Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-12-15
He'll For Disobedient Adults And
Reform School For Children Who Disobey


Iionoiulu' ouI 'iilIulth may Ntt IT,
ceive protection from the enforcement
of outrageOusly bad laws which have
the influence Of a vindictive theology;
religion Of hardness. injustice, per-
| secutiOn and revenge.
| There il no question that u familiar
| ity with the old ideas of rctributiOn. "a
belief in n God who Furnishes dlsobed-
lent sons by placing them in everlast-
| ing fire. has made some of our In
| humanity to children possible In Il day
when Kindness and love are counting
more than ever IN our relations with
the young
TO some Of us II seems scarcely pos
slble that there are laws to encourage
the very worst traits to be found In
the guardians Of children. whether
these guardians be parents. teachers
or advisers. But so IL IL.
That for some disObedience AT home
! u child should be taken outside of the
sacred circle and tried for an oflcnse.
actually published To the world as a
criminal. and then branded as one.
! deprived of home and its influence anu
| taken within walls as a prisoners
mOnstrous.
II is bad enough II for some boyiGh
fault your neighbOr threatens to
thrash your child and fake the law In
! his own hands. but IN that ease you
have recourse and redress. and you
may set the man or woman down az
pretty nearly devoid Of good sense.
| You have the strong parental defense
which will keep your child In his dis.
obedences out of the clutches of bad
laws as well us bad men.
If. however. there are no natural
| guardians of the child. he falls under
the very law which uncharitable per-
sons may use against him. II the child
belongs TO parents who have not the
| proper parental regard for him-his
case may be even worse.
When u child IL "uncOntrollable"
who Is to blame? And II the child be
only hayward as we all have been
careless perhaps. Indifferent to kindly
Influence, even irrevercnt and "saucy"
who should teach II better. and he
patient with its faults. seeking out the
| higher instincts which are surely there.
who but the parents who brought the
child into the world with his tendcn-
cics. and will leave him to battle with
them and the world for the rest OF hiG
life? His consent was not asked as to
lis makeup. neither rs to his willing
ness To submit to a life of struggle in
Il place as hard to stand In as this:
tcrial conditions he preferred. oh. no.
He must come ut the bidding of a
mOmcntary sensual taste. He must
pass through n trying infancy wherein
he Is but half cared for. run the gamut
| Of diseases which seek children like
flies on ointment. grow used to artiilc-
ial conditions which his parents think
are best for him, and finally he must
go to Reform school branded as n erin.
inal II he happens to show some OF
the spirit OF his ancestors.
1 Besides, do we not take ourselves
too seriously as parents? Are we such
Girnitarics. judges. masters. never
mistakers as to get In n rage and use
the law because we have been given Il
little brief authority?
Some Of the best men livingston,
OF the most useful In the world-havo
been truants at home. evading school
hours and duties, and many of us have
run away from home when we had
good homes too Theoretically we dis.
prove Of these faults. but they arc
faults only. and not crimes. And 70
have put blot on the life OF such mel
for such faults would have been hard
ly less than n crime itself There Is
no man living who could stand witt
proper manliness and a conscious sens,
Of right, II he knew that you knew b,
u Reform school.
Not that he might not feel within
himself that he deserved your full re-
spect; but he would know that in truth
you had against your own will per
haps ruled him out Of your class.
! FoT, WHuttNfI lOTklNtHtSh VI IOTe't
iulness may do. or the combined ma
chinery OF the churches accomplish, I
man can no more undo the dark fac
that he was once committed To Re
form school than he can blot out tn,
fact that he was born on such a day.
Both are on record and burn through
the years. The opinion of the wOrl'
0utlasts even life Of good cndeayor
and the remembrance of RECORDED
odense against the State is a blot an
a stain not TO be effaced:
t"Guard good name with steadfas
care;
Once wounded II a scar must bear.
At which, though washed with bite
tears
The world will point in after years
And tell what placed II there"
This IL equally true Of academia
J and undeseryed wounds: they leav
scars. And to place such an uneiface
able thing on the life of an Offendin