The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-01-24
ROBINSON IN
FINAL SHOT AT
VACCINATION

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ton to become general. 1t would be
certain to cause the sickness or
death of thousand children where
one child now sickens and dies from
smallpox. or course different story
| is told by the class that reap a golden
harvest from vaccination and the dis
eases caused by it. Yet, because Of
their self interest, their doctrine must
| be received with the greatest care
and scrutiny. Every person Of COM
nonsense and observation must know
that it is not the welfare Of the chill.
dren that causes the vaccinators to
preach their doctrines and to incur
the expense of lobbying for vaccirla-
ton statutes. Certain it is that In
this sparsely settled prairie country,
vaccination is not necessary to pre-
vent the spread Of smallpox or pig
cholera.
England, with it's dense population
and unsanitary conditions, was the
first country to adopt compulsory
vaccination, but there it has been de-
nounced and abandoned. In the City
of Leicester vaccination has long
since been tabooed, and there, because
Of special regard for cleanliness and
good sanitation, the people fear no
smallpox. But in Prussia, Germany
and other such countries, the light
shineth in darkness and the darkness
comprehendeth it not.
In the book of DR.. PEBBLES on vac
cination there are statistics to the ef-
feet that $4,000 children are annually
slaughtered by diseases inoculated in
to the system by compulsory vacclna-
ton. 1t is shown beyond doubt that
vaccination is not infrequently the
cause Of death, syphilis, cancer, con
sumption, eczema, leprosy and other
diseases. 1t is shown that il vaccina-
ton has any tendency to prevent an
attack of smallpox, the remedy IS
worse than the disease.
Small pox is the least dangerous OF
the infectious diseases. With proper
care no person dies Of smallpox and
the disease gives the patient and his
descendant more or-1ess immunity
from other diseases. 1t commences
with fever and takes the patient to
bed several days before the disease
hecomes Infectious. It's infectious char
acter commences las the fever SUD
sdes) with the formation OF small,
peculiar cutaneOus eruptions or pus-
tules all over the body and these
emit the offensive 'amell1ng 41fec-
ton At the close Of three or four
weeks, with proper care, the patient
RECEIVERS and becomes hale and hearty,
with immunity from the disease.
It is true that smallpox and other
infectious diseases do not prevail as
much as formerly, but that Is not due
to vaccination. AS time passes SAM
tary conditions improve; men and
animals become more and more i'm
mune. Nature is everywhere work
ing and learning by slow degrees to
protect both the animal and the veg
etable. The pig that has survived
an attack of cholera is immune, and
for several generations its breed IS
partly immune. In some southern
countries where pigs are kept IN
filthy condition or live on dropplngs
from cattle, they are very subject to
cholera and there pig vaccination and
incubation may be proper sanitary
measure; but in northern state,
where the pig has good pasture, q
good wallow and is well fed and
housed, there is no pig cholera and
hence pig vaccination would be bar
barism Indeed, the pig growers Woulo
rebel against it; and so OF child vac
| cination in a state where smallpox
does not prevail, it has no excuse; 1t
is a barbarism. 1t is the duty of child
| growers to rebel against it. Surely
the child should have as much protec.
ton as the pig. "
The question is to be decided on
the fundamental law, the statutes,
common knowledge and pure reason
BY the constitution the public
schools must be open to the children
of the state. (Sec. 147). But when q
child has an infectious disease OF
resides in an infected house, then
it may not attend the schools (Sec
1867 BY an absolete statute every