Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-01-10
Eager to taste the houcyrd spring.
And flOnt Nmil the linmid noon y


And loaf amid the liquid noon"
BY no means are they blanks, but filled
with n thousand impulses, and any one Of
these impulses is likely To gain imperial
sway over their whole lives The wide pos
sibilities Of their future for good or evil are
already stirring within them as blossoms at
earliest spring already stir within their buds
long before the blooming flush of summer.
There is hardly anything in earth around, or
in the air above, that is not entering into the
study Of their imagination. The state, there
fore, cannot afford to allow the children who
soon must characterize it, whole social life
10 cOngrcgatc in large crowds in places Of
resort called schools, where the buildings and
grounds all speak Of careless indifference as
regards either health or manners, chilling
their young life. and shaking all their buds
from grOwing-where everything is in such
broad contrast with all that can please the
eye, or touch the heart, or elevate the soul, as
even 10 draw out all the lower passions of
our nature, and make them run riot in that
braggart boldncss and reckless ruwdyism
which defy all discipline or moral growth.
ALMsHOrsEs NOT FIT NURSERIES,.
No children should be allowed 10 pass their
time in Vagrancy, nor should any be thrown
into our almshouses, or be farmcd out by our
inspectors of the poor The associations of
an almshouse, where the very atmosphere of
pauper life must be brcathed by the child
year after year, where even the insane are
herded with little care, and with still less
II.
at the sight of which, day after day, the poor
young life of the child is chilled and blighted,
or deprived of every CLEAN of hope, grows
desperate and criminal-are these the associ-
atiOns which Christian civilization can al
low child to enuurCP The only present
remedy which we have-.that OF farming the
children out without any organized effort to
train them to independence aud selfrespect
is not sufficient IL will not meet the case.
Industrial schools, embracing sufficiently
large districts, should be established
without delay All the counties within
such districts should be required by law TO
send every vagrant child and every young
pauper in their almshouses (these Young
paupers number over n thousand) into the
schools, where in addition TO the common
branches of our public schools, such in
dustrial arts should he taught as will be best
suited to bring these children up 10 lives of
useful industry and Independence. This viii
be economy both in a material and moral
sense, entafling no great expense upon the
counties, and saving hundreds from the dis
graceful future OF confirmed tamps and
paupers breeding paupcrs
We may be able 10 do something with
adults of such character il the work be under
proper organization, but why try the tanta-
lizing task of cleansing the polluted streams
while leaving the fountains filthy to roll them
again n fast as cleansed We must take
hold of the young, turn them, through proper
schools 10 higher purposes of social life, and
save them from the bondage that awaits them
II they are not trained To intelligent industry.
II Is purblind folly TO ior-weary ourselves
with pulling out the grown-up darnel, while
leaving the ground from which il springs
full OF the pernicious seeds which make GER
tain another baneful crop to choke the rising
corn.
THE EVILS or ALCOHOL
We have been urged 10 press upon ysur
attention the necessity of requiring, inall the