Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1888 — The Boyson the Streets. [ARTICLE]

The Boyson the Streets.

Indianapolis Sentinel. , - The general trend of the debate yesterday was that some home should be provided for the boys; that Congress should be petitioned to build such institutions; that such homes should be merely places where the boys could be cared for until employment could be p]> tained for them or until their difficulties could be bridged. It was unanimously agreed that prieons of any kind were bad for boys; that pethicioua literature and obscene pictures are highly demoralizing to them; that to send them out of town on short notice to leave was absolutely wrong, and that the young gamim was altogether a hard citizen to handle

properly. In the evening Colonel Ritter made a particularly strong address. Judge Jordan gave some ideas on the subject that had not been broached during the day. He said the government was running into the institution business too much. He didn’t like it. The its humeebaracter. Virginia has departed. He thought that the convene tion was beginning at the wrong end. It crushes the manhood of a boy to put'him into an institution. In order to bring about the great reform it requires individual exertion and a more of a home character in the people. He finally said, however, that he favored homes for the boys that would be sort of clearing houses, merely temporary abodes to the boys while awaiting the finding of permanent homes. This is one of the subjects of the convention.