Live Oak daily Democrat. (Live Oak, Fla.) 190?-190?, 1907-10-21
JUDGE CARRIERS REMEDY.

sure means OF destroying the IN
famous business in Suwannee county
by imposing the penalty of impTison-
ment for one year for each offense
without the option of paying a fine
In doing this. Judge Carter has given
renewed proof of his high fitness for
the Office he holds and his just ap,
probation of his solemn and reSpon-
sible trust. and he may be sure that
he has the moral support of all the
good people of this city and county
whose vital interests he is subscribing
in thus dealing with a crime than is
dreadful menace to all our homes.
Blind tigers" should be hunted
down like Seritable wild beasts who
destroy human life. They are even
more d4Ageraus, and when once they
are caught the tremepenalty of the
law shoul y be imposed upon them.
I'd do less is tomske the law fail in
its, purpose apd %Fefuse to society,
to fSw aFdpY9fople, to helpless
womep Ind AFdren. the protection
which t4aTT was enacted to give
There may be and frequently are
mitigating circumstances in some
forms of crime. Men5may break the
law in the heat of passion or under
the temptation of, dire poverty or
keen physical distress, but no decent
or intelligent charity can find excuse
for the sneaking, sinister, cold-blood-
ed criminal who, from the basest /
mercenary motives, deliberately goes /
about his foul work of spreading
rum, shame and disgrace. and pro-
noting crime among men and bows.
whites and negroes. by the unlawful
-rafiic in Intoxicating liquor To put
money in his purse he stealthily ped
lies the vile stuff that makes mad
men, murderers aud rape fiends. that
'Edangers our women and children.
md that fills the community with
he constant sense of insecurity that
ONES from the knowledge that these
razed victims of the tiger are lurking
round us with passions inhamed.
eason gone and ready for any crime. ,
And this Internal traffic is the more
neXcUsable because it is a deliberate ,
ehance to the expressed will of the
eopie of Suwannee county at the
oils, in the manner prescribed by
aw, on this very issue With A full
nowledge of the evils of the lfouor
rafhc they voted it out, and not only
the law defied and insuIted by these
who persist in the dirty q,
uslness, but every citizen who cast
Is vote to drive it out and make his
ONE secure and save his wife and -
aughters from drunken rape fiends.'
personally insulted by these Iawles5
callers in the horrible stuff. For
ley tell him in effect they despise =
I'M and his vote and they will mako
lat vote worthless by breaking his
rendition law at their pleasure. 1t
as been shown repeatedly that mere
les have but little deterrent effect
pom the blind tiger criminal He or
e whiskey houses back of him. c9D
y the fines and still make the traffic
ohtable. but it is a very different
after when it comes to long term
Imprisonment. for that effectuaIIy
ocks the game as to that particular
minal' puts him where he can do
harm and provides such a health.
are for the others yet underected.
Al even into their duh brains the
"a Is likely to penetrate that the
ont is too small to justify the risk. In
All honor to Judge Carter for the NJ
ICY he had adopted in disposins %P
cases OF this kind. The overwheIm-
majority of the people of Suwan-
county fully approve his action.
1 they are glad to know that they
re upon the bench an enlightened
courageous judge, not afraid to
his duty tho-o,,-Ll,-