The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-06
THEY FOUGHT.

| Tonight we saw two BOYS in front of
| the post-office, where loafers do often
congregate, pounding each other, appar-
emily to please number of idle spec
tators who cheered them on. One YVES
4 a bright little fellow not more tEs.n
nine years old, while the other was q
boy perhaps three years his senior.
| A penny was the cause of the quarrel.
Each boy spied it lying in the street al
| the same time. Each rushed for it. The
smallest boy being the spryest was the
| first to grab it. The larger boy hit him
in the face and proceeded to rob him of
the find The little fellow fought back
as best he could. The clothes of each
were torn; they were each hurt, bruised.
and angered, when a man stepped into
| the crowd that surrounded them and
parted them.
He took the little one under his pro-
lection and together they went sway,
the loafers lamenting the loss of what
they called fun.
How much like men boys Ire, to be
sure. The matter of a penny will excite
more anger than would suffice to spoil
the day for an entire picnic party. Par
ents teach their children to fight; to
ND up for their rights; to not be run
oyoy. to ,,,aA an eye rather than fail to
snatch a penny. Thus do the elders
teach the younger ana ..hnep IN turn
teach others.
Would it not be better to begin at the
other end of the argument? For parents
to teach their children not TO run over
others; not to interfere with the rights
of others; not to snap, and snarl, and
growl whenever plaything is touched.
Why not teach little ones to be loving
| and liberal to each other? Indeed. it
is more blessed to give than to receive,
for by giving we open the doors of our
lives SO good thoughts and liberal
ideas, each bearing good truths, can
enter.
God never vet sent a person to this
world to quarrel with any other person.
He never gave to any human being
right to interfere with the rights of any
other human being, or to make another
| person miserable. There is nothing OF
christianity or humanity in teaching
children or men to be belligerent or IN
| warning against each other for mater
ial gain.
In our house are two little ones.
They are taught to love and help each
other; to divide their playthings and to
each to give way to the other. They
spend hours each day in play, in run
ming, romping and rolling over each
other. We are never disturbed by the
sharp cries that 90 up so often from
children.
That's miner' ''Let that alonew
keep your hands off my thingsm He
struck me!'' "Well, I'll hit him back!'
Il won't be run over!" ETC., etc.
When we come right down to the
matter, people assume more right than
they have. The right to dictate, to COM
mand, to rule as with a rod of iron; to
impress by physical strength, as great
in the line of our rights. We each have
| a right to sunshine but to drive no one
away therefrom. Each have right to
fill U,-s own minds with such loading as
we can carry, but not to assume that
we are so much better than others as
to warrant the actual belittlement of
ourselves.
A child can be educated to imagine
that all it sees is its own. That his or
her special mission is to pound some
thing into somebody else. To force the
flavor of oranges into the cucumber, or
to compel a mind to do what it will not
do.
We shall meet our children and the
children of others in the other life,
where millions will have to unlearn
much that has been taught on earth and
where harmony, happiness, heaven, ex-
lists not because we contend for our
rights so much as because we will there
be taught to recognize the rights of
others. Pomeroy, IN Ponseroy's s
Democrat.