Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-04-13
RUM PowEae AnnAIuNEIt.
4 KING COUNTY GRAND JURY,s
INDICYMEN7' or THE HILnnA

The source Of PauporIsu, Insnnity
Crime-"An Annoyance and Po.tiye
pnmaSc to the Lives and Propcrty
OF Brcokiyn'S Law.abiding Citizens, i,
What Shall be Done!- Some rem
perance Chips.
The following official rrcHentment by the
Grand July uf Kings County, n. v.
handed uf March 30 To the Court al Seq
1t"n' iSu most striking arraigument Of the
Kun Power not only in Brooklyn but
throughout the land.
rREsENTMENr.
The Grand Jury OF the County of KIM.
IN session assembled during tho March
term 0i the Court Of Session do b.r.bv
most respectfully made the following pre-
sentiment 10 the said court to submit, .
through the prouer channel, to the eyis-
iatnre OF this State, now in session, the fol-
lowing preamble aud resolution for their
honorable consideration aud action:
Iphered' the discharge of our duties
as Grand Jurors, during the court term Of
March, 1883, the great majority of crimi-
nal cases brought before us have been eth
er directly or indirectly the result of the
nse OF intoxicating drink; and
Whereds-The number of licensed lioror
saloons in The City OF Brooklyn has increos.
ell to such mn alarming extent that in many
portions OF our city as many as twenty or
more saloons may he found in single ci,v
hlock dealing out intoxicants to men and
women and making them largely the dis
.nrbers OF the public peace and the commit-
tera OF crime; and
"he'edS-our county penitentiary and
lnhatic asylum and alnlshouses are b.ino
overcrowded with the subject of crime. NJ
insanity, oil poverty, mainly the results of
the Use of strong drink; and our local
criminal courts are heing burdened with
Trials brought about largely through the
nse OF such drink; and ~
Vhereds-The Commissioners of Exo;.
in the City of Brooklyn, by virtue of lgi,-
iation relative 10 the sale of intox,cai,,,
liquors in cities of this Stale CONTAINING
over 800, 900 inhabitants have been or,p,eJ
we'l-nigh supreme poweri in giving licen e
TO sell Intoxicating drinks in such locali-
Ties and to such applicants as they NAV
alone decide, and '
bhereds-Ihe granting of such large
numbers oil licenses, whereby drinking sa-
looms are so indefinitely multiplied as to
become discomfort, an annoyance and n
positive damage to the lives and pronertv
OF The law abiding citizenship of our large
city and '"' -"i Sc
Whereds-The great burden OF taxntlon
upon our city and county at large ia YEARLY
increasing, ami such burden of taxation i.
largely the result Of The use of Intoxicating
drink In the fruitful production o, crime.
iuhacp and poverty and thus the necessary
increase OF judicial authority and law-en-
lorcing officers, for the arrest and trial of
me hordes OF inlimidated offenders against
Ihe laws; therefore
REsoLvED-That we, the Gron, J,rv
'l 'he Cou"ly Of Kings, do respectfully and
n"mo'y pray our Legislature, now in Seq
'ion' to 10 amend the excise laws now in
operation in the City of Brooklyn that the
licensing power OF the Commissioners of
Excise be so curtaiIed and restricted as to
'ilow one saloon to definite number of
Inhabitants or to a definite limit of distance
" 10 Che enactment OF whatever measure
IF measures your honorable body may de-
ide' whereby the public vending of intox-
eating drink may be cur,ailed in our civ
nd thus the public good he largely ad-
anced in the protection OF the lives. homes
nd property of our citizens from the as-
'"''s anu theIts OF intoxicated persons; In
ne decrease oil burdensome taxation, and
The needed relief of the burdens of our
Fiminal courts. All of which is respect
lilly submitted. 4
Done in Grand Jury session, in the Conn 7
(Signed) PETER ]. Nrp,,,,s 800
Foreman of Grand T.,