Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-05-25
JUDGE BACH SPEAKS.
HE DENOUNCES THE SO-CALLED
LOVERS"
The Grand Jury Instructed to Indict
Panderers to Vice-They are
Invited to Leave the
Town,

In the district court, Thursday, Judge
Bach produced a sensation by an address
to the grand jury, which was in effect
as follows:
The court said: am perfectly willing
to plead guilty to certain prejudices, but
| nave, at least in my own opinion and
judgment, overcome any prejudice which
ought not to exist in my mind before l
make the remarks which | am about to
make. | believe that ever since the world
existed, OF at least ever since its popula-
ton amounted to any considerable num-
Der, there has been class of men in ex-
lstence who are reproach and stigma
to the name of man.
l have come from a city which prob
ably has more vices than any other CITY
IN the United States, but | am very proud
OF the fact that in that city men who are
"plnkles' have no associates except
among them selves. They would not dare
speak to reputable member of society,
ana, as far as they are concerned, every
other member of society is more or less
reputable. They have got to seek their
| associates among their own class. They
would not speak to you or me, and neither
you nor | would be obliged to associate
with them Or would be called upon to as
soclate with them. They are a class by
themselves. They are a class that ought
to be driven out of every respectable com
munlty had the hope that the exper-
! lence OF one year ago was enough for
those men and would drive them out of
this community | am given to under
stand that they still olive" or rather [
would say they "exist' in this town. |
m NO q nl,r$ I
the United States government to be a
moralist, and l recognize the fact that
those who have studied the social condi-
tI'l of the world maintain that there has
to be the social evil, and, so long as the
social evil does not become pest then
this court has nothing to do with any at
tempt to suppress it, unless brought be-
fore it by the proper nstrumentality, but
there is a parasltical growth even on that,
II you can call them men, who will live
upon women who have given up their
lives to shame. Those men ought not to
be allowed to breathe the same air we
breathe; they are not fit to breathe it and
ought not to be allowed to associate with
US, and we ought not to be forced to live
with them. They have nothing to do.
They are vagrants because they
nave no means of support. They
would not be allowed to come
into this court room and testify
to the fact, of which they ought to be
ashamed, that their means of support is
furnished to them by the women to whom
they pander. Those men are idlers. In
New York they hide their faces in shame
in the day time, spend their time in beat
ing the women with whom they live, and
show themselves only at night In Mon
tana they parade the streets. These men
have subjected themselves to the punish
ment OF the laws IN that they violate the
statute which says or which provides for
the crimes generally known as "fornca-
ton" and "adultery."
The supreme court has finally decided
a case which makes it more or less easy
to prosecute successfully violations of the
law in that respect. l do not say that
there is any violation of that kind in this
county, but | am told there is. If there
is L would advise you to look after those
men. | will wager my reputation for
some knowledge of humanity upon this
proposition that for every brawl, every
disturbance of the peace in this town the
per centage will show that nine out of
ten have been caused by those very men.
You are the tax payers of this county and
it is for your best interests to get rid of
pLiooo iAieH. 4 uSIe Is Il INV WHICH Will
allow us to protect ourselves against
growth of the social evil which becomes
a nuisance. l do not believe there is a
manly man in this county who has not
more respect for a man who steals horses,
for he risks his life and neck, than he
has for the man who lives upon the shame
Of women.
Now those men have to go away from
this town. 1t is no place for them.
recommend you to investigate this matter
and order them to leave town. Bring in
indictments against them, so that they
shall not come back to town after you
have adjourned your meeting
In the case of Ledgerwood vs. Geer.
the jury found for plaintiff $12S.8O and
costs.
In Murphy, Maclay & Co. VS.. Mann, the
court dismissed the suit.
Reports are current that the grand jury
las found "no true bill"in the Hunt case.