The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-07-01

and inform against criminals without
waiting to be summoned. L know
that the devil whispers into the ears
of the people that if they do this they
will be regarded as informers, but l
want to say that any man who will
listen to any such suggestions is wear
ing the halter Of the devil. If your
house is on fire you will use super-hu-
man efforts to eXtinguish the flames:
you will call on your neighbOrS to as
siSt you in your efforts. The criminal
is endeavoring to destroy the security
to your homes and your family, and
why should any good man hesitate
about diScharging his duty to save his
home and his family from the ravages
of the agents of the devil? If every
man in Lauderdale county who claims
TO be good citizen. would go before
this body and inform you of the VIOLA
tiOnS Of the law in their respective
communities, we would run the devil
out of this county at this term Of the
cOurt
The twin crime with the blind tiger
10 bllC pIOOOl StlI IlCl ttlCJ RO
and do the devil work together:th
two crimes are today at the bottom of
Is per cent. of the homicides in this
state. The man who puts his pistol
| in his pocket does it with criminal
mind and with the avOwed purpose Of
shooting his fellow man if, in his judg
ment, proper occasion arises. The
constant suggestion and touch OF the
pistol in mans pocket with the con-
seriousness that he is carrying it TO
shoot his fellow man will just as GER
tainly eat out his moral conscience as
q cancer will destroy the flesh where
the pistol rests. The pistol has
brought ruin to thousand homes
where it has protected one. 1t is a
relic OF barbariSm and Savagery, and a
disgrace to Our pretended civilization.
We are, perhaps, the only people who
pretend to be civilized and Christian
lied where the carrying Of concealed
weapons of this agency of the devil
and of death is regarded as decent and
respectable. In this day of Bibles,
Sunday Schools and Churches it is
| blot on our civilization that a man
| who will 60 around armed with piS-
tol should be regarded as anything
else than savage and an outlaw. If
every gallon of blind tiger liquor were
, poured out and every pistol broken to
pieces ia the Tenth district, the num-
ber of homicideS would be reduced to
the minimum. 1t is the settled and
determined policy of this court to de-
StrOy these agencies Of the devil, and
if the grand jurieS will iEdict them
and the petit juries will pass them up
to me, there will be one less blind IT,
ger and one less pistol carrier for ev-
cry conviction. for these offenses ia
| this court. There is not a
blind tiger nor gambling hell that
could live through one term Of this
court but by the perjury of their pat
ronS. 1t is a sad and shameful fact
that when man buys pint Of whiS-
ky from blind tiger and pays him
seventy-tive cents for it, when sum-
moned before the grand jury he will
permit the blind tiger to put collar
around his neck and lead him before
the grand jury, and there have him
vomit out his miserable perjury and
start his soul hellward to save a
wretch who ought not to be regarded
as any better than beast of prey in
any civilized community. A blind IT,
ger before he engages in his business
must first covenant with hell and the
devil that he will become an outlaw
and raise his hand against organized
society; that he will lie and induce all
his patrons to lie to protect him. 1t
is disgrace to the moral manhood of
the people that the blind tiger in too
large measure succeeds in his scheme.
The devil does not desire more effect
i've agency to populate hell with the
souls of human beings than an active
blind tiger. Every device known to
the genius of the devil, and they are
legiOnS, is reSorted oin order to evade
the law, the order system being very
fruitful. | instruct that if you so to
an agent of a whisky house and tell
him to order you gallon of whisky or
case of beer and the goods are shipped
to the agent and by him delivered to
you, the agent violates the law no
matter whether you paid the agent
the price of the goods before or after
they were delivered to yOu.
Our statute prohibits gambling in
every possible form. These statutes
are founded upon the principle that
the gambling habit destroys the moral
sense on which man must rely to save
his life from ruin. 1t is rumOred that
there is more gambling on the base
ball game than any other form of gam
bling. Betting on the result Of a
baseball game is just as certainly
gambling as a game at poker and
wlnt you to thoroughly investigate
the matter.
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