Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-02-28
COMPULSORY DISTRIBUTION OF
DISEASES IN THE SCHOOLS OF
THE EMPIRE STATE

COMPULSORY DISTRIBUTION OF
DISEASES IN THE SCHOOLS OF
THE EMPIRE STATE
The New York statute provides
that mo child or person not vac
cinated, shall be admitted or receiv-
the state" In accordance to the re-
quirements of this monstrous law no
healthful child can lawfully be
taught in our public schools until
he shall have been diseased. mo
disease, no education is the grue-
some mandate of this odious and de-
testable law. BE diseased or grow
up in Ignorance is the Inscription
written over every schoolhouse door,
in violation of right. reason or COM
mon sense. Think of it, reader! The
offenseenjoyment of health is made
penal offense by law of the en-
pire state of this nation, while the
distribution of underlined disease is
made obligatory! Think of the I'M
paralleled injustice ana unspeakable
outrage of the compulsory infliction
of disease by the state upon it's
healthy children as a qualification
for school attendance in this age of
boosted civilization. hygiene enlight-
eminent and sanitary science!
The enforcement of this law is a
crime! To call it by any other name
is to temporize. Although at one
time an implicit believer in the
dairy maids creed" having vacci-
mated more than 5000 victims, ig-
norantly presuming that l was pro-
tecting them from smallpox, I now
denounce vaccination as the suprem-
est folly of the age, and compulsory
vaccination as the crime of the cen
tury."-(J. w. H.
DR.. Hubert Boens said: Continue
gentlemen, to vacicnate if you
choose, and because you make money
by it; but never forget, pseudo sci
entists and false physicians that you
are, that while you sow vaccine
among the people, they reap the
pox. Adopted from the allocution
of DR.. Herbert Boens, of Charleroi,
Belgium.
DR.. Brigham, director or the Mus
cum of Natural History at Honolulu
and trained scientific observer, in
conversation said: Vaccination at
the Hawaiian islands has not only
failed in its purpose since 1854 but
has resulted in a rapid and extensive
spread of syphilis, leprosy, and other
diseases"
DR.. Charles Creighton testified be-
fore the British Royal Commission
on vaccination when asked whether
In his opinion vaccination affords
any protection against smallpox: "In
my opinion 1t affords none'-Second
Report, Minutes of Evidence, @. 543O
p. 179.
T. Mckenzie, M. D., F. R. C. p,
Edinburgh, January 26, 1882: II
can produce children of three differ
ent families where scrofula was new
er heard of until they were vaccinat-
ed, but those necks are now a sad
sight to see''
Sir w. j. Collins and Mr.. Picton
have shown that symptoms indisting-
washable from those of syphilis, and
which have hitherto been regarded
as characteristic and diagnostic, have
arisen when vaccination has been
performed with matter derived from
the calf. british Royal Commits
sion on Vaccination Final Report, D.
201. Statement of Grounds of Dis
sent, paragraph 213.)
DR.. Alexander Wilder of Newark,
N ]. says. after such contamination
you can never hope to gain the form
er purity of the body. Thus tainted
the body is made liable to a host Of
ailments. Consumption follows in
the footsteps of vaccination as GER
tainly as effect follows cause"
DR.. w. j. Collins. M. D., L. r. 6
p. M r c p, l.. NJ: Or Jenner's eld-
est son Edward, when year and a
half old, was inoculated with swine
pox matter. Other members of his
family were afterward operated on
in the same way. and they all died
of consumption"
DR.. f. B. Foote, Jr., New York
City: Vaccination has stood for
nearly one hundred years on three
legs-theory, practice and profit
Now it is fast lettering to fall. The
English know more of it than any
other people. There it started, there
1t has been tested, studied and Is
falling into 'inocuous desuetude.'
M. X. Leverson, M. d., says: "Or-
binary vaccination. the name given
by the vaccinists to the disease pro-
duced by vaccination, is a more Sc
we're disease than ordinary small
pox. Severe vaccinia is very much
more severe disease than severe
smallpox and often lasts throughout
the life of the patient"
DR.. Robert Hall Blackwell, former
Vaccinator General of the Island of
Trinidad, says: he was led to
fear that in some instances whole
sale vaccination and re-vaccinations
at the commencement of an epidemic
have spread smallpox among those
who remained unvaccinated; again.
he found a remote part of the island
was entirely free from smallpox I'M
til an energetic vaccinator, newly APP
pointed, vaccinated upwards of
hundred in the course of three or
four weeks. Smallpox then broke
out. Excerpts from an article by
Porter F. Cope, in "The Healthy
Life" Scranton. Pa, February, 1907