The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-02-02
Inebriate Asylum.

/, To the Editor of the Indianapolis Daily Journal
The suggestion in YESTERDAYS Journal, concerning
asylum for the treatment of confirmed drunkards
is certainly humane one. an appeal. loudly the
best feelings of common hum unity. The discus
sors aud Investigations of the last forty years have
lead the public mind to better understanding and
just appreciation of the condition of this
unfortunate class of fellow c;t;z,ns NJ man ev-
became drunkard voluntarily an,l deliberately
and but few either knew believed that visiting
tpp!ing-houses. and what they cae moderate dram
drinking would end in confirmed aud hopeless sia-
very to the depravei appetite thus created.
The drunkard's appetite for strong drink is dis
ense. as real an terri BILE any other that flesh
and blood Is heir To. and vet, uuier proper Mt
/ is more easily cureI than most other diseases
wholesome food, exercise ana amusement, with q
total abstinence from al that i.toricate are
cases the only remeies dem IN lei. At Bnyh M,
ton this action is enforced bv the discipline of the
Asylum. few uonths only are required to restore
the patient to fair degree of health, aud he msy
be discharged cured But how long will he remain
cured? If he is turned out among dram-shops he
viii! have about as mach chance of escape 8 lamb
! Among pack of hungry wolves. Keep him in the
Asylum and be is safe turn him out aud he Is lost
and we have lost the time and expense bestowed up
= on him. No, he mast be p otectei from the seduc-
5tions of the tipping housethe wiles of the quor-
seller But can We af,r,l t. erect asylum large
enough to accommodate all the drunkar,is in the
State and keep them there too Yes, TOE c n and
make msney by it, tpo.' Make the whole State an
Asylum, and throw aroun the drunkari at his o.vu
home all the protection that he would have in the
wards OF Bnghampton, and he will have better
ing and kinder attention from his family thar he
Z could possibly Il IL ,ny strangers. Suppress the
dram-shops. break up the tipfllng house through
out the State and make every homs asylum
where not only the druaksrd may be cured, but the
spread of the terrible disea, be arrested BY the
sworn statements of the liquor sellers themselves our
tipping -hcuses cost, to the productive industry OF
the State the almost incredible sum of oyxR FIFTY
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year. The erection of
such an asylum Al propose, ould adj this sum to
the active capital of the State every year. wosr IT
PAY? r. T. BRowN.
n. W. C. UsrvEasrrr Jan. 80. 1859.
TuE JOKE ON CHrc cAao.-fhe lower House Of the
Illinois legislature perpefrated Joke the expense
of the Cur len City 'lu5" Last SATURDAY by the pas-
sage Of bill 70 linz that city with all its Liabilities
and aspirations "a the State of indians. 1, passed.
bv a handsome majority. Il said IN support of
the DILL tiat as n ma wanted new peniteutiary
she miz. vail in the city AMI aet Gov Baker ~ re-
Prieve few Well nueap:ng eople who reside there
~, "f' ">c ~ 'r tAt Putpo32 aRes aside, the IL
In"is iee isiattrs y kno. how narrow an es-
cape Chic,g" bal t' bee ming part ard parcel Of
iooserioms When General Hlrr:son. as G vernon
of the IndIant erritory, which included Illinois.
Michigan and all shutdown called upon n define
the limits Of the Site, h4 ut first proposed to COM
mence the base Of the line at the mouth Of the
Wabash and run due north to the lake. This bouu |
Diary line wonid have given US another tier Of couu |
ties and the Chicago harbor, besides little strip of
land on the west side of the lake Subseqne ntly he
changed his notion, and made the Wabash river the /
boundary point near Vincenues thence north to
the foot of Lake Michigan, few miles east. Ch,ca-
go. But for this freak the part of the hero of !
Chicago might have enjoyed the materi-
al advantages well all the honors of . location
in Iniiana.-Lsfayett. Courier. s1 e So
A writer III Blackwood, speaking Of |
the medical profession, says, he has al
ways felt the absence of medical men
from Parliament as a great loss. "It il
not merely he says, '.that there are
variety of topics on which they couli
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