The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-10-19
to the credit Of thia county. that its

~itiative in prohibiting gambling.
Some IF members of this jury
participated in the action of the city
council by which gambling was ban-
ished from Roswell, and it is to be
said to the great credit of this com
munity and of any one who partici-
of the Pecos Valley, has set an ex-
ample by which a movement and sen
timent against licensed gambling has
been aroused in this territory, leading
as most of you know, to the introduce
ton of a bill in congress-, now pass
&c by h House and pending in the
Senate for consideration in Decem-
Der, by which gambling will been
tirely abolished in his Territory, and
violations of the law will be made
matters for punishment by the FEEDER
al Courts. While this condition of af-
fairs is a hopeful one, still the fact
remains that at present gambling is
licensed by our Territorial law, ex-
cept wher7 prohibited by municipal
o%rdinancesi but our Territorial law
while licefsing it, has placed num-
erous restrictions about it. Parties
violating these restrictions, are sub
ject to indictment, and the legisla-
! ture requires the judge of each dis
trict court in his territorial to call
the attention of the grand jury to
these provisions at each term of
court in order hat you may act up
on my violations of such statutes.
Among other things the law provid-
es that no one shall conduct gamb-
ling without a license and that not
more than one game snail be played
ON one table at any time. If o have
any knowledge of any violations of
this act, it is your duty to investigate
the same, and if the facts are found
to warrant it, to indict.
ture says I shall call to you atten-
ton at eacn term of court, is the sta
tute designed to husband h monies
received for the purposes of educa-
ton.
By these it is provided hat the off
Ger collecting monies for educational
purposes shall pay them at stated per
iods, provided by law, to the officer
charged with their disbursement. The
purpose of this is to insure that pub
lie monies collected for education
shall be especially well taken care
of, and that your children as they
go to school will not have the terms
broken, by reason of the fact he off
Gals may not have properly turned
over these monies; and h legisla
ture in its deep interest in this fea
ture of the public welfare has pro
vided that the judge of h distric'
court shall charge the jury to inves
tigate into the disposition of educa
tional funds and see hat they arr
promptly turned over by the partie
collecting them to the parties charg
ed with their disbursements. This il
one of the laws on the subject of edu
cation I must call your attention to
The other is one as to compulsory
education. providing that. with spe
cifc exceptions, which are not many
all citizens in this Territory mus
for a certain number of months il
each year send their children t.
school. This is in the interest of you
community now, and in the interes
of your community of the feature
and in the interest of the children
whose parents may be so careless o
thoughtless as not to give them 9th
The law says that parents must ed
ucate their children; that no maj
has a right to say his family is sim
ply his own, to be raised in ignoranc,
but the community has at least
right to say he must give them edu
cational advantages in order tina