New-York tribune., 1899-06-16

UNFORTUNATES WHO ARE WITHOUT
MORAL. OR MENTAL STAMINA
Correspondence Of The Boston Transcript.

Correspondence of The Boston Transcript.
What about this case? There are many like il
among the factory population IN me SCUM, SOU H,rth mTu
ern and Eastern States lie was boy 6,d 81 tweiye I'VE
pitcher with milk, his attention was attracted 10y
our table spread for dinner Especially did the
seen one before Hcsitatingly. timdly. he asked:
What air them air things wropt round them ar
rags" Pretty heavy slam on the napkins. But
he knew no more OF napkin than oi a ring Ii iie
was. however, well acquainted with rags lie
Living in rags and dirt and seeing them daily.
any bit of cloth although beautiful white table
community where the school bell has been ringing
for fifty years, yet the school is OF no service 10
lie is a fair type of many boys and girls living
there. and. despite schools and churches; promi-
nent minister writes that this ignorant class grows
morally worse and worse. Who is the boy? ne
is the son OF white slaves. though they recognize
as freemen; the child OF parents with no more
9sebSS in b bSS isao h on the Of od the Of
whom Walter Page spoke in his recent lecture
lecture. by the way. made some folks mad. Well,
it is a sad case. Nothing in Asia can snrpass IT,
This poor drudge Of a woman does nothing but
work work work. and bear children of the type
time slave does she attend divine service. But oc-
casionally the poor tired creature puts on sunday
With the tired look on the face, and a face abso-
lutely without expression. IL is yac1ity itself.
thousandsl to be treated? Is educating the boy
the remedy? No; there is nothing to educate.
q
out material? Where Is the material In this boy?
He IS without moral sense intelligence desire
for Improvement How Is the building To be
erected? There is no foundation. II Is from my
standpoint hopeless case. Religion Will not reach
IT, Where moral stamina Is deficient. religion r.
worthless: worse than that II Is a positive harm
to Christianity. 1t Is appalling fact that within
a radius OF hundred miles from where write
there are thousands OF similar eases and the only
compensation is that with the parties concerned
ignorance is actually bliss. There Is a doctrine.
falble cure. II Is evolution. This must be ac-
complished by education. but this education will
be due to improvem mt In the species That i'm
prOvement only come az consequence OF
crossing the stock. II will ht the present case
IN hand but II some bright girl Will take him In
tow, their children will not be apt 10 say, What
afr them air things wropt round them air rags?
But the boy himself twenty-five years from to-day
will be the same and neither schools. churches or
other moral institutions will make any change In
him as TO Intellect
The Sunday-schoo talk that great men come
from nothing Is all bosh II II be true that Nancy
Hanks was the mother OF Abraham Lincoln. you
can put II down that Nancy was somebody Tor a
fact The talk OF the Rev. Sam Jones that all
men are made OF the same kind OF dirt Is not the
! truth The dirt has got badly mixed with other
| things since God made the first man and ex-
| pressed satisfaction with His work. although the
test II a boy becomes great In this world II Is
generally due to someth good in one or the other
! OF the parents as a starter.
! Before the boy left with his milk / asked him
| II he wished TO 20 TO school Nope" was the
prompt reply aud. besides said he, II have 10 stay
! a home and tend 10 the baby" There's where the
trouble nes-too many Of such babisA