The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-09-19
Dayton Wants
Much Rrobing
LENGfaY CHARGE HE AID.
WtsEsGRA4p JURY EpoK
INTO MANY MATTERs


WHEELING. Sept il. Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock the United
states court for d the northern district
OF west Virginia convened in the Fed
sral building. with Judge A. q. Day
ton on the bench. After the empan-
cling Of the grand Jury Judge Dayton
delivered his charge to the jury and
the court then adjourned until 2
o'clock in the afternoon. The charge
was a very lengthy one, and while it
covered ali the variations of violations
OF federal laws. particular attention
was given to the liquor tratnc, which
the judge branded as altogether
wrong, denonncing ''9s per cent. Of
those in the business being in 1t to
be dishonest If they cam
Judge Dayton began bis charge with
a history OF governments, laws and
juries. He said that while we might
at times think there was no necessity
for SO many courts, the conditions ex.
listing, especially in these days, with
everybody engaged in the business Of
grasping for money, there was a Sc
rtous danger that we would not ap.
preciate the solemntty. dignity and
necessity for courts and grand iuries.
The man who dwelt forever In para
disc, he quoted, would have no con-
ceptfon Of wrong, and with IA system
OF government we are likely to under
estimate the great privileges Of a re,
public, where all our children grow
into kings and potentates. But it is
ali the more necessary that we strive
to maintain the reign Of law and the
fundamental principle OF the freedom
of the tndividual-the principles OF
Justtnian, to live u%prightly, to render
to every one that which is his, and to
injure none. He defined the scope OF
the three branches OF government, leg
Islatfve, judicial and executive, and
pleaded that respect be shown them.
Beware of Anarchy.
Beware Of the anarchist" he said,
who believes in no law, and beware
of those who want a law only for
themselves, for they are but one step
removed from the anarchist" He
traced the laws back to Moses and the
grand Jury system back to our Saxon
ancestry, explaining how the saxons,
with their love for their acres, spect-
fed that the members Of the juries
dignity and importance of their work,
he specified tho oEEcnses that came
within their jurisdiction.
Your Jurisdiction said the JUICE.
"as representatives. of the federal gov
ernment is limited, because h fed
eral Jurisdiction is limited SO as to
allow the separate States the fullest
freedom. You are only to consider
offenses committed in this building,
as a government reservation, offenscs
against the postal system, against the
revenue laws, and against the trust
laws, the laws prohibiting any combt-
In restraint of trade.
"Three.fourths of all the cases com
ing before the federal court are VIC
lations against the internal revenue
laws. cases on account Of the whtskey
! have heard honest and
but misguided people a that
government was in league with
whiskey manufacturers else 1t
would prohibit the sale, but this state
ment is false. The government has
O right to prohibit the manutac'
t,,re of whiskey than it has to prohibit
the raising OF corn. But 1t has a con-
right to levy taxes to raise
and 1t could tax the farmer
who raises corn, but instead the eV-
enues are largely raised from taxes
unon whtskey and tobacco. b col
lection of these taxes is necessary to
maintain the courts and officials
duty it is to see to their en-
forcement. and thus it becomes your
duty to see to it that none of these
products is sold unless the revenue
tax is paid,
Business is Wrong.
"Thfs requires the utmost vigilance
The whiskey business is altogether
wrong, and people who enter the bust
ness do SO knowing it is wrong. They
hope and expect to make other mems
children into drunkards and prosti-
tutes, hoping that some lucky chance
will proven their own children from
meeting a like fate. Ninety-nine per
cent. of the people in the whiskey bus
ness enter II with the deliberate in
tentfon OF being dishonest If they can,
and are always e~ndeayoring TO de.
s..l an rovo.n mont