| Show DEPRAVITY tun duc subject of juve juvenile hile hiie depravity has lias deell beell deeo deen recently considered by many pub lic ile id journals urnald both in lii england and america mischief and folly are to be expected of young urchins who are allowed to roam the streets at their own will aud and of all ali children who are arc ua parental control but but there adelso are so many cases of positive criminality amon smon among child children reh who agrenot are arc snot outside of the influences of religion aud education that it is not surer surprising s ncr ner there should be great anxiety as to the he euit ault result cult and discussion as to the cause take taken a case or two in illustration tato two youngsters in london had learned of rewards b eing being paid for the discovery of dead bodies they wanted money what boys do not and they were nvere anxious to gain a reward the chief thin thing lacking glacking was a dead body they reasoned that the quietest way to supply the want was to provide one themselves so they got hold of a child three years old shut it up in the dustbin dust bin of an empty house and quietly waited the result of starvation the child was war rescued before death ensued and spoiled their little game this was something more than mischief it was wag wa deliberate criminal depravity but we need not go abroad for cases of juvenile diabolism at pittsburg ritts Pitts burg burs a short time since a boy thirteen years old oid went into ume mue grounds of a child drens home which Is supported by a religious society and intimidated the youngsters with a revolver when ahem an old lady who was taking care of a number of the little ones ordered him away he lie deliberately llred tired two shots and mortally wounded a child six years old in lit chicago a few nights ago two boys enderlen und under erten erlen ten years old oid waylaid another boy who had offended them and stabbed him inflicting a dangerous danger ons wound the Thel of that city commenting upon the circumstance says let us not fear for the permanence of our institutions the rising generation has caught the spirit of the age the world moves and the genius senius of civilization is firmly chained to progress ress 21 the papers all over the country are recording daily deeds of wickedness on the part of children that are truly all the crimes in the calendar aru are represented in lii the annals of juvenile depravity and these thee evils prevail in communities tuat are called christian chev coexist co exist with the civilization of insky many centuries are they its natural outgrowth or are they of that which it seeks to extinguish apply the logic which is used in reference to the mormons cormons Mor mons and what shall ibe the said of christian influences and tendencies if a boy in utah throws a stane at the window of a sectarian chapel or schoolhouse or is saucy to his elders it is charged at once to mormonism and polygamy every improper act of young people of bf either sex is attributed to the influence of poly training and it does not matter whether the child was reared in a plural dived household or not whether are mormons cormons Mor mons or not juvenile Jn venile depravity in utah means to the fanatical anti antl mormon and unscrupulous writer for a liberal press the natural outgrowth of the Alor mormon religion that there are bad boys and girls in utah no one with sense senie and veracity veracity y will deny that they preponderate in poly pois polygamous gainou s families no one can truthfully establish that mormon children polygamous or monogamous are worse than thai gentile children there is no evidence to prove but it if exposures were made of non IMor mormon crimes and peccadilloes of a similar kind to those indulged in con concerning concertin cernin 11 mormon j juvenile short could estabi establish ish the fact that mormon family influence is more potent against evil than that of its boasting and slandering lerm term accusers and that for all that is praiseworthy in this direction polygamous family influence stands preeminent inthe luthe in the numerous cases of juvenile depravity in which the parents were noil noli mormons cormons Mor IMor mons we nave have ne verto our recollection attributed the cause of the wrongdoing wrong doing to either the parents or their creed vve vc are satisfied that in many instances an arl evil disposition exists in children for which their parents are not responsible although it IL might perhaps be traced to more remote ancestors ce and there is no so called christian sect which inculcates crime in theory at least all denominations are against g it their teachings are hostile to vice but there are not wanting professed ministers of religion who attempt to charge upon 11 every impropriety in the lives of any of its believers or of their children and yet there is no creed in christendom which is more hostile to evil doing than this so called mormonism 11 and it is s not liot only pronounced in its teachings in that direction but its influence upon its follo followers has demonstrated that in spir it aswell as well weli as in word it is a foe to vice of every kind asa As a rule its adherents are honest temperate law abiding and peaceful and mindful of the rights 01 of their neighbors whether they de be jew or gentile indian or chinese exceptions to the rule occur but they are only exceptions and when they are j jumped at with glee and held up as samples of mormon conduct and proofs of the effects of mormon developed sin or of juvenile depravity they serve more inore to show the innate meanness and permanent corruption of the vile ile lle creatures who so utilize them than to prove anything wrong in the teachings or tendencies of the 31 mormon ormon system and for every case of juvenile depravity that can be adduced in this community we could bring forth a hundred from other places ander the full glare of christian light and the refining renning influences of antl anti mornion mormon society train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it is true as a general er at ru leand will be proven so ao in practice but thero there will bo be found exceptions to it in the best beat regulated families and parents who are thus afflicted need help well is as patience and diligence in their end endeavors a to effect reformation and will I 1 il only be reviled and assailed forthe for the sins of their children by the lowest minded and most contemptible of th the human species |
