The Neshoba Democrat., 1920-11-25
PHILADELPHIA, MISS THURSDAY. NOV. rs, 1920

piece OF crepe and assuIe yOnr. part
OF the responsibility of that death
Just as you should? Can you and
your community, as you look at the
boy or giyl who Ii being sacrificed at
yonr hands and at the hands Of our
people by reason of carelesness, say
to the mother of this boy Or girl, the
mother who visited into the valley
Of death to bring the child into ex-
istence, that you have personally
contributed to their death and to
the robbing OF this home and this
individual Of life and OF happiness?
Are you SO selfish that you would re-
fuse to do this, or are you SO unself-
ish that you are willing to accept
your responsibility and thus pro-
claim to the world that our citizen
ship 10 now ready TO clear out this
menace? We have ine the State Of
Mississippi today more than 10000
victims Of this terrible disease. These
victims are ON bended knees begging
food at your hands, and begging
protection, yes. begging for life. and
are you willing, are you unselfish
enough, are you practicing the ten
ents OF Christianity te that degree
where you are willing to- say to
them II win contribute my part" /"
These people are being preyed upon
by the patent medicins iiends Of this
country, and by every quack because
OF the fact that our governmental
agents, together with our citizen
ship, have not sesn fit to give them
protection, and, like you, having
been taught that they were suffering
from an tncnra BILE Inaladya they are
grasping.at straw, Without re-
gard to any thought Of proved facts
they are listening eagerly for any
suggestion that might offer "a chance
to live. and II might pause here for
IL moment to pay my respects to one
Of your own people, ] would like to
to say that In your community there
10 d man who has been cared for at
the hands OF the State. who has
been given treatment and probably
now IL peddling a fraudulent cure
for tuberculosis to the people, the ig-
norant, the unsuspecting man or
woman who wishes to live and who
IS suffering from tIlis,--a man who is
preying upon those victims under
false pwtenses, airsin who Is doing
more to rob victims Of u chance TO
live than any one Trcoulsl mention,
Tor ii eau be- truly said that he i.
traffickhg ID the very blood Of the
un4uspectlng and Ignorant victim
Of this disease. / refer TO the one
who III foisting upon your people
the ,rh0npson treatment Of San An
tonio. Texas.
There is today no known cure in
ii 8 form of drugs or serum for this
particular disease, but the Supreme
Being has given US q remedy which
II practiced properly means the pres
ervatjon OF human life. / refer to
the present known treatment Of tu-
bsrculosis which we are termed to
style as hygenic treatment. which
may be divided into the following
heads: rest, food, an, air, and your
state Is at the present time at Sana-
torfum, Mississippi, building an in
stitution where the people may be
properly treatedsby this method. It
has been only D few years, since all
thought and many OF our physicians
think today that the only place TO be
treated for tuberculosis IL In the great
Southwest, and while on trip to
that part OF the country as victim
OF this disease + had occasion to see
there the poor people who travelled
from here to the Southwest expect
Ing life from the air. just as The peo-
pie who once visited the pool OF
Bathesda expected the bubbling
waters togive them life, and those
people today, or at the time 1 was
there, were dying Of neglect, yes,
practically 6fS starvation, thousands
Of them having been plunged into
this state Of affairs by public senti-
ment here, and w are glad to telyou
that Mississippi citizenship has been
so awakened that today at the Insti-
tuition forty miles south Of jackson
they are building place which will
restore TO the homes Of this county
the red-faced, rosy-6heeked boy OF
girl whom God gave TO that family
to make them theideal family Of q
Christian civilization. can see that
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