The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-03-01

week concerning the Parrott ana hugnes
boys, who recently broke up meeting
of teachers in Clay township, and ter
ribly beat up a young man named Kay.
They played the part of bullies and
toughs, to which characters they are by
no means new. We were disposed to
let them down easy, on account OF their
youth, and suggested that the reading
OF exciting and impure literature must
have had something to do with their
evident wish for notoriety as despera-
does. Some of them have since paid
their fines and are out OF Jail. The two,
however, who had not been apprehend-
ed last week have now been brought to
face the law. If there were any mac
curacies in our statement they were
trivial. If we were mistaken as to the
officer who made the arrest, that doesn't
affect their guilt. If we we're wrong in
our suppositlon that yellow back novels
played prominent part in their vic.
iousness, then they have more natural
depravity than we supposed. If they
did not throw stones and clubs through
the windows, as warming of the wrath
to come to those inside, then our inform.
ants are greatly mistaken.
But, il they were guitiess OF offence,
as they assert, then why ON earth did
they plead guilty 10 minor degree of
crime rather than stand triei for great
err We know the jails and penllentia-
ries are full of innocent and sanity
characters. Among thousand priso'
ners there might not be one who would
not assure you that he was the victim OF
gross injustice. Witnesses had sworn
against them falsely. The Judge and
the jury were prejudiced. OF all men
they are the most honorable and limo
cent. But, it isn't often that you will
find one admitting that he testified false.
ly against himself. And, if he should
make such an admission, he is hardly
fool enough to rush into print to vic
iously condemn others for believing it,
These boys sent US a note last week
concerning this matter. The manly way
would have been to have come person.
ally. Only towards push others forward
to do such work. If they had wanted
to compel retraction they would
have been welcomed very cheerfully. If
they merely wished to make statement
in print, in denial or correction of his
report, they would have been readily
granted space. As it is, they have done
themselves no good.
We want to say now that we bear
them no personal i'll will and have re-
Trained several times in the past from
mentioning their escapades. We chose
to consider them more foolish than vic.
ious, and hoped they might do better.
Instead of that, they have zone iron'
bad to worse, and the time came W..
we thought our duty to the "0"rmu.
nifty demanded some notice OF their
deeds saloon scrap nov and t., n
might be overlooked. But whcn ell.
sober, inoffensive people can not assem-
BILE for laudable purpose without being
attacked and beaten and driven out by
this ferocious gang, it is high time for
somebody to speak out. The News
HERALD is not Police Gazette. We are
not hunting drunks and escapades out
of which to make sensations. We do
not want to kick any one down to lower
depths of vice, but rather to lift them
up, if we can to higher levels. And, we
hope the trouble that has fallen to the
lot of these transgressors may prove
timely lesson. 1t is our sincere desire
that, if we should have occasion to men
ton them again, it may be in a more
kindly and honorable way. We are
glad to learn that some of them are
really not bad at heart, and have in
them the elements of useful manhood,
if they would only "bout face" and
march toward Christ instead Of the devil
If the don't do this, the gates OF the
Pen and the black walls of the annex
stand directly across their future path.
We say this in all kindness, but we
mean every word of it. Courage and
intrepidity are splendid qualities. II
they have them, let them prove it by
turning their backs on an evi. life an'
battling manfully for the right Then,
they can draw on the News II ERALD f9r
any favor within its power. Othlra is2.
neither abuse nor threat can save them
ffom its deserved condemnation
S nators Brice and Hill are heading
an apparent revolt against the Wilson
tariff bill, with its outrage discrim
nations in favor of the South. Penn
sylvania has walked them up, and even
Grover has been scared off his nest
But, if we don't miss our guess, the
Confederates will, as usual, compel theil
nortern allies to wear the collar Of ser
vitude. Hill and Brice will each raist
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