THE ANTI-VACCINATOR, 
And Advocate of Cleanliness. 
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Editor, 
MONTREAL, OCTOBER, 1885. 
Alex. M. Ross, MVI). 
SMALL-POX. 
be directed. The Legislature can do much— 
the people can do more ; but the people 
must be taught the importance of the subject 
in all its relations to their daily life. Our 
children must be educated in the science of 
life, how to preserve it and how to promote 
it. Knowledge which in its results can save 
or destroy, must not b left to get anyhow, or 
not to get at all. 
Social and sanitary science, by producing a 
healthy mind, in a healthy body, will teach a 
man how to regulate and economize his life ; 
and reason will teach him how to utilize it. 
Man is a sanitary animal. The structure 
and the uses of the skin prove this beyond 
doubt. Pure air, pure water (inside and 
outside), plain, wholesome food, plenty of 
exercise in the pure air—these are natural 
health-producing agents. 
with running sores, or horse-grease cow-pox. 
That is what Jenner pronounced a sovereign 
antidote against small-pox. (See Baron’s 
Life of Jenner, vol. 1, p. 135.) 
I give the above details to show the origin 
of this filthy practice. Domestic animals are 
subject to many diseases, and these can be, 
and often are, transferred to the bodies of 
human beings by vaccination. As vaccina- 
tion is falling into disrepute as a preventive 
of small-pox, as originally asserted by Jenner 
and his followers, a cry has arisen for re- 
vaccination. To be effective—it is now said 
—vaccination must be repeated every seven 
years, while others say annually and semi- 
annually. It is said by the advocates of 
vaccination that, owing to transmission from 
arm to arm, “ Jenner’s horse-grease cow-pox” 
virus has lost its power as a preventive; 
hence, to retrieve the credit of vaccination, 
the calf-pox project has been started, with 
the unscientific nonsense about resorting to 
pure lymph from the calf! 
The process of obtaining this filthy pus is 
thus described by‘a public vaccinator :—“ A 
healthy and well-nourished calf, about three 
months old, is hired from a butcher, and 
vaccinated in the usual way on its shaved 
abdomen in about 60 places. Upon the 
punctures thus made vesicles form, as from 
ordinary vaccination on the human body. 
These vesicles run their due course, and the 
vaccine virus which they contain is ripe ana 
fit for use about the fifth or sixth day of that 
course—for use, namely, from the living 
animal in direct vaccination, and for collec- 
tion in a fluid state into tubes, or in a dry 
state on ivory points, for the purpose of 
vaccination which is indirect. After seven 
days the calf is returned to the butcher. 
The virus thus obtained from the calf is 
called calf lymph, but it is not calf lymph. It 
is the serum of a particular disease of the 
calf thrown out upon the skin. Calf lymph 
is the natural fluid that circulates in the 
lymphatic vessels of the calf; a healthy 
thing as remote from scabs and pox as day 
is from night. It is this virus from the calf 
that our children are now being poisoned 
with ; thousands of points and tubes filled 
with this filthy pus are now being used by 
vaccinators all over Canada. Nobody has 
the right to transplant such a mischievous 
poison into the life of a child I 
So completely has vaccination become a 
hobby of this period, that ribaldry and abuse 
are the chief arguments employed to sustain 
it against criticism or question. The vaccin- 
ators show that it is at best only an expedi- 
ent, and has no known foundation in truth 
or philosophy. It has no real merit or 
principle. It is defenceless against attack 
from scientific enquiry. 
It is claimed that the majority of the pro- 
fession support vaccination ; but majorities 
have no monopoly of truth. The majority 
of the medical profession for forty years 
opposed Harvey’s discovery of the circulation 
of the blood. The majority bled the people 
for a century. The majority denied a cup of 
cold water to the patient burning with fever. 
The majority mercuraliscd the people till 
they became walking barometers. The 
majority have bitterly opposed every real and 
scientific reform in the healing art, In short, 
the majority has usually been in error. 
Small-pox is a member of the group of 
diseases described as zymotic, which originate 
in unwholesome conditions of life, and in 
common arc diminished or prevented by the 
reduction and removal of these conditions. 
It is a disease more ancient than our histori- 
cal records. Long before the date of inocu- 
lation and vaccination we find the disease 
identical in every respect with that of to-day. 
Small-pox appeared at sundry distant periods, 
sometimes not returning during an entire 
century ; and was at times virulent, and at 
other times mild. Into whatever country it 
penetrated, amongst whatever people it found 
a home, and wherever its ravages decimated 
the population, the conditions which formed its 
development and its diffusion were one and the 
same ; it fed upon filth, and claimed its victims 
where uncleanliness and untidiness dwelt 
under one roof; a selection indeed, which 
is a common characteristic in connection 
• with the rise and spread of all zymotic 
diseases. Man is his own worst enemy. 
Ignorance and superstition have made him 
view ihis pestilence'as a thing or superhuman 
origin, and a punishment for national sins ; 
wheieas, it is too true, that the small-pox and 
cholera—the plagues of our time like those 
of centuries past—owe their existence to the 
unhealthy conditions by which we are sur- 
rounded, and to the irregular and unsanitary 
lives which characterize a great, majority of 
the people. Disease is the fruit of disobedi- 
ence ; and we must learn henceforth that to 
obey is better than sacrifice—that cleanliness 
is next to godliness. 
INOCULATION FALLACY. 
Before the present system of vaccinating 
with cow-pox virus was introduced, the prac- 
tice of inoculating with the virus of small-pox 
was followed. The effects of this inoculation 
were greeted with the warmest praise; it was 
considered certain that small-pox would be 
completely stamped out by this means. 
Inoculation and vaccination are twin- 
sisters—the children of Ignorance and 
Superstition. For 80 years inoculation 
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devotees. Roused from this sleep of death, 
the fact forced itself upon all classes that 
they were sacrificing their offspring at the 
shrine of a deity more vengeful than any of 
which heathen nations ever boasted. His- 
tory furnishts us with no parallel to the use- 
less and mighty havoc which was wrought by 
the promoters of inoculation. It is said that 
the medical men of the time were slow to 
acknowledge the pretended virtues of the 
practice; but when they did accept them 
they asked no more questions, but, with the 
remorseless instincts of a class of men but 
half removed from a state of semi-barbarism, 
they continued the loathsome practice, until 
an Act of Parliament put an end to a rite 
which, whilst it was an enormous source of 
revenue to the medical profession, threatened 
the extinction of the race. 
When inoculation, like other abandoned 
medical delusions, was relegated to the same 
tomb with bleeding, calomel, and other 
modern delusions, then this monstrous 
fallacy of Vaccination (which now holds 
high carnival in Montreal) was introduced, 
substituting the foul pus of diseased cattle 
for the filthy pus of diseased men. 
The small-pox now raging in this city is 
strictly confined to certain unhealthy districts 
in the East End, proverbially filthy and un- 
clean. Wherever the streets are narrow, the 
anes and courts filthy, where the weak, intem- 
perate and unclean congregate together, and 
where children are ill-fed and badly clothed, 
there the small-pox makes its home and riots 
in filth and death. 
The causes, then, which give rise to and 
propagate small-pox are within our control, 
and are preventable. 
They may be summed up briefly as 
follows : 
HOW VACCINATION OEIGINATED. 
In times when the laws of health were 
imperfectly understood, the fanciful discovery 
was made, that by poisoning the human 
blood with the virus of small-pox or cow-pox, 
a future attack of small-pox would be pre- 
vented. The founder of this monstrous 
fallacy was Edward Jenner, a native of 
Gloucestershire, England. The cows in his 
neighborhood were milked by men as well as 
wanen, and men would sometimes milk the 
cows with hands foul from dressing the heels 
of hoists afflicted with what is called grease. 
With this grer’?e, the dirty fellows poisoned 
the cows’ tea', 'h soon became covered 
Overcrowding in unhealthy dwellings or 
workshops, where there is insufficient ventila- 
tion, and where animal and vegetable matter 
in a state of decomposition, is allowed to 
; ccumulate ; improper and insufficient diet, 
habits of intemperance, excess in eating, 
idleness, immorality and unsanitary habits of 
life, such as the neglect of ablution and the 
free use of pure water, want of proper exer- 
(ise, and other irregularities of a like nature. 
To the removal, therefore, of the causes 
which are disease produces, the efforts and 
skill of sanitarians and philanthropists must 2 
THE AHTT-\¥ACCINATOR. 
Silence is crime, when muzzled Press refuse 
relief to our distress. 
Why not ? if vaccination is the only 
safeguard (which we deny) against small-pox, 
why not let the people know how many of 
those who have died of small-pox up to date 
were vaccinated ? Three hundred chil- 
dren have died of small-pox; how many of 
them were vaccinated ? 
“Stamp out the Small-pox!” 
Yes, our forefathers tried to stamp it out in 
1722, when “inoculation” came upon the 
stage of life, introduced with all the sanctions 
which wealth, royalty and distinction could 
bestow upon it, and it was not till about the 
year 1798 that the people fully awoke to the 
bitter irony of the taunt, that instead of 
stamping it out they were stamping it ill 
with a vengeance ! 
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EDlTOR,—Alexander M. Ross, M.D. 
Montreal, October, 1885, 
There are many Physicians who 
disapprove of vaccination, but dare not give 
expression to their honest judgment for fear 
of being ostracised by their confreres and 
the public. The medical Robespieres have 
established a reign of terror within the ranks 
of the profession, and woe unto the physician 
who dares to think and act for himself inde- 
pendently— who dares to look the petty 
despots in the face and defy them. His 
ruin is certain—if lies, slanders, and profes- 
sional ostracism can accomplish it. 
OUR PLATFORM. 
Inoculation spread the very disease it 
was intended to check ; and history confirms 
the fact, that when the disease was given to 
healthy subjects, it did not modify the attack, 
for the mortality from small-pox was greater 
under inoculation than in its absence; and 
so it is with vaccination. With all our 
vaccination, the mortality of the people is' 
increasing, and there is no wonder that it 
should—the “sweltered venom” of vaccine 
poisons the young blood of the nation, and 
in its pretensions to save us from one 
disease, creates a score of others as direful 
as small-pox itself. 
One hundred years ago no one in 
England dare say a word publicly against 
inoculation ; it was worshipped as a safeguard 
against small-pox by all, from the king to the 
peasant, just as vaccination is to-day; now it 
is a criminal offence to inoculate. 
That just as small-pox was 
increased and propagated by inocu- 
lation (now abandoned), so that 
disease is multiplied and intensified 
in the present day by vaccination : 
forasmuch as in both rites the actual 
germs of small-pox (the base of the 
virus) are communicated directly to 
the blood, “ which is the life.” 
Compulsory Vaccination .—Certain 
meddling newspapers of this city, having 
done all they could by their frantic cry of 
Vaccinate ! Vaccinate !. to excite fear and 
dread in the minds of the unthinking 
portion of our citizens, and thus drive them 
to the shambles of the vaccinators, are now 
advocating the enforcement of the Compul- 
sory Vaccination Law, and house to house 
Vaccination, hoping in this way to hunt 
down those who refuse to have their children 
poisoned by Vaccination. This is out- 
Heroding Herod ! ! 
That vaccination is useless 
and dangerous ; that it is not a 
prophylactic against small-pox, but 
on the contrary produces its like [i.e. 
small-pox) ; and in addition to this, 
it is a fearful engine of destruction 
and death to children, by communi- 
cating, along with the vaccine virus, 
other diseases, all equally lethal, and 
which are yearly on the increase. 
The small-pox of to-day is the 
plague of vaccination. 
The proper and only safeguard 
required against small-pox is pure air, 
cleanliness and temperance. Ob- 
serving these three conditions, no one need 
have the slightest fear of the contagion. 
Vaccination only increases the risk by 
weakening the vital Forces of the system. 
In a land of boasted freedom, have 
its citizens no rights which stupid legislators 
and medical despots are bound to respect ? 
Certain revolutions have taught, and are 
teaching the would-be tyrants of the world, 
that human beings have certain essential, 
inalienable, undying rights, which inhere in 
and grow out of their constitutions as human 
beings. These natural rights are sacred from 
the touch of all j.wrsows, and ought especially 
to be kept unpolluted from the greedy grasp 
of priests, doctors and legislators. Whoever 
would encroach on these rights, the same 
are thieves and robbers, and whoever de- 
prices an individual of these natural rights, 
the same are tyrants, and should be treated 
as such. 
That exemption from epi- 
demics of small-pox, cholera, and 
other diseases of the zymotic class, 
is not to be found in vaccination, or 
any practice so filthy op absurd y but 
in the enforcement and extension of 
wise sanitary regulations, such as 
better habitations for the people, 
pure water, good food, defecation 
of sewage, perfect drainage, and in 
inculcating amongst all classes of 
the community habits of personal 
and domestic cleanliness. 
The hatred of Vaccination is en- 
grailed upon the very hearts and consciences 
of the poor, and we shall fan it to a blaze, 
until a fire is kindled— 
land from a rite so brutaly and a practice so 
unnatural and unclean. 
Children going to school are vaccinated 
perforce ; and now, as if there must be no 
protection for the dissenting and skeptical, 
their attendance, and in sequence, their 
vaccination are made compulsory. Such is 
the outcome of our science; and legislation 
is but the aggregating of brute force. 
Our one sole defence against the 
invasion of epidemics is in sanitation—in 
cleanliness; and beyond this there is no 
prophylactic. Vaccination is an imposture, 
and the people know it. “ Its end draweth 
nigh.” 
Compulsory Vaccination is not 
law, excepting in the sense in which mur- 
derous tyranny is law. It is not medicine, 
save in so far as consummate blood-poisoning 
is medicine. 
If once Vaccination goes wrong, 
nothing can save the life. For other poisons 
there are antidotes ; for vaccine virus no anti- 
dote is known. If a child takes an overdose 
of arsenic, you can, provided you are in time, 
undo the mischief; but an overdose of 
vaccine lymph means a slow and often 
agonizing death, which no man’s hand can 
stay. 
Hundreds of cases are recorded in 
which the deaths of children who were 
healthy up to the hour of vaccination, fol- 
lowed, after greater or lesser periods of 
suffering ; the suffering generally dating from 
the operation, and disease steadily advancing 
therefrom. The Vaccinators deny all 
connection between the Vaccina- 
tion and the death, and pronounce 
death from some other cause. The difficulty 
is that the witnesses of the deaths are only 
mothers and fathers, and their testimony is of 
no weight in scientific (?) scales. In fact, we 
are now living in a Jeitnerian epoch for the 
slaughter of innocents. 
Fathers and Mothers, your helpless 
little ones look to you for protection. Do 
notallow meddling newspapers to influence 
you. Bear in mind that these news- 
papers refuse to publish one word against 
vaccination—while they shout vaccinate ! 
vaccinate ! and open their columns freely to 
the vaccinators now reaping an unrighteous 
harvest from seed sown by these newspapers. 
It should not be forgotten how inocula- 
tion, now abandoned and made a penal 
offence, was, a few years ago, as loudly 
lauded by the newspapers and medical pro- 
fession as a panacea for small-pox, as vacci- 
nation is to-day, showing how much reliance 
is to be placed on the shifting quicksands of 
passing medical dogmas. 
We will be heard! This is a struggle 
of health against disease. We are seeking to 
disseminate views which we are convinced are 
beneficial to mankind. We believe in what we 
utter, and believing, mean to live up to it. 
Although alone in this fight against vaccina- 
tion, we believe the cause we advocate will 
finally triumph. Personal abuse and perse- 
cution are the weapons our opponents rely 
upon to defeat our purpose—which is to 
expose to the light of reason, this vaccination 
delusion. We may be defeated at present, but 
the cause will live, and in less than twenty 
years from now, the people of this city will 
look back with feelings of horror at the out- 
rages upon health and life perpetrated by the 
vaccinators of this day. 
Enforced Sanitation. We are in 
favor of thorough, incessant and enforced 
sanitation. If our city authorities will give 
one-half of the time and energy they now 
devote to calf lymph (?) politics and contracts, 
to thoroughly cleaning every lane, alley, 
street, and premises in the city, we may defy 
small-pox and other filth diseases. But 
there must be no half-way spasmodic effort; 
it must be thorough. We are in favor of 
instructing the uninstructed in simple hygiene 
by the circulation of printed information of a 
simple practical nature. Get the people 
interested, and self-preservation, if nothing 
else, will incline them to help the authorities 
in sanitary efforts. Wholesome food, pure 
air, plenty of water (free to the poor), per- 
sonal cleanliness, are the scientific, because 
natural safeguards, auain and all 
other filth epidemics. 
Sanitation and Isolation will stamp 
out small-pox; vaccination will stamp it ill. 
Seventy-three were Vaccinated. 
The official report of August 17th, stated 
That up to that date 133 patients suffering 
from small-pox had been admitted to the 
Civic Hospital; of these 73 were vaccin- 
ated, 56 had one mark on the arm, 
13 two marks, and 4 three marks. In all 
44 died; of these eighteen were vac- 
cinated. 
Silence is Ominous ! Since August 
17 we have had no statistics from the Health 
Office showing the number of vaccinated 
who have died of small-pox—this is 
ominous. THE AKTI-YACCIHATOR 
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We claim that Vaccination is U33leS3 
as a prophylactic, and exceedingly danger- 
ous as an experiment. We possess aoun- 
dant and reliable proof that arm-to-arm 
Vaccination has been the direct means of 
poisoning the life-blood of our race with 
manifold foul and dangerous diseases of the 
blood, the skin, the eyes, and the ears; but 
arm-to-arm Vaccination is HOW abandoned 
—as cow-pox Vaccination soon will be. We 
possess abundant and reliable proof that 
COW-pOX Vaccination has imported into 
the bodies of thousands of the rising genera- 
tion, many skin and other diseases peculiar 
to cattle—thus adding to the “ sins of the 
fathers ” the physical taints of the beast. 
Doctor Letheby of London, made 
special observation on ninety-three cases of 
small-pox. Out of thirty-four that died, 
twenty-one had been vaccinated. Those 
results were published in the London Medical 
Times. 
Dr. W. J. Collins, for twenty years 
Vaccine Physician in London and Edinburgh, 
writes :—There really exists no change in 
the virulent character of the small-pox, not- 
withstanding the vaccination laws; and of 
those attacked by the disease, at least two- 
thirds were satisfactorily vaccinated. I have 
not the least confidence in vaccination; it 
nauseates me, for it often transfers filthy and 
dangerous diseases without offering any pro- 
tection whatever.” 
Sir Thomas Chambers, Q.C., M.P., 
Recorder of the City of London, - says ; 
“I find that of 155 persons admitted at the 
Smallpox Hospital, in the parish of St. James’s, 
Piccadilly, 145 were vaccinated. At the 
Hampstead Hospital up to May 13 last, out 
of 2,965 admissions, 2,347 were vaccinated. 
In Marylebone 92 per cent, of those attacked 
by small-pox were vaccinated. Can anyone 
after this be found to contend that Vaccination 
is a protection against small-pox ? ” 
The “ Standard,” February 24th, 1883, 
says :—“ It is well known that the small-pox 
patients in the hospitals of the Metropolitan 
Asylums Board, are three-fourths of those 
persons who had been successfully vaccinated 
in infancy; and amongst such vaccinated 
persons there occur some of the worst cases of 
small-pox, in which the eruption is confluent.” 
The Birmingham Daily Gazette, 
March 26th, 1883, says:—“ It is totally un- 
necessary to go outride of England, in order 
to find proofs of death and disease arising 
from the practice (of Vaccination.) 
Dr. B, F. Cornell, M.D., President of 
the Homoeopathic Medical Society of New 
York, says :—“lt is my firm conviction that 
Vaccination has been a curse instead of a 
blessing to the race. Every physician knows 
that cutaneous diseases have increased in 
frequency, severity, and variet}?, to an alarm- 
ing extent. To what is this increase owing? 
Contagion may account for some of the 
varieties ; in a large majority, however, to no 
medium of transmission is the widespread 
dissemination of this class of diseases so 
largely indebted as to Vaccination.” 
Mr. John McLaren, M. P., Lord 
Advocate for Scotland, says :—I should not 
have thought it advisable to enforce Vaccina- 
tion by compulsory legislation, because it is 
a principle of common law that no man should 
be compelled to submit himself or family to 
a medical or surgical operation without his 
own consent.”—January, 24th, 1881. 
Herbert Spencer says:—“ The mea- 
sures enjoined by the Vaccination Act of 1840 
were to have exterminated small-pox ; yet the 
Registrar-General’s Reports shew that the 
deaths from small-pox have been increasing.” 
Social Statics, p. 367. 
Sir Wilfred Lawson, Bart., M. P., 
says :—“ lam opposed to the present system 
of what is called Compulsory Vaccination. 
The existing system is not compulsory, since 
a rich man, by giving or paying fines, can 
avoid it; and so can the poor man, although 
he is sent to prison.” 
The Right Hon. John Bright, M.P. 
says :—“The law which inflicts penalty after 
penalty on a parent who is unwilling to have 
his child vaccinated is monstrous, and ought 
to be repealed.” 
The Right Hon. Earl Percy, M. P. 
says :—“ Each (small-pox) epidemic, since 
Jenner’s system, has been more severe than 
the preceding ont.”-House of Commons, 1877. 
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, 
says “ I regard compulsory and penal pro- 
visions, such as those of the Vaccination Act, 
with mistrust and misgiving.” 
Our claim that Vaccination is 
both useless and dangerous is sub- 
stantiated by official records from England, 
France, Sweden and the Sandwich Islands. 
For proof we refer to Dr. Pierce’s “ Vital 
Statistics ” of Great Britain, to the Returns 
of the Registrar-General of England, to the 
Official Report of the British Consul at 
Honolulu, to the Official Report of Dr. 
Kalb, of Munich, and to the “ Vital Statis- 
tics ’’ of Sweden, by Dr. Siljestrom. 
Baron Lohrut, statistician of the Saxon 
Government,says: “Vaccinationnever 
protects against small-pox! ! It is 
nothing but a blood poisoner ! ! ! ” 
For further proof that our claims against 
Vaccination are supported by the most 
eminent physicians in Europe, we refer to 
the writings of Drs. Lancereau, Cerroli, 
Lebuc, and Ricord, of France; to Drs. 
Garth, Wilkinson, Hutchinson, Pierce, 
Hitchraan, Sir James Paget, Sir Henry 
Holland, Sir Thomas Watson, W. J. Collins 
(over twenty years Public Vaccinator of 
London).; Emer. Prof. F. W. Newman, of 
Oxford University ; Sir G. W. Pease, M I)., 
M. P. ; Brudenell Carter, F. R. C. S., and 
many more we could mention if space and 
time permitted, who support our claims and 
bear testimony against the Useless and 
dangerous rite of Vaccination. 
“ Infamous Cranks.”—Our courteous 
contemporary, the Star, calls anti-vaccina- 
tionists “ infamous cranks.” The first argu- 
ment against the dissenter is always brow- 
beating ; the second, ribaldry; the third, 
proscription. The man or the cause that 
can outlive these three, is perennial, and is 
certain ultimately to win. They who bow 
obsequiously to opinion, however dogmati- 
cally or arbitrarily enforced, are the enemies 
of mankind. They almost justify oppression 
by their willingness to accept its yoke. 
Vaccination is now being weighed in 
the balance; in less than twenty years it will 
be abandoned like inoculation and a score of 
other medical quackeries. 
TESTIMONY OF VACCINATORS 
The evidence of the most observing among 
the vaccinating officers employed in England, 
is conclusive. 
Doctor George Gregory, for fifty 
years director of the Small-pox Hospital in 
London, published the following declaration 
in the Medical Times of London ;—“ Small- 
pox does invade the vaccinated, and the 
extirpation of that dire disorder is as distant 
as when it was first heedlessly, and in my 
humble judgment, most presumptuously anti- 
cipated by Jenner.” He also declares further: 
“The idea of extinguishing the small-pox by 
vaccination, is as absui'd as it is chimerical; 
it is as irrational as presumptuous.” He re- 
fused to permit his children to be vaccinated. 
Dr. Stowell, for twelve years Vaccine 
Physician in London, England, says :—The 
nearly general declaration of my patients 
enables me to proclaim that vaccination 
is not only an illusion, but a curse 
to humanity.” 
Dr. John Epps, director for twenty-five 
years of the Jenner Institute, says;—“ The 
vaccine virus is a poison. As such, it pene- 
trates all organic systems, and infects them in 
such a way as to act repressively on the pox. 
It is neither antidote nor corrigent; nor does 
it neutralise the small-pox, but only paralyses 
the expansive power of a good constitution, 
so that the disease falls back upon the mucous 
membranes. Nobody has the right to trans- 
plant such a mischievous poison into the life of 
a child.” 
In England vaccination was made com- 
pulsory by Act of Parliament in 1853; and 
again in 1867, and still more stringent in 
1871. Since 1853 there have been three 
epidemics of small-pox, each being more 
severe than the one preceding. 
The Registrar-General of England, in his 
ANNUAL SUMMARY for 1880, tabu- 
lates the small-pox mortality of London for 
the last 30 years as follows: 
COMPULSORY VACCINATION RESISTED. 
The attempt of our Civic Author- 
ities to enforce the hated Compul- 
sory Vaccination Law led to a 
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violent demonstration of resistance 
(Sept. 29) last night. Two thous- 
and anti-vaccinationists marched 
through the public streets, threaten- 
ing; violent resistance to the law. 
They attacked the City Hall, 
breaking the windows of the 
Health Department; then they 
attacked the houses of the Vaccin- 
ating Physicians, committing many 
acts of violence. While we sin- 
cerely deprecate such conduct, we 
cannot help thinking that the spirit 
of petty tyranny and despotism 
manifested by the medical author- 
ities, incited by certain newspapers, 
is the direct cause of last night’s 
demonstration. 
No State can be called free when 
a man has not perfect control over 
his own health, bodily, mental and 
spiritual. 
Decades. Estimated mean Population. Small-pox Deaths 
1851-60, 2,570,489, 7,150 
1861-70, 3,018,193, 8,347 
1871-80, 3,466,486, 15,543 
Now, when it is borne in mind that this 
enormous small-pox mortality occurred where 
85 per cent, of the population were 
thoroughly vaccinated, the fact, 
coupled with the additional one that during 
the 26 weeks ending July 2nd, 1880, 1,635 
persons died in London of small-pox, 422 
of whom were under five years of 
age, three hundred and sixty-four 
of whom had been vaccinated. 
Can anyone after this be found to 
contend that vaccination is a pro- 
tection against small-pox ? THE ANTI-VACCINATOR 
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HISTORY OF A CRIME. 
Bowed their heads in humble worship 
All save one, who said he couldn’t— 
Said he wouldn’t—bow his head to any fetish, 
Bow his head to naught but Truth. 
Then the doctors made a rumpus; 
Such a roaring, rousing rumpus, 
In which the dainty Peacock joined; 
Strutting up and down the platform, 
Scolding like a market huckster, 
Crying out in fretful anger, 
It is Dr. A. M. Ross 
Who dares to doubt this mighty fetish— 
Dares to question and defy us 
In our council hall this day ? 
Cries and shouts of “ Put him out!” 
Rose from doctors French and English. 
Put lum out they didn’t dare to, 
Thought the job too heavy for them ; 
But they passed a vote of censure, 
Hoping that would crush and ruin him,— 
Crush and ruin the only doctor 
Who had dared to doubt the fetish. 
Then the papers', Star and Witness, 
Took the fetish from the doctors: 
Took the fetish to their sanctums : 
Welcomed they the powerful fetish,— 
Fetish that was sure to save them, 
Save them from the plague zymotic. 
Then the papers, Star and Witness, 
Joined in daily song and chorus 
O’er the virtues of their fetish ; 
But the people, French and English, 
Were both slow and apathetic 
To believe the Star and Witness— 
Though these papers cried Alarm I 
Naught can save you but our fetish ! 
Fetish that you must believe in, 
Fetish that you must bow down to 
And receive into your bodies, 
In the innermost recesses 
Of your very souls and bodies, 
And the ho lies of your children. 
Still the people would not listen, 
Listen to the threats and urgings 
Daily made by Star and Witness ; 
But these papers were relentless, 
And determined that the people 
Should en masse be made to worship, 
And shell out their hard-earned dollars 
To the Gulden Calf erected 
By the doctors as their fetish. 
Meetings of the rich and powerful 
Must at once be called to aid them,— 
Aid the papers, Star and Witness, 
In their crusade ’gainst the people 
Who despised and loathed the fetish. 
Came the rich men of Mount Royal, 
Came the Smithers, Gaults and Allans, 
Came the Torrances, Drummonds, Stephens, 
Joined the doctors and the papers 
In their fetishness and cries ; 
Brokers, bankers, merchant tailors, 
Manufacturers, grocers, nailers, 
Priests and doctors met together 
And denounced the anti-vaccinator 
Who alone in all Mount Royal 
Would not bow down to the fetish, 
Or acknowledge that the doctors 
Had the right to force the people : 
Force the people, French and English, 
To receive into their bodies, 
And the bodies of their children, 
The foul virus of a beast. 
Then the papers, Star and Witness, 
Bolder grew and more defiant; 
They demanded that the workmen—• 
The poor workmen of the city— 
Should receive into their bodies 
The filthy virus of their fetish. 
Not a murmur must be uttered, 
Nothing but to bare their strong arms, 
And admit the filthy fetish 
In the innermost recesses 
Of their very souls and bodies. 
If the workingmen refuse 
Thus to sacrifice and worship, 
And shell out their hard-earned dollars 
To the Golden Calf erected 
By the papers and the doctors : 
Turn them out of their employment, 
Let their wives and children starve; 
Workmen have no right to think ! 
. Their’s it is to toil and labor, 
Yield obedience to the doctors, 
Who grow rich at their expense. 
Day by day the Star and Witness 
Lashed the people into fear; 
Lashed them into dread and panic, 
Till the clerks, both men and women, 
Rushed in hundreds to the shambles, 
Shambles of the greedy doctors 
Who are gathering in the dollars— 
Dollars from the poor and needy. 
And the school-boys brisk and hearty, 
They must yield their little arms 
And admit into their bodies 
Vaccine virus from the fetish—■ 
Fetish that now rules supreme. 
And the little girls so pretty, 
Pretty, innocent and pure, 
They, too, must receive the fetish, 
Fetish that may mar their beauty, 
Health and beauty for their lives. 
Still the dread disease,' zymotic, 
Nourished by the filth abounding 
In the lanes, and streets and dwellings, 
Where the Board of Health had left it, 
(While they worshipped the sham fetish 
Set up by the greedy doctors,) 
Grew more destructive day by day, 
Slaughtering children by the score, 
Till three hundred empty cradles 
Spoke in tones of solemn warning 
’Gainst the worship of a fetish ; 
Fetish powerless to save them 
From the dread disease small-pox. 
“A Deed without a Name.” 
Montreal, 1885. 
In the land of the Canucks, 
In the valley of St. Lawrence, 
In the city of Mount Royal, 
Lives a people, French and English, 
Lives a people fond of pleasure, 
Lives a people so neglectful 
Of the dirt and filth abounding 
In their streets, and lanes, and alleys, 
In their houses, yards and bodies, 
That the dread disease zymotic— 
Which delights in dirt and filth—■ 
Found a dwelling in Mount Royal, 
Found a home in filth abounding, 
In the east end of Mount Royal. 
There in filth it luxuriated, 
Grew in strength and virulence, 
Whilst the City Fathers busied, 
Busied o’er the spoils and contracts, 
Cared not, thought not, of the monster, 
That was knawing at our vitals, 
Slaughtering children by the score ; 
Till their cries for help and pity 
Reached the papers, Star and Witness— 
Star and Witness, of Mount Royal. 
Then these papers, moved by pity, 
Cried in tones of fear and frenzy, 
We must find a powerful magic, 
Magic that will save our people 
From the horrid plague small-pox, 
That is killing off our children,— 
Children of both French and English, 
In their homes of dirt and filth. 
(Still the filth and dirt abounded, 
And was left to accumulate.) 
What the papers looked for, sought for, 
Wished for, longed for, was a fetish ; 
Not clean homes, and lives and bodies, 
Something wonderful and magic,— 
To hoodwink and fool the people, 
People of both French and English. 
So the papers, Star and Witness, 
Called on doctors learned and wise, 
Asking and beseeching of them 
Something wonderful, mysterious, 
To “stamp out ” the plague, small-pox. 
All the doctors met in council, 
French and English came together, 
Looking owlish and mysterious, 
To prepare a powerful fetish ; 
Fetish that would save the people 
From the dread disease zymotic, 
Now grown strong, in filth abounding. 
They selected for their chairman 
Dr. Peacock, noted for his egotism, 
Who appeared upon the platform 
Holding in his hand a paper, 
On which was written words of magic ; 
Words describing a rare fetish ■ 
That would save, would save the people 
From the dread disease, small-pox. 
Dr. Peacock read the paper 
Which described this powerful fetish, 
And in tone of voice commanding 
He directed all the doctors, - 
All the doctors, French and English, 
To accept it as their fetish— 
As the true and only fetish 
That could “ stamp out” the small-pox. 
All the doctors bowed their heads, 
Montreal, 1985. 
In the city of Mount Royal 
3lives a people, clean and healthy 
Who have read in books of story 
Of the follies of their fathers— 
Just one hundred years before.— 
How they trusted in a fetish ; 
Fetish they were told could save them 
From a dread disease zymotic, 
Long since banished from our planet 
Ry the use of soap and water. 
Now the streets are clean and tidy, 
Nowhere now can filth be seen ; 
All the yards and lanes and alleys 
Free from smells and sights unclean. 
Now the doctors are kept busy— 
Not in forcing vaccination 
’Gainst the wishes of the people, 
But in teaching little children 
How to grow up strong and healthy, 
Strong and healthy, good and wise; 
And the papers, Star and Witness, 
Star and Witness of the time, 
Arc employed in teaching people 
All the virtues of hygiene. 
And the people they are happy 
In their homes of health and beauty ; 
Homes, where Cleanliness presides. 
Office of “THE ANTI-VACCINATOR,’ 
227 University St., Montreal.