The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-08
ONE OF THE CASES.

ONh Or Inn CAShSs
Zone day received from a man
confined IN jail at Mason City, for q
violation Of our prohibitory law, a
letter saying his wife was about to
become mother; that she was alone
without help to care for her in her
sickness and without means to en-
ploy 1t, and begging me to let him go
home to be with her in her confine-
ment. / answered HIM, saying, send
me the name Of q reputable physician
acquainted with the facts. In reply
he gave me the name Of q physician
at Fort Dodge, where his wife then
was. wrote the physician asking
him to visit the lady and ascertain
whether the husbands statements
were true. In few days I received
his answer, saying he found the lady
in a shanty In the suburbs Of Fort
Dodge, living alone with a child z
years Of age, without assistance of
any kind and liable to be confined
any day and he closed his letter with
the statement that humanity de-
mands that you let her husband come
home to care for her." Ibid 90. Do
the reverend gentlemen who censured
me think | did wrong.
STILL ANOTHER CASE.
Zone day I received q letter saying
a little child was lying upon his cot
with broken limbs; that his only care
such as sickly mother, already worn
out with work could give, and plead
ing in behalf Of both that father
confined In jail for q violation OF this
law might be be permitted to come
home to care for his wife and child.
I opened his prison door and let him
go to the bedside of his MANNED and
suffering little one. Tell me, my
christian friends, did / sin In this
case?
This was in Shelby county. The
very day / left the Office on this trip
and but q few hours before l first
read the resolutions In question, q
kind-hearted man from Shelby coun.
ty came to me with papers that show
ed that several years since one Of the
citizens Of that county had been con-
WINGED Of q violation Of this law and
been fined $4OO and costs, in default
~ tho IN x,,nopk - x,hsoh bo uoa 70 I,n
confined in Jail 100 days. He could
not pay his fine, was thrown into jail
and remained there until the end Of
his sentence. His wife, the mother
of six young children, owned q little
homestead, worth not to exceed $1,-
600. A short time since she was taken
sick, and supposing as did her hus-
band, thai. his confinement had Salts
fed the law and cancelled the fine, In
Expectation Of death she decided the
little homestead to her husband and
soon thereafter died. Thereupon an
execution was issued on the judy
lnent, placed IN the hands Of the
sheriff, who Was compelled 10 levy
upon the only properly possessed by
the husband, and the only means he
had for the support Of his six mother
less children. Nearly every county
officer in the county and great
many citizens asked me to remit the
fine. I did 90 and saved % the child
rem q the dead mother the little
home which WAS hers IN life and
whish fen new belongs to her little
ones instead Of the state. In this did
I sinf
DnAn4 WITH As A CLASS.
"But I caAnot stop to further
ispeeify particular cases. lmnst now
deal with them q class. There /,
possibly Some Misunderstanding as te
thespresise nature Of the action
have usually taken, in these eases
! There are comparatively few Of these
1 nnes that I have RENTED. The ne
\ ual order Il . mere suspension, Away
made apon condition that tho de
: fendaat shall q ense cease from fur
Y Their violations 81 the law, and subjec
J. to immediate revocation if he fails t
Icomply with this condition. No orde