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OUR CHILDREN.

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OUR CHILDREN. —— Few of the gentler pex, and more especially those who are motheff, will have read without feelings of dismay and pity the sad cases of cruelty to children whicli appear in our daily papers day after day.; That there should be parents of good positipn in life so inhuman as to endanger the lives of their children is most abhorrent and sickening. One can hardly blame a half starved Creature who helps him- self to food and clothing in order to keep his wife and children fropi suffering the gnawing 1 11 n pangs of hunger, yet, this is by far the most general case brought before the magistrates, whilst, unfortunately, there is a class of t parents who are possibly earning from £2 to £ ?> a week who are not brought to justice, although committing a far more serious and revolting crime in the eyes of the world. Those who take an interest in the N.S.P C.C. have found out how great a mistake it is to assume that pareiiti are always the best and kindliest custodians of their children it is, unfortunately, a stubborn fact that there are thousands of poor, helpless little children who ought to be rescued from their unnatural mothers aud brutal fathers, did the funds of the society allow -N t,lic meantime, they are doing a splendid* wo, and what are we doing to help the N.XP.C.C. ? Sympathy alone is practical If usele^. Xow that atten- tion has been dir&ted to% local case, indig- nation is aronl, t,4c offenders are punished in someMshioy for^feeir brutality, but it is as well tjtpoiny out thl^i there are other cases equalMas appalling, that at pre- sent have "notice by tfie society, though well knoln to the^feighbouring mothers who niildy render no real aid to the sdfiety wlio.se melancholy duty it is to bring *»e offenders to justice. Though in many cites when the offenders have been dealt with, how inadequate has been the sentence on these child torturers, how ludicrously unequal is English justice. Men, women and children are heavily punished for merely begging in the streets, whilst the father and mother, who had mal- treated and neglected their baby sons and daughters are only fined a paltry few shillings, and in many instances no admonishment of any kind from the bench is given. In the columns of a Liverpool contemporary on Monday evening, a case was stated where a man was fined 10s. and costs, or fourteen days, for kicking a donkey, and yet accord- ing to our local bench it is not a more serious crime to cause unnecessary suffering for months, to three or four children. Read the accounts in your weeklies week by week and it will be seen that the same rule prevails throughout the kingdom, the reports of the N.S.P.C.C. becomes more lengthy and its details more revolting year by year, whilst we are assured that poarhinj is steadily on the decrease. The N.S.P.C.C. needs money, but it should also have a fair measure of justice meted out; cruelty of all kinds, more especially to children, should be punished with the utmost severity, and who wiji admit that some of the punishments inflicted upon these heartless creatures are at all adequate to the crime.

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