| Show 1 COMPULSORY Flo the IJ t SirI am heartily In sympathy with the views expressed L by you OU In your our Is Isif if 4 sue ot of saturday all on the question ot of vac vaci t i P I am II a thorough believer n nt nhe t the he Jenner system and days before the 7 board of health and the board ot of tion took up the question had consulted n IL for the purpose or oC having my some of whom ore are In the tho j schools and some ot of whom are not vac vaccinated ac l Hut I 1 do not believe In sory fiory vaccination The Tho Legislature hay hav hayt II t ing reCus refused d to enact a In law mAking vito nc MUon compulsory where does the lower to enforce It come Some say i 9 the power Is authorIty for tor It ft ItS S 4 but Lut tell lell rae me that police powers c j must nuat bl be conferred before they can be t exercised und end that the powers of school c boards and the like lIko are limIted and andare are so construed b by the courts and can l riot not be enlarged by by the boards theta r It If the boards ot of health henith and the I 1 board ot of education can an vaccina lion why ran can they not enforce tit lion with Kochs lymph for Cor the lion ot of consumption with r for tor the prevention of diphtherIa the In or Of verum for Cor the prevention ot of the Tho Th Jenner theol theory ot of Is the basis ot of all t th these est If It is If necessary to have compulsory i sory vaccination ot of the Chool children r or of Salt alt Lake City why corn com 1 vaccinatIon ot of the tho equally as an necessary Anti I It If It Is necessary In Sell Salt Lake City why h u it necessary throughout the entire tl j The attempt to work fork up n a smallpox i scare In this city Is II not only senseless s A fi there no foundatIon for tor one but It II Is positively pernicious I cannot t lUt Jul think that the prime an anti f q 1 fur tor It Is 18 nn an desire 1 y un In the tho r ot of some nubile to 1 i OO 1 before the and II a t 1 t ng vanity to hav their names In i ii 01 0 the personal advantage a aspect l 1 of the case I say nothing Trusting you OU wilt will the t S lion 11 i favor ot of the rights ot of the II plo and against the arrogance and lI 1 jt tion of nfl a tew Public officials hay lay Jag Ing It a little brief authorIty I rem remain In 1 A AND A SCHOOL salt Lake CIt City Dee IS S 1119 lh rho letter the views Ies ot of l it great t Inan In city We have or of the tho position taki b by byi i 1 the Deseret News ew ot on question l there tit ore persons who believe In Inthe I the no now popular th theory I that t is It a or at smallpox standing the tw by its Ite t I 1 4 1 opponents to t tM contrary even the lbs be beI I I Ti J J l the 0 ot su au suf f b by It Is 18 1 to lo earn earnel tl i el all aI hooi to It to that ha tyranny Phil Thal I ho gNat siow t In ht The Th News w II I r t f do nol net Nuh to prevent people t 2 being who wish to lo ad adept pt the Lt i Pra but bUl do most mOM I I I I roe t OG nIhil lh tile presumption n by i W Which hI c h public attempt to 0 ox o t paw wet not conferred thOrn 1 by bylaw law I i 1 A In lb the News e on Satur Batur 1 SI cell may have conveyed the I IJ lon that tho Board of at hall had to vaccina In the cUt ci This idea Iden would 10 t Jt t WA o only l In a 11 a decision reached by n a h lare r The noart has hae yet et to act c on an the ho r recommendAtIon of 01 that CO committee N Jt It is III to bo be hoped that IhAl the Donut vill 1 petiw and consider the alJo the limit or of Ii iti 1 law lawful ful W We tb 10 not thInk thIS that t bod body attempt to what the tho or of the Stat refused to tomake tomake make by br law Minnesota Sl State te Bonn Board Bonnot ot of health l Issued u J an order that oil nil school bt be refused admission to school unit unless th they furnished n a Cal cate that th tad Hen been one ip 1 1 This raked I Ithe tie the m was wal referred to Attorney oItt ni Do who promptly decided that thai Th 16 t re vaccination 4 tc I IIA II on as 1 1 a condition to admission elon to school ho t Sf not lIy by does not This The Ioard ot of or of Salt JAke Lakes tf 11 tint fInd with n a similar tetra I The school laws lawe do not requite require vaccination as a condition Ire to to the imbUe schools nor or do they confer upon school boa boards lID say arbitrary power st that whIch certaIn doctors are or no now tr try lag to 10 lod ce them to exercise TJ The whole question ot of the virtues or of vaccination I is open to W We ore that hOsts ot of physicians In both have drifted Into the cur Dur Durrent current rent ot of the theory It Is claimed however by many emInent scientists and 1 practitioners that have haO be k Ih for call cause and effect atI hat do not establish the truth ot of th the vaccination hI hypothesis The medical world adopted the Inoculation process with as much avidity and tn en IU as they tell fell Into the present vaccination idea Smallpox Was actually put Into the bodies ot of healthy on the notion that It would tavo thom them from n a severer form lorm ot of the disease II this means the filthy dIsorder was spread In Europe like ilke a pla plague ue has hns been adopted In Its place but wIth no more general acceptance b by the faculty than the original process ot of which It Is a mool modi tied fied ImItatIon There Is nn an society In the United States organized tor or the purpose of resisting tile the compulsory movement by Interested persons The society has hns 1 a month monthly I journal which records verified Instances ot of dire results from vaccinatIon These Thesa have occurred In various parts or of the UnIon and a I tendency to which Is 1 I increasing In tIll the land Is attributed to the prevalence or of vaccination Reter once enco Is made niso to the breaking breskIn out of smallpox Rmon among vaccinated nl anti reo re vaccinated rs b by whom In many casee e it has been carrIed to various arlous places The outbreak at the lre Presidio In California Is cited In evIdence chenee From that paper We luote the following With the openIng oft tIle Ilia p public schools eLicit th the ever Is on hand only too frequently encouraged hy by school boned boards and other standing upon the threshold no poison no education tn in vie I muon laUon of 10 logic lc justice and om corn molt sense The reason the eople do donot donot not more strongly object to thin dIsease breeding practice ii 19 because they d do not understand what vaccination la is and hae been boen tn taught ugh I to believe bellee that t It will willu u usually vre prevent nt and alwa mitigate ox Is only n a new device delee to make maka an old anti and discredited practice longer acceptable and vac pus poison polson Is as 1111 dangerous and deadly ns as before We might Quote from numerous nu to sh show w that there are many r reputable physicIans who denounce the vaccination theory as not only falls Colin clous cious but ot of disease Du But t we 10 do not care to attack the system so 10 as to prevent or hinder the course of the worthy people and doctors who ho arc arcin In favor Cavor or of It Wo We advocate the liberty ot or the within the lines of statu statutory statutory tory law luw I Let t those tho are ar willing willingto to put thO vaccine pus Into the veins of oC their children tIo do as they and take tim consequences But let there thero bo be no force work In this thle matter malter Allow lIow the parents who are opposed to the SS tern tem to exercise their Judgment anti pro prot protect t their little mUe ones onos from Irom that which they abhor anti and let school boar boards Js and health doctors keep within the lines which deane their official authority That Is imperative arMi aM Is a matter that not only many individuals but time entire municipality ot of Salt Lake Lillo City and the tho whole StAte ot of Utah |
