El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-10
A Very Necessary Addition
To the Public Institu-
tons Of Iexas.
STRONG PLEA FOR IT
made By Street Missionary Wheel
er. Who Is Also Fighting For the
passage OF the Anti-Coca!ne
Bill Through the LeDlsIa ure.-
Fearful Evils OF the Cocaine
Traffic Detailed By the Ex-
Clown.-SAyers MIL Sion Both
Bills

Street Missionary Wheeler, who is
now making talks on the streets of Ell
Paso. is making his strongest argu-
ments in favor of the industrial school
and anti-cocaine bills which are to be
passed upon by the next Texas legis-
lature.
The industrial school bill. of which
Chief of Police Rhea, of FIT. Worth, is
the father, has been heard of to a con-
siderable extent in Ell Paso before,
as the sheriffs of Texas while in con-
vention in this city passed resolu-
tions in favor of il and appointed
committee to intercede with the legis-
lature in favor fit OF the school,
which is to be erected il the bill is
passed by the legislature. Mr.. Wheeler
says:
1T is not to be a reform school.
although to be supported by the state
the same as is the reform school or
the A. & NJ. school or any state insti-
tuition. The reform school or the pen
itentiary or the Jail is not the place
for many a case of incorrigible youth
whom the parents find that they can
not control. yet are not to be classed
with criminals. There is also the child
of poverty that should be given
chance to learn a profession or trade.
Many a child is born in iniqLity and
is bound to remain in iniquity, COM
ptlieu DE 10 grow up III
a bad atmosphere. These are the boys
and girls who are to be taken in
charge by the state under the law for
which | am fighting. They are our
future fathers and mothers, our future
statesman. our future patterns by
which other lives are to be formed.
Parents of the obstreperous child
rem will see that we have provided
place where their children can be man
n IN no full nd
women and they will gladly let them
be taken into the school. The poor
parents who cannot afford to buy
| books and clothing for their children
so that they NAL enter the district
school will see a place where their
children will be provided these things
and will be proud of the opportunity
to give their children a chance to Sc
cure a means of making an honest liv-
ing. In the case of the child whose
mother is found in the police station.
the wine room or the cocaine joint.
the law will take them in hand and
snatch them from the jaws of living
death.
Then there is the youth who has
made his first step toward life of
| crime. He picks some mans pocket.
he steals some trivial object or mali
| ciously destroys property. The Jail
or the reform school is not the place
for him. The Judge is hard to find
who would sentence him to association
with hardened criminals where he
| would only be short time until the
admonition of the kind hearted Judge
will be forgotten and another crime
will be committed by the same hand
But when this school is established he
will be taken there. treated kindly.
| learned morality and business by
which he may make IN honest living.
And again. there is the child whose
parents send to the saloon after buck
cts of beer. They may not be willing
to give them up. but the law will say,
| Here. we cannot allow our future men
and women 10 be started out in the
paths of sin and crime. We will take
your child and make of him a desirable
citizen and when he is large enough
| to know better than to follow such a
| life you may have him back. or if
you demonstrate to us your ability to
bring him up right We will give him
back sooner. We must save our state
from being the home of men and wo-
men who have had crime instilled in
their minds from childhood to ma
turity.''
Senator Barry Miller. of Dallas. who
made an address here before the sher-
IFS convention. introduced into the
last legislature an anti-cocaine bill.
1t was tabled then, il seems. because
the rural members did not realize the
importance of its passage at that time
and pushed il aside to give considera-
ton to other bills which. they
thought to be of more Importance. But
Mr.. Wheeler says that they are now
getting their eyes open to the enor-
nifty of the illegal selling of this per-
nicious drug and he has had members
of the legislature to come to him after
n
grasping his hand. say. II did not I'M
derstand the Importance OF the anti
| cocaine bill but l do now and will