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"this legislation barring us from evacuating our bodily wastes into the streets will mean an end to modern commerce, and the expenditures for disposing of these wastes in a fashion approved by the intrusive government will bankrupt our nation; while the heathen chinee and hindoo will still be free to indulge in his god-given right to move his bowels freely. all in the name of some high-faluting scientific theory regarding disease; well, diseases have always been part of mankind and the suggestion that humanity has the capacity to cause them or prevent them is absurd, as well as heretical. mark my words, these so-called sanitation laws are nothing more than a means of enriching the plumbing cartel and their toadies in the medical profession"