Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1903 — IT UNDOUBTEDLY IS. [ARTICLE]

IT UNDOUBTEDLY IS.

Editor Democrat: Is vaccinating people practicing medicine and surgery? If s \ the two medical students and the son of the mayor and councilman from the second ward are liable for so practicing without a license. The attention of the prosecutor and grand jury are called to the fact. Hobo.

The interrogatory published above was handed The Democrat by a prominent citizen, with the request that it be published in our columns, and we disclaim any responsibility for its authorship. It was, from our understanding of the law, illegal for these boys to perform any vaccinating, but it is a matter in which we have nothing to do except offer the above opinion. - However, there are a great many things that the present city council has done that was illegal, and the city treasury has been drawn on quite frequently to pay bills that have been illegally contracted. It is likely tnat many more illegal contracts will be made and illegal claims paid. Parties who are interested in some of these transactions, those who have the bills to pay or whose rights are interfered with, it seems to us, are the ones who should bring such matters to the attention of the proper officers. The Democrat is a medium to bring matters of public moment before the people, and its columns are always open to ah honest discussion of such questions. But in bo doing or in -granting space for others to so do, it should not be inferred that it is a personal matter with us. It is a duty we owe the citizens to bring wrong-doinjg to its attention, then, if the. citizens or public acquiesce, it is a matter in which only they are to blame.