The Wilmingtonian., 1886-10-16
What Bad Example May Do.

What Bad Example May Do.
Our evening contemporary very properly
says-Members of the Board of Education
should not quarrel and handy such ugly
words as ''liar" and the like. Besides being
supplementary and Objectionable on geu-
eral principles, such language and misbe-
havior set bad examples to the children mn
der their supervision. 1t is natural for many
school children to look up to their Commit
tee man" with a great deal of respect and to
think that if he uses hard language it can
not be very wrong in them to do the same.
| Let members of the board reflect, when they
feel tempted to say or do anything upgentle-
manly, that their young charges read the
daily papers, and that they should therefore
be as guarded in their conduct as if they
stood in the immediate presence of the boys
and girls whom they should always aim to
do their part in training to become worthy
men and women"
Bad example is very bad thing. We
| learn so much more from the actions of peo-
| pie than from precept. Yesterday we came
| across gentleman who has spent the sum
mer months at Harrington, Del. The con-
7ersation turned npon politics. The Har-
| rington visitor seemed anxious to unburthen
himself in regard to certain sights witnessed
in that little village during the recent dele
| gate election. He asserted that never in his
| life did he see such bare-faced, open bribery
| 1t is calculated, said the speaker, and then,
IN Harrington they don't hide things, tina,
| So, 500 was spent by the successful party iu
| openly purchasing votes; HOO voters cost ex-
actly thirty-hve hundred imported dollars
| Farmers and citizens accepted money openly
before one another in the streets OF Har-
| rington. The people there are not entitled
20 the privilege of the franchise. They don't
know what it means other than so many
| dollars.
Parents stood along the main street, i'll
| front of grog stures and unhesitalingly ac-
| ;epted money for their votes, and were see
| to do SO 10y their chlldleu, as thrse children
passed by homeward from public school.
| 1t may be that the e>tlmable teacher there
Mr. Skinner, had just been demonstrating T.,
these young minds now budding into man
mood and womanhood, the Incompatible
| blessing we live under as ctizens of this
| great republic, and probably had nterlal ded
uir constitutional teachings with some refer
ence to the advantages of the franchise
II so, what pretty sequel was the exam
pie oil their own befuddled parents whom
/ 5hey saw not an hour after selling that great
privilege for few glasses of whlskey-and
worse still what can these young citizens
think of the United States Senator elected
| by such means. If these things be true, aud
| We believe they are, what love can these
4 JouhS hIhSiicdho hdfo lOE JulS CUuuJlY-
we're they honest they would trample under
vher feet, metaphorcaIy speaking, with the
most contemptuous jeer any talk in praise Of
tue present ticket.
If these things continue what terribl,
| Judgment must come somp day! Do briber
realize the full meaning or results of what
they have done in this delegate election and
the means they have purused to accomplish
their ends, They have made hundreds Of
young minds infidelistic to the possibility of
honest Democratic government in Delaware.
They have demonstrated this fact indelbly
IN the minds Of those children by species
of illustration that can never be erased
If the Republic is lost it will be through
causes developed out of conditions such as
the above. So history teaches us. These
bribers then are the traitors to their country