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Show MAGNETIC HEALING LEGAL. Supremo Court Holds That Practitioners Practi-tioners May Receive Money by Mall' for Wireless Treatment. Washington Nov 17 Justice rock-ham rock-ham of the United States Supreme court today delivered an opinion In the case of the American School of Mug nello Heillng s J M MiAnult) the litter being isistmnstei at Nivada Mo, wheie the school is located The pro i codings grew out or a fruu 1 order Issued Is-sued by the Postolllre depirtinent pio-hlbitlng pio-hlbitlng the posttnnster fiom delivering deliver-ing mall nddresed to Hie school The original bill asked for an injunction to prohibit Ihe postmaster fiom obeying this oi del In reviewing the rise Justice Teik-ham Teik-ham quoted the plea of the nugnetlc school that one human mind in ly control con-trol anothet in treitlng disease, anl said One person ma) believe it of greater great-er elllcacy than another, but surely It cannot be said It is a frau I for one person per-son tn contend that the mln 1 has an effect upon the body and Its physical condition greater than even a vast majority ma-jority of Intelligent (eople might be willing to ndmlt or believe l.ven Intelligent In-telligent people may and do differ nmong themselves ns to the extent of this mental effect Hecause the complainants com-plainants might or did claim to he able to effect cures by reason of working upon and uffectlng the mental powers of the Individual nnl directing them toward to-ward Ihe accomplishment of a cure of the dlsense under which he might be suffering, who can say that it Is a fnud or false pretense or promise within the meaning of the statutes? 'The claims of ability tn cure may be vastly gteater than most men would be read) to admit, and yet those who might deny the existence nt virtue of the remedy would onl) differ In opinion opin-ion from those who assert It There is no exact standard or absolute truth by which to piove the assertion false and a fraud ' Later on Justice Peekham said ' Suppose a person should assert that by the use of electricity alone ho could treat diseases ns i fllcaclousl) aa the sime heretofore have been treated by regular ph)sklans Would these statutes sta-tutes Justify the Postmaster-General, upon evidence satisfactory to him, to adjudge such claim to bo without foundation foun-dation and then pronounce the person so claiming to be so guilty of procuring by false or fraudulent pretenses tho money of eople sending him money through the malls nnl then tn prohibit the delivery of nny letters to him? ' The opinion sa)s Unit tinny pcoplo do not believe in vaccltntion and homeopath), home-opath), nnd nsks whether on this account ac-count vaccinutlon is to be piohlhlled, and wholhor- homeopathic physicians nro subject to be proceeded agnittst by the Postmnster-flenernl Justice Peck-ham Peck-ham concludeel that Ihe statutes unler which the Postmaslet Oeneral pro-reeded pro-reeded ln this lase were not Inten led to cover an) case uf whit the Postmaster-General might think to he falsa opinions, hut onl) eases of nrtunl finiid In fact, In tegard to which opinions lorni no basis ' |