Once more, under the pretence of ''regulating the practice of medicine and surgery," the attempt is made in the legislature to abridge the right of the people of this commonwealth to regulate their own domestic affairs.
This sort of prohibitory legislation may be well meant, but it is nevertheless grotesquely out of place in a state which boasts of the intelligence and the freedom of its citizens.
Why, indeed, should any freeman in a free state, who prefers to entrust his health to the care of a faith cure physician, or a Christian Scientist, instead of consulting a so-called "regular" practitioner, be denied his right by law?
As well might the state legislature undertake to declare by statute that no citizen can attend any place of worship not registered in the lists of the orthodox Congregationalists, the Baptists or the Universalists.
The people of Massachusetts can be trusted. They are quite as quick to discover charlatanry and humbug in the ranks of the "medicine men" of all schools, as they are to resent interference from any quarter with freedom of choice.— Boston Globe.
