ST. PATRICK’S DAY CONCERT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18513, 25 March 1922, Page 15

ST. PATRICK’S DAY CONCERT.

XO THE EDITOR. Sir,— Your readers will notice that Irishmen cannot hold their annual concert with, out a representative to chant the usual and monotonous wail of the “wrongs of Ireland.” The priesthood in this dominion, as no doubt in other parts of the Empire, cannot hide and disguise its dissatisfaction with the signing of the treaty by the Irish Plenipotentiaries, and is quite prepared to stir up strife, although the. Church piously piores it when it suite her to do so. I'here is not another country in the world that would, as Britain does, allow priests to heap abuse and insult upon everything that her people hold dear. The fault of Circat Britain is that she is too tolerant. It is high time that Protestant New Zealand stopped the mou'hs of these priests. It is an outrage that they are 'permitted to write and speak as they do, while men have in this country been imprisoned for less. Mr De Valera wants civil war. Well, if his desire is gratified, and civil war comes, it will certainly not mean the end of the British Empire. It does seem a strange irony that, while Irishmen the world over are singing “God Save Ireland,” that distracted country is apparently rushing headlong to destruction. Why on earth do not those Irishmen who see nothing good in Britain get out of her, and settle where they shall enjoy more freedom.—l am, etc., March 22. Britisher. “A NEW SORT OF TREATMENT.” TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —“Anti-Chiro” is kicking against the pricks, and will hurt only himself. Let me tell him that the second oldest profession in the world has something yet to learn. Will you kindly allow me, in support of this, to quote the opinions of some eminent members of the profession. Dr R. K. Smith, M.D., in a paper read before the Academy of Medicine in New York, said: “The most severe case of venal colic which it has been the fortune of the writer to see one attended by a dozen members of the staff of a great Boston hospital, where surgical interference was the unanimous advice, after exhausting all other regular procedures—was cured instantly by manual adjustment of the ninth dorsal vertebra, which was palpably out of position. At a recent meeting of the Medical Association a member _ from Ohio astonished his hearers by stating that he had been cured of chronic appendicitis by the adjustment of a lower vertebra after a number of physicians and surgeons had failed in their treatment and had appealed to the knife as a last resource. Dr Charles Mayo, one of the greatest surgeons in the world, says: —“Yes, surgery will give way some day to something else.” Elbert Hubbard, in his book, “The New Science,” writes:—“Chiropractic neves gives an adverse result . . . With skilled manipulation of the hand the chiropractor finds the cause of the disease and removes it.” Dr Benjamin Rush (founder of the Rush Medical College) says;—“l am incessantly led to make apology for the instability of the theories and practise of physio. Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we not done under the belief of false facts and theories? We have assisted in multiplying diseases; we have dona more —we have increased their fatalitv.” Dr Oliver Wendell HcJmes says:—“The disgrace of medicine has been the colossal system of self-deception, in obedience to which mines have been emptied of their cankering minerals, the entrails of animals taxed for their impurities, the poison bags of reptiles drained of their venom, and all the inconoeivablo abominations thus obtained thrust down the throats of human beings.” Sir Ashley Cooper, surgeon to King George, says:—“The science of medicine is founded on conjecture and improved by murder.” Dr I. M. Good, M.D.. F.R.S., says:— “The effects of medicine on the human system is in the highest degree uncertain, except, indeed, that they have destroyed more Jives than war, pestilence, and famine combined.” Let me inform “Anti-Chiro” that. I have no personal interest in this new treatment beyond the fact that to it I am. etc.. Grateful. Dunedin, March 24. THE CARGILL MONUMENT. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —May I express hearty appreciation of the excellent letter written by Mr B. B. Hooper on the question of the location of Cargill’s Monument? The arguments used are so cogent as to compel agreement with the views stated. Many of us who live in the country, but are interested in Dunedin, regarded the suggestion to move the old monument na a strangely retrograde step. To visitors it is a fine old landmark of great architectural value, which gives dignity and character to the situation in which it stands, and. moreover, provides a much-needed island for the regulation of traffic. The great cities cf the world obtain much of their attractiveness by just such monuments in prominent position in the streets. How much the ' poorer and less dignified would Paris bo if all its great street monuments were relegated to public parks?—i am, etc., .Alexander Douglas. Camara, March 23.