Show VACCINATI OPPOSED Meeting Declares Against Compulsory Order ORGANIZE FOR FIGHTING IT j Pour Hundred People Gather In A I 0 TJ W Hall and Adopt Resolutions I Resolu-tions Protesting Against the Requirement j Re-quirement of Board of Education I Speeches Made Expressive of Hostility I Hos-tility to Vaccination Especially of the Compulsory Kind Propose to Make a Strong Fight A 0 U V hal was packed lat nfght by about 100 pcoplo in attendance attend-ance on the meeting held lo protest against compulsory vaccination and effect an organization to fight il i Thomas Hull was chosen chairman H11 and Ncphl r Schotleld secretary A committee on resolutions was chosen as follows J II i Parry Mrs Lucrcthi Klmball D H Talham II J Walk and J M Barlow A commltlee on organization or-ganization was also chosen viz John 13 Cox Scott Anderson C S lioolh l 1 f Hobcn Morris E G Holding T I 1 Grllllth While the committees were out cogitating speeches were in order and tho I audience was In u mood to I I hear them Each slalcment of opposition I I oppo-sition to vaccination called forth applause f ap-plause and the more pronounced the opposition the heurller as the popular popu-lar response The feeling of the audience l audi-ence was foreshadowed In Us response to the brief remarks of Chairman Hull on taking the chair when he denounced nounced vaccination and crillcised severely se-verely the action of the health and educational boards In trying to enforce vaccination of the children JUDGE YOUNG MUCH OPPOSED Judge LoGrand Young was the first speaker lie said E am unalterably opposed to compulsory vaccination and am determined lo light It In the Inter ust of right and Justice We do not I propose that those who are merely our I servunlr > hal become our ma len The Board nf r education seem lo bo running i the lon for themselves and the l teachers teach-ers but we shall I see at the coming elccllon whelher this slate u things is to be continued Iel those who wish vaccination have it and those I who do not musl nol be forced Inloil Dr 1 J Harvey followed advocating advocat-ing voluntary vaccination only If I at all but he preferred not at all He had a sister I he said who was mad an imbecile from vaccination I Is 1 not l preventive he claimed and IC J I had lo choose belwccii smallpox and vaccinatlon 1 would prefer smallpox twice lo vaccination once Vaccination Vaccina-tion Is a filthy thing it is poison put into the systems of our children but It nets the doctors lols of money ATTACKS THE DOCTORS Chairman Hull then said < I do not beleve there is really any smallpox in Utah and he claimed vaccinated persons per-sons elsewhere had been taken with the disease Charles Elllol held I la I an unccrlain thing at best thus pulling I pul-ling poison Inlo the system When a few men endowed wllh a little authority author-ity I say you must suhmit your children lo vaccination then it does my heart good to note the readiness wllh which the peopje oppose It I want to plead with you falhers and molhers Cries of Hear hear Dont have your children chil-dren vacclnaled T do not believe in It myself However I we do not think it necessary lo anlugonlze those who vaccinate from their own free choice Mr HII I I believed all I the doctors in Salt Lake were banded together to help one anolher ho did not approve at all of their position in this mailer and thought there was something highly suspicious In the death of the boy at Mill Creek RESOLUTIONS DOPTED Chairman T II Parry for the com mlllcc on resolutions reported Whereas The highest medical authority Is divided on tho tiuestlon of vaccination many taking the ground Unit It Is always dangerous and sometimes prodiicllvo of fatal I resnlts a nIl Whereas Tho Legislature of Ulah has expressed lie sentiment of tho people in refusing to Itt L compulsory vaccination vaccina-tion law therefore be It Resolved That In the opinion of this incclln an emphatic protest should bo lecordod against tho efforts now being lelnJ made to usurp the authority oC tho people peo-ple and compel a inedlcul I operation not authorized by law mid not cstlled for by l the condition of the public heullli Resolved That public nlllcers endeavor el Co lug to force their views on the public contrary to law are timvorlhv of public confidence ami worthy of rebuke by thoso In i whose halts rests the ballot Resolved That In the opinion of this mooting the lime has come for citizens of Ulah iu band together for the I protection of themselves and their children as citizens citi-zens of ISustern States and foreign coun tries havo been compelledto do by unscrupulous un-scrupulous advocates of antiquated theories antquated The roport was adopted unanimously with almost an hurrah ORGANIZATION FOR THE FIGHT Chairman Cox for the committee on organization recommenced an organization organi-zation to fight compulsory vaccination to be called the Utah AntlCompulBorv i Vaccination league with these temporary tempo-rary officers Thomas Hull president Scott Anderson vlcepicsidenl C S Booth secretary and B II Schettler treasurer These officers to constitute 0 committee on constitution and by laws The committee recommended such further organization as might be necessary to accomplish the purpose of the league and that the committee report re-port at a coming called meellng The repoi t was adopted Prof T T Miller of the 1 Y academy declared he would doall he could Iii opposition to iviccinallon citing the opposilloli of cue English people which I nan resulted in a modification of the compulsory law I never was vaccinated vacci-nated he said anddont Intend to be I and dont Intend lo have my children vaccinated If 1 the Board of Health would enforce cleanliness I would be l with them I EXPRESSIONS OF OPPOSITION r The meeting was brown open for expression ex-pression when H A Williams John E Cox W Hlgble Oliver Hodgson Mrs F D Klmball Scott Anderson T J I Daly and others expressed their opin bun The speakers agreed that they did not want and would not have vaccination i vacci-nation forced on their children by the Board of Education or any other board Some of the expressions were highly pyrotechnic and one speaker Mr Cox advised taking the fight Into the courts and even then with the Board of Education Edu-cation upheld by the court ho would not have his children submit to vaccination vacci-nation Mrs F D Kimball made 0 statement lit opposition lo compulsory vaccination saying Ve are capable or doing our own thinking along these lines I hi an absolutely pernicious I practice which my own common sense tells me Is wrong and the speaker I then stated her belief of the likelihood of blood poisoning as attendant upon I the measure I However she said I respect hon i est opinion Mrs 4 Klmball stated to a Tribune representative after the meeting meet-ing that she had attended because she did not believe In vaccination and not to say or listen to ungracious or un kind Ihlngo concerning the Board of Education and the medical fraternity and did not sanction any such expressions smclon Ious Scott Anderson madn n violent talk against vaccination and the doctors and hoped this movement would crush the abomination as be called vaccination vaccina-tion fill audience seemed In 101 11 elm1d hearty sympathy with all the flings made at the doctors and applauded each outburst out-burst At the close of the meeting 103 people left their names as tho nucleus for a league and paid In over 10 The enthusiasm was enough to satisfy the most ardent opponent of vaccination present ple l t |