Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-02-26

services as anu soNih5
their practise for them. He advised
the Senate committee on ''insidious
lobbying" to investigate the lobby
maintained by the, doctors.
AS an example of the boldness and
|comprehensiveness of their purposes
he detailed the plan which the doc
tors want 90 put into operation in
Indiana making every licensed physi-
clan in the state an officer OF the
state board of health with authority
to enforce the boards orders. The
plan included a system to watch ev.
cry child from its birth to its death,
which the senator said was pretty pretty
profession
He discussed the North Carolina
law by which, he said, the doctors
had become we'll intrenched. The
laws there, he said. give the board
of health power to dictate what text
books shall be used in the schools,
one provision being that no physioi-
ogy text book shall be used which
did not give at least one eighth OF
its space to discussion OF communi-
cable diseases. r
"By this law" he said. children OF
must be submitted to its influences
or be denied the benefits of the
schools. Could there be any worse
tyranny in civilized country" -.
Senator Works called on the mill
tary affairs committee to investigate
conditions in the medical reserve
corps of the army, an honorary or
ganization which he said was. estab-
lished at the instance of the doctors,
as exposed by DR.. c. Frank Lydston
of Chicago. The purpose OF this Or
ganization, DR.. Lydston said. was the
establishment of privileged class
from the army, navy and marine nos
pital medical service-a scheme OF
the medical octopus to get more in
fluence with the government. He
had correspondence to show that
while the law required examinations
for admission to this corps many, II
not most, of its members had been
admitted without any examination.
Tells of His Own Healing.
"Mr. President, there is one rem
edy about which | can speak with
certainty from my own personal ex-
perience. confirmed by like exper-
fences that have come under my own
tian Science when death was near
and after all hope of relief through
medical practitioners had been aban-
doned after long and faithful trial.
Ii have seen and known of other cases
of healing, many of them organic
and so-called incurabfc diseases, and
after medical practitioners had given
up the patient as hopelessly incur
able.
| II am going to call some of these
cases of healing to the attention OF
the Senate, not to advertise Christian
Science nor to induce any one to re-
| q. Ill do
selyte OF advertise it or persuade any
lone to accept it. My sole purpose is
to show the cruel injustice and folly
of legislating against it in favor of
any other means OF healing. If it
saves lives and ameliorates sorrow
and suffering and regenerates human
| ity morally and physically where no
other relief is to be had, as l shall
show it does, it is not only cruel.
it is criminal, to forbid or hinder
thos6 from doing SO who administer
its benefits or who resort to 1t tor re-
lief
Human Agencies Fail.
~ would not have any one infer
from the showing | am about to
make that it is, as it is now admins
TERED, an infallible remedy and al
ways heals. 1t does fail to heal some
times, altogether too often. as all
remedies must of necessity do, when
administered through human, imper-
feet instruments. Some of its patients
are disappointed and return to the
doctors. They have SO long been ac-
customed to be thumped and pounded
and doscd and carved that the quiet
and silent Christian Science treat
ment is too tame for them. They
think nothing adequate is being done.
| doctors often boast of this return
to them as convincing proof that the
Treatment of disease in that way is
failure. But the fact that thousands
of patients have left them for Chris
| tian Science, never to return, or the
fact that those who do return get
no relief and are doubly disappointed.
makes no impression on them.
"Incurables" Healed.
But ! am prepared to show that
while it fails in individual cases for
reasons that canot always be under
stood, it has healed thousands .of
cases that under materia medica
treatment would have been incurable.
| think | can say with perfect truth
that there is no disease not subject
to its healing influence, including all
of the diseases that are given up by
the medical fraternity to be incura-
BILE. | am going to give you a few
of these cases. l have taken the
greatest care in procuring these state
ments. None of them has been vol
unteered. In every instance they
have been furnished at my request,
with an understanding of the use |
intended to make of them. l have
called for information from those
only upon whose word | felt / could
implicitly rely"
The senator discussed 20 cases OF
Christian Science healing of people
| Of his own acquaintance, all but three