FUTILE SENTENCES.
Sending common drunkards continuously to gaol is an ancient travesty not unlikely to disappear in the not distant future,* thinks the Springfield Republican. Simple drunkenness, in the light of modern knowledge and experience, can never be cured or checked by gaol sentences. Inebriates are what they are because alcohol has destroyed their power of control and they are proper subject* for hospital treatment. To treat them as criminals deserving merely punishments of a fitful nature is a mark of a backward civilisation.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1914, Page 10
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84FUTILE SENTENCES. Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1914, Page 10
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