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Show llionghU BrouSht J"7 Rlch CUoaa an'. ECce4perlenCe- Some days ago Wch, ma? becam9 troublesome throuifinkt was tak en to the Washinc!11 home a Pla( in Chicago where if1 en arere' tained until sobrie falms them Tho rich man found a ft to commnnicat9 with his lawyer, before leal actica looking to his relf5 could to takel I his relatives applitf11 1118 i"" aa he was restored to t,eir K , has since enjoyed hiieedcai- . It is ail over nf bat BOme day a very interesting . stion rplatie to that quasi publio stitation wiU de" I mand a prompt anr J?fimto What right has hQ Washingtonian home to receive t 1 dnuJc or Bober from their friends j otliers anddeprivt them for a month a day or hoar i of their liberty? I p officials and at- j tendants there ca ,lecelve one man brought there by hi riends' may thoJ not by the eame ri lC receive mother brocph v w 8 es' any institution in the city may without judicial commitment restrain a man because he is troublesome through k drink, may it not restrain another be cause he is troublesome through othei causes, all the way from discoursing on flutes to a rich but discouraging old age? If it may deprive a man of his liberty for an hour, may it not keep him prisoner for months, for yearn, throughout through-out his natural life? Tb actions of this 60 called "home" are somewhat too radical. Its superiority superiori-ty to all laws and'eonstitutions, its contravention con-travention of the principle that all men have an inalienable right to liberty till deprived of it by due process of law, its lofty disapproval of any legal interference, inter-ference, may culminate some day in a challenge of the whole strange basis on which it rests. Chicago Herald, |