Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-19
THE ORPHANS HOME.


thing further regarding the Orphans
Home controversy. 1t conscientiOusly
investigated the matter, gave the pub
lie everything it could which threw
light on the subject and there rested its
labors. After the report Of the Com
mittee we saw nothing left to be done.
The press of the State, however, seems
unwilling to accept the Committees So
luton of so grave q matter and still
clamors for an investigation. The APP
PEAL has received letters from various
parts of the State asking what is to be
done in the matter and one or two have
gone so far as to question the motive of
the paper in relinquisiing III TASK OF
further investigation. The Slice, State
has the following
That the APPEAL is right, no person
who has the slightest sympathy for the
helpless orphans at the Home, Will dis
pute, but unfortunately the manage
ment of the Home is controlled by poll
ticians, and an active partisan, though
his instincts may be Of the most brutal
character, is much more likely to be APP
pointed superintendent of the Home
than person Of less Influence at prl-
mary elections, however much super
ior his qualifications might be. The
Orphans Home is supported by the tax
payers of Nevada, regardless of color,
sect or politics. AS its name implies,
it is designed as q home for orphans,
who are dependent upon the charity Of
the public. II the statement made by
the children to two of the Directors who
visited the Home, in the presence of
representative Of the Carson APPEAL
and others, are true, the children are
subjected to treatment which should not
be tolerated in On institution Of that
character. The card of the Directors,
based probably on the statement of the
management, not on evidence taken
under oath or even in the presence of
disintereSted spectators, will by no
means satisfy the public that the char
ges of brutality made by the orphans
against the Superintendent and Teacher
are false, or even exaggerated. 1t IS
due to the public, Whosupport the Home
and the waits who are supposed to be
kindly trt at I'd there, that the charges
should be thoroughly and impartially
investigated, and it devolves upon the
press of Nevada, but particularly upon
the Carson papers, which from their To-
cation have opportunities of knowing
what takes place at the Home that
other papers have not, to insist on such
an investigation until the Directors
order it or rest under the suspicion that
they are shielding the management
from deserved rebuke.
We fail to see what can be gained by
the Carson papers insisting on an inve5-
tigation. There will be 10 inveStiga-
ton. The Commissioners appear to be
satisfied with the present mana cement.
The press of the State, backed by an al
most unanimous public opinion, will
have no weight on the subject what
ever. The APPEAL has done its duty
in posting the Commissioners on the
facts of the case and the matter now
rests in their hands, not ours. The per-
sons who have industri0usly circulated
the report that the APPEAL has been
endeavoring 10 break up the Home in
the interest OF the Catholic Church,
have lied in every particular. The men
who have sunk their humanity and de-
based their pens iii preventing an inves-
tigation, can reflect that they are res
ponsibIe for every future sinking Of the
rawhide into the tender and quivering
flesh of these defenseless orphans.