The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-06-06


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One of tbe areateat reasons thar
oar Lass are NOT Gettar enforced
fhan they are 81 because good, ia~-
abiding citizens do not make them
selves feit positively enough There
is a great deal Of dormant moral
sentiment ia favor Of the enforce
meut Of the laws which needs To be
aroused. and latent sentiment which
needs 20 be made active i.awless
men ia the community are ever on
the alert. and are ever active in their
resistance TO the enforcement OF the
law by the Officers. So long therefore
as the better elements in the COM
muu.ty fail to make the officers Of
the law feel the force Of their IN
tlucuce. just SO long will the officers
be tempted 20 conclude that the law
is unpopular, and defer TO the wish
as of the lawlcss elements in the
matter of the enforcement Of the
law. Here and there we find persons
who are earnestly active in the en-
forcemcnt Of the law, but the great
rank and file Of men are slow TO
awake to the fact that responsibility
for Iawless conditions rests upon
them because they will not make
their influence felt for righteous
ness. We should use the utmost OF
our influence to bring pressure to
bear upon the officers of the law and
they will become indeed terror to
eyil-doers, and the praise of them
that do well and the laws will be
enforced
,. BY furnishing such evidence, as
we can, to assist the grand jury in
fndicting, the officers in arrestinS
and the courts in convicting the VIC
lators of the law. Many a man has
undoubtedly been responsible for the
miscarriage OF justice because of his
unWillingness to testify to certain
| facts because inconvenient for him
| to do so, or because of real or an
imagined injury which would result
to his business if he told the truth
the whole truth and nothing but the
! truth about certain alleged viola
| tons of the law. The furnishing OF
such evidence is by no means an I'M
warranted interference in the affairs
of others 1t is the business of every
good citizen to assist in bringing
| criminals to justice, just as 1t is the
! duty of a neighbor to sound the
alarm of fire, or the duty of the ply
! stefan to report case OF contagious
disease, or the duty of the weather
! bureau to predict the approach OF d
! cyclone Nor is 1t case OF spying
upon or tale bearing about his neigh
Dor If man is cogniZant of the eX-
| istence of crime and does not ac-
quaint the authorities with 1t he be
comes a party to the crime himself
In so far as he might, by his endeaV-
ors, bring the offender to justice ana
fails to do so, just so far is he re-
sponsible for the prevalence OF crime.
! If he fails to report the crime because
of the fear of personal injury or
! loss to his business he Is as SuiltS
as if he had received hush money
{ for the concealment of the crime.
4. one of the most fruitful
! sources of lawlessness in this conn-
try is the ease with which CRIMINALS
escape the punishment due to Their
crimes. And one of the most fruitful
sourc,s of this is the failure of many
good men TO sit upon the jury. NO
man has a right TO complain OF the
non-enforcement of the law when ne
excuses himself upon mere preteNts
from doing his duty as a oitizeh uE
sitting upon the jury As Jurits are
lof,pp constituted h would bee far bet
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