Telegram-herald., 1888-12-05
THE SEVENTH ANNUAL
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TIE coafsreecs q ths assoc alton Of
Cousty AgeaEs seid tns ns. meeting of
their seventh aaBu4i convention 81
. clock yesterday sitsrnoOn. ~ the ladies'
Literary C.u0 hoase -llA = fsif sttsaaanos.
msny ladies' being present A. o. Hyde, OF
Marshall. oocgP.sd the chair
Rev Peter Noerdyks 0psnel shs msesiug
wita al eloquent prayer.
Before the pr0gr2mfuz vas entered upon
NJ aFd- msde some pertinent remarks ia
regard - ne p1rposs Of the convention.
whsn ths roll call was prOcseded WITH
The COMMITTEES % kesOl utlons was aa-
nsaacsd As follows Chairman. Judge
Montgomery. Rev Charles Flahrer Or.
Csc X J8lason. Hon. c. z. Belznsp. Ars .
: l. WiIaey Nrs 3 l. Fuller Mrs. Ed
ward watson. } ". Nicholson OF BALDWIN,
and joan aosmer. OF Detroit
Al Interesting paper on the "Children OF
Foreigners Was read By w. A. FaxtOn.
County Agent of Clinton county. ia " nich
be observed that people of'en came 10 this
country because they bad broken the laws
or their own. and n al this country Was now
sending sons such people into Canada tie
thou ght that thr'Connty Agent should bud
Tor the foreign dependent children home
in some American family, where all con-
necsion o. the past lite AMI Language IS
bfoke1 Oh. new habits are formed. fhs
psper concluded with interesting IDEAS ia
rea ard 10 ths management of foreign born
children who are State charges.
During the discussion which followed
Rev. Z. Aoerdyks asked If there were
statistics bearing on the proportion of for
eign to American born children In the State
charge.
l. .....l tL.t -. ,.-.s.,t Ia th. Gold
water schoOl there were f0rty-fOar Ameri-
cans and 25l foreign oorn.
DIR. Campbell Fair-l would ike to re-
move the impression that all the foreigners
who come here do nol come to this cOun
try. from England and Ireland. speak of
these countries because | have personal
knowledge OF them, the criminals snd pau
pers largely 20 10 Australia. New Iesland
and other places aud do not come 10 Amer
ica. AS one Of the foreigners myself /
wish TO remove the popular i'm mDression
that all who come TO this country do so be-
cause they cannot maze a living in their
own. Is more often happens that those
| who come are the more ambitious. educated
| and of the better element VINO come here
because they hnd field for their ambi-
| tiOns.
Rev. Noredyke-I have made il a prac
| tice 10 watch the police records and courts
AID md hat Of the large proportion oi
| Hollanders in our State, a HOllander' s
| name scarcely ever appears in comparison
| with names which are purely American.
| There is q large class Of boys without yisi-
| bic means Of support who are seen lounging
about the saloons. and their faces stamp
| them as being Americans. They might be
| arrested any time for vsgraucy, but II ar
| rested they have friends among the lawyers
| aud in the courts. They are shrewd enough
or have friends sharp enough ro evsde the
law and they are not the boys Who 90 TO
| reform schools. IL is the friendless boy
with the Italian or Holland name who is
showed through aud goes TO prison or tc
| the reform school.
| Mr. Jac0kes-I have lived here great
many years. and have never known that
| the Americans were too bad and ihe for
/ eigners too good. IL is All new TO me. Ii il
| also news to me that American boys evads
| the law | have been connected with many
| prosecutions bat this is a novel idea to me
| R-v. Parker. Chaplain of the lOnia HOus'
| OF CorrectiOn-For the past four years
have registered upon the prison books about
SIX hundred names annually, | find that q
large proportion are Americans. | have
also found ,nat their parents were Ameri
can. But find that 1t is not a matter o
| nationality, but of temperance and indus
/ try. Who are the idle of our country ? They
are the children OF American parents. Tn,
| foreign-born child is the child of industry
Nationality mas nothing 10 DO with 1t, only
| incidentally.
Dr. Hal G. wyman, of Detroit hav'
been much interested in tue discussion, snC
| | agree that work, systematic and regular
| must be given he children in order TO d,
away with crime and promote regular
| habits.
After further discussion the subject wa
| finished
Next in order was 2 paper. topic. 9TH.
| Duty Oi Society Toward InsubC rdinat,
and Vicious Children" o. John UOsmer
County Agent Of WAYNE. Ar HOsmer be
ing absent the county agents then reported
| Calhoun county being the first on the list
| Reports were read b. agents from Clinton
| Lake. Mackinsw. Nontcalm, Oaklsnd
! 01eaHs. Wexford ana OsceOia. Mr.. L. G
Storrs. the secretary read reports from Ma
! comb and Vash'sna9 counties.
Tie various reports. repiete with illustra
| tious many of them pathetic ia the eK
| tTeme were very interesting and were fui
| Of oommendstion Of the system and of ID,
msny and various difficulties which hsvs
been met with practical suggestions fOr inn
| provement.
Al the close Of the reports an informal
| discussion vas entered into O7 Bishop Gil
lespie and others in regard 20 the duties o
| State and county agen :
| Amer further i1fOrmal talk Mr.. JacOkes
made motion TO adjourn which wa
| carried.