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ANING THE HOUSE — BY B. J. PALMER
sick who NEED Chiropractic and can’t will settle these questions first” you have
get it because of their rights being bar had certain common law rights with
tered and footballed between the two fa c drawn from you by mutual consent, but it
tions o f the 1% of our population? Is not hasn’t, nevertheless, destroyed your pos
the right o f the 99% greater by far than session o f those common law rights. They
cannot be withdrawn.
the 1% ?
HOW IT WORKS OUT
Somebody must arise, as the man of
the hour, who is even greater than both LET u s build a sample of the crossing
factions o f the 1% who can and will of purposes of common law rights
see and fight for the rights of the 99%. and statutory rights as it works itself
out in the average state.
That the one-tenth of 1% , or the nine-
tenths of 1% is organized; and that the Back a few years ago, any person
99% are unorganized does not still de could sit in a physician’s office, watch the
stroy the rights of the mass as against doctor, read a few books, sooner or later
the class. It is the one regrettable feat hang out his shingle and be a common-
ure of our democracy that the organized, law right practitioner of medicine. At a
even though in the minority, can take slightly subsequent date, the doctors got
away the rights of the mass, even though together to protect themselves against
unorganized. such, went to the legislature, asked for
legislative statutory restrictions under
For instance, these rights have not the guise of “ higher educational require
been abridged in religions. If a religious ments fo r the protection of the dear pub
body, in any state, should go to the legis lic” and as a result the common-law
lature and get a statutory regulation to rights were soon interpreted by statutory
control religions in that state, the people regulations.
would still say: “ It is still our right to
Then along came the osteopath. He
choose the minister and doctrine of the wasn’t practicing m e d i c i n e . Medical
faith of my choice. That is my right and statutory regulations could not restrict
nobody can say me nay.” In politics this prior rights at common law. He practiced
right has never been abridged and never osteopathy under common-law rights.
will be. The common law right cannot The medical man attempted, by various
be withdrawn on religions or politics by legal and devious methods, to make the
statutory regulations, because we saw medical statutory-regulations-rights ap
fit, when we drew up the constitution of ply to the osteopath. Later the osteopath
the United States to incorporate into the asked the legislature fo r the same kind
Constitution o f t h e United States the of rights to cover HIS subject.
right to religious and political freedom,
and Tom Paine subsequently said in his Then along came the chiropractor. He
later writings; were he to write it again, suffered from prosecutions and persecu
tions f r o m the statutory-regulations-
he would write in the inalienable right rights made by medical and osteopathic
to choose the doctor o f your choice, but men for themselves. Being free at com
the Constitution was then signed. The mon law, being prosecuted by statutory
obviousness o f the necessity o f that right law but wanting relief from statutory
came too late. I mention it to show that law, chiropractors asked the legislature
statutory law restricts the chiropractor for special statutory law to cover their
and thereby withdraws liberties of the particular subject.
people at common law.
They have secured it. With what ef
If it is your right as a sick individual fect?
to get well— if it is your right to get
well with Chiropractic if you wish it, and HOW IT WORKED OUT IN
if it is your right to get Chiropractic
from a chiropractor if you are sick and NEBRASKA
want it and he is competent and quali
fied, in your opinion, then those are your I W ILL cite a marked example o f this
common-law rights, and when the statute principle as it works. In the winter of
says and the legislature has said: “ We January, 1914, a group of chiropractors
in the State of Nebraska saw fit to form
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sick who NEED Chiropractic and can’t will settle these questions first” you have
get it because of their rights being bar had certain common law rights with
tered and footballed between the two fa c drawn from you by mutual consent, but it
tions o f the 1% of our population? Is not hasn’t, nevertheless, destroyed your pos
the right o f the 99% greater by far than session o f those common law rights. They
cannot be withdrawn.
the 1% ?
HOW IT WORKS OUT
Somebody must arise, as the man of
the hour, who is even greater than both LET u s build a sample of the crossing
factions o f the 1% who can and will of purposes of common law rights
see and fight for the rights of the 99%. and statutory rights as it works itself
out in the average state.
That the one-tenth of 1% , or the nine-
tenths of 1% is organized; and that the Back a few years ago, any person
99% are unorganized does not still de could sit in a physician’s office, watch the
stroy the rights of the mass as against doctor, read a few books, sooner or later
the class. It is the one regrettable feat hang out his shingle and be a common-
ure of our democracy that the organized, law right practitioner of medicine. At a
even though in the minority, can take slightly subsequent date, the doctors got
away the rights of the mass, even though together to protect themselves against
unorganized. such, went to the legislature, asked for
legislative statutory restrictions under
For instance, these rights have not the guise of “ higher educational require
been abridged in religions. If a religious ments fo r the protection of the dear pub
body, in any state, should go to the legis lic” and as a result the common-law
lature and get a statutory regulation to rights were soon interpreted by statutory
control religions in that state, the people regulations.
would still say: “ It is still our right to
Then along came the osteopath. He
choose the minister and doctrine of the wasn’t practicing m e d i c i n e . Medical
faith of my choice. That is my right and statutory regulations could not restrict
nobody can say me nay.” In politics this prior rights at common law. He practiced
right has never been abridged and never osteopathy under common-law rights.
will be. The common law right cannot The medical man attempted, by various
be withdrawn on religions or politics by legal and devious methods, to make the
statutory regulations, because we saw medical statutory-regulations-rights ap
fit, when we drew up the constitution of ply to the osteopath. Later the osteopath
the United States to incorporate into the asked the legislature fo r the same kind
Constitution o f t h e United States the of rights to cover HIS subject.
right to religious and political freedom,
and Tom Paine subsequently said in his Then along came the chiropractor. He
later writings; were he to write it again, suffered from prosecutions and persecu
tions f r o m the statutory-regulations-
he would write in the inalienable right rights made by medical and osteopathic
to choose the doctor o f your choice, but men for themselves. Being free at com
the Constitution was then signed. The mon law, being prosecuted by statutory
obviousness o f the necessity o f that right law but wanting relief from statutory
came too late. I mention it to show that law, chiropractors asked the legislature
statutory law restricts the chiropractor for special statutory law to cover their
and thereby withdraws liberties of the particular subject.
people at common law.
They have secured it. With what ef
If it is your right as a sick individual fect?
to get well— if it is your right to get
well with Chiropractic if you wish it, and HOW IT WORKED OUT IN
if it is your right to get Chiropractic
from a chiropractor if you are sick and NEBRASKA
want it and he is competent and quali
fied, in your opinion, then those are your I W ILL cite a marked example o f this
common-law rights, and when the statute principle as it works. In the winter of
says and the legislature has said: “ We January, 1914, a group of chiropractors
in the State of Nebraska saw fit to form
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