The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-11-22
Aa,sum eros oun COURTS AND
our SECTION.
LIOTT a IIALIn

.T..airrH. r ItW ess region. In no poi
isr often. 3r mo Southwest Is there
more iaeabHu intelligent and orderly
,,r.-.s..e. people than can be found In
Ds..se...a.f .olnty. We have h'urish
i,. ,,a5.s rua .nurches, fearless officials
and we'll organized courts and all the
machinery Of government, law and order
that "a found in the heart Of New York
ci,v or Boston. In all the place, quietness
comfort, culture and morals that render
life pleasant and community prosperous
W are as remarkably blessed as are the
mus, famous centers of civilization.
What shall we think of an official BODY
o. citizens who vii virtually say to the
outside world under such circumstances
and in the face of such facts, that we are a
ldless, lawless set OF Criminals
no better than mining camp
i, Arizona or New Mexico, overrun with
+,isves criminals and crime until the Or
binary machinery ofjustice is poWeriess
~ enforce the law? fla paper or an indl-
y-r,eI should make such a charge would
The statement not be set down as black
aus,diabolical Islander?
And vet q grand jury of Dallas county
has said 10 ne outside world that tne
c5rrts enc so inefficient aud the morals so
bad and crime so highhanded and prevalent
that vigilance committees and bands OF
nt.3 inform ,rs and spies should be organ
izsdi. tl county for the protection OF So
orstg. All The VOL, !!:::z.cc-c 49,. the vigi-
Iapte. mean. They mean the setting
.si4s or courts and sherifls aud ju.
rieg ana setting up Judge Lynch
t7s most bloodthirsty, the sto'
NEST haarted and cruelest judge that
egsr punished citizen.
To say hist informers and vigiIantes
ought to he organized in Dallas county Is
IN declare nat the courts and law officers
IA fsachjnery OF government are SO pow
er,ss Ct rotten that the laws cannot be en-
d, ,esd ius ce is mockery and that crime
is holding high carnival. 1t is slander
ms n the courts ard officials of our county.
n wag an insult to the judge to whom
t-s re,,r. % called was made aud coming
from an olioial body, is calculated to hurt
tais geet!c,. more than anything that has
o-r tred here for years. 1t will keep OH
Ia abiding emigrants, it will keep away
csplal. j. VIII endanger bueiness.
strangers and capital and business Will
not 90 where the vigilantes and the INFORM
ers control the community. No man is
sure OF escaping the corrupt accusation Of
a paid informer and no mans liberty is safe
in the hands OF the vigilantes.
Bat what would be thought of q grand
iury. furthermore, that would proceed TO
a,use in its report the men whom it had
Indicted for even murder and arson, and
proceed to point out how they might be
convicted and otherwise prejudice their
cases by manufacturing public sentiment
AGAINST them. The Judge would proceed
10 administer such rebuke as that jury
would never forget andthecommunity would
CRY shame upon such aforgetfulness ofduty
and propriety. But this last grand lury's
tract against gambling and the Dallas HER
AID was equally as grossly hie'
ga. inappropriate and partial IN
ns terms. aud the judge cou'd
hardly conceal his disspprobation and
dl.rust therest and virtually condemned
the iury's report so.called upon its de-
livery.
But we have legislature in this state
whose province 1t is to frame laws and sug-
eest policies. 1t is the province oil
Grand Jury to weigh testimony and find
bills upon prosecutions brought before 1t
and report simply at the conclusion oil its
labors what it has done. IL is not legisla
tive body nor debating society, much less
a mud-throxing machine, at least hereto
fore Il has not been, and TO travel out Of The
record with iis preiudices and ISLANDERS not
only upon a reputable journal, but the
very courts Of the community and even ihe
community itself, is piece Of conduct tlst
grows more contemplate and inexcusai le
III more Il is studied.
Hereafter give rs plain. sensible body
ofrood citizens. who know what their duty
!, and how appropriately 10 discharge 1t
and not a lot Of would lie reformsrs and
statesmen before whom LUTHEE and WrB-
TN would pale into insigni6cance.
WIZ q grand jury Of our county tn
a cond county IN the state in point OF pop
ulsiion, perhaps the very first, bat certainly