Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-06-13
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CRIME AND VICE REIGN.
CONDITION or AFFAIRS AT CUR
tbs BAY. ANNE ARUNDEL
COUNTY.
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all Kinds of Debauchery are
Allowed and Practiced
The Law mud Order Society OF the
First Precinct of the Fifth district
Curtis Bay and Brooklyn,) have issued
the following startling address to the
citizens of Anne Arundel county, which,
If such state of affairs does exist, is
shame and u disgrace to this county. The
address says
1--WE have organized our Society be-
cause we are suffering from very great
social evils, and we address you because
you also are suffering with us.
You are probably aware that the low
est classes of Baltimore are using this
section OF our county for their indul-
gence in every kind of evil practices.
Gambling sopenly and impudent'y prac-
ticed every day in the week, Sunday in
clrded. The pool-room, that most dam
ge % Is form Of gambling, in that IL is so
alluring to young men, is here carried
on openly, the estimate being, by one
who sees the crowd every day, that at
least one hundred persons visit the place
daily. This crowd is made up OF young
men, clerks and others just beginning
their course of crime, as we'll rs of pro-
fessional black-legs hardened by years of
indulgence. Women also are sometimes
found among the number.
Another gambling hell has sometimes
as manv as five hundred persons in it mt
one time, the gambling continuing from
s lturday night until Sunday night, Sun
day being the most notable day IN the
week. Policy also is written IN various
OF the saloons. The gamblers and gamJ-
lingh keepers have been driven out
OF the city and Baltimore county, and
have found safe and undisturbed lodge
ment here.
Besides these things, we have a num-
Der of most disreputabhe resorts open at
all times from Sunday morning until
Saturday night. These are frequented
by abandoned women and degraded men,
and conduct is permitted that respect
for OURSELVES and respect for you would
forbid us to name. Here you will find
the lowest kind Of theatrical shows, with
scenes pandering to the lowest appetites.
Young girls frequent these places, and
boys, and all are welcome. Every law
is violated and all kinds OF deha Jchery
are allowed and practiced, 30 that no
respectable man, far less woman, can
be seen at these places without exposing
character TO grievous imputation.--
There is no distinction between Sunday
aud any other day. The quiet and good
order Of OlrT town and our whole county
is constantly violated by the reckless
driving of drunken and sometimes bois-
ferrous men and women.
We have appealed to the Court, to the
Grand Jury, to the States Attorney, To
the County Commissioners, TO the Local
Police and still the evil goes on. We
now appeal to you, fellow-citizens of
Anne Arundel county. Baltimore city
can shut up gambling dens, Baltimore
county could drive out the keepers of
pool-rooms and close down The foul re-
sorts along the shell road, but Anne
Arundel county does nothing, 1t is All
infamous shame. What do we want
you to do? This The government Of
the county costs large sum of money.
The cost of administering justice in our
county is very great. The salary receiv-
ed by the sheriff is large; the salary of
the States attorney is very large; the
salary of the county commissioners IL
large; the salaries of the -four police here
is large. The aggregate Of these is very
large and you with us pay IT all. An
officer of the Circuit Court writes, "the
costs in our court at it's last term were
| increased fifty per cent. by infractiOns
of law growing out Of Curtis Bay and
Brooklyn violations"
We appeal to you, therefore, In behalf
| of the good name OF our county, in be-
half Of law and good government, dear
to every upright citizen, in behalf OF the
moral and eternal welfare Of our youth,
of both sexes, and finally in behalf Of the
economical administration Of our coun-
| ty finances, that our taxes may be re-
duced within legitimate limits. The
power behind the law is strong, healthy
sentiment. Let that sentiment be ex-
pressed in Anne Arundel county, from
one end Of it to another, demanding OF
our well-paid officersin in every degree, that
| they pursue all the yiolatorB OF the law
to the utmost, that they be arrested by
| the officers of the law and that when ar
rested they be not let off or excused on
any plea whatever, but that because they
are old offenders their punishment bc
such as the law appoints. There are laws
enough and there are officers enough.
People Of Anne Arundel, we want you
to demand that the latter be not law
breakers themselves, but carry out and
enforce the laws as is their sworn duty,
or else we want pou TO turn them down.
/ What we want is not law, but law-abid-
| ing officers. You Will thus help us in
our grieyoug difficulty and at the same
| time help yourselves.