The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-03-26
This is What Judge Sanders Pre-
diets of Paducah.
Gives an Informal Talk on Conditions
and Other Things in Pa
ducah.
OTHER POLICE COURT NEWS

The case against Mr.. L. A. Lago-
marsino for alleged violation Of the
Sabbath came up today, but YVES not
decided by Judge Sanders, who stated
ne would decide all this character Of
cases Saturday.
Mr.. Lagomsrsino testified that he
had wines, beer and other liquors on
his bill of fare, and furnished 1t to
guests who called for it with their
meals, but there was nothing to show
that he kept his saloon open, and the
charge was keeping open his saloon
for the purpose of selling liquor. He
takes the liquors served to his guests
from the sidebosrd and not from the
saloon.
Judge Sanders made quite lengthy
talk from the bench, and it was listen.
ed to sttentively and with evident in
terest by large number of attorneys
and spectators. He stated that he had
been deciding these Sabbath breaking
cases since 1870, and sometimes
thought it was contempt of court to
keep bringing them before him. He
said further that he was getting tired
OF having to decide them every once
and while to Salty the whims or ca
prices OF some one or some class, and
that the decision Saturday would be
his last involving the questions at is
sue.
He then dealt extensively with Pa
ducah aud the conditions that prevail
here. He said that his opinions in
the Sunday cases had always been
rendered according to his best judg-
ment and always would be and that
he had always been sustained That
the courts-police, circuit, state, and
federal, had decided such cases time
and again, and that in Sabbath viola
tioDs, a very liberal construction is al
ways placed on the words, charity or
necessity" by all courts. II has been
decided many times that all kinds of
perishable goods may be sold on the
Sabbath, which brings up another
question, as everything is more or less
perishable.
He declared futher that we have
good, moral town, and that his records
will show it. That the average num-
Dor of Sabbath DRINKS and breaches Of
the peace will not exceed three the
year around, and that eight out of ev-
cry ten cases tried before him Monday
morning are from Saturday night.
Many men who have worked hard all
during the week then receive their
pay. and want to have little relaxa-
tion and recreation, and few of them
get a little too much. The court.
however. did not blame them for
wanting TO enjoy life.
1--WE are here only short time"
said the court, land when we leave
we don't know what we are going to
get. But now don't go away and say
that l am an atheist or an infdel, for
| am not believe in supreme be-
ing, a God, and hereafter "
Ho then detailed the various GLASSES
that go TO make upa city, and told
how the ministers who are good, NOR
al men as rule, and do what they
think is right, want one thing, the
wholesale liquor dealers want one
thing, and saloon men are split up
themselves and some want to keep
open and some do not, the retail mer-
chants want something and the clerks
want something else, and what suits
one class will not necessarily suit an
other. All these go to make up a
city. however.
The law does not recognize any diff
erenca in employer and employet, he
declared. and in rendering decisions,
they will conform TO the law, not to
the wishes of any of the various GLASS
es that are nearly all clamoriDg for
something different.
II want to say that Paducsh is one
of the best cities on the face of the
earth," declared the court. "We are
bound to grow. There is talk of es-