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Show V.. THE REV $1.00 PER YOL. Official Organ of the Utah Federation of Womens Clubs. FTTBLISHEID lE'VEI&ir inE-A-E- . SALT LAKE CITY, DECEMBER II. can be called out by the magic of teaching not simply the teaching ot the three Rs, but the supply of the opportunity to be decent and honest and faithful and righteously ambi- The Children. Mrs. Barnett, the wife of Canon Barnett, who with her husband founded Toynbee Hall, and has spent twenty years of married life working among the poor of East London, said last summer that all this experience had satisfied her that a very large part of the labor spent on adult wrecks and failures was, for reformatory purposes, labor wasted. She performed it mainly because she believed in God, but the work which brought forth fruit was work among the children. No matter from what sort of homes they came, what kind of parentage had produced them, what kind of life they had led, as long as the body and the character were not fully formed, there was a fair chance, what is called in slang a fighting chance that they might be moulded into respectable men and women. Before legal majority, nothing in a boys or girls mind or morals, any more than in their bodies, is fixed and permanent. The character may, in a vast number of cases, be totally or greatly changed by' new surroundings and new influences. Environment tells on the morals and manners of the young animal as well as on his physique. There seems to be no limit to what may be made out of children. There is, we may be sure, in every crowd of boys in the street plenty of material for greatness and goodness everything which Gray thought was doubtless buried in his country churchand there is no doubt that it yard . tious. We are tempted into these remarks by seeing once more the annual appeal of the Childrens Aid Society of ' h, : -- to-da- . NO. 50. of a family to ask himself. What must this influence be on the children of the streets, who have neither father nor mother to tell them of the possibility of better things? Cuckoo talk about politics ought not to deter any one from facing this tremendous subject, for we have long left the region of politics. We are down among the very foundations of society, the vaults and catacombs on which states are built. We are convinced, too, most profoundly of the influence in a democratic community of the cheap press. What kind of press is it that the children of our poor and of the streets devour every day? What kind of character, what hopes, or fears, or desires, or tastes does that inspire? What kind of citizens will it make? What ideas of property and order and if we mistake this city, the forty-fiftnot. It has been sheltering and clothing and teaching over 34,000 children during the year. It has, we believe, sent nearly 50,000 to the West since it came into existence, to seek their fortunes on farms, under new skies, but of these thousands, hundreds certainly have reached a certain eminence, tens of thousands comfort and respectability and good citizenship. And our solemn belief is that it is doing more for New York y than most of its schools, because it is morality will it diffuse! What ideal doing something for morality. It is of the state, of its functions, and of keeping a large body of the coming its fame will it create in the urchins generation in mind of a fact, which Airiind? We make no attempt to anour politics and press might readily swer these question. We simply offer make them forget, that there are such them as food for reflection for people things as God and conscience and who are going to give proclamation right and wrong, justice and injustice. thanks tomorrow, and ask them to reThere is danger in this city that the member that of all our organizations children of the poor may never hear none is fighting so effectively in beof them and cease to believe in their half of our civilization as the Childexistence. rens Aid Society.' It is the one We have the profoundest belief in which is engaged in closest conflict the educating influence of governwith dear old Satan, who is now ment, especially in a democratic smacking his lips over Greater New community. The way it exerts this York. New York Post. influence is through the kind of men Wanted. A good reliable person it honors and trusts by appointment to office. What kind of influence does to solicit subscriptions for The Reit exert, in this way in this city? is a view. Liberal commission. Apply question which we advise every father 241 E. South Temple. . Free! amounting to F. o. 4, 1897 wwnne. $8.00 days. NEW YORK CHSH STORE. |