Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-10-11
MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE. But
NOT ONE CENT FOR TRIBUTE

Most people are aware by this
time of the bitter persecution being
waged by the Ohio state medical
board to eXterminate the chroprac-
tor, and protect the poor unsuspect-
! ing public.
Some few have grossly incorrect
! ideas concerning why this is being
done. and from time to time through
the columns of the local newspapers
| am going to present the facts as I
see them and believe them, in an eff
fort to right these people in their
/ views
Almost 20 years ago D. d. Palmer
/ of Davenport. Iowa, discovered what
has come to be known as chiroprac-
tic. or the adjustment or manipula-
ton of vertebrae. in the human
spine.
The idea was scoffed and laughed
at for years and poor DR.. Palmer
served As days in Jail in Davenport
for trying to present it for public
approval.
SO on down through the years,
chiropractors have been jailed all
over the land because they stand up
for chiropractic. Why? Because
medical doctors are so strong nu-
merically and legislatively that they
demand that laws be made prohibi-
tive to any one else, ana placed their
standards recently so high that only
the rich mans son can exist going
through a medical school.
The recent output of graduate NJ
D.'s is claimed to be far insufficient
for the public good and cannot re-
place those who retire and die off
The American medical association is
alarmed and I have read lately of
them reducing their ordinary practi-
toners schooling to a three years
course.
Tn tventyseven states we have
chiropractic boards now Ohio is
supposed to have, but on application
you will find a limited medical eX-
animation (Which even was refused
for seven years. and If you have suf-
ficient medical education to pass it
you find only one or two diseases
you are allowed in your practice. No
representation! You are not allowed
to advertise in any way, or use any
title before or after your name.
There are many other provisions and
your license may be revoked at any
time for no cause whatever.
Of course this is fair and it surely
will be fairer if the medical board
should succeed in their efforts
Towns the size of McConnelsville
wouldn't have chiropractor in the
next so or 100 years or until after
your pains and agony had ceased.
Only 10 chiropractors have pass
ed the state medical examination in
the last eight years, and eight of
these passed last spring when the
medical board made a special exam
inatiOn to save their faces before the
public.
The big idea is to get the sick
well and any man regardless of his
schooling who can do this thing
ought to have chance.
ChirOpractic has made a success
on medical failures, you will have to
agree, because nine out of ten try
chiropractiC after medicine failed,
and yet we get 1870 of these well.
Chiropractors would rather be ig-
norant and able to adjust peoples
spines right, than have all the lead
ing medical text books by heart, as
far as getting results in diseases is
concerned. And as far as waiting
for medical doctors to take up chiro-
practic is concerned, you will wait a
long while because they absolutely
know nothing of the principles Of
chiropractic and are terribly op-
posed to anything that detracts
from their business. Furthermore
it's impossible for one man to ride
the roads at night and be feeling
able to adjust patient properly
the next day, whenever you could
wait for him to come back from
somewhere or some place..
Our trials as conducted by the
state medical board are fair to them
only. We are supposed to get a
jury trial after the first offense, but
they always charge first offense for
any trial and throw it before