Arizona republican., 1911-04-02

Isins. Jesus asked: Has no man con-
 demned thee?" No man. Lord"
 Neither do l execute thee; go and
 sin no more"
 ! The spirit of "Phariseeism" in man
 is mean. but it is magnified a million
 times in woman. which not only with | holds helping hand to the prodigal daughter. but smites her in the face
 after she has fallen, and would sui i eide were it not for fear of the fu- 1 ture.
 Now. can 'child" grow up a good
 man or a good woman in such sur roundings? Whether born on the
 boulevard, of the silver spoon species
 select society,"" or born in the back | yard. barn, society's scum, called
 "slums," beaten and banged about in an atmosphere of dishonesty and drunkenness. No. never. for heredity and environment breeds criminals; poorhouses and prisons confirm them. The offspring of one abandoned girl from New England's best blood traced through six generations, num-
 bered 900. and all were either crooks
 or criminals. insane or idiotic. and two of their murders cost New York state
 g., ,OOO, ,OOO.
 In 1887 I found a family, father.
 mother. three bright boys. two beau
 tiful girls in the Sioux City. Iowa. poorhouse Now the bad brood
 numbers 150 constant county charges.
 and when out of prison or poorhouse
 live by begging and stealing.
 The unlucky fraction of children
 I,at
 destined criminals from the cradle.
 Monsters who hold money above
 men and women have discovered these
 defects in the home and have found
 the means of taking advantage of
 them. They are trading today in
 womanly virtue. They are amassing
 fortunes at the expense of honor, of
 holiness. of all that men and women
 should hold best wherever people live.
 The explanation is easy. These
 traffickers in human souls are pro- tected. Their tracks are covered. They live and work under the surface. in the fathomless pit deep down among
 the dregs of society. Here they drag their prey downward for money by bribing men and buying and selling women. They are in touch with the despicable professional politicians and with the leech-like, money absorbing element of the police. They cover themselves locally, and officials who are above bribery and above living on the blood of woman find it diff ficult to reach them. The immensity of their sins against society is un- believable and unbearable; one shud ,F sf through their wonderful vice protect crate they are able to carry on their nefarious trade and to drag boys and girls down into their nauseous hunts.
 Nor will the white slave" evil be cured simply by arresting the keepers of evil resorts. although the more such offenders are arrested the bet ter. The remedy must begin further back It must begin in the home and be applied to the spiritual life of the | smaller cities and towns which fur nish so much of the population of the | larger cities. There must be less l scouting at Puritan morals. less sissy l treatment of sins in the pulpits, less i criticism of parents who endeavor to | be firm with their children, less pun ishing of teachers who try to restrain | their pupils less making the child | Tt" and the parent an old fogy. less of the idea that young America is | bound to come out all right anyhow. For young America can get into the | flesh and blood.
 Who is responsible? No other thaHl parents" are altogether and always Every item contained in the tremendous catalogue of carnality, corruption and crime. is due directly | to the criminal carelessness concern ing the control, care and culture of 
 A child is creature of circum- stances, over which he has no con- trol whatever The first ten yearS existence in this wicked world, be- cause born by no volition of his own win, he doesn't care whether he is taught as a criminal or trained as a Christian. but does take kindly to the first. because born carnal in sin" II and is 'as prone to do evil as the sparks are to fly upward" If left loose on the streets. or in sinful sur -oundings, how can their course be Il other than criminal?
 Will someone please explain For here is no other method of making II nan, but by Gods perfect plan: Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it."
 God evidently knew what He was Ioing when He created man and woman, thus constituting home" and that to safeguard civilization.
 Failing to follow divine directions CDeut. II: 1S-1s-20-2D has filled our fair land with charitable and correctional institutions. II
 American fathers and mothers are altogether too sickly and sentimental. Ise too much soothing syrup and sticking plaster. spare the rod and spoil the child, and scarcely shed ear when society finishes their fail- ire in the home When a boy poses n public as a crook or criminal, who put his parents are responsible? When | girl, deceived, dragged downward until her sins have found her out, md are above her virtues, society ,riticizes the lightness with which she enters marriage making it the end and not the beginning of the ma ernal life; criticising her for choos- ng boarding house or hotel, to her own home. By so doing she spoils