Daily Republican., 1883-08-06
MONDAY AUGUST 9. 1853.
a Wrosg and Right Education.


sst apart by God himself IS day of
rast for his people, and the beast Of
burthen and labor, and this day was by
tho same command to be kept holy. We
will enter into no dispute about the Bi.
BILE, whether it be true or false, it is
enough to know that in all christian and
civilized nations it il the acknowledged
guide of our morals and accepted as
the divine revelations Of the Almighty.
Onr civil laws are based upon the prin-
eiples and morals of the bible and they
arc copied into our civil code with but
little alteration. Looking around us and
seeing the manner in which the sane
tity of the Sabbath is violated We
might well conclude that the divine
law a found in the book of books and
civil law as found in our civil code in
regard to the ohservances of the Sab.
both are dead letters. But we did
mot intend to refer especially to the vio-
latiOns of the Sabbath when we COM
menced, though much might be said
about cars running, steamboat excur'
siOns and their attendant evils of de-
mOralizatiOn caused by drunkenness )
stores being opened, base ball playing,
target shooting and such acts of labor
and pleasure, all wrong, but more par
ticularly to these acts which not only
disgrace the Sabbath but are as moral
~ wrong on any other day of the week
and disgrace, Monday as well as Sun
day. Nobody had far to 60 yesterday
to find crowds of boys engaged in play
ing base ball and in their play using
shocking profanity that would make
even q heather blush. While not en-
gagged in playing they were organized
gangs of thieves raiiing around the
city, Ou'raging decency and morals,
robbing truck patches and fruit gar
dens and breaking up meetings for
religious and moral purposes. 1t is not
particularly that these things are done
On Sunday that we refer to them, but it
il because they are done at all on any
day of the week, Sunday being the
worst of all, as on that day the boys
employed at labor through the week
lave free range without check What
il to be done with these boys is ques-
ton which puzzles the virtuOus law
Daker and the philanthropist. Some
Of them may reform in after life and
become useful citizens, but the ma ority
of them will bring up sooner or later in
the prisons and penitentiaries of the
land, some perhaps may meet violent
deaths.
Such a state of affairs should not ex-
ist in this great, christian free nation Of
ours, and We may very properly in
quire here, why does it exist? What
is the answer? Revolve the question
over. 1t presents variety OF aspects
and shapes, all pointing in one sure di-
rection. What direction is that? What
is the objective point? We know not
what others may think, neither does it
matter, bat it is the opinion Of him W no
writes these lines that there is lack Of
moral training in the home schoOl-the
home circle. Having located the source
OF the evil the peSf Question is, what is
the remedy and how is it to be applied ?
We have the remedy. 1t is not the
majestic and independent mien Of the
father. 1t consists not in harsh com
Iaauds of duty and obedience. 1t is not
the darkened room and the rod that are
wanted neither is il the task OF moral
duties unmeaningly and mechanically
taught. What is it then > Far beyond
all of them, this needed reform lies in
the education and elevation of mothers,
Mothers are the natural educators o
their children, but they cannot educate
them unless they themselves have first
'been rightly educated.
Let our mothers become citizens, no
in a political point of view, but civilly
and morally, and then instead of dis
putting like nurses as to which has tn,
prettiest and best dressed children, the,
would emulate each other as TO which
should best SOW the seeds Of virtue il
the soul and vigor in the mind. We Dc
not mean the education of dress, o
etiquette, of music and the graceful
waltz, but that education which raise
them superior to the mere object Of thu
frivolus admiration of the other sex
1t is high time these matters wer'
thought about more than they are
These women, many of them the moth
BIS of the profane base ball players am
truck and orchard robbers of yesterday
constitute the half of the population o
our nation. They have been TOO mucl
neglected. Their duties have bee
mental and too much circumscribec
They have not by proper educatio
been raised to that eminenCe wher
they could be made to feel the respot
sibilities of their position in life. TIL
children of properly educated mothe
will not be found violating the Sal
bath day by playing games, using pre-
family, itself a great sin, robbery an
pillage.
If thu American people wish fc
magistrates, warriors, citizens II the
are DESTROYS Of the prosperity OF IL
Republic, they should provide bett
education for their women, for unle'
they attach our souls to our institution
the works of our genius will renal