FOURTH: That sanitation, isolation and hygiene have been and are the chief means of preventing and suppressing smallpox epidemics independent of vaccination. FIFTH: That vaccination is very dangerous to health and life, causes epidemics in animals and mankind and is oftentimes more fatal than smallpox and now causes more deaths than smallpox. SIXTH: That vaccinating doctors and health officials most shamefully deny and conceal injuries and deaths from vaccination and falsify our vital statistics accordingly. SEVENTH: That the practice of inflicting on the human body a compulsory medical disease, which is dangerous to health and life and causes many deaths every year, is obviously illegal and a medical crime on the people which must be suppressed. CONCLUSION As soon, therefore, as this crushing fact of the great danger of vaccination to human health and life enters the mind and conscience of the mass of the people, and is fully grasped by the legislative, the judicial and the executive minds of the country--from whom it has been so long concealed by medical falsehood in high places--this enlightenment will, I firmly believe, result in the permanent abolishment of all compulsory vaccination, if not in the penal prohibition of general vaccination, as being now more dangerous than natural smallpox; and to that great fact and to this final and prophetic thought, Mr. President, I ask your careful attention in closing this exposure of vaccination horrors and medical mendacities. Respectfully submitted, CHAS. M. HIGGINS Dated at 271 Ninth St., Brooklyn, N. Y., U. S. Constitution Day, September 17, 1919. AMERICANISMS MEDICAL FREEDOM IS AN UNALIENABLE AMERICAN RIGHT MEDICAL COMPULSION, LIKE RELIGIOUS COMPULSION, IS UN-AMERICAN AND MUST BE ABOLISHED NO GOVERNMENT WITHOUT CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED NO MEDICATION WITHOUT CONSENT OF THE PATIENT NO COMPULSORY VACCINATION NO COMPULSORY INFLICTION OF DISEASE “IN THE DISCARD” “The world has just destroyed the arbitrary force of a military junta. It will live under no other. All that is arbitrary and coercive is in the discard. Those who seek to employ it will only prepare their own destruction.” President Wilson, in Message to Congress, August 8, 1919. FOOTNOTES: [1] See U. S. Hygienic Laboratory Bulletin 91, Dec., 1913. Also “Preventive Medicine,” by Dr. Rosenau, 1914, page 410. [2] See U. S. Naval Medical Bulletin, Oct., 1914, page 591, Smallpox on Battleship _Ohio_ confounded with Influenza. [3] This subject of Alimentary Freedom as an unalienable right of the people in time of peace has been treated in a separate pamphlet issued November 25, 1919, entitled “Unalienable Rights and Prohibition Wrongs.”