The San Francisco call., 1905-03-26
AN IMPRESSIVE LESSON.

= URING the people OF Oakland and San Fran
cisco witnessed the trial for murder Of two young men
- both being little past majority The cTmina news IN l
youth ali walks OF life extending to students OF the
pleading for their yoong and asking mercy OF the law
the trials for the capital furnished the novel scene OF
father acting as attorney for his Wayward son. and casting all OF
These ordinary They go beyond the usual
They belong chapter of that
began many ago and that and crowded as
engens The criminal statistics of the country show progressive
lowering age which criminals arrested their career
~ nnr and oosenng Of the bonds Of morality which ser
ousv affect country and waste of
time and aimless life be responsible for
don that NAV well arouse the keenest mora and
We have abundant codes on truancy during
school age and have juvenile courts created deal with
youthful offenders All the country State reform schools
for ncob and the State have been alert in the
matter at all points Perhaps the State has done TOO much ana s
van attempted be substitute for parental restraint and ad
monon The laws restricting child labor are extensive but there
prevent youthful deness If could be trusted
control themselves would be better The reports
OF child labor inspectors which TEEN with cases which parents
wuly and sehhl force their young labor
adapted their and strength show that these conditions are
prevalent among immigrant class 1t impossible
the country receive the millions OF aliens that coming now
and preserve its moral pose
make much it. but reports from Chicago show the
the dene packed foreign of that city Of the
~ t f tbe naive Countries winch thew brought along
import diseases of Europe
pe the epidemic of that exists youth Crime
follows the line of least resistance After men
age measure Judgment and conscience they
likely the penalty Of
But the young with character uniformed and principles
developed the victims of fixed criminal
habits before they reach their majority
It time that the and the pulpit do some plain talking on
that be reminded orcib of their
parental responsibility When ncorigibe children brought be-
the instead of admonishing them let judicial
be made the home conditions under which they
being phantropist who said that the
reform ncogbe Johnny Jones begin with Johnny
Jones geatgandfthe In mutudes of the ncorrigibc
parents require reformation first and the redemption of their chill
den will follow They should be taught their duty that
their children neither forced improper labor
ideness that their do take the shape of
ranging and with the vicious.
Hcrods slaughter OF the merciu compared
destruction of the and the lives of the young this
this criminal epidemic, which rapidly becoming the
OF American society No class is exempt from and
Increasing such that home itself absolutely
attack 1t the because citizenship
be recruited from the We need the old
fashioned scrupes the odahoned sefrestraint simple pr
cpes which kept evil of youth
OF decline the average age
this their first conviction will be the 1t
horrible thing and application of remedy should enlist the
thought and intelligent philanthropy OF the country There
important than this, that exceeds
bearing the future of the Nothing should be
way solving problem presents