Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-21
APPRENTICESHIP.


IS desirable, whatever may be urged
against 1t by modern progressists. who
think that young people cannot enjoy
too much freedom from restraint, and
that the boys and girls of this age can
learn as much about any mechanical
trade in three or five months as their
fathers and mothers were able to master
in as many years of close apprentice
ship. Master workmen and Journey
men mechanics, as well as the BOYS and
girls themselves, have an interest in the
restoration of the old indentured ap-
prentice system. 1t is simply absurd to
expect as good n class of mechanics
from q rule which allows q youth, after
half a years unrestricted labor, to quit
his employer and set up for Journey
man workman, as under the old rule of
lndenture for four or five years, under
the control Of master. with the rights
and duties of both master and appren-
tice regulated by law and written cor
tract. But. above all, society is inter
ested in change Of system which woald
have stronger tendency TO check hood
lumism and convert thousands of idle
youths into active laborers and good cit
liens than all the sermons on morality
and all the efforts of the police. We 7
have not seen the bill, bu. its principle. !
carefully guarded, is a good and wise /
one.-.S.ai Francisco Post.
The civilization under American
rulel Of the Pacific coast Is row fully
quarter Of century cid. Many a
man who came to California a mere
youth in tie days of 10 and 50 now
inds himself a grandfather. He has
seen his sons and daughters, who were
born In California, grown TO manhood
and womanhood and themselves assun-
ing the cares and responsibilities Of pa
rsniase. The generation that has grown
up among us and borne its fruit is Of
new order Of civilization. Where coIn-
forts havs attended boyhood, youth and i
coming maturity, excellent results have
followed. Where the street and the So q
loon, the race-trsck and the gambling a
table have been allowed 20 form the I
tender mind and fix the early tastes. |!
there you find impotence Of all whole c
some restraint, contempt Of all sober q
employment and a bold and violent dis !
rega-i of all discipline. There has j
been too much of lAwless talk across the I
family table boys have heard too often =
from ps;ernal lips the weak and empty "
menace that If any schcolmGsier il
strikes my son I will shoot the top Of :,
his head of." vain and foolish and T.
ignorant mothers have mistaken an M b
ruliness of disposition in their boys :,
and girls for spirit -; and shitiless II
husbands and silly wives have taugh; o
their children to look with scorn upon :,
the patient efforts Of apprenticeship and T
the obedience to authority which must a.
be accorded if the apprentice is ever TO q,
become a skillful and reliable mechanic al
Mr. NcCar,hy's bill is a measure Of q u
sort much needed to cure our towns and n
cities of hoodlumisn. Even now the II,
journals of California are seriously dis q
,ussing the whipping post rs q cuTs FOR
he prevalent rowdyism among the young bt
men and larger boys who are n terror to m
he less irequented streets of San Fran :;
,isco. What the Senator and other leg III
slators must aim a; i, TO CONVEX: the al
mind Of parents from the layless falla- !,
les Of a Wild and shiiiIess education
liberty o. action. personal
Lightly and the Ia It's Of tie young. Of
10 long ss fathers md mothers in the TO
ess opuieat walks OF and in FOL
gealthy quarters, tor that III .ter-bring VI
lp their children 70 think at they are an
acred az against the exactions of school o''
nd task-masters SO long as boys hear ii'
asserted by fathers and mothers that III
hsir wrong dOinss are never 10 be coz s.r
acied by teacher or employer save at Co
he peril of the teachers or employers op
fe SO long as parents bring up their ma
hildren to an acquaiutanceship with a :
ice and crime and the filth and depravi- BE
es Of the streets, just SO long Will hood 1 Vi
,mism flourish and prevail The habi. ba
obedience must be inculcatsd the lar
aywardress of youth must be curbed err
ped examples must be set ard main Of
lined, or the rising generation will be "a
.e most devilish, unbridled and mis-
lievous tina: ever overran a State and
we life and vitality to crime. We las