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IRY STANDARD JOHN D. BARRIER and SON, Editors and Proprietors. OFFICE IN THE MOKKIJ BVILU. 1HE STANDARD is published every ay (Sunday excepted) and delivered by nos. liates 01 DauHcripuon.j , Qne year .'. . '. .M-00 8U Zoning. .t .". . 2.0(1 . Threo months.. . , . 1.00 One month 35 . Single cudv. .05 . THE WEEKLY STANDARD U a our-pnsre. eteht-colunin paper. It has a larger circulation in Cabarrus than any Other paper. Price $1.00 per annum in advance. Advertising Kates : , Terms for regular advertisement made known bn application,. . Address all communications to THE STANDARD, Concord, N. 0. TELEPHONE' NO. 71. foNpORD, N. C, Mar. 29, 1900. COMPULSORY .YACCJNATI0N. -Supreme Court Sustains the Action Bj Counties and Municipalities Public Good Above Individual Choice. , ,i Tho Supreme Court has ren dered a decision upon a case from Burlington, N,' involV--i'ng the right of a couDty or town to compel citizens, to be vac cinated, it 'fully; sustains sucn . action. In this particular case a new trial was ordered on account of ambiguity of verdict.' There is much' in Justice Clark's rendering that shoufd be read by overy one and we give! the following salient points omitting the technical, not inter esting to .those outside the legal profession:" ' ll' 'The authorities of any j city or town Or the board of county commissioners pf any ' county may mako such regulations and provisions for the vaccination of its inhabitants under the direc tion of the local or county board .of health or a committee chosen 'for the purpose, and ; impose such penalties as they deem nec essary to protect the public Iheplth. Thero ".is no. .provision of tho constitution which forbids the legislature to enact, and it is indeed an exercise of that . gov ernmental police power to legfs latcfor the public welfare, which is inherent in the General As sembly, except when restrained by some express constitutional provision." "'The public welfare is 'the highest law,' is . the foundation principle of all civil government. It isthe urgent cause why any government is established, for, as Burke? .ys, 'any government is a necessary. evil.'. .It. is, how vr. ftjnur.h msser pvil than tht intolerable state of things whjch would exist if there were no gov- . eminent o bridle the absolute right of every man to do 'that which s eihs right in his own eyes.' " VThere is an implied assent on the part of every member of so ciety that his own individual welfare shall, in case of neces sity, yield to that .of the com iinunity, and' that his property, jiiberty and life shall under cer tain circumstancos be placed in Jeopardy or even sacrificed for the public erood." ""It is everyday common sense that if a people can draft or con script its citizens to defend its borders from invasion it can pro tect itself from the deadly pes - tilence that walketh by noonday by such measures as medical science has found most efficacious for that purpose, vye know as an Historical fact that prior to the discovery 101 years ago of vaccination by Edward Jenner, smallpox often destroyed a third or more of the population of a country which it attacked, and so futile was every precaution and the most careful seclusion that the greatest sovereigns fell yictims'to this.loatnsome diseaset which Macaulay has . styled, 'the most terrible of all ministers of deatht' If this was so in d;ays of imperfect communication, the present rapid means of inter? course .between . most distant pbinte would so ' spread tho 'dis ease as to quickly paralyze com merce and all public business, if government , could not at .once stamp out tbe. .disease by com.; polling all alike, for : the public J gb'od as much' as for 'their own, to submit to vaccination. Sta- j tfsiics, iakbn by governmental authority show. .that , fwhile. 400 out of every 1,000 unvaccinated persons exposed to the contagion are aiurcxea oy it, less map iwp in a thousand take the disease when1 - protected by ' vacciriatiop wi.thin a, reasonable , period. Inhere are thosenotwithstanding these well ascertainea facts,' wh'o deny the efficacy of vacoihation, as there' are always 'some'' who will deny; any other result of human" T! experience;'; however Well established lature. acting in their best judg nient "rfor the public'1 welfare, upbXVtne! information bef6re them, has (deemed'.vaccination necessary for public protection', aid their decision being within the scope , qf'; their ; . functions, must stand until repealed by the same power. ,. ; "The power of the legislature-! to ; authorize . county . and. ; muni cipal authorities to .require com pulsory vaccination has been ex ercised by nearly , every State and has been recently sustained by the highest courts ! of two of our sister States. " ' ' "And there are no decisions to the contrary. ' In reply to the argument, that such exercises of power by the Legislature may in some cases infringe upon Individ ual rights, Cobb, , J., .in the Georgia qase, well says: 'No law which infringes upon the natural i rights of man can, be long en forced. ..Under our system of i government,' the remedy of the people,' in, that class of cases where the courts are not author ized to interfere, is at the' ballot box. Any law, which violates reason and is contrary .to the popular conceptio'n of right and justice, wjll notremain reopera tion for any length of time, but courts have no authority 'tode clare it void merely because it does not measure up tp their idesof abstract justice. The mo tive which doubtless actuated the Legislature in the passage of the act now, under consideration was that vaccination was for the public good. In this the Gen eral Assembly is sustained by the opinion of a great majority of the meri'of medical .science, both in this country and in Europe. ' "But even if, we. were. of opin ion with the small number of medical men who contend that vaccination is dangerous to health and not a preventive of disease, the court is not a pat ernal despotism, gifted with in fallible wisdom, whose function is to correct the errors and mis takes of the Legislature. Brod nax vs. Groom, 64 N. C, 250. Our people are self -govering, and themselves correct the mis takes of their representatives. The function of the.courts is to construe and apply the laws, and they can hold a satute nugatory only when plainly and clearly violative of some provision of the organic law which has restrained the legislative power. Sutton vs. Phillips, 116 N. C, Lead 502; White vs. Murray, at this term. -, "Nor does section 24 of the act require that the Board of Alder men shall pass such - ordiance.in conjunction with P the ;, Board of Health (as defendant contends). It merely provides that the exe cution of the ordiance, i. . e., the vaccination, shall be under the direction of the local, board of health or a committee appointed by the aldermen. . "While the Legislature has power to, authorize municipal : 3 i vaccination, and the defendant did not comply, with the ordin ance enacted by the town of Burlington, in pursuance of such authority, though afforded opportunity to do so, it is. true that there may be some condi tion of a person's healths when it would be unsafe to submit to vaccination, and which therefore would be a sufficient excusfe for non-compliance, but it, does not vitiate the ordinance that such exception' is not .provided for and specified therein. It is .not a defence that a person bona fide .believes that it will be danger ous for him to bo vaccinated or believes that he is already suffi ciently protected by former vac cination; nor would the opinion of his. perspnal physician on either point be conclusive .(though 'it would naturally have weight with the jury), for there may be evi dence or circumstances' tending to the contrary. Indeed, as to for per. vaccination being suffici entj! protection, , the "opinion' of the official , physician : supervis ing' the Vaci nation should be pre sumptively correct.. ' That which J wPuldj relieve. frAni a . compliance f with the ordinance is a matter nil o i defence, the burden of which is t upon the defend ant,' and is, a fact' to be found by 'the- jury; - The special verdict is ambiguous and defective; in this, particular.and is set aside. 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These goods' are neither, shop- wornv off; widths nor sizes, but idide, fresh goods, bought much- be-f low the present market price. ; Very Respectfully, v V : . r ... iff : ' . , Mr. J R Garrison, cashier of the. bank of rfhornTiIle,. Ohio, had. been robbed ol health by a serious . lung trouble until he tried Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption. Then he wrote: "It .is the best "medicine I ever usejd . for ;a severe cold or a bad case of lung trouble. I always keep a bottle on hand.". Don't suffer with cpughp, colds', or any throat, chest or lung trouble when you can be cured so easily... Only 50c. and $1.00. Tril bottles free at F zer's drug store 6, 00 I 1 I i 1 PAIRS I A DAY Shots are produced in the finest factory in the world. The makers are, and liave been for years, the acknowledged lead-, ers in their line Women' s Fine Shoes- The shoes ' are the most perfect fitting, the easiest on the feet, the most artistic, th handsomest, and the best values ever known in footwear. 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