The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-27
TIER FROM A LUNAT|C
, Would Not Know 1t, Though,
If You We're Not Told.
h HOT AND SIZZLING ROAST

,rritten of the State Sanitarium
q Former Legislator and News
nor Man Who Is Bereft of His
pnoson and Confined in That In
,itution. Diseased Mind Pictures
horrible Conditions.
Tbo News, like a great many other
usnaners of Georgia, has received
lengthy communication from
.rgo H. Bell, an inmate of the
20 ASYLUM at Milledgeville, in
ioh various charges are made
o,rst the management of that in
+ntion. and pleading for assistance
attaining his release.
George Bell is the son of one of
wealthiest and most prominent
-i7ons of Swainsboro, and was legal
committed to the asylum after
il kind and indulgent parent had
ont much money and exhausted
Iarv effort to save a wayward son,
ao had become both a physical and
entail wreck by excessive indulgence
fast living.
He is a former Georgia editor and
omber of the legislature from
roonunl county.
The editor of The News never
pev a brighter, a bigger hearted or
more genial and cOmpaniOnable
mng man than he was, and the
tp which has befallen him is a
agedy all the more sad because he
I'd the advantages, capacity and
cans to have been a useful and in
Dential citizen.
Below we print the last letter 1--WE
1--we recently received two) that has
k8ched us from Mr.. Bell-nOt that
IA endorse the charges he makes
eainst the great institution the peo-
Ne of Georgia are supporting for the
Hbre and treatment of unfOrtunates
Nke HIMSELF but as the remarkable
Seduction Of a man whose reason is
@ethrOned and who it is necessary
il confine in an insane asylum. 1t
so much better written than many
II us could do who are enjoying free
i m, with our headgear in supposed
4 good working order and attending
b the ordinary affairs of life that
lnless you knew the circumstances
would be hard to believe that its
suthor is crazy man. The letter
sears the Griffin, Ga, pOstmark I'M
Ter date of January 18th, where it
as evidently mailed, and is as fol-
bws:
State Sanitarium, Milledgeville,
1 a., Dec. %, 1908.-Editor Rainey:
beg little space. In more
ban two hundred communications to
Federal and State officials, newspa-
aers and individual citizens | have
fgged only hearing in the courts
privilege guaranteed to the mean
= citizen, but given to very few of
pose imprisoned in this asylum.
lAs a result of this general denial
i this inalienable right to the citi-
Fen there are now no less than
housand men and women unlawfully
leId here-and Liberty hangs her
lead and acknowledges OPPRESSION as
Ter sister.")
During more than two and a half
'ears of eXcruciating torture in this
wing Inferno | have appealed to
very official from whom l could hope
obtain assistance-and received
lot one reply.
1t seems that the newspapers of
Ieorgla are in league with a gang
Il criminals whose sway in this state
more complete than the bandit
'alsuli's in Morocco. This asylum,
Stablished and supported by the tax
ayers OF the state as a public char
W IS prOstituted to the uses of
eartess and constituencies fiends
lcarnate-in housing their unfort-
nate victims, in compromising their
IImeS, and in protecting them in
lelr criminal operations. I have
cen taught by melancholy expe-
ence OF nearly three years-during
hlch time l have lived in it, or,
inner, have not died in it-that
leSe are the chief purposes of the
SlItutlOn. 1t is a fact that no in
ate can hope to be discharged with
1t Inc consent and sanction of the
an who places him here.) And
ere we have presiding over these
'IpIess, hopeless, guiltless victims
etcIless and remorseless Imps of
ell IN human form, who pursue
ehl relentlessly day in and day out
every method of cruel persecu-
'n' humiliation, imposition and
use e'er devised by the cruel, ma
1oIent and malignant mind of the
osler Mephisto of all time!
treat God! What crimes are per-
rated in the name of Charity!
l nave seen frauds and fakes
AefS and four-fushers; white Ma
Oulas, and some not white; artists,
aCA and otherwise; the man be-
III the nuts" and the "fsh-pond"
app the wheel o. fortune and the
lck-out" game; professional pocket
'Ierers and tradin and trafficin'
ch,ssters; medicine men and high
.CA plunderers; houkatouk ham,
.,efS and bum bamboozlers; fy-by-
7uts and get-away-quicks; and
any another "sich, in perambula-
MS from "Hell's Half-Acre" to the
eat White Way. But sum them