THE QUACKERY BILL.

Evening Star, Issue 12732, 5 August 1907, Page 5

THE QUACKERY BILL.

TO Tli£ KDITOE.

Sir, —"Grateful .issiiuea i-jther mrci; in his lament over the doctors " being caoipcllod to compete with lioaJihy ojiacilt, who tuivo not undergone the arduous strain oi a university couisj." Surely doi-.tors are not tbo only men who thus study for five years, it k certainly begging the question to affirm that all engaged in healing by other means than drugs axe unletixiii-d, ignorant quacks. .Divinity students study quite as hard as the " medicos," and after their university courso perhrps considerably harder and longer, yet we do not find them soaking legislative protection against tho "local pioache.r" for instance, or the man alou!. town who is every ready to impart hU theological convictions. Is it because soaio are n.;t so important as bodies? Or is it that mimsters arc not so earnest in caiin.; for souls avS doctors are in curing r».;iiy i.i.scv.fies.? Or is it, that the fees are more shmiiirant in tho one case- than in ihe o'.hiir. L: that aa it may, it would noL be a high (.■■c.!i:in i >i;dation fur the minister if hi.s '-■oiiyreg .tion appre'ji.itcd the mitii.'.ti-ati'ois ot tiie ""local" uiip-.e highly than his own. J Aie we in this tair kind to have proics•oonal rs-irsocuiion such as that recently g..< n to i-.i-gcu'-e Chr.sLi-in by the New York M-.-.to:s': I la; m..n. niter h'ving k))-.-ii'. ||i-"-n:- Lh.-.n ■■iv.lvo year; in the s.udy of .1 .v;i■; o/ical i-ij mi-ory and the ari-.-ryin:;, l/l p.; !!■; ct -ttl •. : ■; if s : .ck '/.Olilt (.liiu--1 U<t 1.0 CO'l.ll; l'.;r: , !; .,| K „ mM <~] K Cl l-tl.i'.- ■ ji s:oiiia»nie and ir.t ■stinal dividers, lias iweu arrested. The charge kid " "imit h.llll was not icr pra :i.sin,- medicine, but lor rdieving sidieiing without it. The evidence shonvxd tint he did not .give medicine in any wav, shape, or manner; that ho did not permit himself to be called I "doctor j nevertheless, by. tho law Unit

exists in the State of New York, he was oonvicted and fined as a law-breaker and criminal. If tlio drug system needs such support as is proposed in this Bill, it is because it is passing the way of "bloodlotting."—! am, etc., No Persecution. August S.