Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-11
NAN ONLY KILLS PROGENY
EO Other Being in the World Brutal to Its
Offspring,
CHILD LABOR CURSE TO HUMANITY
New. r. n. II. Rel Pleads for Protec-
tion OF Little Ones and AdvO-
Gates Passage of Bill Pend
ing in Legislature.

Man is the only created thing that is a
brute to his offspring. Man alone wilfully
kills his children" was a statement made
by Rev. Robert 3. II. Bell, rector OF the
Good Shepherd Episcopal church, in his
sermon yesterday morning, whose text he
took from Mark ix:42. In part he said:
owing to the Importance of my sub
feet, and for fear may be misunderstood,
have been constrained to write my ad-
dress. The child in the mind Of the Master,
was most important. Any well regulated
country gives to the child first considera-
tion. This regard does not spring from the
Lord alone, but from other reasons.
Neglected children make a neglected ma
tion. In proportion as a nation cares for,
educates and attends to the morals of the
children. so in proportion will the nations
disposition and temper be. This needs no
demonstration, for all know It. Our laws
recognize IL. Even the animal kingdom
obeys this unwritten law
Man is the only created being that is a
brute 20 his offspring. Man alone wilfully
kills his children. Man. who is the wisest
of all nature. will for selfish ends and
pure delight, snatch the purity of child
and kill baby. Christ had no reason to
tell the tiger, 'whosover shall offend one
of these little ones-it were better for him
that milestone were hanged about his
neck and ne were cast into the sea- for
He knew that she would not offend her
little ones. But to man, who, with swollen
chest, claims this superiority over the dog,
may yet be taught many valuable lessons
in morals by the dog. 1t is the unwritten
law of nature-thou shalt not harm the
little ones
1.-THE child Is Americas future genera
ton. The future president (maybe) is at
this moment trying to put his great toe
in HIS mouth. We must give the children
health, education and religion. Health may
be gotten by exercise. fresh air, nutritious
food and clean homes.
More Play Grounds Needed.
There ought to be play grounds every
where for the little ones We all know
how the intellect should be cultivated. But
some Of us do not know that many boys
are driven into very wickedness and shame
by the public schools because the boys
are big and backward. A 14-year-old Ounce
will do anything before he will sit with a
little S-year-old smartie. There is a de-
mand for ungraded schools and manual
training schools in this country which must
be heard, Half OF the truants are the re-
suits of this. Morality is developed by
~aAAoNApAA NieAAhAA6 a. hDtilt anu III
''The child that lacks the quality Of re-
ligion is already on the road to crime and
disgrace. in spite of the schools and col
leges our asylums. feeble-minded homes.
child-saving institutions, detention homes,
Juvenile courts, jails and penitentiaries are
filled.
Yet what does the average parent think I?
1--WE are convinced that II is the quality
OF religion that leavens the whole lump. l
am in position to Judge since l have over
fifty incorrigible children directly under my
supervision. They all lack the moral The
main and primary cause of their crimes
and shame is ungodliness in their homes
Nature of Proposed Law.
There is before the senate a new child
labor law drawn up by Judge Kennedy and
Mr.. Pennock, which you have read about.
DO you know that this law aims at three
things, namely: Give the child a chance
health and morality. The state demands
that all children be given a chance to At
themselves TO tighten their burdens and
TO become more efficient citizens. The law
aims at the health of the child in that no
child may work under any condition In
any place that is conducive to illness or
permanent injury. But chiefly Of all, the
child Is not allowed to work at an occu-
patton that win tend to the moral destruc-
ton of the little one. No child can deal
out whisky bottles or even put the corks
In them No child is allowed to run a
message to a house of pollution.
THANK God for such a law, but shame
that such a law "a needed.
II do not see how this proposed law car
have an enemy. Is it too arbitrary? No
II is not. There are conditions In this Law
that may be altered to suit the child that
must make his own living or support a
feeble mother. l read this all in this law
But the law is uncompromising in regard
20 health and morals. II is right that II
should be so. A curse rests upon the mer
that clothe their own families gorgeously
at the expense OF some little humpbacked
ill-fed and poorly housed children. Think
OF giving little child So or "a a weeh
and then work her almost TO death. know
a little girl who works in a factory for 8
n week and does woman's work chat is
what a woman would have TO do II Their,
were no girls). Every night her feet arr
swollen and fingers aching because OF tn,
work. She is unable 10 rest or pay ply