Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-28

ton or puni0hmont OF this claops
when We look back at those con
iitions we wonder that We ever had
the temerity to refer to our courts ~
courts OF justice, Think for q moment
of q system that would place q frat
offender from among the many bright
boys who today come before our 5uv-
emile court, in close confinement OF our
county jail, in the companionship "
the low and vile criminal class which
often make up the occupants Of that
place. Then our courts and penal in
stitutions instead Of being what they
were designed to be. were mere schools
of crime where attendance was en-
forced an dthe state paid the tuition.
But we have gotten beyond that today.
In the statement of the purposes Of our
juvenile courts, there Is one which
should be noted because Of its larger
responsibility.
III It is within the province Of q
court to inquire into those antecedent
conditions which have a bearing upon
the childs delinquency, it would GER
tainly seem to be also within the prov
ince of the court to demand legislation
which would prevent as far as pos
sible those antecedent conditions which
produce crime.
Investigation has shown that 2 per
cent of the children in our public
schools are mentally defective. When
we realize that large per cent of our
criminals, paupers, drunk ards, and
meier -do-wells are mentally defective.
we can but ask ourselves the question:
| What can we do to prevent all this?
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whether parents are fit to rear the
children which they bring into the
world. Shall the state not say also
whether those people shall have the
right to bring into the world children
who will inevitably become charge
| upon the state?
Problem of Mormonisnn.
Second, in the great problems
which confronts America today Is tho
problem Of Mormonis"1. 1t Is our na-
| tional disgrace With shame we are
compelled to meet the visitor from the
enlightened countries across the water.
and attempt to account for the exis-
tence in America Of an institution CT
such unholy and disgusting influence
as the institution Of Mormonism. The
| most remarkable and astounding rev.
Citations of our last election have
] aroused the thoughtful men all over
| the land to the real menace to our re-
publican institutions, which Is lodge
| in this un-American, anti-Christian In
| stitution in our midst. Already the
press and the platform Of the east are
i discussing this menace, which to some.
seems to have recently been revealed
as a new element of danger in our ma
tional life. It will indeed prove time
of glad thanksgiving if this year 1912
shall prove to have been the time when
the nation at large was led. through
the impudent boldness of this secret
and treacherous system, to recognize
the real foe which Is becoming en-
trenched in our land.
Intemperance.
j "If Mormonism is our great national
) disgrace intemperance Is our great ma
tional curse. The saloon is the nesting
place Of all the foul brood Of evils
2 which curses our land. There our
:. gunner our white slavers' our dyna-
/ miters' our bride givers' and our bride
, takers meet to lay those plots whose
execution lays hold on hell John @
Wooley has said, Above the cradle 81
r every baby boy in America hovers the
/, yulture of the saloon, with blood!
beak and claws, sick Of old carton
t and 1t scars and waits o, 1t were s
q horrible truth if only our baby boy
were the object of those waitin,
bloody beak and claws. But no, thos'
terrible fangs will pierce the heart o
q some golden haired daughter, possibl,
+ of some mother in this audience to
h day.
n Foreign immigration.
= 'Tn the general consideration Of thi
S question there has been gradua
T change in sentiment. Hitherto we hav
S looked upon the incoming millions a
n a deadly peril to our national exis
n tence. Today this same tonnage Of HUI
: man freight Is considered by many a
d so much raw material out OF whic
d we can produce one of our most valu
e able assets, namely American citizen
d The problem is the method Of it's as
n sanitation. The results of special Ell
forts upon the part missionary organ
If izations in the alien settlements hav
u demonstrated that these people will be
?l come most desirable citizens II we bu
e give them half chance. On the Pa
y cific slope this problem has peculia
a significance We are looking today UT
g on the beginnings of great 'Pracifl
lr empire which ERE long will be harden
st ing for its fate as yonder mountain
- stiffened, to be changed no more saw
,r by drill and dynamite; upon orient'
ls nations whose doom or redemptio
IS will be traced in Pacific sands
1T "The religious and geographical sic
Is nificance of our position OVERLAP
1t The Church of Christ in America, b
rs virtue of her Pacific border, occupis
De geographically the most unique. ali
Y historically the most startling positio
Ut in her history. The cradle Of humanit
E. was the valley of the Indus. Fro
he that valley two brother men turne
p their backs upon each other and star
er ed in opposite directions. The ma
re with his face toward the setting 81
I'd founded his holy religion in Judea. the
Il pushed on across and conquered II