The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-11

home. ills not necessary to incul
cate The popularity Of any on
denomination In tho exercise o
your home. The generally accepted
truths Of our common christianity are al
that need be taught 10 such schools. II
the Sunday service the EpiscOpalian may
use his Prayer Book and equal federation
DO allowed to every other clergyman, thu
understanding being that the peculiar
lilies OF others arc not TO be Ssssiled. II
my judgment 1t 10 vastly better to hAvl
one live, vigorous Home than half /
dozen OF Bickly UNCONVENTIONAL institu-
lions, In which event three.iourths Of thu
money raised Is sunk In brick and NOR
tar and not enough remains 10 support
the children. In our juvenile Reform
atory VIC have never encountered any
trouble In regard 10 the mingling Of the
various determinations, any more than
In our common schools. The Oldest
member OF our Board Is q Roman Cath
ole and the clergy Of that church are
allowed to visit their children sent to
our House. Ono or two slight misunder'
standings have, within twenty years,
arisen out OF this commingllng Of oil de.
nominations, but nothing at all serious
Our present Superintendent is an Epis-
copal clergyman and some OF our former
ones have been Presbyterians and Meth
odists; but our children are not puzzled
with nice distinctions between the West
minister confession and the thirty nine
articles. 1 think II vital 10 your success
that your home should DO organized
upon broad catholic principles upon
which all can cooperate. When Wheel
ing becomes city Of two or three hun
bred thousand population, then perhaps
you can sustain enough for each demon.
instion TO have Its own. Philadelphia
has number and perhaps Pittsburgh
two or three, denominati Onal In their
character; but l believe all in our smaller
towns are catholic in their character and
are supported by at least
ALL THE PROTESTANT CHURCHES.
In all reiormations labor Ia an IndiSpen.
sable Ingredient Each child should DO
required TO devote some portion Of each
day to learn some trade or occupation.
II is desirable it should be useful and pro.
ducliye to the institution. But If you
have not productive employment for
your boys, then let them carry paving
stone from one part Of the lot one day and
back the next TO give them habits Of In.
dustry. Teach them that industry 10 duty
and laziness Q crime; that labor 10 q bless
ing and idleness a curse. This should he
in the daily routine Of every
days dutics-one half Of each day should
be appropriated to study and the other
halt 10 labor Hrr
II l were a law.giver, with despotic
power, l would reproduce the old Jewish
code, that no young man or young wo.
man should marry or be given in mari.
age until the man should have learned
some trade, profession or occupation 10
support q family, nor until the young wo.
man could demonstrate her fitness to con.
duct, by her own labor, household es.
The folly of young people
In this respect casts upon society a large
Of these uncared for children
that go 10 fill up all such institutions as
these. Labor is Gods ordinance. Idle.
ness peoples the devils kingdom with
half lis victims. The rules OF our insti.
tuition assign ono.half the hours of each
day to study and the other half TO some
industrial employment. Our girls are
chiefly employed In the domestic duties
81 the establishment. Our boys work In
the whip, broom and shoe shops and
some fifty little fellows that can do moth.
ing else arc taught to knit and sew. When
We remove ~ the farm We expect to en-
ploy them largely in the cultivation oil
small fruits, orchards and vegetables for
the Pittsburgh market. This we sup
pose will be better for their health and
prepare them for being indentured TO
farmers upon leaving US. We have found
that our children were better satisfied
when we could send them 10 primitive
agricultural districts than any where else
l have no doubt you will find, in the
counties Of West Virginia,
farmers to be thevery best persons to
whom to indenture your children. The
nearer that community in which they
are 10 grow up, comes TO the good old
days OF Adam and Eve that knew not the
names of master and servant, the more
successful will your apprentice children
be. ....
Have any Of you gentlemen, who are
called upon 10 contribute, doubts in your
own minds as to whether this is the
wisest mode o! supplying the care and
education demanded by these neglected
children ltso, please give US a wiser
and better one. The experience OF the
christian would seem to have demonstrat.
ed that institutions similar TO yours meet
the difficulties Of the case better than any
other agency yet discovered. Now upon
you lies the burthen Of proof that there
Is a better way. Every city in the old
world and the new has been acting
upon this system for many years. We
will listen to no fault finding unless you
can suggest better. ..s.
admit that, in q sparsely settled dis.
trict, neglected children are so rare that
such institutions are not required. But
in crowded city, If q benGVolently dis
posed individual would take to his own
home all the neglected walls he picked
up in the street, he would soon have 10
send away his own family. Therefore
institutions such as these have become
indispensable in crowded Ccnters oil pop.
ulation. This is the moro necessary in
the medium cities than In the older and
larger ones. A century hence Wheeling
may have produced wealthy GirNrds and
Thompsons whose estates may be dedi-
Gated 10 the care and educstion of neg.
lccted orphans. II that condition Of
things should occur, then, and not till
then will the christian, the philanthopist
and the mere wording be excused from
contributing TO such objects.
This class Of ReiOrmatories onens a
wide door OF usefulness for women upon
charitable deeds intent. Your own
shows how fifteen ladies, without absn-
doning home or domestic duties devote
much time to your Reiormatory asking
no compensation. But in other places we