The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-02
THE DISCIPLINE or c.zLDxEN.
An Argument That SparinI tho psd
SpOtlB the Child.


TO THE EDITOR or The SuN--Sir; We read
In the papers almost daily OF boys and girls
going astray. A boy runs from homo and
IL found by his father In tho potter's field |;
parents ask Magistrates 10 commit their
offspring AZ incorrielble; young fellow
from good family arrested for ordering
a S2e dinner with only pawn ticket In his
possession.
In this last case the Justice administered
a rebuke to the brother who begged for him.
saying, Justice would be q better friend
by severe punishment to this degenerate OF
an honored name"
What does all this show. II not that parents
by indulgence SOW the dragons teeth" TO
reap destruotionf Making allowance for Woo
due to heredlty. children can DO swayed 70
good or evil AS clay In the hands OF the
potter
There has been much comment on . land
lord who put tai on children. and We know
how many owners will not have children In
their tehements. No one will think that
children are hated. for there 10 nothing 30
sweet a. tho laugh OF childhood. But the
owner breads them because the parents
have never taught the children to fear God
or respect their elders. This license under
the excuse children will be children" breeds
In young minds q contempt OF control and
o lowering Of the moral sense
An account u published Of q man who had
his mother arrested. Such thing IL horrify-
ing.
Does this woman, while telling to foolish
sympathiEers how evil will befall her son.
think that she Is now resping the whlrlwlndP
She tells how she danced with the Prince.
and wore Worth dresses: but did she instil
into her son the beauties OF morality2 Did
she curb him. or lead him upward by pains
and example? II so. then We must throw
away the Bible that promises:
IL ~ - 49, all
and when he is old he will not depart from II.
At one Of the hospitals = woman brought
to me a 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 Viii VIII pay you for not setting truthful
The woman stared at me as II she could
not make e out, but the child, who heard all.
at once allowed me to handle him. showing
one day this boy may stand IN court for
would send tSs man 70 jail. and the wretohsd
Children can be trained easier than cats
and dogs, which are, made to understand
s ses s u Iandiords and tenants dread
children because the parents do not give
them as much care e. 6sntes receive. o,,,r
the siok become the corner losiers,. Their
passsfs Sy tie n girls VIII cheeks ike
parade the streets at night. with bold eyes
looking at men more modest than themselves.
Twas talking to a clergyman In post office
In Western town where women vote There
were seen young boys hustlinG their elders,
young girls In short dresses pressing against
Ba Bah; and saying "scuse me. ~
stood BY the wall watching ali this: why
- don't HSt y dsre DTeish &c e x. me-
There. are people 30 presumptuous a. TO
place their wisdom asainst the law made
thousands OF years ago: He that spareth
his rod hateth bis son: but HI, that loveth
him .chastepeth him betlmes;" These moral
weaklings declare 1t brutal to strike child.
and have abolished the rod In the public
schools.
Physical punishment IL beneficent. 1t
OF counsel are failures. No one ever heard
Of q man condenrina his father for sending
him! to Gut a switch. The woman is yet TO
be found to call Der mother brutal who used
slipper to keep her Oh the street or to make
her learn Homework. But we hear OF the
man at the 9allowe thal bit OF his silly mothers
ear for bringing him there.
The Lord burns up city to teach us to
mend orr building laws. A naval vessel
sinks with a hundred victims IT, impress that
ships should not have rotten boilers. SparinR
the rod sends the bows to the chair and the
girls to the potter's field.
Are We wiser than God. who sent us the
the rod? F. B. SPooNEH.
BKooKLYN. July 81.