Show PARENTAL CRUELTY IN ii the great christian city of new york there are so many instances of brutality on the part of parents towards their children that the ordinary municipal nauni cipal methods and extraordinary police forces are insufficient to suppress the evil A society for the prevention of cruelty to children has for fourteen years been in active operation and has rescued many unfortunate victims of parental violence the mcw and express erisse says if one wishes to have absolute proof of the presence of vice misery and brutality ilyin in the metropolis he need not visit the slums or frequent the police courte he can secure it by visiting the office of this society there may be seen photographs of youths youth and maidens whose bodily forms show the ravages of starvation and tb tha mutilation of the knife whip and club it appears that these victims to the vicious outbursts of irate parents paren ta are not always alway S to be found in the haunts of the poor but often in the homes of the comparatively well to do the prevalence of cruelty to chils chil s dren in the commercial capital of this 11 t christian nation may bo be measurably understood from the J statistics of the society Dur during illig the past year 6 complaints WOW were received 2244 cases were prosecuted and 2208 convictions were secured children were rescued from the horrors of parental brutality all this in a single ye year in the leading city of this great country here it would seem is a field for the labors of and professed lovers of their kind which might be worked with greater profit than missions to the cannibal islands or even to the supposed and benighted children of the cormons mormons Mor mons in utah the wretchedness and misery to be found in the Amer american ledu olis axe are too great and awful ft ft I 1 language to express there are to be found more people without 8 home in the true sense of that blessed word than the whole lation of this territory through the false witness borne by professed preachers of the goppel who have gone from these regions to wheedle dollars out of eastern pockets the idea prevails that the cormons mormons Mor mons know nothing of home life and the establishment lish ment of the christian home in utah is made the ostensible object of many a collection in sectarian church meetings lu in gothann Goth aln and yet the very horrors of bell beb are in eastern tenement houses an slid other haunts of heartless parents who look upon their offspring as curse and vent upon the helpless little ones the mry of boiling rage the anger of disappointment and the passion evoked in ungoverned breasts by the troubles of tolling toiling life such scenes as are common there are fid most moet unknown among the people il whose whom names are cast out as evil and who have at least as clear a conception of the beauties of becse hov and as much of practical enjoyment walt of their benefits as any people in tac world with no more material meada melfi 14 to secure them the society for the prevention of cruelty to children in new york is no doubt performing a good and charitable work but the necessity for its existence is of itself a strong comment on the christianity of the great metropolis and is suggestive of a far better receptacle for the donations of the benevolent than the collection Gol lection plate of the anti mormon lecturer or any other pious fraud who ho falsely prates about the absence of f the christian home in utah |