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Show aaaMMaHaB)BHBHaaaiasaaaaaaBaMaa(1HgaaawSBMHaalaaaw tha feeble would have to seek relief from the schools of heallnf which remained- But the itcf of the matter is that the chiropractors have won a following in this state and it is apparent that some people place their whole faith in. this form of treatment.' This il demonstrated in the fact ihat they will go outside of the law to get 1 treatment for their Ills. ! Discrimination against the chiropractor iri the laws of Utah has failed to accomplish its purpose. pur-pose. In spite of It, the chiropractors have won 1 new converts and additional strength. It .should 1 be apparent therefor that Utah is on the wrong course in its attempt to subject the chiropractors i to the domination of the medical fraternity. We I hold no brief for any school of healing and do not attempt to vindicate the claims of the chiro- praetors of to pass upon the merits of this form of treatment. - We do, however, maintain that the legislature drives at someone besides the chiropractors when it seeks to deprive the individuals who believe in this form of treatment of their right to choose. The individual who believes in chiropractors is to be considered, for it is apparent that if his whole faith Is in that which we prohibit, cures in any other school will be slow. The individual Is entitled to some choice in the treatment he will receive in his illness. He may choose wrong, butlt Is apparent that he will be the first sufferer lnrTieref6feersrT6esmusT6nc'rTr-hl? choice affords him no relief. Under the registration Mil now pending before the Utah legislature it is planned to put impossible impos-sible requirements upon the chiropractor. This can but be a continuation of the discrimination which has failed to accomplish results In the past. It is high time the state permitted the chiropractors chiroprac-tors to practice with the countenance of the law and their own professional ethics, not so much for the chiropractor's benefit, as for the satisfaction satis-faction of those individuals who believe in this form of eatment. They are entitled to consideration con-sideration if the chiropractors are not, and besides it Is apparent that they will get this treatment, legally or illegally. The attempt to completely suppress new theories will not accomplish the desired result, if the chiropractors as a profession cannot maintain high ethics they will accomplish eventually that destruction in" which the law has seemingly faTTcjr ; Measuring a Profeaaion , COR a number of years there has been a con- sistent effort to prohibit chiropractors from practicing their profession in Utah. That these efforts' have not been entirely successful is not to be attributed to the chiropractors themselves of their enemies. It is true the chiropractor? have stubbornly refused to be bound by a law which admittedly was designed to put them out of business, busi-ness, but this resistance alone is not responsible for the fact that they continue to operate. If it were not that a certain element in the citizenship desired this form of treatment, defiance defi-ance of tha law would be Impossible. The chiropractors wouH have to go. and the ill and |