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

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fore evil habits have been formed and
guide him In the path Of Ecctitude. The
inmates Of your ReiOrmatories arc wan
derers whom you seek to bring back TO
tho straight and narrow path. The IN
mates oil homes arch 90 yours are usually
those neglected walls found at the en-
trance OF the broad road that loads TO de-
struction, whom you warn Of their dan
ger and invite 10 q harbor Of safety.
| This subject is prc-eminently Catholic
In the sense used IN the Apostles creed,
and can conceive Of no lover Of his race
who should not labor earnestly therein.
The Christian, tho highest style Of man,
finds bis warrant In the Masters ipjunc-
tlon, "leed my lambs" the humanitarian
discovers that Ii lessons the ills 10 which
flesh is heir; and the more wording, who
only believes in the almighty dollar, finds
his taxes materially lightened by the sue
cess Of such Institutions. Aye, this mass
OF orphanage, want and crime, II uncared
Tor, spring up to gil your watch houses,
poor houses, jails and penitentiaries, and
double tho charges upon every taxpayer.
In the true sense Of political economy
every industrious laborer adds at least
81 600 to the wealth oil your city, the
State and the nation. He not only sup.
ports himself and his family, but he also
contributes his share 10 diminish the pub.
lie burdens. But If instead oil contribu-
ting thus to save, his ignorance and his
vices make him an incubus upon the body
polite, he becomes charge 10 the extent
OF $500 or $500 annually TO pay your po-
lice for his arrest, your magistrate, judge
and Jurors for his trial and conviction,
your prison keeper Tor his detention, and
your hangman for his execution. Then
instead OF the $1,000 addition, you have
81 900 subtracted from your national
wealth; instead Of useful citizen you
have
WORTHLESS RA0AMUPFIN. 7---
Oh, property holders Of Wheeling,
II you seek a mode 10 lessen your
taxes, contribute literally TO build
up institutions to collect these walls float.
ing upon the ocean Of life, and aid these
earnest men and women 10 train them up
to virtue and usefulness. Choose you
this night, ye wOrshipers Of wealth, what
ye will do, contribute your share to edu-
cate and care for these children OF or.
phsnage and want picked up in the pur-
lieus Of your city, or permit them to grow
up in ignoraCe, vice and crime, 'and pay
ten times as much few years hence TO
support them 10 the poor house, the
prison, or upon the gsllows. Whether
you RECOGNIZES II or not, God has made |
you your brolher's keeper. You can moi,
Cain like, by thousand excuses, relieve
yourself Of this fearful responsibility.
Yourself and all you have you owe toI
HIS bounty. Think not that even by
hiding your talent In the earth all His re.
quirements are fulfilled. The parable Of
the talents teaches different rule OF
duty. -g-rfJ.,rrr.
l do not wish you to infer that believe
education alone will Danish crime from
our land. No, no: This is q great pre-
ventive, but not universal panacea. Ed.
ucstion, and that Of high order too,
alone prepares the highest class oil Grim
inals TO execute the schemes by which
they live. Sharp, keen, active and edu.
Gated brains contrlve the gigantic frauds
which rob Wall street Of It's millions, and
require your detectives years to unrsvel
But the great mass Of conVicts In your
MoUNDsvILLE PRNITENTIARY
are from the uneducAted class. In our |
juvenile relormatories iour.flths OF them
come from these neglected walls Of Or
phansge and want, who have been forced
to beg or steal a livelihood, and have
grown up scarcely any one can tell how,
or when, or where. We had all hoped |
that in this happy country no such class
would ever exist; but alas what means
those fearful columns in our census 70.
turns which report that four and hall
millions can not read and five and q halt
millions can not write? these are, Of
course, not TO be added together; the lat.
ter class includes the iormer). But what
fearful cloud Is. this hanging over our
republican Institutions For the three
millions Of illiterates over eighteen We
can only hope that the intelligence Of the
mass will, like leaven, leaven the whole
lump. But the two millions under
eighteen we must seek 10 enlighten
through our. system oil common schools.
The first century Of our national existence
will ere long close delivering TO the second
a mighty Republican Empire Of forty mil. |
lions, within whose bounds not the Clank |
Of chained slave can be heard. But II
will also demand Of that second century
that at some period its progress every
water shall be able TO read the constitu.
ton OF the United States and 10 write his
own name. When the contamination Is |
I'll nd mil hn
design Of the founders OF our
Republican Institutions DO an accomplish
ed fact. o.. Z.
But these arc general truths not imme-
diately applicable to your duties In build
ing this Home for neglected children.
Our duties are, each Of US in our own
neighborhoodS, to gather in, and instruct
the poor aud the orphans. God expressly
declares that the poor we shall always
have with US TO the end Of time. Our
first duty is to care for such in our own
vicinity. Occasionally he may raise up
Paul, Luther or Wesley whose la
bors are 10 bs world wide. Let each OF
Gus however labor within the sphere as.
signed US. Wherever we llud neglected
childred gather them into the sunday
School. II they have no place Of shelter
during the week, then into the nearest
Orphan Asylum, Home oil the Friendless,
or by whatever name known, into some
place where neglected children are-nurt-
ured and cared tor, and give our personal
aid and contributions to care for them
when collected. rrE ,1-
THE RANGES HAUs OF GERMANY.
What in modern parlance Is known as
the family system Is admirably adapted
for all such Relormatories. The Ranges
Hsus OF Wichern, the founder OF that
system meant simply Rough House, or
matched cottage, you might call It, that
q wealthy German permitted him 10 use
10 shelter his frat few hnVR Thean hnpA