It has been the intent of the writer to present facts rather than to
participate in a controversy that is still unsettled after a century
of argument; but as a result of the investigation of over fifty
vaccination disasters and the almost constant study of vaccination
literature for several months, it seems that the following conclusions
are warranted and should be frankly stated:
(1) Vaccination has been the cause, directly or indirectly, of the
death of at least fifty children in New York State in 1914. The record
herewith printed gives only the cases occurring in rural or suburban
districts. Neither the time nor means were at hand to make a canvas of
the cities. While only 27 fatalities are here recorded, some of which
are not clearly proven, it is believed that were the figures from the
cities obtainable, possible errors in the list would be more than
offset and enough reported to swell the total to the number given.
(2) In addition to the deaths an appalling trail of illness has
followed vaccination. It has been entirely beyond the scope of this
publication to print even a partial record of these cases.
(3) The cost in illness and destruction of child life is entirely
out of proportion to the amount of protection against smallpox that
is attained or needed. There were but three deaths from smallpox in
the entire State, including Greater New York, in 1914. In one rural
district twenty miles in diameter, where four children died from
vaccination, there has not been a single case of smallpox within the
memory of any person now living.
(4) Vaccination of children is wrong in principle, is not in harmony
with the trend of the best medical practice and should be abandoned.
It is being more clearly understood every day that many of the serious
ills of later years are directly traceable to the so-called children’s
diseases. Whereas the tendency was once to encourage the having of
such diseases so as to “have them over with,” the tendency now is to
keep the child just as free from them as can be, and postpone them to
as late an age as possible. A normal vaccination is as serious as some
of the diseases of childhood, without taking into further account its
sinister possibilities.
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_Note._ I have a few hundred copies of Mr. Loyster’s valuable
pamphlet now in hand, and can furnish full copies, on request,
for ten cents each to cover cost and postage. The substance of
the pamphlet is, however, embodied in the preceding pages.--C.
M. H.
A CRY FOR HELP! HARROWING PERSONAL LETTERS FROM VICTIMS OF VACCINATION.
MEDICAL EVIL OF COMPULSORY DISEASE, CAUSING DEFORMITY AND DEATH IN
SCHOOL CHILDREN AND OTHERS, DENOUNCED AND REFORM DEMANDED
I have received many touching personal letters, during the past few
years, from victims of vaccination and from parents of slaughtered and
deformed children, and I now submit extracts from some of these letters
to show the horrible nature and extent of this evil and the strong
call that is going up all over this country for help to abolish this
evil. And this call must surely appeal to every humanized mind, lay or
medical, and particularly to all such minds in public place or power,
to do what they can for the investigation and legal suppression of this
barbarous medical crime of compulsory disease, which is now required
by an evil doctor-made law as a condition for entrance to our public
schools and for service in the Army and Navy.
_No. 1._ Having read your article in last night’s paper on the
dangers of vaccination I want to compliment you on the work of
enlightening the masses that you and your league are doing.
Both my brother and I are victims of vaccination, having, as
children, after such an inoculation developed a severe disease
of the eyes which has left both my brother’s eyes seriously
impaired, and has left me with a _scar_ directly in front of
the pupil of my right eye, obstructing the vision. Enough
cannot be said to expose the folly of this barbarous practice
of poisoning healthy human beings.--Mr. M., New York City, May
5, 1914.
_No. 2._ After reading your Warning against having children
vaccinated I thought I would take the liberty to write you. I
was always against vaccination, but was told my little girl
could not enter the Public School unless I had her vaccinated,
so I had our own Doctor come in. Before she was vaccinated
she was perfectly well, but her arm turned black and she was
out of her head at times. We were both afraid she would have
blood poison, poor child suffered so. Her picture will show
how healthy she was and the good care she got. But a short
time after her arm got better she got malignant scarlet fever,
and in twenty-four hours she was gone. I shall always lay it
to the vaccination. I hope the time will come when the Health
Board will see the mistake and allow children to go to school
without having that vile stuff put in their healthy bodies. If
I had another child I would keep it from school if it had to be
vaccinated. I sincerely hope others will help you in your good
work against vaccination.--Mrs. S., Brooklyn, N. Y., May 6,
1914.
_No. 3._ I know of a family in Poughkeepsie, three in number,
who are terrible victims of vaccination, father and son
cripples, and mother insane from grief. They have lost their
home owing to the expense of operations caused from effects of
vaccination.--Mrs. T., Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 18, 1914.
_No. 4._ I have been told by some people that the visiting
officer would vaccinate against any one’s wishes. I saw a
few cases vaccinated last school term and they have not been
able to attend school in one year. One child was so sick they
had a doctor for four months every day, and is a cripple for
life. Her head is drawn to one side. Another died of blood
poison.--Mrs. V. D., Tivoli, N. Y., Aug. 22, 1914.
_No. 5._ I am in earnest accord with your article in to-day’s
paper. There are many deaths caused by vaccination and the
blame placed on something else. For instance, my boy James
was vaccinated in Chicago some years ago. He was eight years
of age. A week after the vaccination his feet and limbs began
to swell and pain him. Then he took so sick that I called in
Chicago’s most noted physicians and specialists to consult on
the case. They dosed, anointed, injected and did many things
trying to counteract the poison, but all to no avail. The
blessed, innocent little boy suffered the tortures of the
damned; he wasted away and died in horrible agony. The doctor
made out his death certificate, giving the case as “heart
failure.” Now I have another boy eight years of age and I will
go through hell before I will suffer him to have the matter
taken from a festering sore of a cow and injected into his
blood. What course must I pursue to defeat vaccination in this
case?--Mr. O., New York City, Sept. 5, 1914.
_No. 6._ I have a little boy eight years old. When he was four
I found I had to have him vaccinated. I took him to my mother’s
family doctor. He had been our doctor for forty years and
always had great faith in him, and he vaccinated my little boy
who was very strong and healthy. It went into blood poison, his
little arm was so big and swollen, he got feverish and sick and
our doctor was there every day for about a month and he was
not getting any better and finally he told me I had better get
another doctor, that he could do no more and my boy was getting
very bad. I went and got a special doctor. He ordered my boy
taken to a hospital, and there he was, did not know what minute
they would have to cut his little arm off to save his life and
so sick did not know what minute he might die. I don’t know
of any sickness that would be worse than that was. I cannot
describe it in a letter, and ever since he has not been well,
he is so thin and pale and gets tired so easy. I know it is all
on account of that vaccination and now I have two little girls,
twins two years old. I don’t know what I would do if I had to
have them vaccinated, which is indeed barbarous. I do not wish
to see any one vaccinated again and suffer as my little boy
did, his arm is thinner and weaker than the other one is. I do
hope something can be done so our little children won’t have to
be vaccinated.--Mrs. J., Herkimer, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1914.
_No. 7._ I was made an invalid and helpless for a number of
years from the effects of vaccination while attending College
at Boston, Mass. If I can do anything to help you put out this
practice I will be only too glad to write and give you my
experience in full. It put me out of teaching and earning my
living for ten years.--Miss S., Hoosick, N. Y., Sept. 15, 1914.
_No. 8._ In answer to your kind letter expressing your deep
sympathy for the loss of my two boys, I thank you, and will
try and enlighten you the best I can. The virus that was used
to vaccinate my children was the product of H. K. Mulford Co.
of Philadelphia. My family doctor and the consulting physician
diagnosed the case as Tetanus, caused by the virus. The
children were hurried to the Penna. Hospital at Philadelphia,
where the hospital physicians made the same statement. Chas.
and Fred were two very healthy boys, never had a sick day, that
is, to require the services of a doctor, they were vaccinated
Sept. 2d, showed no signs of illness. Monday evening, Sept.
27th, complained of sore throat, Tuesday grew worse, bodies
began to get rigid. Operated on about 5:30 and given Antitoxin.
Died 2:35 and 5:25 Wednesday A.M. In talking with a Mr. C. who
is investigating the matter, he claims that a person who has
been vaccinated may have smallpox and not show it outwardly, so
that the preventive is as bad as the disease, and I consider it
an unnecessary operation forced upon the people.--Mr. H. P.,
Burlington, N. J., Oct. 7, 1915.
To this last letter the following answer was sent:
Dear Sir: I thank you very much for your kind letter of
Oct. 7th, giving me particulars as to the death of your two
precious little boys from lockjaw caused by vaccination, and I
hardly know how to express my horror at this misfortune and
my sympathy with you in what, as you say, was an “entirely
unnecessary operation forced upon the people”: but I have
now determined, from a knowledge of a large number of cases
like yours, which are occurring all over the country, to do
everything I can for the balance of my life to bring about the
repeal and prohibition of all compulsory vaccination in every
shape and form as nothing less than a medical crime on the
people. Within the last week three children have been killed in
our own city from this evil.
I have spent fully twenty-five thousand dollars in the last
year in a newspaper campaign in our State to enlighten the
people as to the great falsehoods and fatalities of compulsory
vaccination and to bring about the repeal of the law, but the
medical powers in the State, which profit by vaccination, had
too much influence in the legislature and the law was only
slightly altered, so as to take compulsory vaccination off the
country districts and put it stronger on the ten large cities
in the State where the enforcement of the law will be more
profitable to the vaccinators. This new law is, however, so bad
and illegal that I think it can be easily invalidated in our
courts, and I shall continue to fight it until it is completely
removed from our statute books as one of the greatest outrages
on children ever committed by man.
I believe that a special act should be passed by our
legislatures to indemnify all parents whose children have been
killed by these dangerous and unnecessary medical operations
forced upon the people by an unwise law, and I will endeavor to
have such an act introduced in our State at the next session of
our legislature and would suggest that you propose a similar
law in your own State.
(Signed) CHAS. M. HIGGINS.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 14, 1915.
LETTER FROM AN AGGRIEVED FATHER ON THE DEATH OF HIS LITTLE BOY FROM
VACCINATION
4913 Church Avenue, Flatbush,
Brooklyn, N. Y., July 27, 1915.
Hon. ELIHU ROOT,
President Constitutional Convention,
Albany, N. Y.
Sir:
On October 16, 1914, I was compelled by the Board of Education
of New York to have my son, Chester Stanley Waters, vaccinated
as a condition to enter school.
The operation was performed by a Board of Health Doctor in
Public School No. 135, Flatbush, Brooklyn, on that date.
On November 8, 1914, my son was taken sick with Tetanus, a
direct result of that compulsory vaccination.
I called in our family physician, Dr. A. R. Addy, 208 Lenox
Road, Flatbush, who examined my boy, found a large vaccination
wound containing a very considerable quantity of pus. Having
removed this and cauterized the wound, diagnosed the case
as Tetanus and advised his immediate removal to Kings Co.
Hospital, which was done.
He died in Hospital on November 14, 1914, inflicting upon me a
punishment beyond words to describe.
A poison of the most vile kind was injected into the pure,
clean blood of my beautiful, healthy little boy (seven years
of age), destroying his young life, bringing death to him in a
most horrible manner.
I learn you are engaged on an Amendment to the Constitution
to remove compulsory vaccination as a condition to enter
school and receive education, and I would most earnestly urge
you to adopt such an Amendment. My boy was killed by the
enforced vaccination, killed as a condition for exercising his
_inalienable right to receive education_.
I appeal to you, myself, a stricken father, punished beyond
description, to save other fathers and mothers from such an
awful fate as has been inflicted upon me.
Trusting God will guide you and your associates, engaged in
this work, to see the frightfulness and utter uselessness of
this abominable law and adopt an Amendment sufficiently strong
in our State Constitution to wipe it out forever.
Protect our children!
Yours very respectfully,
(Signed) R. C. WATERS.
_Note._ The Convention failed to adopt any Amendment concerning
vaccination, and all the Amendments which it did recommend were
defeated by popular vote at the next election.--C. M. H.
PROPOSED LAW TO COMPENSATE PARENTS FOR INJURY TO OR DEATH OF VACCINATED
CHILDREN
As suggested in a previous page, there should be a special act passed
by every State, which now requires compulsory vaccination in any form,
to indemnify parents or relatives for any injury or death caused by
vaccination forced on children or other victims by such unwise law
as requires the general infliction of a compulsory disease upon the
people. This law has been originated by medical dogmatism and is
continued by medical interest and falsehood, as already shown, and is
of great actual profit to doctors and virus makers, but is truly “A
Menace to the State.” On this point see the Statue of Wisdom and Law
in the frontispiece, with its wise motto which stands as a distinct
rebuke to this evil law which either should be repealed or compensated
by a remedial act passed for the relief of its many victims as here
suggested, for, surely, “Every Law not Based on Wisdom is a Menace to
the State.”