Editorial March 14, 1901 Issue

Medical Monopoly Legislation

Editor

Under the above heading the Chicago Post of March 8, 1901, publishes a very strong and a very sensible editorial in reference to the bill providing that Christian Scientists shall not receive compensation for their services, from which we extract the following:—

To circumvent constitutional obstacles there is a little joker in the bill declaring that "it is not intended to prohibit gratuitous service to and treatment of the afflicted." This at once exposes the hypocritical and selfish motives behind the bill. Christian Scientists may treat, but they may not ask or receive pay. What becomes of the public health pretext? If faith cure is dangerous, how does the fact that it is rendered gratuitously remove that objection, the sole ground of state interference? In truth, the bill is vicious, self-contradictory, and grossly invasive. It cannot be constitutional in any American state.

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