The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-09-07
Referendum
Measure No. Is

tsditof Inc star
In 1891 the legislature passed an
-act providing that parents or
guardians may forbid physical exam.
nations OF their school children In
dtstriots Of the first class. except
when such children smhow symptoms
81 contagious or infectious diseare:
and providing that vaccination OF
otbsr med:cat ton shah not be made
condition OF attendance or employ.
ment IN such schools exoapt Of per.
sons suspected OF having OF who
have bsen sxpcrsd TO contagious dis
ease
Thru the efforts Of shs medical
procession. this legislative act viii
b. admitted 20 the vote OF tho PEG
pic at the election In November ~
referendum measure No. ~.
Somewhat moro than 100 years ago
tho Idea 81 inoculating tho human
body with a poison In anticipation
that otherwise the person may con-
tract a disease was introduced into
England from India. In 1925 Dr.
Jenner heard a milkfnsid say that
she could never have smallpox be-
cause sho had already caught n from
a cow. Tho history of Or. Jcnncra
investigation and its results arc wall
known And upon this Investigation
IL based preeent.day medical practice
% injecting serums into human blood
with the idea Of preventing the csvci.
opmant Of q symptom % disease that
there IL no reason TO think tina, any
one particular Individual viii con-
tract.
In this letter deal with vaccina-
eon. because shis operation was the
forerunncr OF all serum therapy. and
because !, ir a faiiacy that has per.
sisted IN medical practice for a cen.
fury and a quarter. This history OF
vaccination II that OF q folklore super.
sfition. becoming scientific fnct
that II received and believed fndef1.
niteIy untfl como heroic peruon rists
HIS reputation and moro by ohaiiene.
inv n. worth. And vaccination. aft.
er isr FIRST troubles In rejection by
the medical profession. was at length
Rrudgingiy adopted and finally he.
came basic tenet Of medicine 10 tho
extent OF being made n compulsory
condition OF school attendance.
But again a change occurred. and
laws making tho operation compui-
sorry were rendered imperative be.
cause they were not backed by public
opinion.
The plan OF deliberately acquiring
ono disease IN order to become Inn
mune from another IL founded upon
medical superstition. md belongs 20
nm age when educated mon believed
and all colleges taurh, that most OF
mankind were made 10 be damned.
Propaganda emannting from the
State Medical association IN now nj
work In an attempt TO repeal the leg
islative act referred 10 above. and 10
substitute for II the old compulsory
law. Tho pro.vaccinists. tho pro.In.
oculists. have nrrayed stupcndous
amount Of evidence IN their favor
Every vestigc OF this evidence IL In.
fercntinl and circumstantial. That
smallpox, for instance, has been mod
flied aa regards number OF cascs and
occurrences II true. but this In IN
spite OF vaccination. not on account
NJ II. Why do claim fhis7 Because
MI other contagious have equally. IL
not to n greater degree. been modi.
fled.
There IL no prophylactic no power.
fui MS the happy. healthy rcsiiIency
of nature. Life Is a fight against
dlsensc and nature has provided that
life shall win II given half chance.
To introduce disense into n healthy
human body under the plea that you
arc terrifying tho individual agninst
disease. is the very acme of sciontlflc
Medical insanity declares
tint dead bacteria win cure the dis.
case that II set up by 1.-Two bacteria.
There II nothing that resists tlsease
equal 10 health. and germ life present
at nll times In The human body is
never a cause OF disease. The germ
propagates and lives as scnvenger.
is friend rather than n foe, and
never increases beyond It's salutary
limit until soil Is provided In cxcess
Of that which It discovers and con.
sumcs when health IL the rule.
The principle involved In tho at.