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Show CALL A HALT. Nephi ha recently had a case bel.re ' I lie emu is where a huh lias been fined 1 f.it using tnOrceiit Ni jue Ma w..m.iii. lie plead guilty, and exjnr.-ed a willm-nesi willm-nesi tn p.iv h flue, and llien akctl leave to tell liislinv, which was indeed a tale of we. Tlie wuinau had encouraged encour-aged her children to stone, beat, and blackjuaid those of her neilib .r.assall-ed .r.assall-ed and abused various members ul the lanuly hersell, and at the first breath of retaliation flew lu duit and entered a suit. It is not everybody that is willing to figure before th courts in a petty neighborhood low, and, respectable people peo-ple will bear almost any amount of abuse rather than come belore the public.lhus; but w hat of the Communities who wink, at such matters, and what i.fthe families who thus train up their childien as mod-ocrats. mod-ocrats. rulhn and toughs? These matterf.aie no: asuddenjgrowth but is the result of long training. Notice the little boys who spend the greater part ol their time on the streets, turned loose, sallying out like a spider to maltieat eveiy boy smaller than him self, abusing cats and dogs, tying strings across the sidewalks, etc., and you find 1 he same bo)s as they grow older, assal-ting assal-ting their neighbors, appropriating calves, in after l ie filling our courts and prisons, as well a untimely graves. The parents who wantonly and indifferently indif-ferently foster a spirit ot persecution and revenge in Meir children, are planting the seeds of the trees of sorrow, degradation degra-dation and ruin. It is no uncommon thing, even in San Pets, to hear ol cases ol rowdyism, and our readers would be shocked to see tne details in punt, for they can rest as inrod that hoodlumism is not confined to the children ol the poor, or uneducated, un-educated, nor to the sterner sex but if it would be i.ffciuive and disgusting for such matters to be brought before the public, and disgracelul and offensive for the participants in such nutters to see their names mixed up with it, how much worse is it that such things are peimit-ted peimit-ted to exist, unquestioned.and unchecked. It is nut Irom ignorance that these persons per-sons are lea to victimize the public, or iuteifere with the peace, property, and rights ol others, for our systems of training train-ing for the young are very complete, and as the public has no great demand for that particular class of smartness it should not be encouraged, even by silence. si-lence. If their are young people, or boys and gills in our midst who really have no re spect for individual rights, whv then the strong arm of thelawsh uild be evoked, for the Mormon people af all people in the world have sullercd loo much from mob violence to tolerate the growth and development of such an element among us. |