The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01

more false he Is, is left alone For a time
he has faith in him and seeks him far and
hear, but ct length she sbandoDe hope aud
begins the heavy struggle of maintaining
her little family herself The boys graou-
ally get beyond Der control, they are kept IN
The street TO earn something for their sup
port; they become Wild and vagrsnt, and
soon end with being street rovers or petty
thieves, or young criminals. The girls are
trained in begging or peddlIng. and meeting /
With bod company, they gradually learn the
and morals of the streets and af-
ter awile abandon the Sreatched home and Il
break what was left Of the poor mothers
hope and courage by beginning q life of
shame.
This sad history is lived out every day in
New York. n any theorists desire to see
what fruits Free Love" or weak marriage
bonds can bear among the lowest working
classes, they have only to trace the histories
of q great number of the young thieves and
outcssts and prostitutes in this city With
the dangerous classes elective afbnities"
sre mostly honestly followed. The results
are suffering crime. want and degradation
10 those who are innocent
THE AETIpoTE FOUND.
In the United States boundless hope per.
vsdes all classes; 1t reaches down to the out
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often the fact IN Europe. from the sentence
of despair Every individual, at least till
he is cid, hopes and expects to rise out of his
cor dition.
The daughter OF the rag picker or vsgrsnt
sees the children she knows continually
dressing better or assocstiDg with more de-
cent people; she behods them attending the
and manners; she comes In contact with the
greais st force the poor know-public opin-
| on, which requires certain decency and
responsibility among themselves She be-
comes ashamed of her squslid, ragged OF
drunken mother. She enters the Industrial
school, or creeps into the ward school oil
''goes out' as . servant In every place she
feels the profound forces of American life
the desire for equality ambition rise, the
sense of self respect and the passion for edu
cation.
These new desires overcome the low appe
titles in her blood and she continually rises
and improves The poison in her blood ha.
found an antidote. When she marries il
will inevitably be with q class above bel
own. The process goes on continually
throughout the country and breaks up Grim
inal inheritance.
Moreover. the incessant change of our PEG
pie, especially in cities, the separation o.
children from parents, of brothers from sis
ters, and of all from their former localities
destroy that continuity of influence which
bad parents and grandparents exert and dt
away with those neighborhoods of crime anC
| pauperism where vice concentrates anC
transmits itself with increasing power.
1 Il is said that these working girls. seeing
such fine dresses about them and learning
many useless ACCOMPLISHMENTS Is, have become
indifferent to steady hand labor and hsv,
sought in vice for the luxuries which the,
have first learned to know in the public
schools. MY own observation, however, lead
me doubt whether this occurs, unless as al
Exceptional fact Where there is a habit o
work there are seldom the laziness and shift
lessness which especially cause or stimulat,
sexual vice. Some working girls do, u,
doubt, become discontinued with their forme
condition and some rise to much higher
while some fall but this happens every " her,
in the United States and is not TO b,
traced especially to the influence of our fre'
schools.
AN ADVANTAGE OF THE CITY.
have spoken of the great tendency o
large cities, as compared with villages, IL
breaking up vicious families There is an
other advantage of cities in this matter. Th'
especial virtue OF village community is TIT
lself.respect and personal independ -nce of III
members. No benefits of charity or benevo
lent assistance and dependence could evel
Outweigh this. But this very virtue tends ts
hccP VI iuic III lts pfcocu
condition. The neighbors are not in the habi
of interfering with it; no one advises or warm
ii. The children grow up as other people
chilrden do, IN the way the Iarents prefer
there is no machinery OF charity To lift then
out of the slime; and, if any of their wealth
Ter neighbors, from motives OF benevoleDce
visited the house, and attempte d to improve
or educate the Ia mily, the effort would b,
resen ted or misconstrued. Che whole family
become q kind of pariahs, they are morally
tabooed, and grow up in q vicious atmos pher,
of their owA. and rea ly come out much w0rs,
than similar family in the city. This phe
nomen0a is only q natural effect of the bes
virtues OF the rural community.
i In a large town, on the other hand there
exist machinery and organization through
which benevolent and religious persons car
approach such families, and their good In
! tentiOns not be suspected or resented. The
poor people themselves are not so IL depend
ent. and accept advice or warning more
readily; they are not so stamped in publ C
repute with bad name; less is known o.
| them, and the children, un der new infuen
ces break OF from the vicious career oil
their parents and grow up as honest and in
dustrious persons Moreover the existence
of so much charitable organization IN The
cities brings the best talent and character oi
the fortunate classes To bear directly Oh the
unfortunate, far more than is tue fact In
villages i am ls d TO this line of thought by
read ng the reports of some of these q as
sociatIOns. l believe in their motive anC
end rise their machinery. We have thou
sands of street Arabs here, and. unless organ
iz.d method controls them, the devil of hur
random will come in q short time, and
when he does, hell reign a thousand years
Il HOWARD