, 1921-06-12
SURGICAL TRIuslPHs.

Two great men died last month.
Each passed away a few days after
an operation for the alleged pur-
pose of restoring things to normal.
They were Chief Justice White
of the supreme court and Franklin
X. Lane Great i~ntellects have been
cut off too soon.
old. but Lane wasn't. The world
is certainly loser through the un-
timely death of these two power
full personalities.
Surgery certainly did mo- get
much of a boost. Nothing worse
could HAYS happened. Death. by
most people. Ia looked upon as the
supreme sacrifice. Death is said to
have followed operations upon
these two great figures of history.
Will the people of the United
States rise up in their wrath and
demand that the surgeons and ply
atoms. which are alleged to be the
cause OF these eminent mems
death. be punished for manslaugh-
ter? No, of course not, isn't the
question foolish? The grand old
farce. but powerful organization be-
hind entrenchsd medicine. rules the
roost and anyone guilty of raising
the voice OF protest is almost fit
for a padded cell. The people have
been so slugsed. drugged and
Stayed that they are morbund as a
group. only protesting when the
k~een-cdged knife or poisonous pei
lets are thrust down their outlets,
individually. Inhabitory laws,
plugged through by sand-bagging
methods with skids made slippery
by o~leaginous dollars. keep the
Hoi Polloi in ignorance and craven
with fear. Providence may have
set the seal upon these great char
meters and they were due to die.
The reading public generally ac-
cept this fatefui thing-providencc,
little dreaming that 1t is man
made. and accept the sapient edicts
from the sick chamber: The oper-
alton was successful. but-provi-
dence, etc, etc." and think it all
right. But the people are learn
iny. Five thousand years of ex-
perimentation, pills, potions, knives.
ancsthetics-death: A few weeks
ago a 11-year-old girl was operated
on for appendicitis. She died. The
girls mother and the man the un-
fortunate girl was soon to have
sat down. took strychnine and their
grief laden souls were waited in
protest against the monstrous God
who greedily sits and enjoys his
power in an allopathic heaven. Had
a chiropractor permitted one of
these patients to even die under
his ministrations. off to jail he
would be whisked. and a solemn
eyed. but vacuus minded Jury,
would have condemned him to
penal servidtude. These fatalities
a~4 ~.tsf.kAz a.I
of the people only go to show the
necessity Of closer union and bet
ter support to publicity and medical
freedom. Do all these things in
terest you only academically7 All
right, get a good survey for the
day is coming when the argus
eyed thousand-legged sning will
mock on your own bedpost
through the child. the husband
the loved one.
According to Washington dis
patches DR.. Walter r. Hadwen,
president of the British union for
the abolition of vivisection, speak
ing before the National Society for
Humane Regulation of vivisection.
Jared the infectionists and serum
polluters to the core when he said
that epidemic diseases were often
caused by so-called preventative in
oculatfon. A staunch defender OF
the modern witches Cauldron said.
It's a damnable lie" DIR. Hadwen
made the confident prediction that
the germ theory OF disease would
be completely upset within the
next ter years He said inocula-
ton for disease prevention was the
most ridiculous assumption ever
introduced into a sane world"
But who in he'll claims this
world was sane7
Yours for Medical Freedom.
j. H. JEFFREY.