New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-12
JUVENILE EMIORATION.


We have received an imporan. pamphlet from the
gecreary of the CbdreDs Aid Society, dIrcns'lngt'e
b. st method of relieving the community from our
juvenile Migrants and panpers.
Mr.. Brore ,akss the ground that the charitable nst-
tn,ions for children, In America, have been 700 nuch
framed in in itaon of English institutions, where toe
conditions Of the problem are entirely difierent' tno
relations of labor and captalhere make all che e"steo
ucated kinds of work almost adTug in tho market ana
the demand for childrens labor is comparatively un
important The consequence is that panPer chhorsn'
Young Migrants and boys and all the large class
who Ell ND Reformstores, obliged 10 be kept in
large numbers together at public cor and even when
improved and prepared for place in society, the man.
ayers of such Institutions hardly kuow what 70 do with
n em. Here he ur.es we bave initiated their method
without their reasons for it, and the results can already
be seen in the troubles encountered 10 Massachusetts,
in the management of their ReformatoIies NJ Brace
takes the broad and definite gound that children never
esp 10 well if placed in numbers together In large
Asylums OF keformatOries.
These I'M titutions ought al TO be manas ed on the
family system" with ANAL groups, and individual
care and supervision. Bot The natural remedy FOR
America he claims and by far the most cheap and ef
Gent plap TO relieve the cities of the destitute vagran
cbijdr.n, is the simpe emigration system; that is,
sending the children where they aseonsanty wanted
and where they become very useful TO the country dis
tfies The demand for chdrens labor, be states, is
almost unlimited, the Children Ad-Soce'y alone re-
ceyDg thousands of applications each year more than
it can supply.
To the obecticns urged 10 this plsn that'he children
oorrupt the families and localities which they
sent the pamphle. replies by showing the impossibiy
of any socetys sending year after year TO the country
towns. per. ons who were coDimedDy idle or criminal.
Such movement would soon fall nnder just public
o6ium. The writer takes bis stand boldly on the
wonderful capacity Of improvement ID chdren's ma
"tures uIder new social and res ious influences and
claims as the result of experience, that moot OF these
wretched children in their new homes are more
hkey 10 be tempted 10 good than to tempt others TO
evil"
The strong and original support of these views is
found in q collection of somewhat unique letters ap-
pended to the pamphlet from gentlemen in the West,
Judges law yers, clergymen and others, representing
hundrs DIS of towns, who testify to the Iests Of this
Reformatory Emigration. We quote from the pamph-
let:
Some writers speak of the children thriving as we'll
any other children in those Eho have become
obeden and troublesome are sad to have oeen SO vnc
pay through fault OF their employers few instances com
paayey nom this Acc 500 known to have committed
criminal in States not more than iooi pr en
the rturs can gather that proportion large
that The Agent OF the American and Foreign Chris ian Uncn
So Jsdisna gentleman highest responsibility constantly
tsv through the sa'es state where have placed 50!
chSn-eshss that very few have back 70 Ne" 10TH
that he has heard OF no one who has committed crnns
ofenses." -, g.,
The of the Chicago Reform School one Of the
mort and experienced In this country IN Jave
nile Reform that bis institution has bad but .hree
OF ur children committed by iDoi State Ouds thongn
have the State 5 and such an institution u Of
the place where criminal children OF tbs class "Ooi at
promnsnt gentleman residing in Battle Greek Michigan,
writes: think susceptible Of proof that equal
Der OF children raised here superior 10 those You placed
them leading Jndeo the s,ais write that they
known Of OF children beiag for
criminal ofcne though we have sent +Gs to this Stale
These letters seem to to set at rest any question
there might be in regard to the immense advantage of
the emigration system for this class any other
system.
Tie great point to be settled is tho fact, Do theee
children whom we send Off from vice and poverty here
become burdens or nusances TO society the country
If they do Motif generally, appears from these
letters public sentiment in the country is in favor of
the psD-wbat objection there be to all our large
institutions sending forth their orphan houseles or
pauper little life of industry and hapPi-
ness in the broad West And, as Mr. Brace observes,
the West shoud above all rejoice at ths for the sorest
want in American families is that of " a permanent
Z" labor educated in the habits of the house,
II would be the part of economy il new impulse is
indeed now given to the Juvenile emigration from this
city, for our institutions to make of the cheap
ehinery and excellent agents of society we'll es
tabl shed in public confidence the CHILDRES's AID