The Portland daily press., 1871-11-18

10 We E0ttOr or the PFeSS' o
Judge Goddard having defended 'no
berland Bar against your lmagihAry
the sage of Forest Home having pi.onou III
| to Won for speaking disparasingly OF MS Shan-
| tv' and rapped the Bar and Masonic ira'erni'y
f,r ne,lecting worthy member; the Lewiston
| Io,,.nol having "risen to explain tnat IN say
inc the two young girls who recently Jumped
.he fo1s at that place had previously been
tuentv hours without food, it did not intend
| m intimate that there was any one 'to blame" !"
and the Argus having INDUCED in its accus-
toned growl at the PRESS, it may be well to
come back to the consideration of the question
started in your article which has caused the
futter, viz: "What can and what ought socie-
ty to do to protect the young from ignorance,
vice and crime and respectable citizens from
suffering and want, when overtaken by pov-
erty and oldage?'
The mistake you made, my dear sir, in dis
cussing this question was in being little too
practical in the application of your sermon,
and in using real cases by way of illustrations.
If you had dealt in ''glittering generalit es," as
ministers PREACH. of the Exceeding sinful
ness Of SIM you would not have stirred up the
Pharisees. but all would have responded
Amen! Your disagreeable way of agitating
unpleasant subjects and disturbing quiet peo.
pie may work out some reforms in the com.
munity, but they will bring down on your de.
voted head the curses Of tie stird alp. Learn
wisdom and prudence and you will have peace.
So much by way of advice to you as an
Editor. Now an anonymous correspondent
who can't SO easily be punched by irrltated
Judges or retired Statesmen, permit me to say
that your obnoxious article was true, and
'that's what's the matter, There are out.
buildings connected with the Portland Aims
| House, in which the keeper would not dare to
| compel the meanest pauper to live and die un
attended, which are more com Portable thar
that occupied by Mr.. Morgan at the time of hi
death. And there is not town in the Statt
that would place its old paupers in such qual
ters, and allow them to live and die there un
attended. Men past four score and ten, need
comfortable shelter, and clothing; and not only
fuel, but fire and attendance; and respectabl.
funerals, and three columned newspaper eu.
| logies after death, are rather poor compensa.
tion for the lack of them, before. Portla Id hal
| established, and has in process of establish
ment three noble charities; the Orphan Asy
| lum, the Home Tor Aged INDECENT Women
and the Maine Hospital. We need one more
| Home for aged INDECENT Men, where re-
| spectacle citizens who have through misfor.
tune been reduced to poverty and want, eau
spend their declining years without being
forced to associate with the class who gener
| ally occupy the Aims House-All men, how
ever rich, educated, or influential, are liable
through reverse of fortune, and loss of friends
to be reduced to = condition Of dependence,
upon the charities Of their fellow men, ant
consequently all are interested in makins
some permanent provisions for such unfortu
nate persons. Will not the Aged Brotherhood
take this matter in hand? As all are liable t,
need the benefits of such an institution, ever,
citizen would be desirous of contributing
something toward its establishment.
Let us cease spending our energies in abus
ing those who call attention to abuses, and de
| vote ourselves to their correction. Phil.