The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-02
rRE DIsorPLTNE OF CHILDREN.
An Argument That sparing the Bed
Spells the Child.

An Argument That Dparing the hso
l. Spells the Child.
| To THE EDIroR or THs suNSir: We read
| IN the papcrs almost daily OF boys and girls
going sstray. A boy runs from home and
IA found by his father In the pottcrs nsid;
parents ask Magistrates TO commit their
| offspring a. inoorrisible: young fellow
= "a dinner with only pawn ticket In hIs
possession.
In this last case the Justice administered
q rebuke TO tho brother who bessed for him,
saying. Justice would be better friend
by severe punlshment 10 this degenerate Of
ap honored name"
BY indulgence SOW tho @drason's teeth 70
reap dsstruotionS Making allowance for Woe
due to heredty. children can be swAyed 10
good or evil "as clay In the hands OF the
There has been much continent on land
lord who. put . tax on children. and we know
how many owners will not have children In
their tsnements. No one will think that
sweet a. the laugh Of childhood. But the
owner breads them because the parents
have never taught the children 10 fear God
or respect their eldern. This license under
the excuse children will be children" breeds
In young minds contempt Of control and
o lowering OF the moral sense.
An account 10 published Of q man who had
his mother arrested. Such thing ID horrlfy-
Ing.
Does this woman. while TELLING to foolish
sympathisers how evil will befAll her son.
think that she is now reaplns the whirlwind3
She tails how she danced with the Prince.
and wore Worth dresses"; but did she instll
into her son the beauties Of morality? Did
she curb him, or lead him upward BY pains
and examplep II so. then We must throw
away tho Bible that promises.
and when no In old he will not depart from t.
At one OF the hospitals . woman brought
to mo q boy. one Of hosts Of similar cases.
With deceit she was debauching his young
mind l said to her, "One of these days the
boy 0 vii! pay you for not setting truthful
The woman stared at me. as n she could
a once showed me e handle him. showing
VI" One day tSls boy may stand in aou,. for
lvoaid send ths man to jail. and the wretehed
S E ssn b trained q: easter sAAsn "a:
sssysnos. L.ndoEd. 0e ana e rssS
children because the parents do not give
them as much care e. brutes receive.
the slck become the corner loafers. Their
hoarss voices not stllled In respect TO the
passers BY. the girls with cheeks like flowers
parade the streets at night, with bold eyes
looking at men more modest than themselves.
T., lwas ticking to clergyman In post once
were seen young boy: hustlins their elders.
mon, lau ching loudly like the woman Of
Babylon" and saying -Scuse me-
stood By the wall. Watching al thu. why
do not you preach against this;' Said he.
Il don't dare. IL IA the evil Of the age
There are people so preeumptuous a. 70
place their wisdom aaain.t the law made
Il. TSd batch BE s.9 but he S sa:s iS,stS
n aessrs T. Sr9si to .trss sSa
and have abolished the rod In the public
Physical punishment Ia benencent. II
OF counsel are failures. No one ever heard
OF Z man oondemnine his father for sending
him to cut a switch. The woman if yet 70
: slipper to keep her Of re street Or 70 make
man AZ ire Saiiows that Bit on his ally mothers
car for bringing him there.
The Lord burns up. city to teach US to
mend our building laws. naval vessel
sinks with = hundred Victims to iInpress that
ships should not have rotten boilers. SpAfinG
the rod sends the bows to the chair and the
girls to the potters field.
Are We .wiser than God who sent ~ the
.T Ard the prophets but does not ,psre