WCP1416

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

Sept[embe]^r. 27th. 1900

To [Arthur Acland Allen]¹

Dear Sir

I have duly received your Election Address for the district in which I am a voter.

I hold, strongly, that personal liberty and the sanctity of a man's home and family, are the most important of all political questions.

I cannot therefore give my vote to any candidate who will not do all in his power to abolish the Compulsory Vaccination Laws.

I have myself studied this subject for more than 20 years, and Chapter XVIII. of my book — "The Wonderful Century"² I have [2] demonstrated, from official facts and figures the absolute uselessness of vaccination as a preventive of Small-pox. But it is admittedly a cause of much suffering and many deaths annually, and is also the means of spreading many terrible diseases.

I submit, therefore, that, without a careful study of the evidence which I myself and others have published, no legislator is justified in enforcing, at the public expense, on unwilling, or even on willing, parents, a medical dogma — especially as the [3] whole history of medicine is a continuous record of blunders and disasters.

Believe me | Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]