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Show . A QUSSTiON OF LIBERTY. noughts Brought Out by a Eteh Chikmc an' Kvceut Experience. Some days ago a rich .-nan becama troublesome through, drink and was taken tak-en to the Washiugtonian home, a place In Chicago where drunken men are detained de-tained until sobriety calms them. The rich man found a way to communicate With his lawyer, but before legal action looking to his release could be takej his relatives applied at the borne, ana he was restored to their custody. H has since enjoyed his freedom. - It is all over now, but some day a very interesting question relative to toat quasi public institution will demand de-mand a prompt and definite answer. What right has the Washingtoniaa home to receive men drunk or sobe from their friends or others and rl hem for a month or a day or an horn of their liberty? If the officials and attendants at-tendants there can receive one man brought there by his friends, may they not by the same right receive anothei brought by his enemies? any- i,Jstitntio", in tho city may Without judicial wmmitnioDt restrain man because he is troublesome through drink, may it not restrain another be cause he is troublesome through othei causes, all the way from discoursing n flutes to a rich but discouraging old age? If it may deprive a man of his liberty for an hour, mavit not keen him prisoner for months, for yean., through out his natur.ol life? Tha actions of this so called "home' -re somewhat too radical. Its superiority superiori-ty to all laws and constitutions, 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 inter' ference, may culminate some day in challenge of tha whole strange basis -n which it rests. Chicago Herald, It CosU. - Gibbs Ba, old fellow, how are you? Just heard that you had gone into the newspaper business. Dibbs Yes, just bougnt a country paper. Gibbs That so? Why, you can give j me an occasional puff, then. Dibbs Certainly. "What are you busy with now? Gibbs I am in the clothing business ready made clothing. Dibbs Hal Then you can give me an occasional suit of clothes. Gibbs Well, dunno about that. . It cost3 money to manufacture clothing, you know. Dibbs That's true, and It costs nothing noth-ing to manufacture newspapers 1 Then they parted. London Tit-Bits. |