The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-05-06
CLARlON-LEDGER
FIRES HOT SHOT
At Blind Tigers and Their Attend.
ant Evils Citizenship Ought
to Be Aroused.

The following ringing editorial
from the Jackson Clarion Ledger. il
reports are true and conditions are
what certain evidences seem to indi.
cate, might be applied to Grenada
and indeed many other towns in Mis-.
sissippi.
The shooting yesterday is directly
traceable to the existence and baleful
influence of blind tigers in our midst,
of the toleration here of these lawless
denS, these dives Of vice and corrup-
tiOn.
The courts of the country seem al
most powerless to break up these lairs,
run by men who persiStenly and con-
tinually violate and defy the laws of
the land.
The police officers are impotent to
suppress these institutions of evil,
though they make occasional raids upon
them.
These denS Of the devil exist and
flourish almost under the eye Ct the
police court, and in the most populOuS
parts of our city.
They are run practically open and in
utter defiance Of the law, by brazen,
ipsolent and lawleSS men.
They are owned by people who feast,
fatten and feather their nests upon
the sins, sorrows and sufferings of
others.
True, occasional and SpaSmOdic
raids are reported by the police, whis-
key is seized and few arrests made,
often after some outraged citizen has
called attention to the location of
these lairS Of vice.
Fines are imposed, where guilt is
proven or confessed, and for while
the evil is apparently abated.
But it soon breaks out again. The
beast is not dead, neither is he stun
ned! He returns to his lair, and be-
gins business at the old stand with a
new and fresh stock, violating the law
day, night and Sunday, debauching
boys, corrupting youth and degrading
manhood.
1t was because of this debauchery
of one Of his own blood, that an out
ragged father sought to take the law
in his own hands yesterday. And
while the Clarion Ledger does not
pretend 70 Justify the act, 1T must be
admitted that the provocation was
great.
Now what is to be done to break
up, utterly destroy and root out the
blind tigers that have fastened them
selves upon this community, that
have left their foul and polluted blot
too long upon the fair name of our
Capital City?
Are the courts, the sheriff s Office,
the army of policemen and the police
justice powerlesS to suppress and stamp
out this evil?
The Ciarion-Ledger will never ad-
nit it-never acknowledge that it is
printed in city whose civil officers
are powerleSS to rid the community
of these lawlesS dens.
The men who run them, who openly
defy the law, are as we'll known as
the governor and the judges of our
courts. Their occupation is known.
Their places of business are known.
They are known to every police officer
in the city-known to the men who
are paid salaries to protect life and
and suppress lawlessnesS.
What is TO be done? is the question.
Shall our people join in with the Of
ficerS and assist in breaking up these
lars? or shall they organize commit
tees of their own, and say to the blind
tigers that they will tolerate them no
longer? That the end has been
and that they must quit buSi-
ness or move.
Something should be done, and done
quickly. 1t is time to act, time to
drive the blind tiger to the wall, and |
throttle him for once and for all |
time.
tits up to the people Of Jackson.