Sept. 12, 1895 - Carthage, in Moore Co., a town of less than half the population of Clinton, does not allow hogs on the streets, and is a better town to live in than when the contrary was the case.

Carthage has shown excellent judgment and a high mark of civilization in removing hogs from its streets.

The matter has not been agitated in Clinton lately, but anybody who lives or comes here cannot fail to see a great many reasons for following the example of Carthage in this respect.

There is hardly a worse hog-ridden town on the face of the earth than Clinton, and there would not be so much forbearance with the hog nuisance anywhere else.

When the matter of removing hogs from the streets is agitated, the question of men's rights is at once sprung by a number of hog owners who seem to lose sight of the fact that a town has some rights of self-defense.

It has at least the right to abate nuisances that can't well be endured. It is stated that there are more hogs in Clinton than there are people living in the town.

If this is correct, and it appears to be so, this town has been converted into something more of a stock farm than ought to be tolerated for a moment, and which would not be tolerated in many towns of its size.

Those who stand upon their rights in this matter should bear in mind that in many towns, hogs are not allowed to be kept at all, even in pens.

It is a considerable privilege to be allowed to keep hogs in a pen in a town, and those who feel bound to keep them should at least be required to keep them shut up. The argument that the hog is a useful scavenger is absurd in the face of the crying necessity for cleanliness in this hog-ridden town.

The goat is not allowed to run at large upon our streets, and he is a saint in his habits compared to the hog.

He has not so many friends here, and his liberties are abridged for lesser offenses than unhinging gates, breeding flees, and causing our people to take to the middle of the street in many localities because the sidewalks in those places are not fit for people to walk upon.

They are not fit for anything else than hogs, which monopolize them and refuse to get out of the way of anybody. Indeed, the hog enjoys more liberties and privileges than our people do.

If he was a voter, he would not have much more influence in local politics as he appears in too many instances to vote his owner.

One of the chief obstacles that has confronted the hog question is what to do with the hogs of non-residents of the town. That could be easily remedied, and even if it could not, it is not sufficient to warrant continuance of hog supremacy.