The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-21


little pinched for the necessaries of life.
They are quite as respectful, kind, and oblig-
ing as when they were our slaves. That
scarecrow, hostility of race, ceases to exist
when an inferior race invested with equal
legal and political rights, is blended in one
common mass with a superior race Society
soon subsidies and strathes; the inferior being
becomes contented laborer, and the superior
kind of protecting employer. The white
laborer frets under his CALLING chains some
times, because he feels himself naturally the
equal of his employer, but finds himself, in So
cial position, far beneath him. 1t will be the
fault of the whites at the South if we do not
have the most contented laborers TO be found
in the world. We should cherish and protect
them, for we can get none other. White men
will not and should not come South to work
as hirelings beside negroes. Worllingmen
from the North are fast settling among us, but
they come to tend their own fields, not to hire
themselves out as farm-hands, by the year or
by the month. 1t is this immigration that
will soon restore the South, if the negroes
will but continue to perform their part as well
as they are now performing it.
From a sketch of DR.. Parrish's "Sanitarium'
at Media, 10y Malcolm Macqueen, entitled "a
Week at an Aquarium, we quote the follow
ing
While am thus whirled along to the Aqua
rum in the society of its superintendent, let
me say a word about that institution, its OBJ
ject, and plan of working. DIR. Parrish GER
tainly deserves well of the republic. He is
one of the few philanthropists l have met
who, adopting a certain theory, did not APP
pear to take leave of common sense, and en-
deavor to twist all creation into a distorted
conformity with their own individual views.
Some years ago, while he was visiting one of
the hospitals at Rome, he noticed several
epileptic patients strapped down in their beds,
simply to prevent their tumbling OUT he was
informed that they had been treated thus for
years, and that it was no uncommon occur
renee IN the hospital Shocked at such wanton
cruelty, he set about obtaining an interview with
Cardinal Antonelli, the all-powerful Secretary
of State for the Papal dominions. This inter
view was at last granted the cardinal who
received him rather coolly at first, perhaps
confounding him with that numerous crew of
curiosity seekers who always besiege men of
rank, warmed into awakened interest as the
object of his visit was unfolded, and promised
to have these abuses inquired into. This
was done; and before DIR. Parrish left Rome
he had the pleasure of receiving the thanks of
the Pope, transmitted through the cardinal,
and was only prevented by his departure from
enjoying personal interview with His Holi-
Atoos pO lllNtCu III NLlC lulL ANOM lOl lLt
institution over which he presides
In combating that terrific vice, intempe-
rance, which, worse than war or pestilence,
threatens the destruction of our young gene
ration, the doctor has wisely accepted the
teaching of all experience, and starts with the
fundamental principle that, as cures for inc
briefly, all cruelty, personal invective, ply
steal violence, harsh treatment of whatever
kind, are not only useless in Themselves but
in the vast ma Ority of cases they absolutely
tend to increase and aggravate the very pro-
pensity they were intended to correct. He
recognizes the much-ignored fact that the
only effective mentor to sermonize an inc
briate should be found in the awakened con-
science of that inebrate himself, reused to q
sense of his own degradation and spurred by
a determination to recover his own lost man
liness; and that the only effective asylum for
such an individual is one to which he comes
voluntarily, seeking assistance to work out his
own reformation. Now this is Just exactly
what DR.. Parrish's institution is intended
for-to extend to fallen humanity a sup
porting a crutch, not belaboring cudgel.
The doctor has gallantly developed this
theory in the face of manifold opposition
with what success / leave the reader to de-
teTmine.
My establishment he exclaimed, en-
phatically, lis no prison, no insane asylum
my young men are free to go where they
please and when they please; nor do 1 wish
them to feel under any restraint, except such
as may be self-imposed by their own desire to
benefit themselves and crafty me. If they
wish to leave me they are free to do so. L
will not act the ignominious part of turnkey.
While they stay with me l trust to their
honor that they will not infringe any of my
regulations.
During my residence at the Aquarium
or, to drop hyperbole and give the institu-
commonly known, the 'Sanitarium'-I had
full opportunity of seeing and judging the
| benefits resulting from the excellent system
pursued there, until 1 wondered that men
should ever have been so narrow-minded as
to attempt the cure of intemperance by any
other means. This institution is under the
charge of an association of citizens chartered
by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, so re-
Gently as 1866, to purchase lands and erect
buildings for the cure of intemperance.
1t is pleasant to turn from the long list
of failures to effect the latter object that
the records of SO many other institutions
furnish, to the cheering words of the
President of the Citizens Association, DIR.
Joseph Parrish, embodied in his first annual
report. Young as it is, the institution pros
pers already, for it is skilfully conducted in
accordance with that system which experience
indicates as the only one offering prospect
of success. ''Men say quote the words
of the report-''that drunkards are beyond
hope, because they have tried everything
within their reach and have been unsuccess,
full but this does not prove that because a
JAIL an almshouse, an asylum for the insane,
a change of residence or travel, has been
unsuccessful, everything else will be.
that