| Show JUVENILE destitution BOYS of utah be thankful for your pleasant homes loving parents kind instructors and all the opportunities you yon have to become honorable happy intelligent and prosper oil eca men there are many thousands la Is the great cities of 1 the iq 40 toe houseless and d dati destitute ai bd is sa Rat L egby cje ft atu mew ew york city missionary as re related la one ot of balmages Tal mages discourses well my boy what do you want baut i A home please sir air ahat what is your name faint got no name sir air the boys C call 11 me nickety Pic kety 11 mell well fackety Pic Fic kety where do you live I 1 dont live anywhere auy where sir but where do you sty stay 1 I dont stay nowhere in the daytime but I 1 sleeps in hay bay barges sir and sometimes in dry goods boxes and down on the steam gratings in winter until M P as s came along and lust just now a cove has taken me in at the iron bridge at harlem iron bridge what do you mean why them holler iron things what holds the bridge up he got it birst and he lets me in nickety Pic kety who is your father faint got no father sir air he died afore I 1 knew and me aither she drinkad and bate me and we was put out by the landlord and she died and the city hall buried her and something like a shadow came over the cunning blue eyes you ever hear of god yes sir air I 1 have heard the fegers wear swear about dimand I 1 know its lucky to say something to him when you slee sleep out in bad nigh nights til 11 B did id you ever go to school nickety Pic kety I 1 or to church no sir air I 1 never went to no church nor school I 1 should kind ol 01 0 like to learn leara so methin 11 As mr talmage says these outcasts are all around in the chief cities of the land when they got up from their and knees to walk their first step was on the road to ruin and every day since they have been plunging down to lower depths and wilder despair and deeper darkness 11 what a commentary is on christian civilization I 1 and what a reproach upon those would bethought be thought philanthropists who sigh over the youth of utah and send missionary teachers to rescue mormon children from frem imagined ignorance and darkness and at the same time allow thousands of ragged barefoot bare foot and hungry juveniles to grow up all around them without a helping hand band to redeem them from misery and crime these street arabs swarm in the slums pick offal for food out of gutters and ash barrels pilfer where toey can get a chance steep sleep in out of the way corners when they can escape the vigilance of tile police and graduate from the cellar to the jail it is to te fee hoped that no such a state of things will ever dle disgrace grace our mountain state sta te to prevent it wn we must have schools within tiie ach of the poorest and employment for all who are able to work industry education and vigilant care to render pauperism and destitution unnecessary must bf be objects kept in ale view w by the wise plen men of our people that mormon society may never degenerate into the low and horrible conditions that curse all the great cities of modern christendom |
