certainly lost him much support.

On the same evening a similar question was put to me. My answer may
be guessed, indeed I took the opportunity to make a speech which was
cheered to the echo, for, having acted the great lie of espousing the
anti-vaccination cause, I felt that it was not worth while to hesitate
in telling other lies in support of it. Moreover, I knew my subject
thoroughly, and understood what points to dwell upon and what to gloze
over, how to twist and turn the statistics, and how to marshal my facts
in such fashion as would make it very difficult to expose their fallacy.
Then, when I had done with general arguments, I went on to particular
cases, describing as a doctor can do the most dreadful which had ever
come under my notice, with such power and pathos that women in the
audience burst into tears.

Finally, I ended by an impassioned appeal to all present to follow my
example and refuse to allow their children to be poisoned. I called on
them as free men to rise against this monstrous Tyranny, to put a stop
to this system of organised and judicial Infanticide, and to send me to
Parliament to raise my voice on their behalf in the cause of helpless
infants whose tender bodies now, day by day, under the command of the
law, were made the receptacles of the most filthy diseases from which
man was doomed to suffer.

As I sat down the whole of that great audience--it numbered more than
2000--rose in their places shouting "We will! we will!" after which
followed a scene of enthusiasm such as I had never seen before,
emphasised by cries of "We are free Englishmen," "Down with the
baby-butchers," "We will put you in, sir," and so forth.

That meeting gave me my cue, and thenceforward, leaving almost every
other topic on one side, I and my workers devoted ourselves to preaching
the anti-vaccination doctrines. We flooded the constituency with tracts
headed "What Vaccination does," "The Law of Useless Infanticide," "The
Vaccine Tyranny," "Is Vaccination a Fraud?" and so forth, and with
horrible pictures of calves stretched out by pulleys, gagged and
blindfolded, with their under parts covered by vaccine vesicles. Also
we had photographs of children suffering from the effects of improper or
unclean vaccination, which, by means of magic lantern slides, could
be thrown life-sized on a screen; indeed, one or two such children
themselves were taken round to meetings and their sores exhibited.

The effect of all t