Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-28
DRINKS
Many Candidates in the City
for Hospital Treatment at
Mt. Pleasant.
New Law Will Have Good Effect
Locally-The lnebriates
Fear 1t.
Court Can Send Drunkards to
Hospital for a Year-Anyone
May Inform.

The new law that went into effect
July i, allowing the different counties
TO send i%nebrlates to the state hospital
at Mt. Pleasant for treatment, is likely
to have Il desired effect locally. AL
ready several of the old-time "soaks' in
the city are shaking on their boots to Il
greater extent than they ever did be-
fore from tremens or any other form of
halucination due to the liquor habit.
Sheriff Shoemaker returned from Mt.
Pleasant Saturday and had an excel
lent opportunity to witness the work
now being lone in the hospital for the
cure of drunkenness and those addicted
TO the excessive use of narcotics. Two
wards of the hospital have been set
aside for the treatment of this new
elias of patients, and Oh an average OF
five or six are being received daily.
Sheriff Shoemaker says that it will
be only a question of Il short time be-
fore Marshall county will be furnishing
her quota. There are a great many
candidates for treatment eligible, and it
would be only the work of Il half hour
to pick up a half dozen on the streets.
God effects locally are expected to be
apparent at once. Especially will this
be true among the younger men who.
perhaps, are just beginning; to expert
ence the results of regular ~debauches.
1t is this class that the state ex-
poets to benefit the most, taking the
victims at Il time before they become
too under the influence of the habit.
The manner of sentencing a patient
to the state hospital is an easy matter.
Any one may act as informant and tho
defendant is arrested INC taken before
the court. He may be furnished with
an attorney, if he so desires, and show
why he should not be sent If the court,
however, deems it the best course, a
sentence of from n to three years
may be imposed. After arriving at the
hospital the patient is treated similar
ly as he would be in many of the pri-
vate liquor cure institutions Of the
country.
The governor himself con only issue
a parole, but intervenes only upon the
recommendation of the superintendent
of the asylum. When paroled the pa
tient must make regular reports of his
conduct to the clerk of courts, and il
this is not lone the sheriff nay take
him at any time, without a writ or war
rant, and return him to the asylum,
there to serve the remainder of his
term. In securing a parole 1t becomes
necessary for the patient to promise
that he will avoid ~frequenting places
where liquor is sold, also avoid the as
ISOLATION of people who might tend to
lead him back into the old ruts again.
He must also promise not to again use
liquor as a beverage, nor narcotics of
any kind, with the exception of a mod
crate use of tobacco.
The justices of the peace. will proba-
bly, take advantage of the new law in
dealing with prisoners who are arrested
for int%oxication and brought before
them on regular occasions. Instead of
passing Jail sentences or assessing fines
they will order them taken before the
court where there cases ma be dis
posed of by sending them 10 Mt. Pleas