The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-18
FOR YOUTHFUL WRoNGDoERs.
3 Few Things About RefarmatOry
and Its Subjects.

To the Editor:--Four years aga /
asked that the Legislature establish a
retormatory for the benefit of young
boys, who hod fallen under the habit
of strong drink and other stimunents.
suppose that lur.ng the sitting of this
Legislature the institution will be eS-
tablished, as it was so strongly recam-
nended by the Governor, and others.
cont think the institution ought to be
established strictly for the benefit of
young conVicts; it would be we'll to
provide for some Of them, but the
Judge who hears the evidence and de-
CideS the case, should say whether the
bay should be put at hard work, or in
the rGfOrmatory. 1t is tome that many
of our boys are we'll up to their buSl-
ness. They failoW stealing as bust
ness, and very soon get TO be profess
s. onal. Such boys need to be taught
some things, and nothing but real pun
i8hment, will learn them the lesson
that will be q benefit to them.
The bay of today is so we'll up to
his business that the most complica-
ted dock don't stop him. 1t is not the
old nor the Widdle-aged, that crack
the safe, but the young gentleman that
walks the streets, tnr sometimes gOeS
with the better class of people. He is
proud of his business. Shall the old.
q business of stealing gotO the pen
and to hard work and the young gen.
tlcman yho is proud of his business go
the reformatory TO be treated like
gentleman, No; put him TO hard work
until he leorns something of real life.
Half of the boys of today are being
brought up in idleness; they lon't
know what it is to work for living;
really parents ought to have to bear
Al. Nf t1n Itch M nj
The boy that has nothing TO do Will
find something to do and nine times
aut of ten viii come to some bad end
Yes, tn $ seldom h,,u
Yes, this Legislature ought TO estab-
liSh a reformatory, but lets not have
Il reformatory school as has been sug-
geSted by so many. Those that need TO
be reformed, most of them have been
to school enough; they are already
mseusted with schools. Lets have an
inst. tuition that will learn the boy, the
young man haw to work; a trade that
will br ng him an honost living. Give
him good books to read, and the
gospel. These things will reform any
boy, and make q man out OF him. That
will be worth something TO himself
and to the world.
Two years ago / begged that the
Legislature pass bill prob biting men
from putting saw Hills over tIlC dli-
ming waters of our State. This is done
to save the labor of one hand to each
mill, and the dust is carried down to
f the bed of the branch, the creek,
and the river, and lie, produce diseases
FOR the next fifty years to come. This
is not all. All the fish that grow so
nicely in our mountain streams, and
are enjoyed by our people so much will
lie destroyed Is this right? No. The
cit zens all over the State want law
To stop the it'll men from running the
Gust upon their lands and in their
streams. / sent n bin TO a member of
the House two years ago, to do this
one tn ng. and he wrote me that the
member from Surry was opposed to
the bill being introduced. Why. he
had a little mill on creek. Must all
suffer for the sake of one? No. Let
us have the law Will not some men,
Der introduce the bill?
c. c. HAYMORE.