Evening journal., 1889-11-27
LErrERs ron IHE PEOPLE.
what shan we Do with the Chiidreni


Editor EVENING JOURNAL
This is a question that Is often asked
but seldom answered. Upon the chill
dren the next generation depends for
men and women. Circumstances SOW
the seeds of good and evil. and humanity
is the soil in which they flourish. Mr..
Editor we were all children once, and the
question is were we angels ourselves and
what were our facilities for recreation
and enjoyment in comparison with the
children of to-day. IL is an undeuiable
fact that the struggle in the race for
wealth is now much greater than it was
then Our mode of living is more ex-
pensve now, and, as a consequence,
children are compelled to 60 to work
much sooner.
We have about ten times as much law
now as then, and in regard to children, IL
is strictly enforced, for the officers who
executed the law, will go past crowd Of
drunken men in 8 carousal without see
ing them or hearing them, to arrest a
couple Of boys playing ball or marbles In
the street. And If boy should happen TO
meet another boy on the street and stop
TO talk few minutes, they are arrested
and fined for corner lounging. In many
0@otn hAiN uAtD anu tOoAa H0tA - h1N1@A "
by their parents to get them food and
clothes, that they might attend church
and Sunday school,
Again, after these boys have labored six
days out Of seven, If on the seventh day,
any Of those boys that have been hard at
work should 20 TO the outskirts Of the
city to play ball or marbles, how soon
they are pounced upon by the officers,
1. AZ HI .fama in
full blast, also selling intoxicating
drinks.
Right here let me ask, by what law
the prineipal officers of this city could
give keepers Of houses Of ill-fame the
privileges Of continuing their unlawful
business II they only do IL Sin quiet
mannerYs Did those officers know the
nature Of those houses, and If so, was Ii
not their place to have arrested them,
instead Of giving them the privilege OF
continuingi
Il Is in Just such places as those, that
the boys and girls learn the lessons of
club room immortality, as many times,
when their carousals or orgies are going
on. from twenty to thirty girls, from 10
TO 10 years OF age, may be seen around,
witness to the profane and obscene Ian
kuhEt anu hollANnt ahA wv Va eAAANR N4AAA~R
that many boys.
What Is to be done with the children
OF poor parents who have to work with no
recreation or enjoymentg
Are they TO be reduced to the condition
of the OK, Only TO work, eat and sleep.
and curse the day that gave them birth7
Remember. the children of the rich have
every facility for enjoyment and develop
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repair to. and the summer resorts; they
have horses and carriages at command
and leisure for recreation. They have
every inducement TO be moral and vir'
tuous.
As much as the club room immortality
is to be regretted, society is to blame for
IL. Remember, you cannot put old heads
on Young bodies. Society should sur
round children with better circum-
stances, as society must be the sufferer
from all the evils resulting from this
immoral leprosy. viii not some philan-
thropist come to the rescue Of the rising
generation, especially Of the industrial
class2 A FRIEND.
Wilmington. Del, Nov. 20, 1889.
In Defence Of Detective Hutchins.
Editor EVENING JOURNAL
A good many people here desire to say
a word in answer to certain structures
published In the Smyrna Record last Sat
urday, regarding the muslxrat prosecu.
tion here last spring The charge is
made that Detective n. H. Hutchins
brought those prosecutions through a
factional spirit We wish to say
here as parties who know
what they are talking about that
N. H. Hutchins himself arranged the
settlement Of the cases, throwing off all
his expenses after he had been forced by
law to bring the suits Ne do not be-
lieve for a moment that the least thought
of factionalism on his part entered into
the question at all, and we said SO at the
time. LEPsIC
Leipsic Del, November &C.