The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-01-25
SALTWATER. MINNESOTA THURSDAY, JANUARY 25. 1912

that this was, the cause OF there hav-
ing committed the act, and they, in
maay cases have been acquitted to
i live in luxury in some private sani-
.tarium or state hospital until the
matter is forgotten. But let an in
ebriate who has committed crime
while under helinhuence Of alco-
holic liquor, when placed on trial,
plea that he was intoxicated and
that his moral judgement and per-
ceptjon were impaired by the excess
sive use Of intoxicants, the court will
refuse to accept this plea as an ex-
cuse for the crime, and will instruct
the jury not to consider it and this
unfortunate is sent to prison for a
crime of which he is no more moral
ly responsible than the client who
takes his life while suffering from
melancholia, or the man who in fit
of epilepsy or homicidal mania takes
1.-THE life of another.
Until our judiciary begin to re-
cognize inebriety as disease, as the
Municipal Courts of New York City
have, and until our various states
and cities make provision for the
establishment of Farm Hospitals for
the rational treatment Of inebriety,
just SO long will inebrtety increase.
One of the greatest causes Of the
increase Of inebriety to day, is the
Quack Institute for the so called
cure of the liquor habit. In nearly
every large newspaper, and in many
of the smaller ones. with the ex-
ception of the Mirror) you may find
the advertisements of these Institutes.
You may read that thev cure one Of
| the habit in ten to twenty days and
some in even less time. That it is
a cheap, swift and safe cure, guarant-
eed not only to be harmless, but a
permanent cure from the slavery of
the liquor habit and that there will
be no craving after receiving this
scientific, miraculous, and wonder
full cure, and that their method is
not like other methods which pro-
duce delirium tremens, heart failure,
nervous prostration, softening of the
brain and other serious ailments.
! In large black type, mothers, wives
and sisters are to take notice of this
adv. and send at once for their little
booklet entitled: "Drunkards saved
from King Alcohol" which contains
hundreds of testimonials and ample
iproof from drunkards who have been
cured by their method and treat
ment, and you are to strictly under
stand that their method guarantees
results.
The last statement is und oubtedly
| the only true statement in the adv.
which can be substantiated by the
statistics of our insane asylums.
| These institutes, in some cases, are
owned by corporations that have
built branches in nearly every state
in the union on the pennies from
babies banks, on the dollars Of old
gray haired mothers, heartbroken
wives and sisters who have deprived
themselves of the necessities of life,
| hoping and trusting these treatments
would cause their boy, husband,
father or brother to discontinue this
habit and to regainhi former health
and strength, and return to them
cured of his appetite for strong
drink. Instead, he gem ally comes
back to them broken mind as
we'll as body, one hundi per cent.
worse off, and his chan r COM
plete recovering from b alton
| is very slight, compai lat it
was before he took til ,.erful
cure. There have been case that
were cured by one going to these
institutes, but where one cure has
been affected ninety-nine have gone
down into drunkards graves, or to
the insane asylums, and this one has
been brought to realize his own
position by the various conditions of
the patients he has seen in these
places which has rckindled the dy-
ing embers of his manhood, and by
his predominating will power and
backbone, (mark1you) and not by
their dope treatment, he has been
cured of his appetite for the poison
that was quickly and surely depriv-
ing him of mental health and bodily
llvigor.