Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-02
DRAWS
LESSONS FROM
BEATT|E MURDER
Criticises Parents and Christian
Associations for Conditions
That Exist.

Henry Beattie has had 81 lnch
money that he has been p -rty-
stricken in principle, morality, aobriety
and Righteousness. A young man had
far better be working upon the streets
for nothing, and living upon a crust
Of bread and water, than be spending
his time in idleness,' declared the Rev.
DIR. George Walton King, pastor of the
,ntral Presbyterian Church, today,
when discussing the causes h a led up
to the Seattle murder trial, and he
severely criticized the parents, the
church, the Young Mems Christian
Association and the negligence of the
city officials for these too-prevalent
outbursts of criminaiity.
"All the descriptions of Henry Beattie,
jr., make him appear ~passion-wild and
money-mad,'' said the noted divine.
His passions seem to completely pos
sess him, and he has beer mad for
the getting, not earning money, that
with 1t he might continue his life of
exceeding sinful Indulgence.
IF he had had no money given him
he might have been rich in the learn
ing of the lessons of principle, moral
ity, sobriety and righteousness.
"Over-parental indulgence in the
gifts of money and time to do nothing
or to do the wrong thing has been
Henry Beattie's undoing.
"Buelah Binford seems to have had
no moral training whatever. for tes-
timony a y that she had gone wrong
when she was but IL years old.
Her great need has been the COM
~panionship and care of a good and
godly mother. She was allowed to go
and to be among men as a woman
when she vas but a mere n defense
less child.
But in this particular Beulah Bin
ford has not been alone in her defense
less helplessness. 1t is a fearful fault
of the present age that there is scarce
ly a night in the year that young girls
are not seen alone upon the streets. or
in and about the parks of our Ameri-
can cities,
1T is not always true, but too often
it is SO, that the childhood training
of the children of the rich is left &c
nurses, servants, employees and
strangers, or to people who have little
or no personal, moral or religious in
terest in them.
81 know Q number of cases in which
this is not true. John D.. Rockefeller
has long commanded my admiration
for the kind of a mar his son. John D..
jr.. is.
but cores of rich parents in these
days spend much of their time in the
great hotels, the fashionable club. In
the Newport whirl of life, upon the
yacht or travelling abroad. in London
and Paris, with little evident thought
for the moral rearing Of the boys and
girls in their families, and especially
their boys. and many of them seem
only concerned for the marriage OF
their daughters to some tilted Mt
count
an fact. that Beulah B.nferd is tbs
moral wreck she is and that Henry
Beattie is on trial for his life is the
fault of themselves, of deprayed mer
and women, of their parents. of the
home life. of the school. of the city
and is due to the Indifference of tho
Young Women's Christian Association
the Y. NJ. c. A., and largely due tc
the lack of aggressive efforts on the
part of the church to reach and t
save young men and women n the
bows and girls of or cities.
1.-THE downfall of Beulah Binford and
the ruin of henry Bottle. as the auin
Of all like them, Is the work of the
gents II incorporate indulgence in al
J the forms Of intemperance.