THE PROSECUTION OF MR. W. J. CULVER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 207, 26 May 1908, Page 9

THE PROSECUTION OF MR. W. J. CULVER.

•AN APPEAL. • • Sir,'—That Justice Cooper '(as I .reported in. yo\if issiio of tho 16th inst.V has'quashed'tile" conviction of' S. 'M;. Itiddo)!, against Mr. Culver, ;wil! bo read by - very many Vith satisfaction. This leaver Mr. Culver, how-ever,-to bear his own. "costs," probably amounting to £10 ! Ho can ill afford this. His salary, as Inspector of Factories, provides a. bare liWng only t —"bread,"' you may say, without tho "cheese." Ho has had' 'to meet recent illness, and sundry losses, so thathelias in fact, reached tho "bed-rock" of his financial resources. Ho can hardly bo expected to ask aid himself, in'fact,"being a civil servant, lie cannot write tfl the newspapers. Many friends have . already eje.pressed' sympathy with him, and one (one' only) has spontaneously posted him 10s."' Allow mo then to appeal through your columns, as I do most earnestly,. not only to his friends, but to all'who'maintain tho inalienable' right of a parent to do what he considers right and for tho interests of his own Child, to all those who, with Mr. Culver, regard vaccination as an "iniquitous proceeding," and to all those who protest against tho specious despotism that assumes solicitude to protect tho public from swallowing patented poisons, and, at the same timo, does not scruplo to directly infect and pollute .tho blood of a healthy child ,with a hybrid putrid virus, falsely called "Vaccine. Lymph;" or to prosecute a conscientious oW jecting father and treat him as a criminal. And this in tho land of the free I And vaccination is not compulsory I Oh, that Now Zealand would lead tho way, aiid abolish and peualiso the disease-diffusing practice ,oL vaccination, and thereby remove , a most siibtlo, deteriorating and disintegrating blight upon: the health and unity of the national life. Contributions will bo gladly received by Mr. M'Dougall, editor of the "Daily Telegraph,.". Napier, and forwarded to Mr. Culver.—l am, ; EDWIN COX. Cambridge, May 17, 1903.