Show THE VACCINATION BLESSING t 1 Editor Tribune It Is seldom that I I obtrude myself upon those diapbiuiou questions that from time to time ar generated In tho minds of the giddy headed and float around therefrom to plague and hinder the threat onswecplng progress of the world but the recent prog resolutions promulgated by the ant I vaccInator of Salt Lake City call for more than passing notice Inasmuch w I their attitude Is likely to bring untold I I suffering to many Innocent people Because Be-cause the authors of those resolution are reputable citizens Is no reason why they should be spared a Just punishment punish-ment for their Iniquity but there Is all tho more Ground for their discipline owing to their prominence und the Increased In-creased Injury that their unchallenged doctrine is capable of doing The evil of those men who sat In convention and condemned vaccination may live to do harm when they themselves are In dust They should have been born when the I darkness of earlier limes hung like a pall over all the universe of mans thoughts or what is boiler they ought not to have been born at all The president of that delectable gathering gath-ering sounded tho keynote when he mounted the rostrum and assumed con I trol of the function Hear the voice of their oracle HL says The meeting wasnt called for those who believe In vaccination to air their views and that he didnt propose to have any debate on the question Thats tojerancc for you Such men would do honor to the tribunal that sentenced the great Galileo I leo to Imprisonment for demonstrating that Jupiter had four satellites and that the milky way was caused by the Illumination of millions of stars Again the same eruJIte philosopher exclaims Those who favor vaccination are tryIng try-Ing to wrest from us the rights of free people and S50 years ago Lady Juno Jrey made answer under the uplifted ax when she cried 0 Liberty Liberty I Lib-erty how many crimes are committed I in thy name The resolutions start on by I declaring that the highest medical I authority Is divided on the question of vaccination which Is I utterly false I for since the germ theory has been known and understood there Is entire unanimity on the prophylactic powers of vaccination and that It does prevent I and Whoever disputes the prop08i Lon makes Of himself a laughing stock go entirely Is every csEcnllal point conceded I con-ceded by scientist and i scienlst intelligent pco i pie ovciy where Two days ago 1 no ticsd a letter In a Salt Lake daily wherein the writer thereof recited a tale or woe from the family logbook I and all on account of vaccination Among other unpleasant and inconvenient inconve-nient things brought about was that of a sister being made Imbecile but every Inlelllgent person who read the letter must have readily concluded that vac cinallon had nothing to do with It I would be quite Impossible for a thing of that sort to strike the mental flower of a whole family with mildew Those deluded de-luded and deluding people at the State I capital may Interpose that this I write is not for argument Granted for to offer lo prove a selfevident fact would be a reproach to the Inlelllgent reader I and moreover if I were to present facts and ilguies without end they would rot be understood because the deluded followers of these people seldom sel-dom fool away their lime learning to read But the laws of nature are Inexorable In-exorable and will not mitigate a penalty I penal-ty on account of Ignorance and so lax methods and Inadequate laws permit these viciously Ignorant and defiantly Indifferent people to go about the country coun-try wheresoever they will sowing the J germs of death In Innocent homes and I filling them with lamentations even over those restored to health 5 P a No person can open his eyes but he SCea all around him unquestionable evidence o the saving grace of vaccination r nation and with naton grateful heart should praise the Infinite One for the gift of Edward Jenner hardly less n benefaction benefac-tion to the human race than that of his immolated son Let any one take a glance at the con dltlon of the world today and he will readily see that the scourge of smallpox has disappeared from the nations In the exact ratio that they have become civilized and enlightened Why does It sweep over the republics of South I America like a besom of destruction I and seldom attack any city In the United Uni-ted Stales with any degree of mallg nlly Why does It wipe out whole native na-tive tribes In India and for scores of years forget England 1 Why does It honeycomb the continent with graves and leave in peace and security the empire em-pire of Germany These questions carry their own answers But even here in America and I suppose sup-pose also in northwestern Europe there are men who will neither die nor be civilized and so the malevolent cloud i must hang In otherwise pleasant horizons hori-zons For centuries prior to the advent of Jenner 3000 to the 1000000 inhabitants died annually of in I lnnualj smallpox Europe and In Prance 30000 died every year and In the same length of lime and of the same disease 2000000 died in Russia During the last fifteen years prIor to Jenner onetenth of the entire death rate In Berlin was from smallpox and in Ceylon whoe villages either died of I this loathsome disease or they were I abandoned in consequence In 18715 500000 people died in the 1851 Bombay and Calcutta Pepper Whole races were carried 00 In Brazil One I third of tho population of Iceland died j I of smallpox In one year and twothirds of all the people In Greenland Pepper Macaulay the historian says that It is computed of thfw u nr > ntnrr nrr r > r > rHnr vaccination that 50000000 n people died of C smallpox in Europe and that It was the most terrible of all the ministers of death and Prof Thomas Watson wrote of It that there Is no contagion PO strong and sure as that of smallpox and none that acts at so great a dis tance and none so easily controlled referring to vaccination During the three great visitations of that terrible epidemic In London one half of the stricken died and this was before the discovery of vaccination But why continue this gloomy picture Why not turn from the thread things of the past to behold the radiance of the sun of a new century now streaming over the eastern hills and profit by the mis fortunes and failures of our fathers not follow along In their rut out of which It Is difficult to lift ourselves and still 8tlr overclouded with the gloom of the dark ages S Let me now In a few words direct at tention to some of the things which havQ brought disrepute to vaccination yaCcnnUof as a preventatlve of smallpox First ft has been the habit for any one to use the remedy I stood In a drug store the other day and during the halfhour thai I spent there I saw three persons come in and purchase the virus The were not together but seemed to halt from different places and each hal onu seemed lo b a tiller of the soil Each one wa asked If he proposed to do the vaccinating himself and he replied that he did for said he I can rcpled as wen as any one Ah my friend that wel great mistake glEat To properly do a clnalion and intelligently care for vac It to the end require skill reuire kl and a knowledge of the malady sought complete vent and the tQ pre technIque ot MS aseptic Sur gery This Is easy for those who have spent understand long year the n the stUdy oC it and quite Impossible to slnuus tho fanner routine but I penter the the cur banker or ctlr I to any one who does not know with a big K how elect the material to I tar appliances sterilize prepare his the neces terle own hands ud the field or OWI feld Opeiation I operton would not employ for a bluclesmlth to build a house I horse nue nor a carpenter to shoe my nOt a banker n to run I an Aimul childs so grimy fuger diG n enrine i chids arm and In n few days the vac cine the mater Eel in Its work and so does 1m3 germ antI a palnCu abscess or t erjaipcids Is the result and people goj I about the street and curse the theory of Vaccination I believe it Is I as ncce PAry to h tt A law to prevent the unvaccinated un-vaccinated to be at large to menace I whole neighborhoods as It Is to permit a mad dos to 0 at liberty or any other agent of evil And right here I wish to I say In conclusion and with all the power I pow-er that lives and breathes and burns In I words that vaccination does vacclnaton prevent I that U Id n specific safeguard against I smallpox that of the vaccinated seven I II j tylive out of every hundred will entirely I entire-ly escape its merciless onset however malignant the epidemic and not R soul of the remaining twentyfive will be Ill I enough to take to the bed provided no accident happens and Intelligent methods meth-ods be observed I but give the concurrent I concur-rent Judgment of learned men who have studied the question in all Its manifestations mani-festations till there seems but little more to know about It 4 SIn S-In the laboratories of the centers or populailon in the foremost States of the Union In Berlin In Vienna In ITcldcI burg In London in Paris In Lelpslc and In every nook and corner of civilization civiliz-ation whcievcr learning lifts up the majestic ma-jestic pictures of progress and wherever I I wher-ever the cap and gown of the devoted j student may be seen experiments and i observailons are going on and along these lines and In this cause many a heroic heart has ceased to beat and many an ardent life has gone out on the I altar of nelfsacrlflcc that time problem of vaccination a n prophylactic I against smallpox might be demonstrated demon-strated I has been demonstrated and the whole world today Is eloquent with l the pathos of its truth 1 speak earnestly ear-nestly on this subject for realizing the need I feel Its Importance most deeply I despise u bigot or a crank of any sort on any subject and those who best know me will not class me with those genera but having Just returned from nearly two years service In the army where I lived In a realm of smallpox and witnessing dally time Ignorance In difference and cruelty of the civil au thorities while this merciless scourge was holding a dally carnival of death among time helpless and innocent I say without fear of contradiction thai If Ihose Insurgents who are resisting vaccination In Sail Lake City could have paced through some of these scenes with me no voice of theirs would ever be lifted to slay the hand now grappling with the terrible curse that threatens the State AS CONDON Ogden Utah Jan 1C 1000 |