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ANING THE HOUSE — BY B. J. PALMER
wholesale campaign against us for sev Here is the dangerous element. In
eral years. protecting t h e right of the mass of
people, in sending more chiropractors into
He said: “ Yes, very much. I am con Nebraska contrary to regulations made
victing four out of every five, and now and provided, we are breeding a spirit
and then one elects to go to jail.” o f rebellion against the opinion o f the
Chiropractic and legislative classes; a
Tom said: “ By the way, Mr. Castle- a spirit of rebellion against restrictive
law, when did you begin this cam paign?” Chiropractic legislation just as we have
against the medical interests; just as we
He said: “ About four or five years have against the osteopathic trust. We
ago.” take the same stand against the Chiro
practic organization or group that would
“ And how many chiropractors were tend to close a state or states.
there in California when you began this
campaign?” WHO HAS “THE LAST WORD” ?
He said: “ I think two or three hun T HE I^P slogan has been, fo r twenty
dred.” years, “ Keep Smiling.” I£4 slogan
has been: “ Conflicts Clarify.” Jim Greg-
Tom said: “ If you have been carrying gerson’s is: “ The Last W ord” ; and who
this campaign on for four or five years says the last w ord? Is it you? Is it I?
and are convicting four out of every Or, is it the public? Where is this con
five, how many chiropractors are there in flict that clarifies. Is it between you or
the state of California N O W ?” I, OR YOU AND THE PUBLIC? So
you see, when Jim Greggerson made
He said: “ I suppose about fifteen hun “ The Last W ord,” he was talking TO
dred.” THE PEOPLE, who have the last word.
Tom said: “ You are quite pleased with This reminds me of a 1$A trial, of Joe
your campaign, aren’t y ou ?” Strand, in Fayette, Missouri. Fayette is
a denominational college t o w n . Joe
He said: “ Yes.” Strand was on trial fo r practicing “ medi
cine” without a license. Evangelistic
Tom said: “ So are w e!” meetings had been on and the people
were all in a religious fervency. The
You see, after all, there is a common- prosecuting attorney, in opening his case
law-right movement at work. in the morning, said to the jury, “ Gen
tlemen o f the jury: The remarks I am
If Chiropractic is FOR the sick and going to make to you are said in all
if less sick are getting well in Nebraska reverence. It is my opinion that if
now than there was under common-law the Great Physician himself was to re
rights, and if some one man or some turn to earth today and he desired to
group of men keep t h e chiropractors restore sight to the blind; hearing to the
from getting to the sick in Nebraska, deaf, make the lame and halt walk, heal
then I say to you: Is that man a mud the leper and raise the dead, and I say
slinger, carrying on a personal contro it with all reverence, gentlemen, if the
versy, when he finds it necessary to take Great Physician desired to do those
issue with that man or those men who things, there is no question in my mind
had closed a state and kept the sick from but what, before he even attempted to
getting to chiropractors? Whose inter do these things, he would go down to
est takes precedence; mine, yours or the Jeff City, appear before the State Medi
right of the sick? Whose rights are pri cal Board, ask fo r and take an examina
mary and whose are secondary? Whose tion in medicine and all its allied
right is it to control and whose right branches; such as anatomy, pathology,
merely shall serve ? Who is the master gynecology, embryology, and all other
and who the servant? You or they? subjects; he would pass that examination,
I think the record shows clearly that the
people have always been the master of
all situations.
Now you see why sixty chiropractors
are practicing in Nebraska in violation
of a Chiropractic statute. The people are
again being served. In another year we
will have 160 there. In two years we may
have three hundred.
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wholesale campaign against us for sev Here is the dangerous element. In
eral years. protecting t h e right of the mass of
people, in sending more chiropractors into
He said: “ Yes, very much. I am con Nebraska contrary to regulations made
victing four out of every five, and now and provided, we are breeding a spirit
and then one elects to go to jail.” o f rebellion against the opinion o f the
Chiropractic and legislative classes; a
Tom said: “ By the way, Mr. Castle- a spirit of rebellion against restrictive
law, when did you begin this cam paign?” Chiropractic legislation just as we have
against the medical interests; just as we
He said: “ About four or five years have against the osteopathic trust. We
ago.” take the same stand against the Chiro
practic organization or group that would
“ And how many chiropractors were tend to close a state or states.
there in California when you began this
campaign?” WHO HAS “THE LAST WORD” ?
He said: “ I think two or three hun T HE I^P slogan has been, fo r twenty
dred.” years, “ Keep Smiling.” I£4 slogan
has been: “ Conflicts Clarify.” Jim Greg-
Tom said: “ If you have been carrying gerson’s is: “ The Last W ord” ; and who
this campaign on for four or five years says the last w ord? Is it you? Is it I?
and are convicting four out of every Or, is it the public? Where is this con
five, how many chiropractors are there in flict that clarifies. Is it between you or
the state of California N O W ?” I, OR YOU AND THE PUBLIC? So
you see, when Jim Greggerson made
He said: “ I suppose about fifteen hun “ The Last W ord,” he was talking TO
dred.” THE PEOPLE, who have the last word.
Tom said: “ You are quite pleased with This reminds me of a 1$A trial, of Joe
your campaign, aren’t y ou ?” Strand, in Fayette, Missouri. Fayette is
a denominational college t o w n . Joe
He said: “ Yes.” Strand was on trial fo r practicing “ medi
cine” without a license. Evangelistic
Tom said: “ So are w e!” meetings had been on and the people
were all in a religious fervency. The
You see, after all, there is a common- prosecuting attorney, in opening his case
law-right movement at work. in the morning, said to the jury, “ Gen
tlemen o f the jury: The remarks I am
If Chiropractic is FOR the sick and going to make to you are said in all
if less sick are getting well in Nebraska reverence. It is my opinion that if
now than there was under common-law the Great Physician himself was to re
rights, and if some one man or some turn to earth today and he desired to
group of men keep t h e chiropractors restore sight to the blind; hearing to the
from getting to the sick in Nebraska, deaf, make the lame and halt walk, heal
then I say to you: Is that man a mud the leper and raise the dead, and I say
slinger, carrying on a personal contro it with all reverence, gentlemen, if the
versy, when he finds it necessary to take Great Physician desired to do those
issue with that man or those men who things, there is no question in my mind
had closed a state and kept the sick from but what, before he even attempted to
getting to chiropractors? Whose inter do these things, he would go down to
est takes precedence; mine, yours or the Jeff City, appear before the State Medi
right of the sick? Whose rights are pri cal Board, ask fo r and take an examina
mary and whose are secondary? Whose tion in medicine and all its allied
right is it to control and whose right branches; such as anatomy, pathology,
merely shall serve ? Who is the master gynecology, embryology, and all other
and who the servant? You or they? subjects; he would pass that examination,
I think the record shows clearly that the
people have always been the master of
all situations.
Now you see why sixty chiropractors
are practicing in Nebraska in violation
of a Chiropractic statute. The people are
again being served. In another year we
will have 160 there. In two years we may
have three hundred.
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