The Red Cloud chief., 1884-06-06
PALLlATlYES.

There is in the city of e York m
In stitutlon known as the Christian
Ho.ne.' which. at great expense. re-
ceiveS from fifty TO sixty men. drunk
ards, who 90 thither to be cured of the
appetite for rum. 1t is full all the
time, some of the inmates going out
radically cured. others to relapse into
the habit. 1t is an excellent institution.
founded by philanthropic men, and has
accomplished some good.
Every city in the country has these
reformatories, maintained by the victims
of rum, and the private contributions OF
good men and women.
The public has provided reformatories
likewise. Their are Houses oil Correc-
ton for the young victims of rum. the
children of drunken parents, who in
herit not only the appetite for liquor.
but also the thousand viccs OF which
rum is the parent. In these are held
for restraint and reformation probably
about one in ten thousand of those VINO
need the discipline. There are peni-
teniiaries for those whom rum has
asylumS for those whose minds rum has
destroyed, and aSylumS for the IDIOTS
that rum is. in nine cases out of ten,
~an>werahle for.
1t will be observed that these institu-
tons are, all of them, provided to take
up meE and women where rum has LETT
them. They are institutions for salvage
purposes. to save what is possible out
OF wrecks. Except in = few States
there are no provisions to restrain con
scienceless men from making drunk
ards. thieves, prostitutes, criminals.
idiots and lunatics. All that law las
done. thus far. is To care for a out one
in ten thousand of the victims of rum.
Rum is permitted to 90 on manufacture
ing these unfortunatcs. and the people
tax themselves. publicly and privately.
to care for hundreds Out OF the m lions
This is attempting to stay a to rent
with a teaspoon. 1t is attempting to
pump put the overlooked lands of the
Mississippi with Z syringe. instead of
mending the break in the Ievee.
Were there is one re:Ormatory TO
care Tor criminals, lunatics, idiots and
paupers, there are q thousand rum and
beer shops manufacturing them. The
city of Toledo has one House of Cor
rection, one jail and one iniirmarv to
care for the victims OF rum. and eight
hunired rum and Ger shops busy IL ght
uiacture subjects for them. hi!adel-
phia has the same proportion OF re-
fOrmato: es; and forty miles of rum
and beer shops, were they put side by
side and twenty feet front allowed for
each. The county seats and country
villages preserve about the same proper
ton. A boy is corrupted in a beer
shop: he is taken to q reformatory, |
serve IS n time. comes put only To fall
into the same trap again, Ian. ,ing the
next time in a jail, and the next in the
p~eniteniiary.
Would it not BE- well to commence Mt !
the other end of this business? Instead
o trying to dip out the stream would
it not he well to try drying up the
If society has the right to re-
strain the criminal has it not the right
to put its strong hand upon the crimi-
nal maker! If the drunkard is danger
Gus As 4 criminal. or expensive as q
pauper, has not the community the
right to prevent the manufacture of
There is no other way under the sun.
So long rs the breweries are commits
their creatures to put boys in
t aiming for the ~penitentiary or the poor
house. SC long will penitentiaries and
be Inadequate to the de-
mard made upon them.
There is but little use in attempting
to reform the drunkard; the only way
to root out the giant evil is to prevent
the making of drunkards. There is
but little use in trying to patch up the
or hoy who has the habit fixed;
the proper thing to do is to pre-. ent
and boys from getting the habit.
is better to prevent the storm than to
patch the wreck. The Christian
Home" in New York harbors fifty men
who are trying by its help to save them
Thousands of beer-shops and
rum-mills in that city are making thou
sands of ~drunkards a day. Sucn LiIli-
remedies can not cure such
giant diseases .-7o,edO Butte.