The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-01-19

the leading young. men of this town,
was so violent, lawless and disgraceful
that | belieVe they would like to blot
its existence from the page of memory
Blu, this is impossible. the deed is
done, i's victim, Schulz, has fed from
our parish BY night, or in secrecy. He
has gone abroad into the world to
carry the tidings that a mans life IL
not safe in this community, for should
an individual commit some slight
offencs against one of the boys, The
crowd will do, him up. As Schulz has
gone, we are all up against this qnes.
tion- Who will be the nexi? For
they have as much right to run one
man off as they have another. 1t
seems to me that society is indeed de-
graded, when the friends Of a man
who has received u slight injury in a
personal encounter, mob his sssailant,
aud run him out of the parish.
What are you for? What is the Dis.
trict Attorney for? What is this court
for? Men who take the law in their
own hands iguore our exist ence; but /
charge you not TO ignore them.
Let these self.consttuted execution
ers OF ihe law know they are OF
too much importance 10 be over
looked; let outraged aud iisulled
justice lay its restraining hand on
their disrespectful aud thoughtless
heads with such force, as to crush
therefrom blind and degrading pas
sion, aud give reason, right aud just
ice change to get into their brains.
Lawless men are worse than pesii-
lence and wild beasts. You can run
from one and have legal right to kill
the others. But YOU don't know how
TO take the lawiess man. lie will slap
you on the back one minute, and slap
knife into. your. side the next! Or
throw his arms around your neck in
fun, and soon after rope around your
neck that you may be hanged, as our
friends of the Schulz affair might have
done and if so, Lake Providence would
probably, al the next session of Con-
gress have furnished the subject mat.
ter of section of President McKin.
ley's message TO that body under the
degrading beading of "fhe Lake
Providence Lyrching," for | doubt
very much If Schulz is naturalzed
citizen of this country.
2 Gambling is preached against as a
sin by the churches and legislated
against as crime by the state. 1t
is most seductive evil. and a most
subtle crime. 1t is usually partial to
back rooms and favors late. hours,
when all sleep save its victims. This
State has battled against it vigorous
ly, and with some success. The
Louisiana Lottery, one of the most
colossal gambling schemes and one OF
the worst, because it catered to the
young and ignorant, caused one of
the bitterest political contests this or
any other state ever witnessed, in
WHICH the friends of purity were vic-a
torious. The law in its far seeing
wisdom has at all times tried to pro-
tect and guide the young and un-
wary, and for this reason the law
makers have leglslated against GER
tain kinds of gambling, among which
that known as the slot machine, that
internal device which gets the boot
blacks nickels, the laborer's dimes
and the dollars of the sports.
There is number of these things
running in full blast in this parish,
where young and old gamble. 1t is
a misdemeanor for any one to own
and conduct slot machine. a INSIDE
neanor on the part of lessor to per-
nit it to be conducted and a crime
% permit children to gamble on
hem. The crime is grave; its
fleet strikes at the very foundation
If social and moral order, and it
should be stopped. tA
My attention has been called to an
pen and fragrant violation of the
sunday law, which it seems is quite
PREVALENT throughout the parish.
ave been requested by some of our
prominent citizens to charge YOU
pecially to investigate this matter.
nd | take pleasure in doing so.
his is something l overlooked at
be last term of this court, else it
hould have had my attention then.
he violators of this law should be .
unished; they defy the law, ignore
ne Sabbath and too often outrage
Dciety, and the crime is so prevail {
ut that you can, by proper effort,
ct abundance of evidence to indict
nd convict, and you are under oath 9
} do all in your power to ferret out
lime.
You are also charged to invest,-
Ale the carrying of concealed weap- :
IS, selling or loaning weapons to !,
inors, riding on leyees, to investi- !,
ate the condition of the public /
lildings of the parish and report /
Don their condition. 81 Ia