The Durham daily globe., 1891-08-18
INFAMOUS AND OUTRAGEOUS.

law that is vicious and Infamous, and he
not to blame, made the records Of his
court cruel and diabolcal,
In the town of Durham there are ordi-
nances now in operation which say that
hogs shall not sleep under houses on
principal streets And adding to this
idiocy in the superlatiye there are ordi-
nances which say that every man owning
house shall provide himself with a
| ladder.
On top of this accumulative idiocy we
read the following from Chapter VI, Sec
tion 3
Any person who shall keep open any
| shop or store on Sunday, for the purpose
of buying or selling, except in cases of
| necessity, shall be fined twenty-five dol
lars: Provided, drug stores may keep
open on Sunday for the purpose Of sell
ling drugs only.
Immediately following this from the
same chapter and but two sections below
we read:
1t shall be the duty of the policemen Of
the town to go over the whole town and
suburbs at least two Sundays in every
month for the purpose of apprehending
any person who may be found violating
any of the laws and ordinances of the
town or state, and of ferreting out and
bringing to justice all offenders against
the peace and good order of society.
This is the law
This is what the ordinance says, and
this, it seems, is what MAYOR Angler
deals out to people regardless of the vio-
lations.
THE GLOBE does not not want to blame
MAYOR Angler; it would not lay the
blame at his door-if it could help it, be-
cause it appears that he is attempting to
follow the law-but should he?
But TIE GLOBE does say, that such
Stupid,
Idiotic,
Nonsensical,
Jackassical
Ordinance was never before written,
and GOD knows, it was never before en-
forced.
The Puritans, who burned witches,
would admit with tears in their eyes be-
fore a justice Of the peace that they had
never been such stupid asses.
Boldly, and yet honestly, and also with
the facts to back our assertion, THE
GLOBE says that Section ) Of the town
ordinances has been violated IN the very
face of every policeman on the force, the
chief included, time and time again.
1t says that the police know that the
Sunday law has been mockery in ccr-
tain quarters since the day it WIS insti-
tuted
1t says, and will prove, that policemen
have bought cigars and drank soda water
or seen them bougt at the drug stores in
this city.
1t is matter of common notoriety that
some drug stores in this city sell whiskey
on Sunday; it is known that some drug
stores sell cigars and tobacco on Sunday;
it is known that ice is sold on Sunday,
and it is known that watermelons and
fruits and what not can be purchased of
most any dealer on the Sabbath day.
And for MR.. SCARLETT, who has mani
festly violated his duty time and again,
and to his knowledge, and if not to his
knowledge, to his discredit, to come in at
the eleventh hour and arrest poor ne
gro for selling a chicken to customer,
is an infamous and outrageous proceed
ing.
And MAYOR Angler must not hope to
escape the blame of this His duty was
plain and needed no interpretation
Plainly and without argument he should
have stated that this Sunday farce was a
mockery and that he did not intend to
punish one man for doing that which
other men enjoyed.
THE GLOBE does not attempt to say
that MACKLIN was not guilty, but it does
say that half hundred other men are
and have been more guilty before the
same law many years, to the knowledge
of the police.
In this case deserving man has been
made victim. Justice is not in it.