The Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, January 30, 1903 Page: 2 of 12
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Youthful Criminals, How Made.
MISS SUSIE GRAYSON.
A paper read before Ihs W. C. T. U.
January 19.
The first great cause of crime is
inherited criminal tendencies. Her-
edity is inexorable in its laws, and
thousands are born into the world
with a pre-decided character that
drives them remorselesly in the
downward path.
The famous case of the Juices
gives most startling statistics.
Margaret and her two sifters fur-
nished the state of New York with
300 paupers and 300 accused crimi-
nals. The aggregate of their terms
served ia prison amounted to 700
years and the family cost the state
over one million and a half dollars.
The second cause is disrespect
for law and persons in authority.
Children who are early taught con-
formity to rules, acquire a regard
for law which amounts to a princi-
ple. Discipline is the material from
which character is made. Disre-
gard for those in authority begins
in the cradle, defies the parent,
challenges the teacher in the class
room and laughs to scorn the officers
of the law. The child, if permitted
to take the reins in its infancy, per-
sists in holding them and many dis-
cords—domestic discords — result
therefrom. I have heard mothers
say they could not go out calling
and take their little three-year-old,
for he is passed all control, "I
can't do a thing with him." If par-
ents st?.nd in awe of him at three,
what may teachers expect when he
is eight. This is not all of this sad
picture. If teachers put the bit in
the mouth of this unbridled young-
ster, he will naturally rebel at any
method of restraint, and his par-
ents teach them to resent anything
that may curb his will, and a
teacher thus forestalled is incapa-
ble of rendering him any assistance.
Hence he must be expelled to pro-
tect other children from his baneful
influence. He is now thrown out on
the world as a citizen. The next
restraint that is brought to bear is
the civil law. He defies that and is
tent to where he must obey whether
hi wills or n:>t. Tnat is, he goes to
t'.ie penitentiary. This is án extreme
case, but there are thousand of ex-
amples.
Tuere are all degre'es of evil
growing on this pir:;r.al root of dis-
regard for authority.
Idleness is one of its progeny and
nothing is truer than that an idle
mind is the devil's workshop. Idle-
ness is one of the chief factors in
miking youthful criminals.
The cheap theater and the dance
hill play tileir p'irt in this downward
rnd. Th. re is not a more per-
nicious modern evil than the dance
h ill. Because fathers and mothers
in our best hotnes, even among our
religious leaders v/n'c at this canker
O T ~g
J . H. king!
Ilaraford, Tosan
Agent for and Builder of the
Kitselman
Wire Fence
Bast fence for stockmen. Will
turn any stock and has no
barbs to cut cattle. If you
í re going to build see me for
figures.
Hog Wir* Specialty
\
J. L. SMITH J. A. WALKER B. C. D. BYNUM G. A. F. PARKER
Smith, Walker & Co., Bankers
FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY $450,000
A General Banking Business Transacted
With our old friends in our for-
mer Mercantile Business, we
hope to continue the pleasant re-
lations we have so long enjoyed.
To those who do not know us,
we say
Gome In and get Htquamttd
T. R. REAGAN
T. J. STEPHENS
HEREFORD MANUFACTURING CO.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Galvanized Iron Water and Oil Tanks,
u* Flues, Weil Casings, Etc.
ALL KINDS OF PLUMBING AND TIN WORK
Special Attention Given (0 Repair Work. Shop on Sampson Avenue
Telephone No. 24
Tierra Blanca Herefords
L. R. BRADLY
.. .BREEDER OF
II
Write me or call at my
ranch, situated five miles
east of Hereford, on the
Tierra Blanca river.
Herd Headed by Climax
Assisted by Chorister
Will sell a quantity of young
stock either singly or in car load
Lots
upon society. The venom of the
serpent is in it. It is a profane in-
truder on the saneity of the church.
Profanity is another. It has
nothing to recommend it, neither
excuse or apology, it degrades the
profaner in his own eyes, this
weakens his abitity* to ever become
either great or good. He ignores
the command which says "Thou
shalt not take the name of the Lord
thy God in vain."
Another is disrespect for age.
Many young people approach the
the aged with the same flippancy
and familiarity they would one of
their own age. No well bred boy or
girl does this. It is the 'unmistaka-
ble brand of a course nature.
Shall I not mention a disregard
for truth? No child can become a
criminal whos: infantile feet are
planted on the great Gibralter oí
Truth. The Savior sail of Him self,
«•I am the truth."
And last but not least I come to
the world-famed Siamés twins—the
tobacco and liquor habit. I have
no more patience with the one than
the other, as a habit; but admit
there are degrees in criminality in
the two. I must revert, to the first
premise in this essay, that is, that
youthful criminals are the outgrowth
of inherited criminal tendencies,
which are fostered by criminal en-
vironment. No child is capable of
retaining the greatest good who has
inherited a weakened nervous sys-
tem from intemperate parents.
A parent is a criminal in the high-
est sense of that word who bequeaths
such a legacy to a child.
Intemperance catches ia it i vo-
taries those who are prenatally fitted
for temptation, or whose environment
has so poisoned his moral atmos-
phere as to render him impotent.
He has no alternative, can but
choose evil and that continually.
Who is Responsible.
The Chicago Chronicle says:
The advent of peace on earth and
good will to men was commemorated
as usual by a half dozen murders
and twice as many deadly assaults.
Reports from cities, towns and coun-
try communities, prove clearly that
there is something radically wrong
with our social machinery. The
year just passed shows an increase
in crime. There were one thousand
more criminal homicides in the
United States in 1902 than in 1901,
and we have more robberies in pro-
portion to population than any other
country cn earth. Who is to blame
for this condition of things? Where
do the robbers come from? And
what has turned the day associated
with the advent of Christ into an oc-
casion of revelry ? Seventy-five per
cent of the criminals are young men,
mostly from American homes, and a
little while ago were school boys.
There is a great wrong somewhere
that we are contributing such a host
to the ranks of criminals. In sep-
arating church and state we have
too nearly separated religion from
the schools and from the homes.
In legislating against sectarianism
we have about legislated the Bible
out of the school. In seme states
the law banishes the Bible and relig-
ious songs from the public schools,
and in mont of them it is practically
ruled out; and moral training is not
counted as a factor in common school
educa'ion. The greatest educators
and staieimen have emphasized the
truth that education without mcral
FY
irse, that it only ¿
>r evil. Some of
'iters have advefc
of the Bible in the <
mon schools on the ground
character, like eveything we m
requires a model, and that the
perfect pattern possible is the c
acter of Christ as given in the
Testament.
Much has been said against,
a good deal of cheap ridicule
been spent on New England puri
ism, but with all its austerity
religious legalism, its fruit prov
to be far better for the race thar,
opposite extreme, the latitudina:
that scoffs at all religion, and
free thought that gives free reig
appetite and passion. In the t
when the New Testament wa
reading book in the common schc
and all knew the Bible from thel
to the greatest, the schools g
the nation a race of men and a li
ature that will be standard while
world stands.
The home, the school and soc
have felt the influence of the sj
of commercialism, the craze
wealth.
Parents and teachers have direci
their attention to making lawy
doctors, preachers, traders, all s.
cf money getters instead of laboi
to make Godly men.
Short cuts in education were ta
as the quick road to wealth,
get being the one great aim, mi
go direct to the object by robb
and theft. When we learn tl
Godliness is gain, that a good na
is worth more than riches and t
he is greatest who serves best,
will educate to that end and stop
cruiting the ranks of criminals
Hereford College Journal.
$10.00—Reward—$10.00
Lost—One dark bay horse, bk
mane and tail, about 15¿ or
hands high. Branded C on 1 i
shoulder Also one gray colt comi
2. No brand. Has black mr
and tail. Well bred and gentle
handle. Finder will receive t
above reward by delivering t
above horses to J. A. williams
49if or Will H. Stone.
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Th.
Notice.
All parties owing Eesch & Caj
an account will please call at cour
clerk's office and settle the same
once, either by cash or note. 1
accounts are now patt due snd mi
be settled at an early date.
Respectfully,
47if Beach & Camp.
For Sale or Trade
Cn Girdner ranch twelve mil
south of Hereford on Dimmitt road
IS thoroughbred Durham bulla and;
thoroughbred Hereford bulls. S j
W. C. Morris at the ranch or No:;
Jones in Hereford. 48-5-"
Everything for Schools
Lee Clark
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sch iols and colleges. SpecMl discount
ii> on Church W'Loi«sale price?.
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Vanderburgh, Frank L. The Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, January 30, 1903, newspaper, January 30, 1903; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth142335/m1/2/?q=cutter%2C+charles+a.: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.