Alfred
Russel Wallace : Alfred Wallace : A. R. Wallace :
Russel Wallace : Alfred Russell Wallace (sic)
The Vaccination Crusade (S618: 1904)
Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: A short untitled note/N printed on page five of the 28 September 1904 issue of The Morning Leader (London). To link directly to this page, connect with: http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S618.htm
Mr. J. F. Burton, hon. secretary of the Hackney Union Anti-Vaccination League, who has just published "The Story of the Vaccination Crusade in Hackney and Stoke Newington," with a history of the case of Polley v. Fordham, has received from Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace a letter, which contains the following:
"The story of the vaccination crusade is most excellently done, and brings out the horrible cruelty and injustice both of the whole of the vaccination laws and of our whole legal system, which punishes the poor (by fines) a thousand times as much as the rich, and absolutely denies justice to all who have not wealth. I wish all this could reach a wider circle of readers.”
The pamphlet, which is sold at 2d. (or 1s. 6d. for one dozen copies), may be procured from the author, at 66, Lordship-lane, Stoke Newington.
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