Article June 30, 1917 Issue

"State religion" and "state medicine" are both detrimental...

Owensmouth (Cal.) Gazette

"State religion" and "state medicine" are both detrimental to the cause of true liberty, and tend to violate the constitutional right of every American citizen to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Every human being should be free to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience—else we are not a free people. Likewise each person should be free in case of illness to employ the method of treatment which suits him best. A serious menace to California is the attempt being made by the American Medical Association to entrench the allopathic school of physicians as the only legalized practitioners in the state. An unjust feature of the workingmen's compensation law is that it comples people, in order to receive benefit, to accept treatment from "old school" physicians. Tens of thousands of the most intelligent people in the state are advocates of various forms of drugless healing, and they should have the privilege of choosing their own physician—else we are not a free people. Coercion in matters of religion and medicine is obnoxious to the American ideals of liberty! If the churches and the medicos can show the people something which will increase happiness and improve health, no legislation will be required to enforce its acceptance—every one will want it.

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