| Show The Prison Commissioners Massa f chusetts propose thatthe State acquire farms to which common drunkards be committed there to remain and work until they reform Commenting on It an Eastern paper says The treatment I treat-ment seems hard yet what Is to be done with persons whose normal and habitual condition Is one of Intoxlca I ¼ tlon Short terms of Imprisonment have no good effect and the problem Is really a aerlous one The proper thing to do Is to consider the matter right Men In that condition are af flirted by a disease which needs medical medi-cal treatment tho same as typhoid fever vm fe-ver or smallpox or any other disease The place for them Is In a hospital and In a hospital with conscientious treatment four weeks Is enough to cure rJnetenthB of the men alUlcted that L way The Idea of putting men on n farm and making them work because tlipy like whisky Is as foolish as It la m L lckpd bcraxwe Rome of the biggest drinkers In tho world i art men who own L i Calms and gel drunk in the bosoms of t their own families every night As the KclontlstB explain It a man with an inordinate in-ordinate doslre for alcoholic drinks hns suffered either I from drinks or throu through 1 heredity such ehnigo > 1 of UKHIIO an produce i m c pro-duce thai disease f I The iV enlightened I rein I I I A S cdy Is to admlnlutcr what will bring those tissues Into a f normal condition and then the appetite disappears |
