The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-11-07

Give the people healthy homes human lives due leisure
and amusement and pure drink and
will disappear While there are sums while men have
pure pleasure while they overworked untaugh and
ana wne the wealthy brewer his poison
cry street corner will be useless The
late Dean OF Manchester spoke like when he
said that it he lived in the slums he too would take to drink
DO you doubt me when say that it the surroundings
that make the vices of the people?
Put number of weldsrosed people into bad surround
ngs and compel them to stop there In century you will
have the kind Of people be found in the sums Take
now, lot of people from the sums and put them new
country where they work ve they can live by
work. where fresh air and freedom and hope
them, and in generation you will have prosperous and
credtabe colony Do you not know this to be true?
not happened both ways Do Dr. Barnaos outcast child
turn out we'll? Then what is the reason? Men made
has been said that dirt is matter in the wrong place.
often think that examples Of energy
wrong place. Emerson says "There moral deformity
but is good passion out of place." Some cannot
thrive without great deal of excitement They them
such desire activity such hunger for adventure they
incapable of settling down the dull drum life Of
responsibility and profit making Sir Walter Raleigh was
bold explorer and grand admiral but cannot imagine him
success Lancashire weaver, with SIS week and two
holidays year. Turn these restless spirits loose in congen
al sphere and they will do much good work. indeed much
good work has been done by SUCH But duness any
ony task work and tracts not food hot enough for
paates And they seek change and such excitement
their way And the dealer docored gin and the retailer
of racing morals find their profit in them but they might
have been fine factors in the of human progress.
TO tell these people that they shall have help and love
they quit their vices like telling sick that he shall
be sent to the seaside he his health
Sow wheat sterile land and will give poor har-
vest Would you say while there poor harvests
must be ster ands? Put fish in small and dirty globe
and he will sicken Would you say that while there sick
fishes there must be small globes and impure water? Yet
while there and mprovdence there
erty.
Why do the middle and upper classes take trouble
with the nursing and education of their chdren Why do
they nst into their young minds principles of honesty
industry Of vue of culture? Why do they their
and daughters to school and to coege Why do they teach
them cleanliness and sobriety? Why do they eaosly
watch their moas Why do they take such trouble and
incur such expense in the effort shield them from all that
vicious and indecent and unhealthy? Is it not
their moral and mental and physical welfare? will say
"Of Course"
seems then, that the choren educated honest
and vrtuous parents need to be carefully trained guard
ed to prevent them from falling into deness and vice.
children would grow up good without watchfuness and
tvaon would be folly and waste of time means
to trouble about teaching them Now all this care s neces
moral excellence could not be ensured That to saw
that in colleges Sunday schools in home les
sons in the tender and socude good parents