The Progress., 1896-04-25

Boiled down, it means Simply Vha' VoeS
were others Of another State. 1t Is
unmanlv. untrue aad unfair for news
paper5 TO call them toughs. Inc evil
dence in the Mayors Court, given
under oath, showed entir~ly to the con
tray. 1t i: quite an easy matter f'r an
editor at home, surrounded by friends,
to call Stranger. who is friendless, a
touqh: bnt it is far from manly, and
reflects no credit on the writer who
does, e:p cially when the facts show
the newspaper epitoets to be false.
The PROGRESS doe not intend 10 take
sides against the best interests OF our
community, hut its editor has never
vet knowingly mad a false statement:
has never yet knowingly done one an
Injustice: has never YET attempted 70
bully one who was IN a position where
he could not call on HIM for redress,
be granted the rrivi; ege of resentlng
hat he believed an injustice. and II
shall not begin on the strangers from
leXa@.
they were ENGAGED in an occupation
of quest enable propr.etv we believe:
our convictions are in that direction:
but they violated no law and The
| PROGRESS cannot believe that these
illegal arrests can redounp to any adj
vintage to Shreveport.
We did not know that it wasa crime
for a newspaper to employ non-resl'
dents to represent them. We are
equally as unaware that it was an Of
feuse against our $St,te-or c ty-fo
co respondents or representative Of
newspapers IN any 1pacity to come tx
Shreveport without reporting thei
bushes, to the papers CT their repre-
J sentatives Of this town. And pardon
the ego tism and arrogance. notwith
standing the arrest of these TEXAS
gentlemen, we don't b lieye it yet; or
rather we must strongly Idi: bejievo it
While these gentlemen were en-
gagged in an occupation distasteful tt
super sentiveuessly OF such gentlemen
rs were righteously indignant thai tn
peop of our parish shOu even b
under the suspicion Of doing anythin
wrong with the tal or OK: out slider
might ahink that there was somethin
rather shay ia our methods, if sue
small thing, were so vigorously reser
Ell. OF course the world do t knO
, tn laddo's skirts are white as any IN
lar AN make them, in respect to til
' faint of a lot box stuffing, and it is d
much to save our people and more e
peciaUy those who were most pr m
y nent il having tn arrests Md. to-
y tn. bad su. pi ~, HIT we comm ent
u the lack OF vi. dom til y di rllyc!.
aAyoi g else.
There wa- q sposiIion on tie part
~ some to COZ. d4luI Chief Nelson Tor I
y arrests: but. in our opinion, neither
y nor any of his officers We're to ilan
Il TIL act d on the advice OF reputual
1t - !
ciriz-ns.
% Just tn before Il sing in d
~ those VINO nd the arrests mad. CtliC
G.. \. D4wing testified II, d = oail u
" he I'D not kloWsout That tee -e Il
- men would att mot 10 ST, # re Oal
uC poXes. No woud4r rnen that tne V.r
y Gus mitigation OF this cnlvai Gus OFT
re was arous III at the Uare idea or sucn
- Grim. being AT enpte d in tn- &: and
o riSh of C,ddo. He is to be c.
u inended not forgetting lh.t he was
- officer aud reseniiug the otf-nse IT.
M and tner-.
Well it is ove- now;th- trial; mas e,
I'd: the affair mas been numbered w
W the things g,ne befur'. But ueighoe
a friend, fell,w citizens, il such tni
r. are pas. rd over rs a very light off 'nse
~ matter of course, what will tn |
- VS.: u? Wnat is th- uurAl deSt
nc o. a sucn Oh ii II vi public aft Ms
p tn: o: bought: An indeed wha