Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-01-20

obtain must necessarily be OBJ
tanned by cooperation"
DR.. Hill is right in his statement
that it is not technical medical
points that makes US disagree, but
because he is virtually state soci-
alist-a Photographic doctrinaire,
self constituted experts, should
rule this state automatically, while
we common people should submis-
sively simply fold our hands and
sing "Amen"-long emphasis on
the "A"-while 1 believe in individ
ual initiative performance, and re-
sponsibility, and that what the indi-
vidual earns and saves by industry
and self denial is his, and should
not be taken from him by the state
and given to the idler and spend
thrift.
You Will notice that, outside of
millionaires, DR.. Hill sees only two
figures in society: The individual
and the state. May l inform Dr.
Hill that there is such thing as
private cooperative corporations,
and that over 80 per cent of all
business of any size is done by pri-
vate corporations nowadays
dustrial, civil, religious, and elee-
mosynary. May I tell him that
the biggest and probably the best
tuberculosis sanatorium in this
country is not a state institution
but private cooperative enterprise
belonging to the Modern Woodmen
of America.
DR.. Hill doesn't believe in home
rule. He would have us common
people hand over all our earnings
to a state oligarchy of experts loca-
Gated at the state capital, and they
should spend it for us by means
of an army of state experts-the word
"agent" is too vulgar for an august
state official.
Now this new development OF
Platos Republic in Minnesota, this
new state centralized regime, is not
exactly popular yet with the masses
But an army Of state agents are now
travelling all over the state to educate
the people in this new doctrine Of the
beneficient rule of the few wise ones
over the many. And so the junta who
planned the tuberculosis crusade de
veloped this wonderful plan: Let the
the state first collect, say, half of the
taxes necessary for the project, the1
| offer this half back to the county il
exchange for the power to 0. K. thu
l. choice of the superintendent of thu
sanatorium,-andth then let the count!
pay the other half direct. By thi
cunningly devised plan, the state re
mains in real control and the people O
the county think they themselves ar
spending their own money! O, yes
this tuberculosis sanatorium projec
is one of the finest stunts ever turne'
+ out by the ancient and honorable AM
= consolidated oficeholders mutual ad
miration society of Minnesota. CA
: H. C. o. M. A. S. of N.Y.
- And yet if the tuberculosis pus]
= that got this delightful bill through
- had stood by it's program Of two year
ago, to wit: To operate hospital TO
durable cases I should probably hav
kept still. If the state is squanderin
money on drunkards and drug fiends
why not also on the real worthy tube1
cular victim?
i, But now comes the state represe1
tative and tells us that the propose
sanatoriums are to be isolation ho'
pitfalls. That the physicians of GU
communities can not be relied on
find the poor victims,-bu that IRE
sponsible state health experts-me
who never practiced medicine,-wh
never was outside of a laboratory, ar
to 60 through our communities an
- test people like a lot Of cattle-an
then railroad them into the count.
state health bastile! And so I col
lie cluded it was my public duty to pr
IS the people of this county on to fe'
II things on this tuberculosis question
II DR.. Hill tries to be funny because
S. lists on the heredity factor in tube
II culosis. And then he says: "Leadin
a sanitary life is a similar ILLUSION
a. similarly distracting." Did you e
:. that-that the great sanitary expel
is of Minnesota calls leading sanitar
n life an illusion?" What's the use
c. discussing pictures with person VIII
lie is color-blind?
'e The readers of Minneapolis Tribun
ct know the genial face of DR.. P. NJ Hal
lie the health editor of the Tribune, an
le for many years H. o. of Minneapoli
In the daily Tribune Dec. 81, 1914, D
Hall said this: "The fight against t.
e. berculosis is all summed up in an in
O. provement of personal habits Of Ii
r. ing and the educational campaign ha
c. been directed towards bringing thu
e fact home to every$individual." Wi
e DR.. Hill kindly put that in his PIP
le and smoke it?