The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-01-27
An Outrage.

liberty and happiness are In the keeping
OF the people among whom he lives
Those unfortunate Northern men who
went South just after the war found it
SO, even though the Constitution OF the
Nation was full of rights and liberties
guaranteed to them by the plighted
power of more than thirty states.
When community so far forgets it.
self, even in its most crazy moments, as
that it will not stop to protect its most
ignorant and unpopular member from
habitual annoyance and insult, it is not
worthy of free government and is as
much outside the pale OF Democratic in.
stitutions as village of Apache Indians
or Fegii Islanders. When the public
sentiment of a town says, call right,
here is man hoplessly in the minority
and it will be safe to annoy him and
make life almost unendurable" and then
cody watches and laughs while lot of
irresponsible boys, negroes, smart alecks
and so called business men and clerks
proceed to do these very things, it be.
comes slander on the good old words,
"free government" and it's charter should
be annulled on the ground that it is still
too ignorant, stupid and savage to exer
else the powers delegated to it.
1t is not question Of ability to annoy,
no one disputes that, for thousand or
so of people in any town can annoy to
their hearts content, unless there is q
civilized majority big enough to curb
them. In Hillsboro today, there is a
crowd Of people who haye no more re.
gard for another mans rights than 80
many savages, and think 1 know
whereof I speak.
Suppose lot of people in Greenfield
would select one of their merchants for
persecution, and would make it point
to make some odious remark about him
every time they passed his store when
he could not see who made it, would
shout some blackguard epithet at him
from around the corner or under cover
of darkness and would pour forth at
midnight from some poker joint or other
equally good resort and meandering to
his place of abode, would make night
hideon0 h drunken laughter and
thic wit or would hoot and
r. ne they saw him in the
t it all sound funny
IL
admire thSlf humer and would
notnhe who rise in public esti.
md k ~ bade to appear that
SUD Proceedings were high.
ly app{ there? Would any man
trying t61lId up business think he
had fair chance in such town?
Would he not be fool to take such stuff
as a joke? No man wants to have his
business injured by such methods and
himself given odious names which must
necessarily reflect back and injure his
business. When alleged jokes are made
to depend upon the successful violation
of the criminal statutes and ordinances
whiohpwe xnacted for the very purpose
of protsctihg&ll from such annoyances
and enablin64o live peacefully in their
own commuu y, they cease to be Jokes
and become 9 trages, and the town that
w0uld PerEst1n inacting these "jokes"
in spt 3he victims protest, ought to
be tran med into huge jackass with
all the mutual and physical equipment
Of the ordinary jackass, If the said
'boys," old and young, imagine that
there lisa contest going on, they fstter
themselves. The subject of annoyance
would as lief think of contesting with
and trying to down flock of roosters or
herd OF steers. They simply have the
ability to annoy, even gnats have that
It is exceedingly strange that no one but
4 Prohibitionist is selected for such
work. In fact think that no |
Democrat or Republican of any promi.
aence in Hillsboro would be subject |
% such treatment.
OF course patience could endure
his business for time without com.
olaint, but when ones ears are assailed |
ncessantly day by day, almost hour by
,our, for months with odious remarks
If various kinds, uttered from under
over, but intended for them to hear, it |
becomes an intolerable nuisance and |
+ Hillsboro does not put stop to it, l
Inow of one who will cease to live in
uch town. OLIN J. Ross,
Pjmples on the Face.