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Show YOUTHFUL VICIOUSNESS, AND A REMEDY. There is a big broad path by which greatness may be achieved, open to the city marshals of most of ou small Utah towns. We refer to the possibility of their checking the present pres-ent wide-spread habit among the younger clement of those towns of racing their horses to the point ot exhaustion, along the public highways. high-ways. Often they do not stop when the point of exhaustion has been reached, but continue to race the poor brutes till they fall in their leather. We aren't citing isolated cases, wc arc citing a condition that may be seen by anyone who may take the trouble to observe at any time in any of our smaller towns. It is a practice that should be discouraged. dis-couraged. The city marshals in the various towns arc the persons to discourage dis-courage it and they should adopt harsh measures, arrest the young brutes and put them on the rock-pile Do not impose a fine because the young hoodlums' fathers will invariably invari-ably come forward with the money "to save the boy from disgrace." It is impossible to bring disgrace on a creature that would race an unresist ing horse till the suffering brute dropped from exhaustion. "Disgrace" is used in connection with a class of persons further, jip the line. If the persons to whom it might be applied had made ievcn a beginning in decency decen-cy or intellectuality they w4ould be miles above the brute who abuses Ijorses. Those young hoodlums fit way down below the last step in the ladder of decency or intelligence. If J an idea of decency or humanity or any old kind of an idea ever got into ! their heads, it would dfc of solitude, j Let them break rock or better still 4 hprsc-whip them. |