In commencing, M. W. John L. Lewis Jr., the Grand Master directed the Grand Treasurer to deposit the box in the corner stone, and the stone was then laid in its proper place, under the direction of the Architect, Isaac G. Perry, Esq. ceeded to the delivery of his Address. At the close of these remarks Dr. Bellows was warmly applauded. The institution has been in operation long enough to demonstrate the possibility of reformation for the inebriate who is willing, or who is susceptible of being made willing to reform. This institution will undoubtedly demonstrate the propriety of demanding for society a higher order of protection from government than it has hitherto been willing to grant. It is not only the inebriate who is destined to be restrained of his liberty and treated with medical and psychological skill, but the criminal, and the vicious of every grade, the moment their liberty becomes dangerous to society.
Society gains nothing by holding for an hour any man a prisoner who is fit to be at large.
Liberty and human rights gain nothing by allowing any man to be at large for a moment, who is destroying himself and his family and neighbors. I am searching for more information on Patrick W. Mulligan who was a patient for 33 years in this Asylum and where he passed away in the year of 1924. Binghamton NY 1888 John Shannahan-emp. The New York State Inebriate Asylum was incorp. It is designed for the medical treatment of restraint of inebriates.