Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1920-01-21
DR.. METTLER.
ROCK ISLAND CHIROPRACrOy


ganixed effort locally to close INV
Office and put me out of business
the extent to which they have rons
lis to threaten me with a sentence
| In the county fail.
wish you, as citizens of Roch
Island. to go over this case with
Fme. then ask yourself Just vha,
YOU would do.
| Just three weeks after openea
my ONCE here lover two years ago,
was arrested, NOT from the com.
plant of one of my patients. but
from the complaint Of local doc.
tor. The case was tried and l was
found guilty, and fined $500 and
costs on the charge Of TREATING
HUMAN AILMENTS WITHOUT A
LICENSE" Just stop and think
that charge over. SHOULD 1T BE
A CRIME to relieve a human all.
ment? Absolutely it should not.
You will ask WHY I do not have
a license. and here is the reason.
GET THIS-NO LICENSE HAS
BEEN GRANTED TO A CHIRO-
PRACTOR IN THE STATE OF
ILLINOIS SINCE JUNE /, 1917.
soon to be three years-then they
arrest me for NOT having tina,
which The state will NOT give.
This may be broad statement
but / can back it up-there is NO
CHIROPRACTOR in the state Of
Illinois holding a license that is
better qualified to practice that
profession than / am. l have qual.
flied at the largest institution Of its
kind in the world, the Palmer
School, and should any one refer
you to a Chiropractor who has a
license. he received same previous
to June /, 1917.
1t is my earnest desire to get peo-
pie we'll by what ever means most
effective, whether it be Medicine.
Science, Chiropractic or what not.
am not narrow minded; do not
want it all. Above all things,
want results. Ninety per cent Of
my cases are those who come as
last resort. Then why deprive
them of what benefit they can re-
ceive?
Beyond doubt. I am doing good
as my patients will tell you, and
in my last case in court the states
own witnesses testified that they
had been benefited by Chiropractic
adjustments. The persecution is so
plain in this case that any one can
see the motive Of it, and I will ask
you to read what Judge Chadsey
of Rochester. N. Y. had to say in
pronouncing sentence on a Chiro-
Ipractor:
"Dr. Keene, there is no other con-
clusion to be reached in your case,
since your arrest people have
come to my Office and told me of
the good that you have done for
them in the practice of your pro-
fession. l am convinced that You
have done much good and that
your work is a benefit to human
ity-BUT YOU VIOLATED A LAW.
IF Jesus Christ were to come to
our state today, and | say this rev.
erently, healing the sick and max
ing the blind see, as He did when
on earth, He would be arrested on
a charge of Treating Human ALL
ments Without License" The law
was NOT made by be. I admit that
you were arrested for DOING
lGOOD. but you violated the law
that | am called upon to enforce
will sentence you to 80 days in
the penitentiary-but will suspend
the sentence"
| ASK YOU IN ALL SINCERITY
lis 1T RIGHT in this day and
age of the world. Columbus died
in Jail because he said that the
world. was round-BUT THAT
WAS OVER 400 YEARS AGO.
l have recently been arrested,
charged with assisting n the
spreading OF an epidemic-when
those who make that charge know
it is an untruth. There is no doc
tor in Rock Island who uses more
precaution or good common sense
than l do. But l thank heaven |
do not resort to such methods
believe in competition, but above
all things let it be clean-it is con-
temptible to see one afraid to come
out in the open, but to hide behind
others.
Do not condemn me for my state
ments; don't misjudge my motives
but | am here to fight for that
which is right. and If those who
are responsible, will take pleasure
in putting me in Jail for DOING
GOOD, then they will have to ex-
plain to the hundreds that have re-
ceived. benefit from me.
This fight that | am called upon
to make is for MEDICAL FREE
DOM and if YOU or your friends
have been benefited by Chiroprac-
tic adjustments, then it is 'as much
your fight as mine. have copies
of letters from the American Medi-
cal association to every Allopath
doctor in the state of Illinois tell
ing them WHO to vote for ana
WHY.
! | can not see why these facts
should be kept secret. They con-
Germ you, and you should know
/ WHEN MEN, SUPPOSEDLY IN
TELLIGENT MEN, will openly
boast that they are going TO get
you"-will you sit still and let
them do it?
IF ! WAS THE ONLY NON-Ll-
CENSED Chiropractor in the state
of Illinois | would Quit--but the
state is full OF them. THEN WHY
should / quit to satisfy a few OH
whose toes l may be stepping.
will ask you to watch this case
and il at any time you can speak a
good word for me. do so-it viii De
appreciated and believe me. | need
it.
H. N. METTLER,