCAL IRREGULARITIES by
MECHANICAL MEANS AS A CURE
FOR DISEASE.
This was an entirely new thought
at that time. The chiropractor de-
ponds upon identically the same prln'
clple: Tha correction of anatomical
irregularities by mechanical means
as a cure for disease. 1t is true that
the manner of treatment differs some
what from the ~osteopathic method,
but it will be impossible to dit1eren'
tiate by this alone, for the SAME az
guments apply to the o~steopathlc pre-
fesslon, nearly every practitioner diff
fering from every otner practitioner
in the manner Of his or her treat
ments, but IN principle we are all
alike-we' correct anatomical faults
by mechanical mean for the cure OF
disease. The c~hircpractor, mechano,
@therapists,. napropath n ~osteopatH
are in principle identical. In train
ing there is no similarity, as the este
opath' must have a minimum training
of CD three years Of (9) nine months
each. The other cults llave little O.
no training; aid mostly by corfer
spondence at that.
While the present minimum legal
demands in the different states TO:
the medical practice is a school at
tendance of four years OF SIX months
each, or twenty-tour months, and OF
the osteopath, three years of nine.
months each, or twenty-seven months;
this chiropractic bill asks you to al
low them to practice after an attend
ance OF three terms, Of six months
each, or eighteen months, and to
grant license to those now in the
state without examination, or EDU-
CAT1ONAL QUALIFICATIONS.
The present medical and o%steopath-
ic acts make it impossible for reg
ular graduates or any othe.' i1dividu-
ais to practice thesa SYSTEMS of hear
ing without complying with the regu.
%latlve laws, while anyone, no matter
how incompetent, may be calling
their work a new name, practice I'M
mOlested whatever he chooses. This
is self.evidently dangerous to the pub
lie. " "..~af
The chiropractic bill, a copy OF
Which you may have had opportunity
to read; contemplates licensing with
out examination all chiropractors in.
the state, something like a hundred,
the majority of whom have never
passed a single, day in a legally char
tered institution of learning. l3ut hold
their diploma as a result OF a CORE
spOndence course, of from a few
weeks to six months time of study
at home. 1t needs no argument to
convince that 1t is dangerous to place
this, stamp of legality upon such il
ness for professional work as is cor.
templated in the c%hiropractic bill.
To extend to one the legal right to
treat the sick with the training de-
-scrfDedf above, is to treat unfairly
those individuals who have cC:npliec
with the present legal requirements.
Tho o~steopathic profession is requir-
ed by law, in order to be legally rec
ognized, to submit to a course OF
training7o of three years, in addition to.
which he or she must pass a s2:isfac-