| Show TATE AID All FOR FOil DRUNKARDS S t We Ve dont don't look with a great deal leal of ot favor on that propos proposed d law aw for Cor the curing of or drunkards with the aid and n at the expense of ot the state It hardly seems to be within the of ot a legislature Drunkenness is a good deal of or a disease The taste for Cor liquor the passion for indulgence In it It is rarely an Inherited trait It is much more commonly an acquired habit a cultivated desire It may inay be Indulged to the point where here liquor is a requirement of the tho system It may be propagated by habit until the drinker becomes becom s sa a slave to appetite And And physical and moral wr wreck ck may follow tollow S The only use of cures Is that the they get the liquor out of or tho the system and put a man man ian into normal normal condition again They will if the they be he meritorious meritorious and and s-and and som of them are meritorious meritorious entirely correct the poisoned functions of tho ho human frame After that It- It ItIs iti Is a ques question question tion of ot himself elf If IC ho have havo sense sens e enough l to leave alone that which he has found himself too weak to master too undisciplined to control ho he will be all allright allright allright right because h he lie will viIi not touch it again If he be silly enough to think ho can do llo what tho the past h has s proved pro was strong enough h to do him him h he will go back bacle farther tarther than he was in Jho first place But all that thal matter of medical and moral treatment Is outside the province of a n legislature Possibly a city losing on a certain class of at drunkards may consider it IL More lore properly individuals may help with an nn effort which promises possible good and menaces with little or no harm But Dut it doesn't seem scorn that the tho legislators have been elected for the consideration of or liquor cures There Is something else for Cor them to do And there is the end endot ot the session looming at a constantly constantly con con- decreasing distance S |
