The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-02-20

abought it Just as you dam please; if you
would Shut down on the Stones thay
would not be so mutch truble; and you
have got dam drunkard in thar for a
night watch; his father hent got any
money or he hent if he hent left out with
out bail thay Will be more truble than
you oil viii Care abought.
1t is a precious document; and while
we presume 1t was intended more for a
scare than a deliberate threat for execu-
ton it may be regarded as not at an an
impossible thing that these desperadoes
in fit of drunken frenzy, should, in re-
venge for some fanciful injustice apply
the torch that will lay the best portion
of our town in ashes. 1t has come to
this that drunken fighting bully is in
suited and abused if arrested, and the
man who stands between community
and their brutal assaults is Legitimate
subject for the bludgeon and revolver,in
vindication of their injured feelings and
reputation. This is only one of many
efforts on the part of the rowdy element
to intimidate and punish the officers we
have appointed to protect our property
and our persons, and 1t seems to us II is
getting about time to set down on this
class of roughs so effectually that they
may hereafter understand their proper
place In community. They have had
pity and sympathy and leniency so long
that law has no terror or restraint tor
them, and it has become a serious ques-
tion whether the hummer element will
not run the town, and we perhaps have
another dead Marshall on our hands be-
fore public sentiment shall be suffi-
ciently aroused to insist upon such ex-
treme penalties as will restrain the
vicious and criminal classes. The de-
sign of the law is to infict penalties
somewhat equal to the demands of JUS
tice, and If the repeated assessment Of
fines of five or ten dollars, and brief
imprisonment has no restraining in
fluence then why not at once give them
the limit of $50 fine and thirty days i'm.
prisonment. Nothing short of the
most energetic measures is at all ade-
quate, and the Mayor will deserve the
gratitude of our citizens if he will try
the effect of such penalties as will make
wellington very uncomfortable and
unhealthy place for the drunken brutal
element that seems determined to have
everything its own way.
Since the foregoing was written the
parties have received sentence as fol.
lows: Pat McClory and Robert Emer.
son each $50 fine and costs, and i'm.
prisonment in thew -house Cleveland
at hard labor 30 days, and if fine anC
costs are not paid to remain in Work
house at 60 cents per day until the ac'
count is balanced. John Brahany, fine
$l5.0O and costs, and committed to the
cooler until fine and costs are paid
This cannot tut be considered salts
factory disposition of these cases ant
the Mayor has the gratitude of the bes
citizens of the town for the determine
tion he has manifested to put down dis
order and lawlessness. We presume
however, that he will be importunet
and petitioned to remit penalties aftel
the too common fashion of extending
sympathy to criminals after they are
caught and made to receive the JUS
penalty for crimes committed. If there
is to be any difference between barbar.
ism and civilization, any discrimination
between good and bad, any recognition
of the superiority of right over wrong
public sentiment must sustain the law
and the officers whose duty it is made
to enforce it. If there is to be less
crime there must be punishment Of
crime.