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law thej must be trained and educated to be able to fill 

 their place when the time came ; and time has shown the 

 wisdom of his plan. The old Rabbi's used to have a prov- 

 erb "That he who neglected to teach his boy a trade, educa- 

 ted him to be a thief." We have this illustrated forcibly in 

 the late assassination ; there seems to be a erase among the 

 older people to bring up their boys, not to be usetul citizens 

 but to get into office, or, as I've heard it expressed, "get 

 their living short of work." Under our government there are 

 one hundred thousand offices to be given away, not to the 

 most worthy man, but to the one who is the best politician 

 in his district. The poison never works out of a young man 

 who has onoe held office. A witness was asked in a suit in 

 New York what had been his occupation ; "I was in the 

 Custom House for seven years, but fifteen years ago was dis- 

 charged." "What have you been doing since?" "Trying to 

 get back," was the answer. Our young people are being 

 inoculated with this poison of society. And it is our duty 

 as older members of society to try both theory and practice 

 to eradicate it ; unless we have the earnest practice, theory 

 will do little good. I remember years ago when the old 

 factory school house was standing, and the old time, never- 

 to-be-forgotten Lyceum was held there, the question came up 

 to be discussed : "The superiority of Moral Suasion over 

 corporeal punishment," the affirmative was ably discussed by 

 a then school teacher (who many of the present middle-aged 

 men and women can rise up and testify to his fath fully per- 

 formed duties and good influence for after life,) and the ques- 

 tion was decided in favor of Moral Suasion. A few days 

 after, this same teacher started for his school one morning 

 with some fine birches, well filled with oil ; on his way he 

 was met and accosted by a neighbor, and asked to what use 

 the birches were to be put. Said the teacher, "a certain boy 

 of my school is very unruly, and if he goes on he will break 



