The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-15
ABLE LECTURE BY
FATHER JOHN P. DAILY

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OF strong drink had been responsible
for degradation and misery, not alone
to the friends who drank themselves
| into british insensibility, but to their
| families and relatives.
The grinding poverty of the poor
| was the second reason for the food
ing of juvenile courts. He told sto-
ries of the poverty he had found In
| tenement districts, one instance, IL
/ lustrating his thought.
The Sweat Shops.
/ He had, in company with a board
| OF health officer, visited the tenement
district of Chicago in Halstead street
| Going down into dark hovel, he
1 had found a father, mother and two
| children living in one Squalid room
| beneath the ground, the mother and
| Older child sweating and toiling over
vests which had been sent 10 them
for sewing, and even the little five
year-old child earning his pftiful
| crust by pulling out Blasting threads.
On a pile Of rags in one corner lay
the father, in the last stages of con
sumption. The mother could not
leave her work to Soothe his dying
agony, or wipe the cold moisture
from his brow. She must spend every
moment, strain every nerve to make
money that the rent might be paid,
that the crusts of bread might fill
her childrenis mouths.
When these children grew up, If
they survived this diseased cellar, and
were thrown out on the streets, what
would they care for the laws of man?
What did they owe the republic?
What knew they of the responsible
ties OF life?
Improper Homes.
Improper homes among the well-to-
do were also responsible for much OF
the work of the Juvenile court. Many
times you could find weeping mothers,
well and comfortably dressed sitting
on the benches in the Juvenile court,
while the judge was hearing the story !
of their hayward children.
The speaker emphasized the neces
sity of ruling the child and not letting
the child be the boss of the home |
The training should begin at such an
early age. that the child would never
know when it was that he was first
obliged to mind his parents. They
should be taught first implicit obedi-
ence.
Father DAILY interpreted his lecture
with many amusing stories and witty
references to the humorous side Of his
work, showing a warm heart that has
not been soured by contact with the
misery of life. His eioquence was
powerful and stirring. and moved his
audience TO tears. He is probably one
of the finest orators ever heard In the
cathedral sanctuary.
At the conclusion Of the lecture
Benediction of the Most Blessed Sac
rament was given.
Sermon on Divorce.
Az hioh mass Sunday at the Cathe-
draI, Father DAILY preached an elo-
quent sermon. This was his thought,
when speaking of the divorce evil:
with all its grandeur, its achieve
ments, and brilliant prospects, its
ability to solve problems, which past
ages could not conceive, the American
nation is suffering to pierce its vttals
a poisonous growth which inevitably 4
must destroy its very existence and 1
give reason for it's detractors' scornful
that democracy's triumph
is but transitory"
The nations ability to cope With
the difficulties which lie in the correct
of mems relations with their |
government and their peaceable inter
course with each other and the sub
lection to plane of equality of pow ]
erful classes, has been demonstrated {
and is unquestioned. But no step has {
been taken to protect the home, the {
of society against the cank- {
erous divorce evil, which eats at the {
vitalS of our government. Rather :
every latitude is given by law, to {
the severance of the most sacred con- {
tract known to man, with ease and s
dispatch. c
Father DAILY then went on to point
put the example given by Christ OF
the family which should exist among
men. He held up the Holy Family t
IS model for all times Jesus lived I
for thirty years OF his short life sub J
iect to his parents, tegching by ex-i z
ample the duty children owe to their S
"He was subject to them" t
that he acknowledged their e
authority and gave the most beautiful @
essen of obedience known in the his h
,ory of the world. All we know OF