The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-25

mighty handy thing when you need it.
Only at the last term of court held
here, two or three days were spent in
trying miserable vagabond who, by
promises, persuasion and threats, had
ruined an honest country girl, and then
offered her money to repair his wrong.
The grand jury returned true bill, the
jury convicted him and the court ex-
hausted the judiciary in Furnishing him,
by giving him the limit of the law"
The position of man and woman in the
social scheme of the world was then dis
cussed, and he added:
I'VE mustn't lose sight of the fact that
women, also, sometimes seduce men, We
have the authority of the Bible for this
statement. Cod made man, and He
made him pretty low animal, too, some
times. Then He made woman--the per-
| lection of his work. He placed her with
careless ease on the pinnacle of admi-
ration. and if she behaves herself she'll
seldom find a man debased enough to in
suit her And certain it is that if the
woman keeps herself inside the pale of
the law, the statute will protect her to
the utmost limit
THE POAD TO HE'LL BLOCKED.
The law touching these matters was
then explained to the jury in detail
Judge Robinson added:
IF you'll keep a community sober and
virtuous you'll have a fine community.
Let young man be sober and virtuous
and therell be no way for him to GO
to hell. The road is blocked down that
way. If he is sober he hasn't poisoned
his blood with alcohol, he does not go to
his work with dull head and heavy eye
and impaired energy. If he is virtuous
his body is not rotted with disease. and
his blood tainted to the third and fourth
generation. He has no innocent offspring
coming into the world inoculated with
the germs of death harvested in a pa
| rents nights of debauchery. If COM
munity be sober and virtuous, it is better
than all the churches you can build, and
the doctors will have little to do. It's
women will be happy and it's men
will bring to their morning toll all the
power and vigor of unimpaired man
hood. .
But, the Judge went on to say the So
cial vices were not all found among the
young men.
There are men who neglect their fam
ilies-their wives, not now SO comely as
they once were and their children, born
in wedlock. for some outcast whose en-
braces are curse and whose offspring
are brought into the world sin and
reproach.
Innocent though these children are,
they are raised amid crime and with
out moral training. Arriving at man
hood or womanhood, is it any wonder
hot off To ho hor- bo
gambling hell and the brothel They fill
our jails and penitentiaries and string
from the gallows. You'll find that crea-
lures raised in this way are just as able
to pull pistol and shoot ball into your
son, perhaps, as anybody else.
THE remedy is right here in the court
house. The stream must be purified at
the fountain. The men and women who
are engaged in bringing into existence
such creatures must be restrained Why
should you protect a man like that?
What do you owe him? Why perjure
yourself that such a creature may keep
UP his devilish practices? Why, if you
were to meet a coon like that in the
lower regions it wouldn't be worth the
while to ask if he was hot
Having said this much Judge Robinson
cautioned the jury, while doing its full
duty, to exercise with care its sprerogative,
especially in regard to this cffense.
while seeing to it that no crime goes
unpublished, you must see to it, also that
you are not made the instrument for the
persecution of an innocent person 1t
does affect a mans standing in the
community TO have the grand Jury bring
in true bill against him, even though
he is afterwards acquitted by a petit
jury"