The Morning herald., 1877-02-14
THE wOEK.HOUsE SCHEME.

VAE "ORsA.hOSHA
A meeting has been called by the Mayor
of the city of Wilmington, to promote 'he
project of a State work-house or penlteh-
tiary. There seems to be an Immature
opinion in favor, of locking up every one'
VINO is not fortunate enough TO wear un'
1atched clothing, or to have fixed resi-
dence, and while under prison bars to
grind enough out of them, as will pay their
contribution towards the maintaining
and paving SNUG jail managers,
moral instructors, general officers,
and the sum total of the cost! Although
not expressed in words, these are innate
bottom thoughts of the promoters OF the
scheme, Intensely respectable, and moral
neooIe. heritors OF suug farms, OF we'll
invested stocks or mortgages--it IS beyond
their comprehension that any one ShouAo
be homeless, and hungry and they are
unable, good souls, to devise any remedial
plan. but prison. What for?
The average convict population OF
tha ,en:tentaries in the various States is
close to 1900 inmates, some prisons
above, others down below that number;
5)0 is considered the minimum which
will be sufficient TO fill up the details
of penitentiary system, where
the culture of the hand, mind, and heart,
can be prohtably attempted; or that even
4 rsmote chance of meeting portion O.
the expenses exists.
w. have no "class criminals" yet, but
crime class is fast growing up in WI!mi1 g.
=, penien:iary is no preventative. In
ac,nyersation with the Mayor, he says "it
is the BOYS about sixteen that trouble us,"
YES iDterposed Sergeant Of Police send
iny them to New Castle makes them
thieves" DO our citizens propose to
remedy this social cancer by shutting il
out Of sight, and as they pass Its walls
on sunday, prayer book in hand, and
uuctu us with the drippings of grace from
the paIpit-thank God that they helped te
cage the in mates Human beings certain
to antagonize society when loose. Never
before was their better opportunity to ex
neripo .nt upon the best means OF curing
the social diseas, which evolves "crim
Clap" It is not with tramp7, or adolc5cen
bummers and vagrants, you are to DEAL
un}ika the foxes who have burrows bu
like the "Son Of Nan" they have not
nIace 10 hide their head-and we mus
bar with them; they are past cure. Nhs
to do with the swarms OF lads who ar
idle. many willing 10 work, ii they couI
Get it--that is the true question. Ninet
Der cent of them would be glad to car
9 living, ragged ard unkemI
though they are, their affection for poe
humble mother is as onest,decp,and pur'
2; that Of q boy in broadcloth. and nothin
would operate 50 powerfully for their re't'
ration as the ability 10 bring home, ie
dollars OF Saturday hlSut'o pace n ''c
moth ers' lap. Ten per cent oI them pre-
bably ale ingrained idjels, for them v
would try The English remedy, as enacts
in The 24,n ard .5!h Nictoria:--"priva
whipping" with very s'.or, terms of III
prisolnept. Lads under 1C FOR no less th;
f)rty-two offences are now privately viii
ped, and soca! scientists say it is marked
eHjcacious, in arrestirs the developme
of criminal habits, and where the erin
cause is not hereditary curing them, wit
employment follows punishment, and j.
leose. We can conceive Of no higher nj
sion, than one which would direct its for
into the pathways Of the young Of o
city-who are going onwafN to Spirltu
and moral destruction. A AIk house