The Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) SATURDAY, MAY-26,-1883. GONTEMPORARY OPLNION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 144, 26 May 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) SATURDAY, MAY- 26,-1883. GONTEMPORARY OPLNION.

■I ■•■• ■ ■■ <• -•• ■:" ■.<■■ . Thr Pydcey Morning Herald, jtt an . article referring to the singular outburst of violent crime which has been witneßsed m Australasia recently, says : -r- n 'We.can Buna up a. list of crimes committed within the last month such as have seldom m modern times shocked, aiid injured, and insulted I humanity. We have seen 'cases of cruel murder followed by determined suicide, of rash murder committed by a girl— wo have seen school-boys plotting to wreck trains, and destroy many human lives ; youths fhooting men down because ' they were alivft,' or because it was better fun than rabbit-shooting ; also?a father mutilating his son witl/Vsqnare of cedar beard j and we have heard of the larrikin element— insolent, obscene, offensive, and m many cases practically 'triumph anU theUawi"A it.*prqc>e^s, " may do its best, and should and must do its beat,^buj there is much to be done which is as far beyond any legislation as is . religious conviction or sceptical denial. Certain it is that we have not looked tp. pur schools enough. We have not recognised that we must teach morality as we teach arithmetic ; that the child and the man is one-sided and I eccentric vfulio'ut iff; a£ likely" to break I off at a tangent, and with much annoyance and destruction to others accom** plish: its own ruin, as to move with regularity upon the broad social- pi ant^ rising or frogrepsiDg by legitimate paces m equitable, ways. Thr ■ State must look toits schools m the" matter ; and, taught by many terrible examples, surely tbe people might be expected to look to their homes."