Show e free government endangered the campaign of the regular med boal organizations of III no s to secure ante election pledges from candidates binding them to support the doctors legislative pro gramme is arous ng strong opposition from numbers of citizens who though probably pot themselves interested in the r rival I 1 theories theoles of cure are deeply concer Wd in preserving the freedom and moral integrity of their legislative depre senta tIves few things are more subversive of free government than the presence in legislative bod es of lawmakers who are pledged beforehand to fur ther some special interest this at tempt of the organized physicians at af fords an impressive illustration here is a special class seeking legislation which would greatly increase the fi fl lancial revenues of its members while taking from many thousands of citizens the legal right to employ the practitioners of their cho ce in ev cry ery legislative district there are no doubt many citizens who believe that owe one health and lives to some one of the various new systems of cure that the entrenched medical societies are seeking to outlaw it would seem that the legislator would be morally bound to keep bis his mind free and unbiased until he had heard both sides of a question so grave and personal aa as that of 0 one a 8 right to resort to any curative method aich one might select yet this is precisely what the political doctors are scriv ing to prevent by pre election pledges which would practically make the leg the doctor doctors s man and lish a most dangerous and subversive precedent it makes no difference that the medical interests cla in the legislate leg islat on desired is for the public good spec lal ial privilege aldays al in seeking leg isolation favorable to itself makes its plea on the ground of the general genera I 1 good but in the present instance the fact that there are in our conn oun try hundreds of thousands of intelli gent citizens who put their trust in the schools and systems of cure which the proposed legislation would mould prohibit makes it especially incur bent upon legislators to resent any attempt to place them in a position where they could not consider the issue on its merits after hearing botn sides |