Telegram-herald., 1891-09-01
III IS A BURNING SHANE
The Sale Of Liquor to Inmates OF
the Soldiers Home.
The LAW POSITIVELY PROHIBITS II
Why Cannot Something De Dsas - stop
lt:-What the supreme Court says
Of ths Law-An Intesview vita
w. u. Fuller En- the 6sbtecs.

There Is something that ought 70
10 be attended to- said w. d. Full
ler the Serreme Court reporter, yes
terday, ''and that is concerning the
old soldiers who are at the home
You know that there Is line
drawn around the Soldiers Home q
mile In each direction, inside Of which
no liquor can be sold, and further than
that 1t Is strictly against the law
10 sell them liquor OF any kind. In
spite Of this, however, they secure
mtoxicants in some manner or an-
other. Not long ago one poor fellow
was killed on the railroad track, who
would now be alive were Ii not FOR
the fact that he was drunk. Almost
every week some veteran Is brought
into the city by order OF the eoriman-
dant, or arrested II this city. locked up
In the Jail and the next day fined in
justice court. This Is all wrong. The
people support that institution and
in return demand that the men who
fought for the preservation OF the
Union be protected against all things
which shall have tendency to iniure
them. That line was not drawn just
for the sake OF having one, but TO pre-
Won't the sale OF liquor to the soldiers.
1t is dead line similar to the one
which encirclcd Andcrsonville. Inside
of it's precincts IL was never intended
that stimulants should enter. While
there is no saloon within the border
OF this prescribed section. there are
many just out side. None of them re-
fuse to supply the veterans with
whisky. But that is not all. The
law says that there shall be no intox-
icating beverages sold 70 the inmates
OF the Soldiers Home. The law which
touches upon this subject can be found
IN Act 1S9, OF the laws Of 1887. That
act prohibits the sale, gift, or furnish
ing of spirituous, malt. fermented or
vinous liquor to any inmate OF the
Soldiers Home, except when on a fur
Tough and away from the city OF
Grand Rapids. In Whiting, on Town
ship Board, n Michigan. page pa.
regarding the consitutionality OF act
No. 81, laws of 1887, making Ii
unlawful to establish or maintain
saloon or other place OF amusement
where intoxicating liquors are
sold within one mile OF the Soldiers
Home, or without that distance sell
an inmate or employe liquor. Justice
Morse on page 239 says: No one will
question the right OF the State to en-
act that liquor shall not be sold.
given away or furnished to the mates
of the Soldiers Home, or upon the
premises belonging to the State; aud
ON pages 239-240 he says: 'Thesemen
who are within this home are the
wards of the State They have earned
as no other men have, the right to the
care and protection OF the State in
their want and old age. Having given
their best blood and vital energies to
their country in the time of utmost
need and peril, the power of the State
may wisely and worthily ba invoked
at this day, to supply them with their
needs and protect them from every
peril. and as, by common consent,
both of the law and OF the public, the
use OF liquor as b. verage Is att ndant
with damage and peril, it is right and
reasonable that the sale of it to them
should be restricted and perhaps pro-
hibited altogether You see that is
what one OF the courts in the state
handed down." continued Mr.. Fuller.
"I don't pretend to say that it Is ad-
visable, considering that they are but
the remnants OF brave and true men
and that this habit of drink has been
on them for years, having been con-
tracted long ago, to take liquor away
from them altogether. Let it be pre-
scribed by the attending physician at
the home in such cases as 1t Is needed.
] think it is a shame something cannot
be done to put a check to the practice
OF selling them liquor"