The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-16
WILCOX GRAND JURY.
Some Interesting Extracts from Their
 ReDOFt,

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 Report.
 The report made by Hon. John T Dale, foreman of the last grand jury of Wilcox County, has many interest ing features, as the following extracts will show:
 We acknowledge receipt of three long petitions from Snow Hill and Ack and gamblers be stopped from their nefarious operations there. We call attention to the fact that the members of this body from those beats got us; and that the petitioners themselves furnished us with not even the name of one witness to be brought before us. We regret our utter powerless- ness to comply with the request of these petitioners, under the circum- stances quite as much as we regret their failure to give us the slightest a ald toward the accomplishment of the them. We respectfully submit for their consideration that 1t Is plainly impossible for a grand jury to ferret without substantial and actual aid from the good citizens of these com munities.
 We are indebted to your honor for
 We are indebted to our able Solici- tor Colonel Quarles, for his efficient aid in ferreting out crime in our Coun- ty, and now as he is about to step down and out of the Solicitors office. we bid him God speed in his future un- dertakings and wherever he may go he VIII carry with him the best wishes of the people of Wilcox County and con sciousness of duty well done. We look With a good degree of alarm on the future of our country. A spirit of law lessness seems to have taken hold of our people that characterizes the citi- gems of one of the South American re- publics.
 "The question is raised every day ip the public press, on the street corners. are. We drifting, where are we going and where will be land7 The first cause Tor alarm Is the breaking down of the grand jury system of our coun- try. The ballot box and grand jury are bulwark of our liberty, and the palladium of our rights--break these down and we are forever gone. What are the facts which stare us in the room is a thing of the past. The av- craze citizen Is afraid to report crime for fear. of the midnight torch or the aSsassin's bullet.
 The environment of the grand juror should be as sacred as that of the Cir | cult Judge, but alas he is pulled and legged and hauled about just like g. ward politician-all of which goes to | show that the grand jury system has lost Its beneficial influence on our peo- pie. The Constitution of the United states ana the state or Alaoama guar antee to every citizen protection in his life. liberty and property, all of which Is q delusion and snare. The laws of God and man have no terrors for us We kill with impunity: we burn with tmpunity; we gamble with tmpunity: we sell whiskey with impunity; we vi- plate all our laws with impunityi We know there are enough good men in the country to save 1t if they could be aroused from their condition of stu DOT and apathy. They seem to be dead to the sense of danger which surrounds them.
 We certainly face a condition of things and not 6 theory.
 Another great cause of alarm is this; The Judicial arm seems to be weak, impotent, paraiyzed. Most of the officers of the law seem to take no