The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-29
NECESSITY OFF OBEDIENCE.


Many a passionate child rules the
household. The child goes into a passion
because his dinner is withheld from him
or because some toy is denied him. and
ne refuses TO be comforted until he mas
brought his mother TO his terms The
mother says, Poor little fellow. he has
such bad temper he cannot be CON
trolled;" but says, when he gets older
VIII whip him good -, whereas she
ought to have punished him and not
let MIN nave anything until his temper
pc trained and taught, while in infancy
TO control his temper; for as the twig is
bent the tree will be inclined
helleVe that many d gallows tragedy
had its beginning on the mothers lap
L here give the names of two criminals
who were executed, some years ago, in
pennsylvania: one was Hugh McElroy
the other was David Jewell Both of
these men said, while on the scaffold,
that if they had been corrected when
they disobeyed their parents and the
laws of our land, they would not have
come 10 the gallows.
Parents, and especially mothers, will
threaten the child, and say. Now, if
you Go so again, / will whip you" and
so on. Well. pretty soon the child re-
peats the same wrong or something like
it, and again the threat is reiterated by
the mother-.Now. | have told you for
will whip you severely" But the cor
rection is always i'll the future, so the
child soon discovers that the parent is
INDUCING in falsehood, and he goes on
from bad to worse, and the end is YEN
orally bad.
The child, though he be so young liat
he cannot speak, if he is old enough TO
lift his fist and strike his mother ought
to be corrected in such a way as will
teah him lesson of repression. The
parent who neglects this increases the
chances of the sons going to the bad.
When children are older, there are better
disciplinary punishmentS than spanking
or whipping. But when the child reaches
such an age that he is useful, it may be
too late: his temper may have grown
into dominating force in his character
so that it cannot be eradicated.
Parents sometimes say, when children
show a vile temper and Shrek good
deal, that it would endanger their lives
to punish them. Perhaps so; but you
still more endanger their future if you
do not punish them Spare the rod and
spoil the child have known of
broken-hearted parents wishing rather
that their children had never been born
than to have lived to bear such burdens
OF shame and disgrace
I have known disappointed mothers
and Inundated fathers to weep like chli-
dren, and even grow gray between the
successive visits in which they came 10
INQUIRE about the boy in prison Ana
now, seeing and knowing these dreadful
things till my heart aches l would say
TO those fathers and mothers whose little
families are the care of their lives, 10
you whose boys and girls have not yet
gone astray, teach your children obedl-
ence | wish could make these truths
blaze in letters of fire. | wish could
write these things in impershable glow
ing letters on the walls of every nome
Obedience, obedience, obedience! Obedi-
ence to law-to household law. TO par
entail authority: obedience In the ram
lily, obedience to the teacher IN the
school-room.s
Because from the first glimmerlns OF
intelligence in the child there is expires.
sion of law, let him be taught respsct
for It and obedience to it, for IT is tne
royal road to virtue; to good cltlzenSnlp
it is the only proper and safe road.-.eN'
r. r. Brady in Free Methodist.
McCABE ON BEER AND BREAD.
In a recent issue you say: Anarchists
want to get bread by force, but they
seem willing to pay for beer" Yes, ana
how much do they pay? The anarchists
are only very small wing OF the labor
ing classes of our country. 1t is hardy
worth while to find out how much they
pay for beer and whisky, but the mil
lions of working people pay over S!oO,OOo-
bread. Why not remind them of this
colossal rum traffic which boasts of
drawing into it's Golfers $500, 600 annu-
ally.
The laboring people of the country
spend more for whisky and beer than
the entire banking capital of the nation.
If they would save what they spend in
this way and start banks they could