The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-12-27

support It Introduces him 10 the So
ciety of business men, and renders il
easy for him to &C equire business cs ci-
ties When we educate his, heart, his !
moral feelings, and acquaint him with ]
the Divine Laws, we prepare the soil for.
the work of God S grace. TO render him
an honest and reliable business man.
when we teach q trade or profession, We !
set him, up in busi se 20. i..e. Ia aaSa'
simple, philosophy, i found the sncct %
of the Reform aSchcol.i II provides
against crime. by taking away the in
ducements to 1t, and by terrifying the
mind against the deveioptneat of = de-
prayed nature 1t finds the vagrant, un-
! disciplined, untaaght criminal youth, it
may be, born in poverty, OF, perchapce,
| OF mum erous clan, whose fathers are
| busy men, and whose inothers are full Of
| household cares, and leave them to run
| atIlarge on our highways, aud in our
streets, unseen. unknown, uncared Tor.
| until the work of7mischief has ripened
its bitter fruits it takes them and does
/ the work that home has never done, and
blesses those who have never been
blessed by their Kindred. 5ilad SIP za7
] Education is a preventive of crime.
According to DIR. lGrimshaw, Of 732 con-
\ victs in the Auburn State Prison, SIT
were never Instructed ia any trade or
calling whereby to earn a subsistence.
OF GAO males in the Sing Sing Prison,
4s7 have never been taught a trade, so
could not read, and 149 could read but
very indiferently The number of con-
yicts tried in Courts of Record, in N. Y.
State, from $40 to 1s4s inclusive,
amounted to 27,o4e, and Of this. aggre-
gate, 26, 225 had received no education
whatever. OF 216 conviets in the Ohio
\ Penitentiary. nearly all were below me-
4 ,diocrity, and scarcely able to transact
the ordinary business of life - !.
Tho ratio Of inmates reformed varies
from 90 to 80 per cent The general
ran ge is about IS and 80. The cost va
] ries from $40 to ls117 per eapita. per an
mum. The common expense, shout 900.
The cost at the States Prison p capita,
: is not less than . 49, The difference in
favor Of Reform school. SIG. Colored
J children give the same per cent. OF re,
: form as white. The femployments q
suah institutions, ase, Ia aasttivn to th.
T vaFfeties or farm work, shdem aking
g wire working, chair-seating, daguerre
|sceke. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 1Arnitnrc
81 ciothing, and the varieties od ho,,sewora,
t The blind. the deaf, and ,feyictim q
! lnsahfty, In indiana, aAn look to the;
p State as cherishingz mother, aa,,. g.
q and humane treasM ent' but tfs ffs:neains e,..ns
:, that has been born friendless. the victim
t of wicked associates, of idleness, yag
# rancy and crime,-to exposure of game.
: of chance, low theatres, and taverns, in
8 temp rance. and pro rofanity,Awho ha
e been trained to scof at Religion and it.
restraints to absence from the Sabbatl
e School to insult strangers, and tn,
J, aged who has become skiilful at rob
bing stores, and visiting farm houses
!, during the absence of families, at places
:, Of worship; to do all that youthful de
d prayity may suggest-not because the,
: have greater natural proneness thar
!, others, to crime, but because they ar,
) without the restraints Of society, boy
~ who are, in few years, to besthe elector
n of every grade of officers for State ant
/, Nation; whose infiuence ntist be felt TO
is good or bad in every department OF SO
If ,eiety ;, for tLese, the County and Stat
- Prison are the9oniy system of reform
1 places in which they are exposed to tn
o company of arch sinners, who are adept
a in crime and who delight in the work Q
[e eorrupting the young aheark-r-an thi
i. at that interesting period Of boys lii,
;s when you can mould him into any form
<. and develop nis faith, and love and desir
$, for knowledge, morethan at any oths
Or age; at time when he is plastic, eiasti
o. emotional, and inpulsive,-when frient
.ir ship touches sensitive places in
of young heart, that may never be 4
4 touched again-at an age whea habit
: not fixed. nor r5conscience scared; Il
such as these. the State has not bee
). able to act as either father or mothe
:, but leaves them ont Of doors in tae col
~ for poverty, ,intempernnce, and crime
q > take them in. charge, and fita them 4
,at prison life No. says the. legisIato
nd 2 n1Ay Z iAouln' ofphahs, VINO
- fathers have perished on the altar
Ie their country and whose Bones i
Of bleaching on many a battle field. may
I'll left friendless and homeless, 5untausl