The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
STRAP AND FIST To MAKE
CHILDREN LOVE VIRTUE
Members of the Legislature Investigate the State
Industrial School and Become Enraged.
Joseph Wallace Teacher Admits Choking Young Girl and Other
Dasds-ReOgnizatiOn and Reform Demanded
tsy7Es. I chol1ed her" coolly admit

ttyTEs. I chol1ed her" coolly admit
ted Joseph Wallace. the "kind
teacher at the Industrial
school
why did you do that?'
"she was standing there looking at
the boys while they were eating. Shed
no business 10 be there, and era bbed
her TO drag her away. She began
10 swear. and SO 1 choked her TO shut
her mouth"
Didn't you strike HERO
Maybe / did"
The girl in question is Frances
Whitecotton, grandniece Of j. w. n.
Whitecotton Of Provo. Fifteen years Of
age is she, slender and rather under
sized. Wallace, the burly man who
thus attacked this slim child, is sup
posed 20 teach the boys the love Of
humanity and to lead them onward
and upward 10 better thoughts and
deeds The girls in the school say her
face turned red under the brutal at
tack, and then purple. that the teacher
beat and kicked her, and left her
gasping.
This gives only a slight inking of
The disclosures yesterday during the
visit Of some or the members of the
state legislature TO an institution sup
ported by the state and Incorporating
under the name of Industrial school"
Legislators Were Enraged.
About fifteen members OF the house
visited the place. and before they left
there every tGan of them was boiling
with rage at the conditions he found.
while more than one woman was seen
10 wipe her eyes. The representa- lives
left this forcing-be for vice and crime
With nrm determination TO insist on
a clean sweep in the institution. its
reorganization and transformation into
an educational institution in the high
est sense instead of an enclosure that
girls leave for houses of nl-fame and
boys for the penitentiary
After their examination the mem
beers began TO understand a possible
reason for the attack on the SUI
perintendent, the attempt 10 burn the
building and plot 90 poison the teach
ers
The members were appalled,.
Here are young girls, motherless, per
maps and almost surely lacking parent
al anectioul drifting toward the break
ers Of destruction. They have been
sent there 90 Doe taught the beauties OF
"a better life. 20 have their starved or
misshapcn souls developed and % be
given spirituality and "a strength of
character 20 guide them safely. At this
school they find Wallace, who en-
pioys the strap and stick TO teach the
love of God, ard who uses the fist as
an inspiration t0 virtue.
Here are tiny waits, east adrift by
death or dishonOr led astray by evil
associations. and sent TO the School
90 be taught kindness, honor. Justice
zeal for the right and an the other
qualities that make good citizens. Their
education consists TO a large degree OF
association with older boys already
STEPPED I'm crime, or men who have by
Ialsehood as 20 their age escaped the
penltentlary for this Institution. TO
supplement this. there is the kind
teacher again with his strap and stick
eNpoundlng the doctrine Of love 90 the
9-ytar-olds and correcting spelling with
his fist until the words are punctuated
with blood.
Say It's a Disgrace.
The members Of the legislature OBJ |
their brief visit Of the conditions uu-
DERIVING the surface, and they united
on this verdict;
ITS a disgrace to the state"
They found the industrial schooY'
little more than "a crowded Jail They
found it a place OF confinement rather !
than an educational institution The
only teacher for the boys is Wallace. ]
II any of the youths is hungry for more
knowledge than he can gain from this
source. he may, If he is good, be al /
lowed as a special favor TO read the /
Congressional Record, some of the pat /
ent Office reports, or perhaps a whole /
sale price list for druEs-the prize vol /
umes in the library. The members on !
The spot despite objections and almost /
sneers on the part OF the management /
raised $3.50 90 buy good books and
juvenile periodicals for the bows and /
girls. Representative William Sprv
was made treasurer of the fund and /
the matter viii be taken up again to- /
day books and money for the purpose /
being solicited 90 give the children I
some slight relief as soon as possible. I
So decided were the criticisms made I
by the members of the legislature that }
Trustees Angus II. Wright and ". G.. 1
Flygare left I'm anger after a heated .
controversy.
Children Tell on Wallace.
Nicholas Nickleby In the D0theboy's /
hall portrayed by Dickens never had a p
harder time than the little homeless J
chaps whom the state is trying to "re-
form. holding mp before them as an /
example and teacher Joseph Wallace.
who beats and chokes little girls and I.
hits small boys in the face.
The conditions at the institution
were revealed by private and separate
examination and examination OF
The inmates. IL corrob0rative evidence /
were needed. the admission of Wallace
hlmself would furnish g. There is no
need to give the names of his ac-
cusers. for they are sJill in his power
and I'm "a position where brutal revenge +
Is possible
mir. Wallace is the only one who's
mean 20 us" said more than one Of the
boys "Now. Mr.. Meyers tthe day
guard is all right Mrs Allison is the
only one that sends AS things or looks
after us 81 We're sick. don't know