The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-11


the jurisdiction where the laws
were made-we work under the
the Arkansas Statute-theie was
some special reason why the
Court should select out some laws.
And some Of the selections are
good to be rememberedin any juris-
diction.
The first one, believe, is the
sale Of mortgaged property. I
charge you to carefully look after
that subject. The stability of
commercial paper and the stability
of credits is the the very founda-
tion Of the business interests Of the
community. Each individual is
interested in good sound. stable
use Of commercial paper as basis
of credit in the community. And
therefore he who pledges his prop
erty and then without any excuse
sells it and squanders the proceeds
and fails to pay his secured obli-
gatioff should be punished.
The law especially mentions the
gaming or gambling laws and
against the sale of Intoxicating
liquors. Gentleman Of the Grand
Jury, we have in this community
new system of water-works, and if
we shonld discover in drinking the
water that the water was bad in
the various hydrants around
throughout the city, we would not
send for someone to look after the
water in that eparticulor hydrant
from which we were using, but we
would phone to the water depart
menl TO clean out the standpipe.
We would go to the fountain head
from which the water comes. We
would know that if we could puri-
fly the fountain heads, the source
ofwaterisrpply for this community,
that each hydrant would take care
of itself. And / think every stat
ute in every state, that ! know any
thing about at least, mentions the
fact of gambling and violations of
| liquor laws as a special subject of
inquiry by grand juries. And why,
/ wonder. Is it because the legis-
lators of the various state were
cranks?The men who made the laws
weresiInply fanatics3 | think not.
The real cause is this, as you all
of matureage know: That the source
Of crime in every community, in the
main, is the gambling den and the
| dens where intoxicating liquors are
sold From these places spread
crime. Ask your United States
Marshals ask your Sheriffs and
your Constables talk with your
policemen everywhere, and they
will tell you the same. Ask your
own experience; take your own OBJ
servation everywhere and you will
find the same result.
I Therefore, how will we 60 about
to try to stop crime and the expense
of crime2 How will we endeavor to
make this community a pure COM
munity to live in? That is what we
all desire. Law is for the purpose
Of protecting the weak against the
strong. You may say, Why does a
man need to go and seek these
places? Why does a man need to
become drunk and disorderly and
abuse his family? Because he is
weak, that is why. If it wasn't be-
cause we are weak we wouldn't need
any laws. If we were all good and
pure and upright and sober business
linen, we would not need any Mar
shalls, Sheriffs, Constables, or any
other officers, because we would
walk the streets with our heads
erect conscious of uprightness and
injury to no man. But some of us
are weak and vascillating. Some Of
us need the strong protection of the
law, and that is why you and the
Courts are organized, to protect tho
weak against the strong everywhere,
and with the strong arm Of the law
to say to the strong "You must not
f. l.