The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-06-02
NUMBER II.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.
BKrTKR THAN ALMsHoUsEs OR woRGHoUsEs-
ESSENTIAL THAT THEY sHoU1o
DKSoMINATtoNAL.

From the Speech OF Col. Chichester Mt tho Dublin
Educational Society
In the course of an eloquent address Colonel
Chichester dwelt with mnoh force on one
branch Of education upon " ich they could all
CO operate, and W hose ex tension independent
ly of the blessings 10 many flowing from it,
would furnish y most powerful lever for at
tanning the fulifilment of their desires should
they still be doomed to dis sap pon tment. He al
| lnded to rsformatories and Industrial schools.
These schools trer6 of course conducted on the de-
nomfHafiOndi system. Any other plan Of enIoro-
ing moral sent,aents could hare been met WitA a
horcl Of erecration. The sucoess of these schools
had been most oonsoling. Out OF L. .lc9 dis
charged during three years ending with the
year 1875, no less than 996 were known to be
doing well-he quoted from Mr.. Lsntaisne-
and only four had been committed to prison
(cheersJ Now, of the qualifications for en-
trance to the ind ustrial schools under the oot,
be men toned two-fouud begging. and not
proper guardianship. He turned their atten-
tion now to the oiIeum stances, the require
ments, and the probable fate Of the 10. 900
children who inhabited their workhousea.. In
what way did they differ from those ohildren
who were qualified to be placed in industrial
schools Begging-was not their whole life
in the workhouse an appeal for aims
(cheers). Having no home-were those white
washed sepulchfes Of human hope, where life
was measured out by the ounce, to be called
honest Proper gusrdisnship-he could not
tell what became of those children-he would
tell them how many had been exported and
what they cost, bat onoe outside their own dis
tT:cts nobody seemed to know what became
of them, nobody seemed to care (hear, hear.
The young of the brute was carefully pre-
pared for it's future buisne1S in life. Tho
yonng of the Christian was turned out to take
ohance. 10 the words of Mr.. Leutaigne-
Humid eds of children who, under other CIR
cums.anees, might have become useful Msm-
bers Of society. are condemned without any
fault of tneir own, to sink on the very threB-
hold of independence into the pAuper and IN
productive class" When would men OF busi-
ness understand that this did not pay, that
they could rot let this condition Of things oon-
tinuef (Hear, bear In tho worAhouses
there was no intention to provide industrial
training, no appliauoeo TOR giving 1t, and IL
there were, how, being in hourly contact as
they we're with the wrecks Of life, how oou!d
the children o. o0pe or surmount the depressing
influences which aurrOunded them Z (Cheers).
The task of the teacher was q hopeless Que
everything Was against him, even to the pa
rents of the children, who were moro likely to
ourse than to blsas him. and whose fate and
example were alike demor AliEing to the ohil-
dren. Two things they learned, and the les
son sunk into their very marrow. One was
that society was bound to support them, the
other wss that they owed society neither labor
nor thanks. Yet Mr.. Lentaigns said "A
greater amount of intellectual power lies un-
developed and lost for want of cultivation in
a tenth Of the workhOuses in the centre of
ireland than in Belgium" Colonel Chichester
concluded by sn eloquent appeal to the ladies
to take this matter of industrial schools into
their own bands, and in this way to sdvance
the cause of ChristtAn education and we'll
being OF the country at large in degree
which they could not imagine (appiause).