Show CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP The editor of the Dcseret News has fallen by the wayside Ho has been pulling up an Ignoble fight against vaccination but now he prlnls with specific editorial I Indorsement I a let I l from a physician in Mexico who pronounces pro-nounces his position to bo that of the more ignorant class of Mexico and the same as that of every Ignorant uninformed un-informed and mentally oblique individual individ-ual who In England deeloped such conscientious scruples against vaccination vacci-nation of himself and children that the country Is now swarming wIth the unprotected un-protected with the natural consequence conse-quence an alarming Increase of the disgusting malady The letter Is a good statement of the list scientific medical view based on practice and statIstics II is on thc tenth page of The Tribune this mornIng morn-Ing The cclilcrlal In the News Indorsing Indors-ing It Is as follows TWO SIDES ro TUB QUESTION In another part of the paper will bo found a communication from an honored subscriber In Mexico Dr Walter Keatc who Is I a believer in vaccination as u preventive pre-ventive of smallpox The News gladly gives spaco to his paper I It written In I dignified and courteous style and It presents the provacclnatlon side of the controversy In an able manner giving tho arguments relied upon by that side The News hns taken stand not a against vaccination though It bus gIven voice to the general sentiment of tho people of Utah against making the operation compulsory com-pulsory particularly utter tho Leglslu tvue hud refused to grant that power to Boards of Health For that reason wo us willingly afford tho ablo spokesman for vaccination a chance to present his case KS we have given a similar opportunity oppor-tunity to representatives of tho other Me Free discussion when fairly conducted con-ducted Is a great aid to truth und truth never fears either light or liberty J Is I inlsehood Hint works by means of per secmlon and thon hides Its face In shame We would suggest however that tho Issue between the nroncclnators and the ants cun never he f settled In statistics statis-tics alone 11 will not be disputed that deaths from smallpox have diminished In the world hit HO have deaths from numerous other disease Statistics provo that Italy ono of tho most thoroughly vaccinated countries on earth has had some visitations of smallpox with fatal results During the year 1SS7 there were 1G2ID deaths In thai country In JSSS there were 1S110 and In 18SO 13J13 deaths all from smallpox 1 the question bi asked how the epidemic cun rage so fearfully In a country where about OS per cenl of the population IH rendered Immune by vaccination the reply Is that the deaths were generally recorded In tho parts of the country where tho population live as they have done for generations without with-out any Idea of hygiene while In tho enlightened en-lightened ports of the country with modern duellings and modern sanitary precautions there wan hardly I caso of the disease This Is on lie nnllvacclnnllon side of tho question of statistics And this has been considerably strengthened lately by the reports o len Otis from which It Is evident Hint vaccination no mutter how often repented Is not a sure preventive of smallpox The luiestlrm discussed mint be decided on oilier grounds It should bo possible for the scientist to explain the nature or tho lymph and the nuluro of tho smallpox small-pox and show how the ono operates upon the other Just us It If possible to demon strato why a saw applied In a certain way cuts through a piece of wood As lon us It Is admitted thut erysipelas and other discuses have boon convoyed Into the human system by vaccination It Is wise not to force It upon those who Go not believe In Its virtues < There Is so much to be snd on both sides of that question thut ono side should not bo permitted to oompol jha other to submit to Its dicta 11 would bo different were the provacclnutlon position l I posi-tion established beyond u reasonable I doubt which 11 cannot bo an lone aa ornl nent scientists Including physician of I firstclass repute are among Its vigorous antagonists The headline of the above Is completely com-pletely misleading the letter Indorsed Is written expressly on the basis that there are not two sides to iho question 11 specifically points out that there Is but one side to II Further when the News says It has nol taken a stand against vaccination that cannot he explained ex-plained in accord with truth DO far as the past is concerned hut If I ii means that It does not intend to continue In that vein In the future then I we arc glad of Iho hope But surely no one who comprehends the meaning of words can deny that the News has boon a slrf nuous opponent of vaccination vaccina-tion heretofore Ii has holdup CIK bugaboos bug-aboos antiquated stories of the cvllB anciently alleged to attend vaccination It has warmly commended every one who look any action against vaccination vaccina-tion nnd denounced those who In61 ted upon Its saving effects As to the vlallallons from small pox In countries whore vaccination I prevails Dr Keales letter gives a fair and decisive explanation whcre he i shows that such visltallona occur on the borders where contact IH 1 common com-mon with people of oihor counlrlos I where vaccination la not enforced or as In England whore Ignorant uninformed unin-formed and menially oblique Individuals Individ-uals use the conBcJenlloiiB scruples dodge to evade the law I The contention of the Now that sanitation san-itation and hygiene and not vaccination vaccina-tion have caused the abatement of smallpox not or counie borne outby any fact It Isa mere assumption I which the letter now under consldora lon so earnestly commended by the New explodes where it New expressly Cxplod I says speaking from Dl Keales large experience Judging from personal ob servallon I do not believe that any degree de-gree of cleanllneos of the Individual or household or of municipal of hygiene In the 1U nicipal sanitation will protect the susceptible sus-ceptible against contracting smallpox Whal If oxpurcd to Its contagion the doctor would think of the laying I on of hands as a cure can readily be j Imagined i I The News says thc anllvucclnallon I side In tho matter of statistics has been considerably strengthened by the reports of GYn Otis which io nol true I I of any report so far made public un IOFS some prejudiced person violently roads the ant into It I The News halps that As long as It Is ndmlltod that erysipelas and other I diseases have been convoyed Into the I human system by vaccination It is I wise not lo force It upon those who do not believe in its virtues You might as well say that because mistaken have I been made In surgery and operations have boon unsklllfully performd therefore there-fore il IH not wise to force surgery upon those who do nol believe In its vlriucs Nay you might much more reasonably so contend In the case of I l surgery for as lo thaI the sufferer himself If the one to be affected whereas the one who denies the efficacy effi-cacy of vaccination and refuses to sub mil to II may be and oren is according accord-Ing to medical reporls a walking bieedor of poslllence a menace to the < pcstlenc whole communlly and his conscientious r conscien-tious scruples In such caso make him Ian I-an enemy to be dreaded even more I than a conflagration The notion lint I the community must nol protect itself agalnnt such a person merely bccause his prejudices would otherwise be offended of-fended Is the very essence of anarchism anar-chism But all the oldfiishloned bugaboos buga-boos about the introduction of oilier diseases Into the t system through vaccination vacci-nation have no place In tho modern practice Dr Keatc especially says By obaorving aseptic rules there la absolutely no danger And again This objection however no longer holds good In the face of the best modern mod-ern procedure Lymph is being produced pro-duced on a strictly scientific basis The J spot to bo Inoculated is made surgically surgi-cally clean and the entire operation Is i performed under aseptic conditions Likewise the collection of lymph lt I is true that many arms become very sore which is duo to the vaccination I but that Is a trivial mailer compared j with the many dangers of the loathsome I loath-some disease And so the t News editor Is headed off at every corner his objections are the objections of the ignorant and uninformed unin-formed his talk is mere prejudice his citations of evils have no relation to present practice his statistics arc llgmonls of the imagination or else easily explained on reasonable grounds that are themselves a refutation of his claims and finally his barbaric shield of rawhide was riddled with Mauser bullets and I the while ho was commending com-mending the execution |