Milford chronicle., 1920-01-30
AFTERMATH OF PROPAGANDA

(The following letter reached us
this week through the U. S. Mail and
is printed so that the people generally
can get a line upon the opposition
which has been manifested to laws on
the Statutes Of Delaware for the up
lift and advancement of Delaware, as
well as for the safeguarding of the
general health of all citizens. It is in
teresting only from that standpoint,
and it is printed for the express pur-
pose of general information as to the
4 principles on which the opposition is
based The letter follows.-Editor. }
Robbins, Del. Jan. 2S, 1920.
Mr.. Editor:-For four years l have
| been a subscriber to the Milford
Chronicle and / think that it is the
best paper printed in the State of Del
aware. l look for the Chronicle each
Friday as regularly as l look for my
supper each night and l would not
like to be without it. You are on the
other side of the political fence from
my opinions, but l must say that I
believe you come as near printing the
news for both sides Of everything as
any newspaper / ever saw. which is
one of the reasons why / like the
Chronicle so well. If we had more
such men and newspapers our gov
ernment would be in better condition
today than it is.
A few weeks ago a writer from near
Georgetown asked that you say less
about the new school laws, and as
am not favorable to the new school
laws, his request hit my ideas exactly
But in the past month there has
something happened in Sussex county
which is more rotten than the school
code, and that is the smallpox and
vaccination scare. l want to be
law-abiding citizen. | do not believe
in mObs or anarchy, but l do think il
awful to be driven to do something
that is liable to iniure our health for
the balance of our days. | do not be-
lieve there has been a case of small
pox in Sussex county this winter
There has not been a death from
smallpox. There are people who
claim that they were not even sick /.
with it; that they never even had any
fever-just little breaking out" !
have known of people who had this /
breaking OUT ever since last fall and /
they have never had any doctor: some /
of them have cured themselves and |
the rest are getting better
Now do you call such stuff as this .
smallpox?
One thing we do know, there have
been people who died from vaccination
in the last two months in Georgetown
and in Lewes and Rehoboth Hundredsi
There are people who have never
been well since being vaccinated, and
have heard of one little girl who was
aiken sick before she got home from
he doctors Office and died in two
lays.
l appeal to the readers of the Chron-
Gle: Do you think as citizens that
We are doing justice in upholding a
ew upstart doctors and men who call
themselves specialists going around
rying to make us get vaccinated? And
hen they charge us one dollar a piece
or making us sick, and then charge E
is thirty dollars to make us well-or
ret us in the undertaker's hands. This
Gems to be the condition of things in {
hundred now.
Now who is the low-abiding citizen ]
the one trying to pull the wool over
ur eyes for a few dollars and to get
big name, or the ones that the Even
ng Bulletin claimed had the mob {
pirit? That was, in my mind, trying {
o stand up for their rights and the {
ealth of their families. /
Now / would like to hear from S
theirs on this subject. Don't be afraid
D express your ideas I
If there were more people in the 2
-orld like the editor of the Chronicle a
no trys to explain both sides of pub b
C questions. there would not be so t
luch misunderstanding. ?
John ID. Beebe. q