The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-11-21
PUBLIC SCHOOLS DO NOT TRAIN THE HEART
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ject in such desutory fashion. Children can
not be taught by lecturing them on principles.
Children must be taught rules, and, in after life,
they may perhaps comprehend the principle of
which the rule is the concise expression. A ter
rble indictment of the inadequacy of this make
shift at moral training is Judge Lindseys children's
court. On Saturday, the oath of January he had
brought before him thirty three boys from the Co
school, in whose district there is not single
poor" family-lt consists of the best homes of
our city. These boys all technically thieves.
They made it a practice to steal ice cream gro
ceres even turkeys, which were left the kitchen
porches ia the neghborhood, and in some cases
they had taken things off the kitchen tables These
thirty three boys did not seem to think they had
done anything very wrong Judge Lindsey stated
that, from his two years investigation, he should
estimate that at least so per cent of the Denver
boys dishonest.
We are no worse that other localities. In 1890
in Chicago there were 1890 prisoners under Is.
In a generation of 10000 Denver boys 1000 had
been in jail-one in every five In 1850 there were
in school 100000 children, at cost of $3.50 for
each child; there was then one criminal to every
3442 of the population. In 1880 there were TO-
100000 children in school, costing 1912 each;
there then criminal for every 837 of the
population. The criminals had increased four
fold
Mr.. Mcdonald, the specialist in the United
States Bureau of Education, in his statement just
crime Is steadily on the increase. This may be
from these figures, published ten years ago.
The data of the last census has not yet been is
SUED, that 1890 is as far as we can go. In 1850
there was one criminal to every ,442 of the popu-
laton. In 1860 there was one criminal to every
1,647 of the population. In 1870 there was one
criminal to every 1021 of the population. In 1880
there criminal to every 837 of the popu-
laton. In 1890 there was one criminal to every us
of the population
There were 1884 murders in the United States
last year; the year before the number was 1862
an increase of nearly 1000. One death in every
112 is murder! There sixteen murders in
Denver last year, and not one of them avenged
There were 986 more suicides last year than the
year before-8,231 is a fearful record of goddess
unrestraint. One death in sixty-fve is either
murder or a suicide in these United States The
record for embezzling, forgery defaulting and
bank wrecking for 1902, representing money stolen
from its owners, was $500, 1853, 6S3,556 more
than in 1901
In the face of this alarming condition of the
morality of the nation, it must be confessed that
the public education is failure 1t fails to do
that very thing for which education is under
taken; it fails to train youth to the yoke of
discipline and obedence it fails to create in them
a principle of energy which enables them to re-
sist temptation; it fails to induce them of their
free will, to accept the law of labor and duty;
it fails to make them patriotic citizens and God
fearing men and
Every civilization which has practiced immor
atty has decayed and finally disappeared And
this great country is not beyond the reach of
universal law. This country is rapidly deterio-
rating in its moral fibre, and the material decline
will inevitably follow; and unless our citizens arise
and grapple this demon of responsibility and i'm
morality by recognizing the public education
even this land of vast opportunity, rapidly becom-
ing the land of license, will fall from her majestic
height into unimaginabe chaos of social dis
aster
REV. HENRY MARTIN HART, D. ID.