The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-03-07
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
He Agrees With Preacher as to Moral
instruction..
Atlanta Constitution.

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en-, either. ! was raised on corporal
punishment, both at home and at
.clool. did not get it often, bu, at
long intervals, but got it when for
bcarancc had ceased to obcayr,uc. and
it was administered Ike mriicinc and
was always good catLar,c.
II this was all wron. AMI made ne
worse instead Of beucr aud liu,uiilatni
my pride, a H., dortors say, hen
must consider n.y.rlt an Injured per-
son, aud hire . lawyer TO sue sonio,
body for damages, for Back stone says
| there is no wrong without remedy.
| But my teachers are all dead; and they
were all dead broke before they died,
as all teachers are. So | have no
remedy. Now, Of course, there axc
children who never need punishment,
either at home or at school-preach-
crs children and some mild-cycd Jcr-
scys, who are good constitutionally.
Most all girls are that way, bless their
hearts, but original sin is developed
early in most boys, and if not re-
strained, grows into moral turpitudc
and ends in to: ' dcpravity and the
chaingang. Old Eli got his neck
broken for not restraining his boys,
and they came to bad end. Eli was
preacher. Solomon said, Withhold
not correction from the child,' etc.
There were children Of Belial then
and there are now. DR.. TIolderby says
there are 500 boys in Atlanta schools
who never heard the name of God save
when it was used profancly, and he
might have added and who never got
a licking ut home and are on the high
road to the chaingang, and their only
chance is to be restrained at school by
rod and rcproof. Teachers arc better
than fathers and mothers to many
children. In fact, VIC all know of pa
rents who are not ii: ,n raise their own
children, and who oui, ht to die and let
their children be sent to au orphan
asylum. Why all this racket about
whipping bad boys?
The doctor throws down the chal-
lenge and says the rod in the scrip
lures merely means government, and
that the very moment you delegate to
a teacher the right to whip n child
you fling an insult in the face of God. {.
Well, if everybody who knows DIR.
lIoldcrby didn't love him, they would
smile at such ridiculous assertions.
lie could hardly find another Biblical
scholar but who would say that the
rod in Scripture means good old
fashioned licking, and it is to be re-
marked that whenever it was used it
IS in the masculine gender. Correct
thy son, and he shall give thee rest. :"
BEAT him with the rod and save his
soul she that spareth the rod
hateth his son" etc. The girls didn t
need it then and they do not nov.
They are all mild deyed Jerseys, except
some.
DR.. Holderby declares that whipping
a boy Injuries his social standing and
takes away his self-respoct. Maybe
that is what the matter with me,
and is the reason I am so meek and
subdued. Maybe I was whipped too
much. I had fight one Sunday with
o boy at campmeeting, and he whipped
me and muddled my Sunday clothes
and gouged the skin off my face, Next
morning my father whipped me for
fighting, and when l went to school
the teacher got ready to whip me, but
I showed him my legs and he let me
of. Good gracious, what proud, J.,
self-respecting man l would have
been if it rad not been for good
old John Norton and DR.. Patter-
son. You see, l was not preacher 8
son.
But, seriously, l know parents who
would rather the teacher would punish
their bad boys than to tackle them at
| uUuIe. 1uo bCuOOA 10 GucIr TeIOrma-
tory, and with some mothers, it is the
nursery. Then, again, there are pa
rents who think the teacher ought to
whip other peoples children, but new
er touch their own. There are lots Of
these, especially mothers. The teach
ers have hard time steering between
the breakers, and am sorry for them,
but have never known a single case
where the bad boy got moro than he
deserved.
Long experience has proved that
corporal punishment is best for bad
men as woll as for bad boys. Crime
has rapidly increased all over tho land
under the new regime. The average
of boys are much worse than they
were fifty years ago. They grow up to
fill our prisons and chaingnngs, and
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