Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-12-05

pccted 10 rise above the fountain that creates it,
But YOU, gentlemen, law makers and executors
there of, are charged for the time being with the
iut, rests of this people. You are bound by your
oaths to be viglant and see well TO H. that the city
does suffer financially, or 10 its reputation, by
any neglect OF yours. Are you gentlemen, IN
the line of your duty, when you permit and allow
thirty or forty nuisspces to exist in our city,
wherein rs your records show, the victims that
fill our jail, our aims houses aud a>ylums are
made, entailing heavy burdens upon the people :
Gentlemen, men are discharged from our al. go
out streets and ia few hours are bl Dug ht
IN again by your police, drunk al large expe use TO
the people, whose interests you have sworn to pro-
ttCt The criminal costs of this county are about
fifteen thousand dollars annually Our city
pays one fourth OF tins sum. Our psupers cost as
SIX OF seven thousand dollars more. Our police
THOUSANDS more. Nineteen tweutleths Of This
large sum Comes from ium. All this burden you
allow these fearful nuisances, to impose upon THIS
people, without making ole manly folt to suppress
them, to say nothing Of the corruption OF the
Young the loss IN reputation our city sustains, or
The suffer ing OF mo'hers, and helpless children.
+ ON What has been said It will be seen that our
city Is ice liom d trD tiic which every seutl
ment OF humanity should revolt. From my win
dow where now sit, youth, a mere boy, Ia seen
staggering home 10 his widowed mother.
| call upon all classes Of our people, nay de-
mand OF them, that they rise in their might, and
extrpate and drive tiom our midst the worst Tor IN
OF piracy hat ever infested the world call up
on all who minister al the sacred altar, that they
raise their voices in denuncIaton OF this deep aud
damniug crime, this CRIME against human nature.
cali upon you judges and all authority you doc
tors, you bankers, you merchants, you farmers, on
mechaulc-, you fathers. you mother, you young
men, you young women TO raise your voices
against this crime OF crimes. But some one may
LAY you too severe, by calling this traffic plra-
cv; YOU ~ Implication call those engaged IN 1t
pirates. " Webster says pirate Is one who TAX ;,
without legal permission, what belongs - another
To the above query (lt any such reference should
be drawn fiom any thing above wrltten,) my an
swcr aud inquiry is this, that the man or the men,
who 10 violation OF law take from a man his mon
ey and give him therefor, in return, that which
takes away his reason, his affection, his love- aud
sends him out to his starving, freezing, perlshInx
wife aud children, to beat, brui.e ana main, and
as is the case in many instances to torture even TO
death such zen ale not pirates, III heavens
name who are Z
Mr. w ebsler, at Salem, on the trial Of the muir
derers OF Mr.. White, speaking OF the Prisoners
SAID in substance, that against them as indv lduals
he had no prejuJice-he could have none-but
that be could not be Indifferent to the deep and
dsmning crime Of midnight murder and assassin
alton. that spirit is this indictment drawn -
Further in his matchless argument he was
moved by great feeling, when reoiting the proved
fact, thai N old man IN his own home, amid the
peaceful siumbers Of the night, should be made
the victim OF foul and bloody murder, 'for iseie
pay.
Who smong US, who has heart, is not moved
by like Indignation, by the proved fact that
amid tue silent hours of the night, tender women,
mothers, innocent little children, III their own
homes aie dying from want and cruelties. inlet
ed by the hand of husbands and fathers, trans
formed into brutes 10 these den- OF piracy land
for mere pay. =. ,.
Augusta Nov. %.