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Show Don't Send Inebriates to Jail; Cure Them Alcoholism Is a Malady, Not a Crime; It Is a Disease, as Tuberculosis Is: the State Farm Method Is the Humane One JUST LIKE A WOMAN I . . . . i W Ml to. I .Tgr- 'V U luflCoovw WWftlgatol ISP feWWT teHl 1 lMO intboduh T ELLA WaaaUl WILCOX Caw right. 111. by Star Company THE state farm bill was presented t the legislature of Connecticut last winter, asking for aa Inehrl ate hospital which would be aa institution maintained by 2 par seat af tha license money aad the work af tha iamate. It would be aa lartitu tioa where treatment would be given peepie who are intemperate aad nave tort control af theaaaalves, but who are sot iaaaae. There would he require stents that they should work while there aad that they ahould be required So remain there a rrti length af taav aad then leave oa parole, report ing ta the institution from time ta time. There Is Need of Such an Institution as the State Farm. Thar ia aeed of auck aa laatilutioa, ad H. H. Hpoonr situ kas a bill for t similar eae, but his institution would started by the state at a seat of 60,000 aad need aa custodial inrtitu tiea for the treatment of the rounders who are coatioually coming before the courts. Such men are seat to jail, but that dos thorn so gaad; while i the proposed institution they could be cared for and kept there for loag periods pe-riods aad made to work and earn their Uvlag. Dr. H. M. Pollock, superintendent of the state hospital, spoke strongly la favor of the hill; and it would hare pasted but for the veto of the governor of Connecticut. Of his action the Cos sectlcut Cltiten says: "Practically every newspaper in the state welcomed It as good legislation aad than Governor Simeon E. Baldwin art bis judgment against the rati of the state and vetoed it wkea it waa too lata to take It back and paaa it ever his veto. We had known that his tea dencie were toward the old line pun iahmcnt ideas, that lie would not favor aav hill which seemed to have anything af' the 'sentimental ' in it: that he would not give anv weight to the reforming re-forming or saving ideas of the proposition proposi-tion because that hind of work appeals eoly to warm blooded men who wish to help their fellow beings, la spite af this knowledge we had hoped that he would allow the hill to become a law. Those hopes '"einir proundlees and the veto power hh' inc been exercised. It eintpK means that we must wait two years and hois that at that time we vhall have a different governor." It is a matter far ttnlveraal repret that the governor of Connecticut has ao limited a view of this groat suliiect, and that he has allowed the old fash iouod iu'eas r .-sr'- New Kagland to nrevent a larger and .more human-'stianiti human-'stianiti to In: put into practice in dealing with unfortunate fellow beings Meohollsm is a disease, precisely as tuliereuloai it a malady, reanitlng from broken lane of life mental flret and ph steal afterward. Vo man who think- right, breathes right, eats right, drinks right and exorcises right ever has tuberculosis. As well punish and jail a tetim of that malad.t as the drunkard Just as the centals pilv is sent to nature and shown hew to restore his normal, natural self, so should tin ' Ic ties of alcohol he sent to the arms of the great universal mother. Just as the siek man has nurses and doctors to see that he has the right fend and drink and eiereisAs and rest, end lhal he doe not f it iu doiiif wll the cure demands should the alcohol iavalld he leaked alter aad guided and helped to gad himself. Sol its r; ronflnemtnt, and jail, aad punishment dastrov a man's bona af tke future, kill seff respect aad foster reveageful aad rruel emotion. Work in the open, with God' earth below and Gad' tkie above, aad the moving wiad about gives a sick tool opportunity for self communion and for communion with ministering angels. Alcoholism a Malady to Be Cured by Natural Nat-ural Means. The dav will come when all wrong dorrs will be treated as dther invalids I are treated and helped bark to moral health by constructive method, instead of being driven dowu tu chronic sinful ess hi brutal one. A')' before that dav comes alcoholism a ill he uai venal It regarded as a mat adv which nusi he rtired hv natural aod aeleatiS mcaiu instead of being punished aa a wilful eriina. It i tn be .hoped that oaneetieut wiM put Itarlf into the line of progress at the next election, and that when the "state farm bill" is presented to the legislature it a ill meet with a prompt lappruial hy a humane hearten and 1 hroid minded go er tior. |
