The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-07-08

"ssS ASN~ ehN ~ AN
er the report of the committee is to tn
effect that she received the best O
care.
Mrs. Horace Westenhavcr VIII
visited the infrmary with Mrs Nc
i, Grath, says in her affidavit tha
ey found her laying in a pool o
urine that looked and smelIed a
:, though it had been there for two o.
:, three weeks. When Mrs. McGratf
in company with Mrs. Green agair
visited the infrmary they fount
Mrs. he'd in the same building ant
with the same surroundings. The
calico dress had been removed anG
a woolen enc put on in its stead
These women had come TO wash
r and clean her up. But when they
undertook to remove her dress, il
had TO be cut from her body. In
some places the dress was so firmly
fixed in the sores that it was neces-
sary TO cut around them and leave
the pieces sticking in the pus-
tules. The very thoughts of such a
: thing are enough to make the flesh
creep, but then this was the woman, ac-
cordihg to the testimony before the
committee that had received such ex-
cellent care.
These lsiies further say that the old
comfort on which she reclined was sat
urated with urine and that she was wet
to the shoulders that they did not
wash the lower part of the body because
they thought the flesh so rotten that if
they touched it it would drop from the
bone.
Now is not that a terrible state
of affairs to exist IN a county known the
state over because of the hospitality of
its citizens. Is there one intelligent
man or woman in this county who does
not believe that with even ordinary care
and without any medical treatment
whatever, that it would have been i'm
possible for Mrs. Red to have gotten in
such horrible condition? Such q
story belongs rather to the ilthiest how
el in the land than to charitable in
stitution like our in6rmary. We can
understand how such horrors could be
born in the Infamous dungeons Of des-
pots but are at loss to comprehend by
what strange chance, instincts that lead
to the cultivation of such horrors, could |
have had an existence in this land of |
free men, free chur ches, free schools |
and free infrmaries, for if the entire
population was shackled in chains of
FIRE, the punishment would still lack
that refinement Of cruelty that charac-
terized the treatment Of Mrs. Red. If
she had been insensible to her sur
roundings, there would have been
Shadow of charity for the persons re-
spon sible for her condition but she
wos not. She was keenly alive to all
that was going on. She realized fuily
her situation and when friends of other
days shed tears over the wreck that
once ruled with womanly grace hap
Ply, prosperous home, she cried aloud
in her agony, "Oh, want to 60 home"
Harrassed by the shrieks of the insane,
poisoned by the foul air of the prison
and slowly rotting in her own filth, was
it any wonder that she cried to be ia
ken home? II
Don't this picture furnish food for
reflection? Don't it appeal to the hu.
manity of every man, woman and
child IL the community? 1t is against
this thing we-have protested we have
in SO doing engendered the displeasure
of the men who would cover it up as
matter of no moment-of no moment !
because anything is good enough for
the poor. We would ask the public if q
We, single handed, are to continue the
var against such practices? Does the
farmer, the miner, the artisan, the Ia
bor er, the preacher, the chosen man of
Sod, and the christian mothers of this +
county think it is right, after the evil I
ience that has been shown, to say that =
the management of the infrmary is
what it should be and that to preserve
he good name of the county, the cur o
ain shoald drop upon the death bed I
Gene of Mrs. Red? Do you want de- I
;ency at such a price? Can you af- q
ord to sacrafce your christianity and .
humanity to make pot of slush, not to
leanse, but to cover up the leper?
BIT again. We have charged the ~
na cement with inhumanity in whip u
ing inmates. Mariah Johnston testi- e
es before the committee that she was p
Thipped by the Superintendent. The .
acknowledges that he n
as been given to such work and the =,
ommittee finds, with regret, that "the
ractice is as old as the institution" "
ut should be abolished. Down in the cS
tile state of Delaware, criminals are e'
hipped in public place This is a e,
elic of barbarism but the people still al
ling to it. They need education. In RI
ockins county the paupers are
hipped. The standard OF barbarism
going up. 10
In conclusion We would say that III
e have not made one charge az ainst
e infirmary management in this pa
er that we have not or can not sustain.
e asked a public investigation be- TO
Iuse we believed the best interests Of di
e community demanded it and we We
Nv charge that the present manage or
ent dare not invite such an investiga- II;
IN. The testimony of Michael How =.
d published in this issue of our pa III
ri shows what the testimony of the
mates will be, as long as they are not 10
lder the lash Of the tyrant. For that VA u:'
ason we ask that they be brought a,
I'm under the ban, and testify without Il u
ar Of punishment n,
Does not the horrible death of Mrs. n,
d, the brutal whipping of Mariah Su
hnston and the starving of Mary 10
lrns demand that the people hear ed
ull statement of facts? ms
We have produced some evidence I'D
d have much more at hand. Let the in