Editorial May 9, 1903 Issue

Class Legislation Vetoed

M.

WE are pleased to report in this issue of the Sentinel the defeat of another attempt at class legislation, having for its purpose he prohibition of the practice of Christian Science.

Governor Peabody of Colorado, in vetoing the "Sanford Medical Bill,' made use of the following language: "There is no demand upon the part of the public for this class of legislation." These are not the words of a partisan but the deliberate utterance of a public official charged with a great responsibility, one who is in a position to know whereof he speaks. "There is no demand upon the part of the public for this class of legislation," has long been asserted by Christian Scientists. Now we have the official statement of a governor, whose duty it is to weigh well the needs and desires of the citizens of a large and important commonwealth.

If "there is no demand upon the part of the public for this class of legislation," one naturally wonders how and why similar bills have recently been introduced into the legislatures of some six or eight states. We believe that Governor Peabody in the same message answers this question in the following words: "Guided by the late experience of similar legislation in other states, the conclusion is irresistible, that all such legislation has a tendency to restrict the citizen in the employment of whomsoever he pleases in the treatment of his diseases, and it also has a tendency to build up, under the protection of the state, a trust or combination of certain schools of medicine to the exclusion of all others equally meritorious."

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