The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-17
The Orders of the Lord" Are
Now Carried Out in a
Barn.
SMALL VICTIMS OF HOLINESS
Opinion General That the Crank
Preacher Needs to Be Officially
Restrained.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALI
002 RrnadWav Inne Is

gus Broadway, June 10.
A complaint was made to the Children s
Society of a case OF peculiar behavior at
Twenty-third avenue. When it was 1nves-
tigated by Mrs. Prescott it was with much
surprise that she found it was another case
against Rev. F. F. Young, The terrorist
and whole holiness man whose teachings
we're responsible a short time ago for
breaking up the home of Lieutenant Lasher
in East Oakland
When driven out of the Fruitvale home
of the Lashers by the influence of the
threats of local body of whitecaps, who
called themselves the "Solid Twenty"
Young moved his family to Lynde street,
on the top of the hill and about two blocks
from the terminus of the East Oakland
Railroad. The nearest neighbors to where
the terrorist now resides are the residents
of Poulson castle.
Young has not been heard of for a few
weeks, but the residents in the neIghbor-
hood of LYnde street heard such an IN
usual amount of children's crying that
they made an investigation. They re-
monstrated with the father, but were not
aware of the previous notoriety of their
new neighbor, but now that they are ap-
prised of il they intend that it shall cease.
Young has eight children, and when the
Lord tells him that they must be pun
ished, the call is obeyed with enough vigor
TO make the children wish their father was
an atheist.
His present mode of punishment is to
take the child to be whipped into the barn
and lock the door and there belabor the
child with clubs and straps, while the ag
ha II
away.
His nearest neighbor, a German lady,
Mrs. Swagerman. last Friday heard Young
thrashing one of his small boys, and took
the opportunity of threatening HIM with
arrest for acts of cruelty, which have
lately become very frequent.
Notwithstanding that the secretary of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
10 Children of this city has warned him to.
desist his abusive whippings. under pen
atty OF being arrested, Young defantly
pursues his own ways and sneeringlY
boasts chat if neighbors are going to die
tate to him how he shall discipline his
children he will move back to the Indian
reservation in Washington, where he was
for years missionary, where he can use
the rod as his conscience dictates"
One time Young beat his son Claude
with cowhide until the blood ran down
his legs. The next time he was choked
and beaten black and blue.
The boy claimed protection of the neigh
bors and through Mrs. Prescott received
it. He has left home and is living with a
Baptist family in East Oakland.
Mrs. Prescott was called upon yesterday
to investigate the case for the protection
of the eight younger children from their
fathers conduct, which Is Endorsed by the
mother, who is also a religious fanatic who
believes Young an 'infallible saint of
God" who is directed in these deeds of
cruelty by the Holy Spirit.
The case of this preacher of sWhole
Holiness" and abuser of his children has
aroused so much attention that special
action should be taken. The man is de-
cidedly unbalanced mentally, and the
circumstances related by the Lasher family
prove that Mrs. Lasher's troubles are the
direct outcome of Young's teachings.