The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-06-07
a POOR ENCt'ss..
Hut One witch l. Continually
Used la iIchult Of Criminals.

In the records u crime 49, they appear
from day to lay IN the public Journals
in localities where they occur, and are
telegraphed all over the country, how
common / is to see A. u last clause FOL.
lowing the details, the expression "the
murderer IL OF highly respectable pa.
rents, "thc young man is brilliantly
educated and hitherto moved n
the best society" In Texas
il the criminal happens to have killed
man or has been engaged IN horse stenl-
ing prumisCuuusly though be may have
beard on his face h long Hs hoe handle,
some one will be found who IL ready to
say that that boy ia Of the very best "a.
rents, and 1t vii nearly Kill him and hl4
folks to send him 10 the peniteutlary.
The ideH that u grown man, long pn-t
his maj Drity, should be called "a boy, as
we often hear is too ridiculous, cspe-
ciully whcu most Of them, Tor years hr-
fore, have been exercising all
the privileges ot men.
1t IL time thUt the people all over the
country got over their mock mudcsty,or
as the French call II, surface polish u
such matters and take Horace Greeley n
advice and call hoe hoe aud spade
a spndr. Because young man who
, CbuilAllAN u tIllllt llNl lluNt I''ll Va ~
| spectacle par utuge and Is himself us-
| sessed Of brilliant attainmeuts and so
| cial standing shGlld not be my luiln.
ence III his favor after he gets
behind prison bare, when he
has committed AN open crime
against the law and society. The very
fact that person has been vel raised
and has had all the advantages OF
society and good education would APP
pear to be an argument IN favor ~ Wis
p iting scvcrcr punishment upon Inn
. when he commits high crimes. Time
, after time in this city reporters Of tn,
ENAMINEH have been ~ preached 10y
= the friends Of young men who by then
acts have got d jail, and the story
always hRp been, "Ihut If one Of the
best boys you ever knew, ana
his parents are very rcspoctu
bic" The best buys' do no
usually get into jail, but 1t mny be an,
very often il the cnsc Tint the best q
, fathers and mothers have Maynard sUut
/ Tor whose acts they are in no wise re
spousible and whose hcurts bleed {,
" think OF tine shame tn y are cHllei upOl
10 endure. In mHny eases perhaps TN
standing u pnreuts and previous chnr
acter OF the offender, might be locke,
nv lhNVlhDlg DhA II ~ 10 10 I lilhl IL !
becoming too common story to hen
that his, that and tn other horse hle
o. murderer, rHplst or whutevc
b he muy be is scio
OF the best oil house, aud himself a mod,
man. Without mentioning names, tia
! criminal district court Is now in session
u we must say that Wc became ,umeWh
" disgusted wnh II harau2uc yesterday
- winch wa, inrcnicd to convey to on
mind and, perhaps, through W 10 I'll
A public, that all accused patty WAS all bt
b, All angel Aud his gcnCulOgy wus such TIN
~ he could not DO n wrong, or. In Otht
wofdr. should not Ice accused, even II h
4, did. We cannot bring ourselves to bc'lvV
n that blood and social standing -huu.
screen anyone when they du wong an
- the laws OF the country certainly do ne
% contemplate that such shall be the cast.
Ii any should be looked upon Myurtbiy
should be the poor aud lgnurant, but lh
law says Justice In all cnsc' and know
neither rich or poor and such should b
" the decision of society. III, time TINT Tia
:. portability plea aud the "hig
standing Influence IN behalf OF criminnI
should ccnrG to be parallel. Let M
= stand OF tall by their own acts We "a
n all pity a criminal and temper Justice wit
mercy, but society does herself un nJu'
= tiCe when she goes farther ON account {
ante, cdcnts or previous condition OF cIim
a lnals.