The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-01-08
BY THE YARD.

s- There is q man up IN TOledO VINO Is
sending out circular letter to the
editors of the state, Offering to furnish
brains, and their application to vari-
Gus subjects, for the columns of the
fellow who was born shy of the guam
tity necessary to fill a position after
he has secured the job. With each let
ter he encloses a few samples of his
work, done in various colors and styles
TO suit all the different possible tastes,
with few more made up in conglom-
crate conception, shape and form, to
hit almost any case of deficient pro-
ductive power.
He is kind philanthropnlst, no
doubt, filling long felt want among
the subscribers to many papers, but
his proposition savors too much of the
Christian Science principle of absent
treatment when applied to local con-
ditions, which are, after all, the main
proposition in the editorial sayings of
a live paper. We might grant our
brother, of self assurance and pen
pushing power, that he can say these
same sayings with more force and elo-
duence of diction than our local staff,
but he stands in about the same light
TO local field that the travelling
evangelist does to lot of hardened
old sinners, whose every fault and
failure is known by the good old
preacher who has hammered them
from one revival to another. with lit
tie success, but yet we would rather,
after ALL keep their possibility of re-
pentance in the hands of the local
brother who knows just which corner
they turn every morning for their first
drink
Our Toledo friend. who stands ready
to sell editorial effort by the yard,
and allow the other fellow to reap the
praises, informs us that upon subjects
of human interests and national policy,
he is IT The most humanity interest
ing sample sent is as fc;lows:
Eve know of only one animal that
persistently and vieiously tortures its
young. An old SOW, whose struggling
brood sometimes get tangled up in her
legs while she is flying toward the
swill-undoubtedly against her orders,
too-will sometimes take her little son
or daughter and break its back with
a crunch. Sometimes particularly
vicious SOW win actually eat one of her
pigs, one of her pigs that presumably
did not mind.
.You ought to be able to act toward
your children like civilized being.
But if you must be an animal be an
elephant.
Never lay your hands on your chill
dren. You have the word of Spencer
for it that the average child has much
of good in it to which you eau appeal.
If YOUR child has not, YOU are to
blame for giving it such poor unbal
anced brain. and it is monstrous Of you
TO torture the innocent product of your
own mental and moral deficiencies.
let this be your motto: A child too
young to understand a word. cannot
understand blow; child that CAN
understand a word, doesn't need the
blow If YOU know enough to say the
word right
ine interest in this domestic policy
80 boy who was facing the decree Of
Solomon on the spare-the-rod subject
would be nnquestionable. However,
there has been several failures in the
management of orphan asylums by old
maids, and few fellows whose logic
and theory struck breakers when the
twins were less than eight years old
Throwing aside all nonsense such
driveling slush as this makes poor sam
ples with which to gather future busi-
ness That the better treatment given
children is mark Of human progress.
and that the substitution Of reason
and love for severe punishment when
possible, is the guide board pointing
away from barbarism is certainly a
fact Of which modern civilization
should be proud, but as long as hered-
jty hands down the disiguring tumor
there will be need of the surgeons
knife at times, when all other remedies
fall.
A man can not go back and make
over his disposition and eradicate the
evil which has entailed upon a son
the curse Of an ungovernable temper,
but with the good judgment Of years,
he can, with the unbounded love of a
true father administer punishment,
seemingly severe, and yet be entitled
TO recognition as civilized In all its
better, higher sense.
More samples. please, before we
make definite arrangements for the
6liing Of our columns.
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