Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1913-10-23

AF1vE-FoLD WARNING TO NDuLGENr PARENTS
Henry Clay Beate Porter Charlton Harry Thaw Maury
/. Diggs and Drew S. Caninett
Here if trust publicity records are the five most
garlngly conspicuous moral criminals of years.
They all young with life promises bright ahead; they
all well connected in their family social relations
they were all far above the naggng worries and sordd
fluences of poverty flats"
What then the of their sinulness; wherein lay
the key OF their moral undoing And the lies
omnous words Overndulgence boys lack of training in
seontro and respect for the law much money spend
pleasure and vice.
These things will always found working together for the
spoaton of the finest characteristics inherited from
pectabe and God fearing parents They the trinity
devils that Turk in the shadows waiting always for womso
they may devour.
And it is the indugent parent the weak foolishy fond
parent who makes their work of accomplishment The
overlooked fault the unrebuked temper the condoned dis
obedience and the full the cryptic signs that
later on spell theft, murder Insanity" ruin.
The five men named above oofexamples of this
TACT Each was boy of good inegence each in his susce
hbe Childhood would have taken the training would have
set his feet the paths that to clearly heights Of man.
hood Each particularly the first three with murder marke
against their Names were the etted and spoiled darngs of
wise parents In the great Upper Courts where the
tence is pronounced they will stand alone at the bar
OF trial Touching elbows with them will be the parents whose
selfish cowardy indulgence helped them to build M no moral
Edwards to withstand temptation
The srker of parental duty will have his and her share of
blame and punishment to bear when closing shadows
OF life they hear the Come into court come into f
crier whom call DEATH
The born criminal u.s. mercifuy the exception; the crimi
nal who made by lack of discipline and lack of training is
ostenslby the general rule
These five young because the limeipht hat has
oeen thrown upon them stand fearful warnings to the
parents as well as to the young of country Three of
hem are murderers One paid the penalty his we's MR.
r WIN ms fe the corpse from the electric chair being all
his aged father could claim son who had once been his
PRIDE and JOY Another whose hands also dyed with
blood has been taken seas to end his DAVIS
IN the deous silence of foreign prison. Parental
eo open those prison doors for his entrance but parental
love can never pry them open.
he third in tho
east guilty because he slew not his WIFE but the DESTROYER Of
ms wfes virtuehas spent hearbreaking days and months
ana years IN sane unatcs CELL and just now making
MS last spectacular fight for freedom while his old
mother looks on helpessly. -
And the last two of the five-the twin Latbaros Of tho
soeh west who deed the commandment for chastity and
dehberaely Knocked at their marriage vowswbat of bo
lhe too are finding that the mills of the gods grind ox
ceemg small The doors of the penitentary grim rrevo
are gaping wide to shut them away from 20 years Of
what might have been honor had thew not
their moral standards in the and spat upon the If
God and man. f f 0 laws Oh
How parent prone to too much loving or too c,o.
OF the rules OF discipline look upon these
object lessons and feel keenanped Influence
it is hard to understand - 30 '''i "
n Inc sons of good parents wrongs that is udenabe
the parent who has done his the training Of his
Will sorrow without the kee conscience sting of
But to the parent who fails in his duty through weakness
or the azness or cowardce Of proper discipline there
Will come IN the end the unanswerable question: Yon were
your chlldren's keepers where are their souls'',
SILENTLY perssteny eloquently, these five men are n
powerful warning the parenhood as we'll as
onhood OF the country TheEredemponi there anv for
lie IN the fact that their henous examples STAYED
''ners from the like fate-Memphs Commercial Appeal
AT 1T AGAIN
Inc governors office is at agan For the last Quarter #
announced there has been saving of few dollars in the
expenses OF the office the corresponding period IF two
ears ago. mere trfle in ITSELF but involving Question Of
Importance to every woman in the state The saving is
paccay entirely by reduction in the salaries of the },
employees These hold responsible positions and
sooo work and plenty of it. To their salaries below
npetent men would do the work for to deny equal