Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1882 — Vaccination Vituperation. [ARTICLE]

Vaccination Vituperation.

The vaccination epidemic raged laFt week with unprecedented violence. Up to Monday night of this week Dr. Link had vaccinated 150 persons, not including revaccinations. Drs. Loughridge and Bitters about 200, including some revaccinations. Dr. Washburn has turned off about the some number. Dr. Martin, too, has been getting m his work in the same line; but to what extent we have not learned. The action of the state board of health in the matter of vaccinations has made a harvest for the medicine men. Wish we could have been a doctor or two for the last couple of weeks. Our devil says: “Doc was roughem with me.” “Guess he knew he wasn’t goin to git any fay for it, and didn’t give a . was a good notion to tell him not to hurt so like aud I would

pay him the money for the job,” Joe Sharp believes that the state board should have required the photograph of the vaccinee to be attached to the certificate of vaccination, to prevent people from sailing under some other person’s certificate—and to enable the photographers to gather in a few loose sliekles now and again. The board evidently thought “not for Joseph.” D. J. Thompson thinks the law has as much right to order him to take a dose of arsenic as it has to compel him to be vaccinated. He believes that vaooination does not prevent small-pox, and is a worse evil than the latter, even if it did. On the other extreme of opinion, on this subject, we take the liberty of citing Dr. Link, who believes that within a few years people will be vaccinated against just about .every ill that flesh is heir to—not excepting off-temper-ed wives and the “jim-jams.”

Mason Long did give the ''boys” a terrible blast on the subject of profanity, and summed it all up in somo such shape as this: The worst people in the world will think no better of you for swearing, while yourself, and nil good people, will think a great deal the worse of you for it. The arguments to refute Mr Long in this position, do not occur to us just at present,’ and we will take refuge in a little anecdote. A Scotch minister had rei lonstraOft ** ted with an -old woman of his parish for permitting her son to punish his language with a great many pjrofane words. After listening patiently to a long-winded “discoorse” on the evils of swearing, and the fearful retribution sure to overtake those who indulge in it, the old lady remarked: “a’ weel doctor there is na doot but sweering is a vera bad habit, but still you maun alloo that an aith or twa/noo/and then does set off conversation michtily.”