St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-12
A SHOULDER SHOT.
Judge Young's Grand Jury Charge
Is q SCOrcher.

Is Scorcher.
When court convened yesterday fore
noon, Room No. Is, or the large court
room as it is generally called, was filled
with attorneys who had assembled for
the purpose of setting time for the
trial of cases in which they were inter-
ested. The calender contain 1859 civil
cases, of which 36S are jury cases and
forty-two criminal cases, which were
continued over from last term. To
this number there will probably
be added $50 more cases by the time the
grand jury has completed It's labOrS.
Judge Young will try the criminal cases
this term, and his charge to the grand
jury yesterday showed that he consld-
cred that crime was increasing with
great rapidity in this city, and that un-
less the law was more strictly enforced,
there was chance that crime would
get the upper hand of the law.
He began his charge by call
the office which the grand jury occupies
as means for REFRESHING crime, and re-
ferred casually to the newspapers as
means that is often of great service in
furnishing information in matters
which they are often called on to con-
slider. He then went into an analysis OF
crime itself, the point of which was to
show that IS per cent of all the crime
committed was committed in the cities
and large towns, and as rea-
son for this he said that the
criminals from all over the country
cOngregated in the cities and laid their
plans for committing all the crimes on
the calendar. There is period in the
history of all cities, he said, when the
law holds the mastery over crime, but
crime is ever on the alert, and, unless
public sentiment is kept properly stimu-
lated, it will contest the mastery and
perhaps gain the upper hand. "EXpe-
rience teaches us that there is morbid
sentiment which is opposed to the strict
enforcement of the law, but so long
as we can preserve the integrity
of our juries, both petit and grand,
there is no need for apprehension. 1t
is currently reported that number OF
gambling houses are running in this
city in defiance of the law and of all
efforts Of the public authorities to sup
press it. 1t is therefore your duty to
Investigate this matter, and ii, after
careful inquiry, you find that nothing
of the kind exists, it will only be be-
cause there has been a great reform in
this matter within very short time.
''The keeping Of houses of ill-fame
under our statutes is felony, and 1t is
also an indictable offense for any per-
son to let any building, knowing that 1t
is to be used for an such purposes. or
all the haunts of vice which exist in
our cities, the very worst are the houses
of ill-fame, for they not only pOllute So
ciety, but serve as the breeders
of crime by becoming the rendez-
vouS of criminals and outlaws, and
very few are the crimes committed
which cannot be traced back to
the houses of ill-fame, where
they were planned; and yet there is no
crime which is tolerated by society and
our municipal authorities like the one
of keeping houses of ill-fame." He
then called the attention of the jury to
the liquor laws passed by the last legis-
lature, and in conclusion said: IF these
laws, stringent as they are, cannot be
enforced, there is no reasonable ground
for believing that any regulating laws
can be enforced"