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May 1, 1914. No. 18 
Compulsory Vaccination! A bill, which has re- 
cently passed the Massachusetts Senate, makes vaccina- 
tion of children entering schools optional with the par- 
ents. It is a long delayed step forward and it is to be 
hoped that it will have the concurrence of the House. 
‘‘Compulsory vaccination,’’ said Daniel Webster, ‘‘is 
a gross outrage in a land of freedom.’’ That vaccina- 
tion does not prevent small-pox is the opinion of a 
greatly increasing number of the most eminent physi- 
cians of the world, and an extraordinary number of 
medical experts, whose assertions are fast becoming 
public knowledge, now declare that, instead of pre- 
venting small-pox vaccination often disseminates the 
disease: «+e tee “Our chronicles may describe simi: 
larly the vaccinators who, by small poisoned bone- 
points, are spreading disease and sending to untimely 
graves thousands of innocent children.’’....Dr. Hodge. 
Dr. Charles Creighton, whose well known ability led to 
his selection by the Encyclopedia Brittannica to pre- 
pare its paper on vaccination, resulting in strong cen- 
ture by that conservative work, hold that no vaccina- 
tion can produce a characteristic sore or ‘‘take,’’ save 
from a syphilized quill! And added emphasis is given 
hy Dr. Hubert Boens, Government Vaccinator of Bel- 
gium, who says, ‘‘There is no such thing as ‘pure’ 
vaccine.’’ Those of you who have children, awake! 
protest! ‘The state has no more right to enforce a 
surgical operation that a religious ceremony,’’ said 
John Stuart Mill. And least of all to inflict upon 
Cod’s children an operation, of which there is abundant 
proof, carries with it the lability of transmitting to the 
young, frail organisms such disease as tetanus (lock- 
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Jaw), tuberculosis, syphillis, paralysis, meningitis and_ 
scores of other ailments. 
Bryan Is the Butt of many pretentious jokesmiths 
anent his ‘‘Prince of Peace’’ oration. But has Bryan 
not done well? The situation has been tense, but 
peace has not been seriously threatened. 
August Belmont has won his triumph against great 
odds on Cape Cod. It is veritably Belmont’s canal. ‘‘It 
is now the Island of Cape Cod.” 
If There is to be a War let it be short and decisive. 
Let us have peace! But honorable war is to be desired 
to dishonorable peace. 
Any Day is an Arbor Day if the tree be planted. 
If the Peace Negotiations should fail and war be- 
comes an obligation that cannot be avoided, this gov- 
ernment cannot afford to make it a war of conquest. 
The United States Government does not need nor wish 
the governmental responsibilities of Mexico. It was 
unfortunate that the Lodge preamble and La Follette 
resolutions were not passed: ‘‘That the United States 
hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exer- 
cise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over Mexico 
or any portion of the same except for the pacification 
thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is ac- 
complished to leave the Government and Control of 
Mexico and every portion thereof to its people.’’ 
Whether such sentiments have been formally passed 
by Congress they are the sentiments of the President. 
and the people of the United States. A war of con- 
quest is beneath the moral and national dignity of our 
country. 
Goethals Favors the Repeal of the Panama Canal 
Toll bill for two economic reasons; first, it is a subsidy 
that helps the transporter and fails to reduce the ex- 
pense to the shipper or receiver, and second, because 
the canal needs all the money it can obtain to operate 
it efficiently. Add the greater reason, the necessity of 
our nation keeping faith with Great Britain and three 
arguments are presented that are invincible! 
The Appeal from the Grand Army Post to the 
public to observe Memorial Day honorably and decor- 
ously should receive the respect and attention of all 
cur citizens, young and old. 
The Colorado Difficulties are far from settled. Only 
the greater perils of a possible war in Mexico have 
kept this serious labor dispute from the first page of 
the journals. 
Yachtsmen are now making guesses as to which 
will be the cup defender— now that the Resolute, the 
Vanatie and the Defiance are in the water or ready 
to be launched. 
There Is More Trouble with the labor problem on 
the B. & M. Just as if that road had not had trouble 
enough. When will peace come and the road be per- 
mitted to earn enough to keep from bankruptcy? 
If You Were a Mexican with memories of the 
Mexican Invasion of the United States and the seizure 
of Texas would you believe all of the pretences that 
our government is making? 
Major Henry L. Higginson gave the Harvard Boys 
some good advice when he told them ‘‘keep your shirts 
o5.’’ Youth is hot-headed and undisciplined. There 
is patriotism that never smells powder. 
The Mourning Relatives of the dead at Vera Cruz 
know no difference between an act of reprisal and an 
act of war. 
The Season Of seed catalogues, ploughed soil, sum- 
mer plans, house and cottage hunting and renting, ——. 
The Present ‘‘War’’ will be ‘‘nuts’’ for the State 
Peace Convention in Springfield next week. 
Backward As the Season Appears, the lilac buds 
have broken and flowers are assured for Memorial Day, 
