A short time ago I spent a week in Saint Louis ❦ During that week there
were three deaths of children from tetanus (lock-jaw), all the direct
result of vaccination. The Board of Health had been very busy, and all
children that could not show a scar were vaccinated, this without consent
of the parents or of the child. For each vaccination the city paid the
kind doctors delegated to do the work, the sum of fifty cents. That is to
say, these physicians operated on healthy children, introducing a poison
into their systems, thus giving them a disease, in order to prevent them
from having one—all for half a dollar per child ❦ The three children
that died netted the doctors a dollar and a half. ¶ As before stated,
these children died, and scores of others were made seriously ill. How
many were poisoned for life no one knows. Children know all that the
parents know, and the report that vaccination had killed several struck
panic to the hearts of those not yet vaccinated ❦ Many children refused
to go to school for fear of the doctors. And such was the alarm through
non-attendance that the School Board called a meeting and passed a
resolution asking the Board of Health to desist from these fifty-cent
operations until the question of the quality of the virus used could be
passed upon. ¶ Now, there is no such thing as a “pure virus.” Vaccine
virus is a poison in itself. And vaccination, if it “takes,” always
reduces the resiliency or resisting-power of the patient, laying him
open to any germ that may be flying around that way. ¶ The President
of the Board of Health took refuge behind the law, which required him
to vaccinate the school-children ❦ But personally he said he thought
the whole system was founded on a superstition, and on a very barren
assumption. Said the physician: “Many people who are vaccinated never
have smallpox. A few who are vaccinated have smallpox. To assume that
those who are vaccinated would have smallpox if they were not vaccinated
is childish reasoning, fit only for those who are willing to accept a
tainted plea, because they are already convinced ❦ I must admit that
the logic of vaccination is no reason at all, and could only appeal to
prejudiced, ignorant and unthinking people ❦ I wish we were rid of the
whole thing, but I am not strong enough to stem the tide. Doctors get
paid for vaccination, the books and colleges uphold it, and this thing
will go on until the people revolt, which I hope they will do soon.” ¶
Here we get the expression of an honest man—an Allopath physician—caught
in the toils of Custom ❦ Physicians are instructed from books, in
colleges, and by professors who were taught from books in colleges. This
is not knowledge: it is the memorizing of things evolved many years ago
by men who knew much less than we do ❦ Very few physicians know how to
live. Everywhere you find doctors who are soaked in tobacco, booze and
dope, breathing foul air, thinking vile thoughts, resorting to stimulants
as a pick-me-up ❦ These are the men that uphold vaccination—these are
the men who assaulted the school-children of Saint Louis, and forced a
poison into their healthy bodies for fifty cents a body. Oh, the shame
of it! ¶ Immunity from disease comes from fresh air, pure water, clean
surroundings, an active, useful life, and kind thoughts ❦ The fear
wrought in a school by one of these bewhiskered rogues, with his outfit
of scalpels, scarifiers and poison, is a cause of disease in itself.
The plan of vaccinating the mind with the virus of fear is in itself a
crime, and a most common cause of disease. ¶ Doctor J. H. Tilden says
that the fear of disease spread abroad by doctors is the cause of more
deaths than the White Plague ❦ People who live rightly are well. It is
right living and sanitary surroundings that have banished smallpox.
Just good sanitation has banished the “plague,” that mysterious disease
which swept Europe again and again, and which killed one-third of the
inhabitants of London in Sixteen Hundred Sixty-five ❦ I believe, with
Tilden, that the so-called Science of Medicine has been a positive curse
to mankind, just as Christianity has, with its bogus “Plan of Salvation.”
¶ Salvation lies in work, play, study, right living and right thinking,
and not in belief in the death of a good man in Asia two thousand years
ago. As a cure for our physical pains we have looked to a poison doctor,
instead of studying the case ourselves and ascertaining why we suffered
❦ We must learn to rely on ourselves, and not put either our souls or our
bodies in jeopardy by turning them over to a “cure of souls” with collar
buttoned behind, or to a hirsute gent who will give you a disease for
fifty cents, in the interest of happiness, health and long life.
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