Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-04-03
A Terror to Evil Doers.

Judge Porter, Prosecuting Attorney
Emerson, the grand and petit jurors of
Logan county, have performed nooie
work in the execution of the laws, and
have become a terror to the gamblers and |
saloon keepers of Logan county. At the
late term of the common pleas court Of
that county, large number of saloon
keepers were arraigned before the court
for violating the liquor law of the State,
found guilty and fines assessed against
them, amounting, in the aggregate, to
$IsOO.OO and imprisonment in the county
Jail added to the fines of sixteen of them
from ten to twenty days each, and the
judgment of the court was that they re-
main in Jail until the fines are paid.
In relation to the execution of the liz
uor law we find in the Bellefontaine Re
publican, of last week, some remarks that
are worthy of consideration, and there
fore, we transfer them to the columns of
the HERALD. The free speech of the judge
was timely and worthy of consideration
by every friend and advocate of law and
order:
The scene in the court room Saturday
morning, while the Judge was delivering
the above sentences, was very impressive
especially to those sentenced. There
was a large crowd of citizens in the court
room, and as the Judge affixed sentence
after sentence, and the Sheriff and his
r corps of deputies carried off the victims
: to the Jail, there was a general feeling
d that the day of judgment had come.
The course of the Judge in afixing SEN
4 tenees that would be felt and have tend
eneV to break up the illegal traffic Ii
hV HnQT
the disgraceful traffic with disfavor; anC
the Prosecuting Attorney has the supper
of our law-abiding citizens generally, il
Y his efforts to ferret out and punish crime
= After the sentences were given, Judg
Porter made a short speech, in which b.
cOmplimented Prosecutor Emerson, ant
: spoke some very sensible words to Ou
people, all Of which he said he gave as
} free lecture.
He said that there were more cases OI
the docket at this term from violations o
e the liquor law than there ever were, per
J. haps, at any time since the organization Q
the county, showing that there was faul
somewhere. He said that the Prosecute
had done his part fearlessiy and nObly
and perhaps disposed of more crimins
= cases than had ever been disposed of
s, the county in the same time. LOga
1s county, he said, was noted for its goo
juries and he commended both the gran
and petit juries, of this term. He sal
20 that the people had the power to crus
out these violations of law, but are &
Or fault-they lack the will or disposition
n Referring to the passage of the resolution
ID at the recent temperance meeting ne salt
in substance, 'tThey meet in large an
enthusiastic meetings, and resolve in e
ot feet that others should do their duty, b.
as for them they will render no aid, l
We assistance; but after the Prosecuting A
It torney has hunted up the cases, and h
es- done the work as best he could withO
their help, they will come in and sit
when he tries the cases, and are reaC
to suggest how the cases should be di
posed of by the Court. The people he
'us have resolved, (and have kindly furnish
IN me with a copy of the resOlutions,) tn
he the law should be executed to its full e
tent, but their resolutions are as silent
the grave as to any help that might
- looked for from them.'
The Judge then offered a few sugg'
IN tions as to what the people should do.
aid Let them resolve,
Ter 1st, That they have a duty to perfol
in the matter, and
I'd, That they will perform that dut
=. And then let them do that duty proml
'u' ly and fearlessly.
lty He then referred to the action of t
90, people of Redwood which he commend
led as worthy of emulation. Previous to t
last term of Court in Union county, I
people of Redwood resolved substanti
-. iy as the Judge advised our citizens to
ms and then employed lawyer to assist I
an Prosecuting Attorney. The result W
ns' that they closed up their saloons and i
;ob prisoned the keepers. This, the Jud
~ claimed, showed where the power re
and what the people can do. He CO
cluded by saying, that elf the people
q their duty it may be perhaps unnecessa
net to resolve as to others. But unless tn
,ats resolve to act, and do act, the serpent W
of only be scotehed, not killed."