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Ik 7 Optimism, Cheerfulness and Industry Will Work Out our Dreams of a Happy Home in the Great Mid West Est ater A Journal of Service, Education and Push Published Every Little While by The Real Ones Vol.I. Nos. NORTON, KANSAS April and May, 1916 BY ATION VACCIN JOHN PITCAIRN An Address Delivered Before the Committee on Public Health and Sanitation of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, at Harrisburg, March 5, 1907. Published by the Anti-Vaccination League of Penn. A DOUBLE NUMBER.

Owing to press of other matters we are forced to issue the April and May numbers of The Real Estater as a double number but you will note that we are giving you twice the ordinary amount of reading matter and a much larger paper than ordinary. The June number will be out on time and have its usual amount of matter with some added features. Wc are trying to make The Real Estater the best and most cheerful paper of its kind in this country, just the kind of'a paper that you enjoy reading. It really means something to have ouch a paper sent out from your town, your county or your state. It is a real boost to your property values; and we don't believe there is a live booster in Kansas much less Norton County, who can afford to do without The Real Estater" at the low price that we make to subscribers.

If you are not already on our lists send us your check 'for fifty cents today and become a Real One and a Real Booster. despite some opposition on the part of those who still defended inoculation, its practice as a supposed preventive of smallpox soon spread over the entire civ-ilied world. It was claimed for it, just as has been claimed for inoculation, that it was one of the best established of medical facts." Evil results followed vaccination just as they had followed the much-lauded inoculation, and it has been proved again and again, by over-, whelming testimony, as will be shown by other speakers tonight, that it was just as great a failure. Jcnner began by claiming that vaccination made a person immune for life but the facts of observation soon resulted in the term being shortened to fourteen years; then it was made seven; then five; then two; and, in the American war, six months was the limit of immunity. The constantly shifting and decreasing period sufficiently shows that vaccination had not provided immunity; and that It does not provide immunity even for six months, is proved by the recent official statistics of our Philippine army; for in that army, in the 5 years from 1898 to 1902, there were 737 cases of smallpox, with 261 deaths.

Referring to this great small pox incidence and mortality, Chief Surgeon Lip-pincott reports I can say that no army was so thoroughly looked after in the matter of vaccination as ours (i. the American Philippine army). Vaccination and revaccination many times repeated went on as regularly as the drills at an army post." Thus do the facts give the lie to the assertion that vaccination prevents smallpox. We are asked by our opponents what substitute we would offer in place of vaccination? We answer: Clean living, sanitation and isolation. Contrast with this the the method of our health officials.

They picture the horrors of smallpox; they, start a panic; they get the fear-stricken on the run; and then, when they have thus poisoned the mind with fear, they proceed to poison the blood with virus. They have even insisted (Continued on page 3.) POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. The Real Estater will carry announcement cards of candidates of either party, from now, until election time for $10. Cash payment in full must accompany announcement. The Real Estater circulation in Norton county will be guaranteed over 1,000 each issue.

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen We are here this evening in the cause of freedom; freedom for the citizens of this great commonwealth; freedom for the bodies of themselves and their children. We arc here to ask you: Shall the citizen have freedom to decide for himself and his children, whether he will submit to vaccination; or shall he continue to be forced to bow his head to a medical dogma that has been utterly rejected by many eminent medical men? One of the foundation priciples of our government is absolute freedom from in- terfcrence in matters of religious faith. Shall we witness unmoved the establishment by that government of a practice that deprives us of freedom in tcrs of medical faith? We have repudiated religious tyranny; we have rejected political tyranny shall we now submit to a medical tyranny? John Stuart Mill says, in his work on Liberty, page 24 "The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In that part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right absolute.

Over himself, over his own body and mind, the. individual is sovereign;" and, in Book 1 of Blackstone's Commentaries, page 123, we read The absolute rights of man, considered as a free agent endowed with discernment to know good from evil, and with power of choosing those measures which appear to him to be most desirable, are usually summed up in one general appellation, and denominated the Natural liberty of Mankind. This natural liberty consists, properly, in a power of acting as one thinks fit, without any constraint or control, unless by the law of Nature; being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of the gifts of God to man at his creation, when He endued him the faculty of free will. The right of. personal security consists in a What do you think about Sunday Baseball? The columns' of The Real Estater are open to the question on condition that you sign your articles for publication.

woods are full of politicians now who are paying more attention to the affairs of state at Washington than to the planting and cultivating of proper crops on their western farms. In many cases the farm is all right and willing to do its part but the political farmer is nine tenths wrong and blames the farm for his own indisposition to do honest work. 1 person's legal and uninterrupted enjoyment of his life, his limbs, his body, his health and his reputation. Both the life and limbs of a man are of such high value, in the estimation of the law of England, that it pardons even homicide, if committed in defense of them, or in order to preserve them." Many of my hearers may be familiar with the question we are here to consider, but a brief historical summary of the subject may be useful. Smallpox inoculation, which preceded vaccination, was introduced into England in the year 1721, by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the wife 'of the British ambassador at Constantinople.

It consisted in the subcutaneous introduction into the blood of a healthy person, of pus or matter 4taken directly from the scab of one who was suffering from smallpox. Writing from Constantinople, Lady Montagu said The smallpox so general and so fatal amongst us, is here rendered" entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation." At the time of its introduction, inoculation, thus carried to England from the empire of the Turks, was hailed as the greatest of medical discoveries! Soon its influence in checking smallpox was spoken of as. "one of the best established of medical facts," and the encomiums lavished upon it by the medical profession are equalled only by those that have since been accorded to vaccination. Thus, in 1754, the Royal College of Physician, of London, passed the following resolution The college, having been informed that false reports concerning the success of inoculation in England been published in foreign countries, think proper to declare their sentiments in the following manner That the arguments which at the commencement of this practice were urged against it have been refuted by experience; that it is now held by the English in greater esteem-and practice among them more extensively than ever it was before; and that the college thinks it to be highly salutory to the human race." But facts could not be ignored.

Instead of proving itself a harmless and beneficient invention, as has been so loudly in 1721, it began to be more and more evident that the continued 'practice of inoculation was attended, with an actual increase in the spread of smallpox, each inocu-: lated person becoming a new center of contagion. And so strongly did this fact impress itself 6n the British public, that, by act of Parliament of 1840, inoculation, which had been indorsed by the Hoyal College of Physicians as so "highly salutory," was branded as a crime, and its practice made a penal offence. In Pennsylvania, to the sound sense of our state, be it said, it had been so branded 16 years earlier. This action by the British Parliament, however, was taken some years subsequent to the discovery of vaccination by Edward Jenner, which was at once haikd as a welcome substitute for inoculation, already regarded as a dangerous and pernicious practice. Jenner's alleged great discovery was given to the world in the year 1798, and, Three Norton real estate dealers sold land thru the advertising in the Real Estater in March.

MR. BENTON AGAINST LIQUOR. "I was a student at Washburn col-lege when John P. St. John was elected governor of Kansas, and when the first prohibitory amendment was passed.

As a boy at school we discussed prohibition, high license and open saloons. I have always taken the side of prohibition, and believed in it and have favored it from boyhood days. It has been a pleasure for me to raise my boys in a town without saloons and in a county where the jails and poor farm are uninhabi-tated. After a trial of thirty years in Kansas, prohibition has more friends than ever. "I want to say to you that every law on the statute books of Kansas in favor of prohibition wTas passed by a Republican legislature and signed by a Republican governor.

The great state of Kansas is blessed with the strongest and best prohibitory law in the union. And all in spite of the Democracy and in spite of Democratic influence. Also, I am in favor of national prohibition, and will use every influence at my command to have every state in this great union enjoy the same blessings that Kansas enjoys so that the younger, generation of men and women all over our fair land may grow intomanheod and womanhood without the debasing influence of the saloon." Otis L.Benton. Farm Lands for Sale 244-acre Northeast Missouri Stock and Grain Farm 3y2 miles from one small railroad town and five miles from another good town, on another railroad. Forty or fifty acres of this farm a little rolling-, balance lays just about right.

Two sets of improvements, both on public road. One three-room and the other a five-room house. There is a straight new loan of $9,000.00 for six years, just put on farm, home money. Price $85.00 per acre. The owners have the Western fever and want to trade the equity in this farm, which is $11,740, for Western Kansas or Eastern Colorado land.

Now, to the man that wants to come back East, here is your chance. Get busy and we will do some trading quick. Would trade for good, clean stock of merchandise. M. D.

No. 1580 acres, two miles from inland town, small improvements. This farm is well located in. good country. About fifty acres lays fine and the balance some rolling.

All this farm needs is an owner will make a nice little home. Price $6,500. Loan of $3,300.00 now on place to run until 1921 at 6 per cent. Will trade for Western land, or anything else that is good. 426-Acre Stock and Grain Farm For sale to settle an estate.

Located five miles south of Lakenan, on the Burlington railroad. Same distance from shipping station on the K. T. Y4, mile from school and store. Seven churches within five miles.

Good six-room house, large barn, built on old-fashioned style, but in good condition, about 80 feet square. Implement house, scales and large shed and several other outbuildings, such as ice house, chicken house, etc. Good well with gas engine, as good as new. Fenced with 4-foot woven wire fence all around the farm. There has not been more than 150 acres of this farm plowed at one time for more than sixty years.

About 300 acres in bluegrass and timothy at this time. This farm has been in the same family about 75 years and has been used as a stock and grain farm. There is about 80 acres of open timber and pasture and balance of farm can be plowed. Some has not been plowed for 30 years. Owner has recently died and the heirs wish to make division.

Can arrange for a loan of $17,000 at 6 per cent. Will take some gilt-edge trade on this farm. Price $87.50 per acre. We will on this 426-acre farm for a term of years and trade equity $17,275 for a good western ranch. These farms are located in Northern Missouri, the noted bluegrass and Missouri mule country.

T. D. Mitchell, Shelbma, Missouri.