Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-07-04
InSersoll on Child Whipping.

The poor children of poverty! Ny
heart bleeds when [ think of them:
the children simply covered by a rag;
the children of famine and Of starya-
ton; the children Of drunkenness and
the children of crime, hotsam and jet
sam upon the wild, rude sea of life;
the children in alleys; the children
that couch in corners when they hear
the unsteady step of a drunken brute
of a father; the children, little babies
with drinking mothers; the children,
too, of the rich, that have no liberty
these little children that are crushed,
that are trampled upon, that are
frightened. | pity them all from the
bottom of my heart. What right have
you to tyrannize ever a child? [ have
very little respect for g man that can
not govern q child without brute force.
Think of whipping children. Why,
they say that children tell lies. Yes,
cowardlce is the mother of lies-tyran-
ny is the father Of lies. Suppose
man who is as much larger than you
as you are larger than 5-year old
child should come at you with a pole
IN his hand who broke tha; platei2"
You would tremble; your knees would
knock together; and you would swear
you never saw the plate, or that it was
cracked when you got it.
Think Of member of the Board of
Exchange whipping one Of his children
tor pre- varlcating. Think Of lawyer
beating his own flesh and blood because
he evaded the truth. Think of
dealer in stocks punishing his child for
settling afoat false reports What an
inconsistency Think of it! IF you
should hereafter whip your child, [
wish you could have photograph TAX
en- when doing SO, with brows CORFU
gated with anger, your cheeks red With
wrath, and the little child shrinking,
trembling, crouching, begging! IF
this child should happen to die,
wouldn't it be sweet in the Autumn,
when the maple leaves are turning to
gold, and when the scarlet vines run
like sad regret out of the Garth
wouldn't it be delightful to go and sit
on the mound that covered the flesh
you had beaten, and look at the photo
gaaph of yourself in the act of whip
ping that child?
Now think Of it; think of it; and if
all [ say tonight will save one blow
from the tender flesh of infancy, I am
more than paid.
| have known men to drive their
own children from their doors, and then
get down on their knees and ask God
to watch over them. 1 will never ask
God to do favor for child of mines
while l can do it, never. Another
thing: There is nothing in this
world like being honest with these
children. Do rot pretend you are
perfection; you are not; and if one of
them happens TO tell story, do not let
on as if the whole world was going to
burst. Tell them honestly you have
told thousands of them.
A July CORNER IN WHEAT.-The
Milwaukee Wisconsin says some of the
shrewdest individuals in the Milwau-
kee Change think that one of the great
operators is gradually but steadily pre-
parlng Tor corner in July wheat.
He is quietly buying up all Che cash
wheat, and also buying largely Of July
The small amount Of wheat in store
only 100000 bushels, and not over
100000 bushels of No. 2, aud the i'm
possibility of getting into the market
more than lC, 900 bushels per day for
the next thirty days, gives to an oper-
ator with long purse and clear head
the most favorable circumstances for
really a magnificent corner. IF his
programme is carried out. there will be
lively time among the Bears.
The ticket for State officers nomin-
ated by the Iowa Republican State
| Convention last week is as follows !:
For Governor, John II. Gear; for
Lieutenant Governor, Frank T. Camp
bell; for Judge of the Supreme Court,
Judge Day was re-nominated; and for
Superintendent Of Public Instruction,
Mr.. Van Coelln was also re-nominated
The resolutions re affirm the platform
|,of the last Republican National Con