Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1912 — THIRD TERM QUACK PLANK [ARTICLE]

THIRD TERM QUACK PLANK

Fraudulent "Blanket Poiicy" Ottered For Protection of. Healiii and Life. IN INTEREST GF FAKERS. “Theodore Rex" Promises to Shield Them Agamst Discrimination by Educated Physicians. The political tentacles of the third term candidate have been extended tn every direction from which might he gathered voters irrespective of sex, race, color or previous condition, of all vocations, factions and trades into the Progressive fold. By specious promises cunningly adapted to each the colonel beckons them to follow with bleating approval wheresoever his bell wether adjutants may lead tn order that Theodore Rex miay again sit in the White. House. •Tempting bait is thrown to the working people in the minimum wage, to the Socialist in the enlargement of government ownerships, to the women in the furtherance of suffrage aspirations, to the farmer in blissful betterments of rural life, etc. Now he appeals to the quacks, those true and hitherto despised meu of predatory wealth, offering them tenderest regard and freedom from prejudice "for or against” The following "blanket policy" is offered for protection of our most precious possessions—health and life: “We favor the union of all the existing agencies for fundamental government dealing with the public health into a single national health service without discrimination against or for any one set of therapeutic methods. • school of medicine or school of healin',', with such additional powers as may be necessary to enable it to perform j efficiently such duties in the protection of the public from preventable diseases as may be properly undertaken by the fundamental authorities, inI eluding the execution of existing laws | regarding pure food, quarantine and , cognate subjects, the promotion of appropriate action for the improvement of vital statistics, the extension of the [ registration area of such statistics and co-operation with the health activities i of the various states and cities of the nation.’’ | Thus would votes for Theodore Rex | be multiplied. Insults Educated Physician. I This quack plank of the Progressive | platform not only insults the Intelli- ' gent voter, but wounds the educated » physician, in that it places the latter ; in the same category with empirics of ; high and low degree, rubbers, sun | curists, magnetic and other healersand ■ all other pretenders who fatten upon i; the credulity of the helpless sick and g their terrified relatives The Sun has adverted to the outrageous violation I’ of propriety and justice which charac- ■ terizes the medical laws of several ■ states in the Union, the last instance of |* which we deplored in the medical reg |: ulations of the canal zone and which I; the bull moose platform threatens to I inflict upon all the states in the Union. I These legislative enactments require K all persons who propose to become physicians not only to pursue a more or I less thorough course of preparatory ■ education, but also to be trained in all ■ branches of medicine and. besides, to ■be subjected to a rigid examination by ■appointees of the state. All these serve Ito protect the public against ignorant ■pretenders and would be perfectly fair ■did not the very same enactments exgempt the latter from the provisions apIplying to educated practitioners. II -Favors For Cormorants. I-Thus do our sagacious legislators

stultify themselves m the interest of the cormorants to whom they grant special privileges, because, forsooth, they claim to “heal" without medicines! There is now no discrimination against “schools of medicine.” Therefore the special protection demanded for them by the bull moose platform Is gratuitous and intended only to entrap votes. The “healers" belong to no school. Now comes Theodore Rex and dignifies them by a special provision and, expressing a most tender regard for their sensibilities, promises to shield them against discrimination by educated physicians. This platform would raise the quack and healer above the men who daily exemplify their personal and proses sional superiority byt some unselfish devotion to the public weal. In his eagerness to placate the influential horde of empirics Mr. Roosevelt would have us oblivious of the fact that the educated physician is the only real altruist In the community. Instead of arousing the public conscience (T. R.’s favorite slogan) this self appointed reformer deepens the crying shame and thus exemplifies again that "under no circumstances" need he be bound by his prior professions. President Taft has won the approval of the quacks and Jiealers by his medical regulations of the canal zone: hence this Machiavellian policy. Future generations will substitute “Rooseveltian" for “MachinveHiny." Politics makes strange bedfellows indeed. Behold Taft and Roosevelt under the same blanket.!—New York,Sun.