The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1910-09-16
BOYLE CIRCUIT COURT
Opened Last Monday With Judge Lewis L.
Walker on the Bench.
Tells the Grand Jury to go After the
Blind Tigers" and Hop
Joints"

ker presiding.
In delivering his charge to the grant
jury. Judge Walker took occasion u
pay a beautiful tribute to the latt
Judge Micah G.. Saufley, which wa:
said bv many of those present to bt
one Of the finest things Of the KING
they had ever heard. His honor tber
| proceeded to outline the history anC
purpose of the grand jury ard the
qualiticat lions of the jurors. After
definition of the classes iIt0 which
OffenseS might be divided ne fur thel
charged the jury to Investigate al
public officers and public buildings,
especially the Jail and the work house.
Judge Walker called the specific at
tentiOn Of the grand jury to the fish
and game laws, the laws against sci.
ling adulterated and unwhOleSOme
food, and the necessity of rigid en-
fOrcement of the local option laws.
We give below that portion of Judge
Walkers instruction pertaining to the
illegal sale of liquor.
The sale by retail of Intoxicating
liquors is prohibited by law in this
county, except by licensed druggists
on the prescription of re- ular practi-
sing physician and it is your duty tC
investigate, and if they are otherwise
sold. you will indict the guilty parties
so that they may be brought to trial
in this court.
1t is the duty of every good citizen
to promote temperance in all things
in every possible way. Some people
are Incorporate In the excessive use
Of intoxicantS, others i'm nOp-intOxi-
icantS, others in eating and others in
the Incorporate use Of their vile
tongues in the SANDER and abuse Of
their neighbors, and their green eyes
of envy and jealousy and black hearts
of prejudice and hate cannot stand to
see their fellow citizens prosper, but
they prefer to keep all others on a
loweSsevel with themselves, rather
than 10 undertake to rise to higher
plane of goodness and truth. They
rejoice in the adversely of those whom
God has made in his own image and
sorrow and grow mad at the advance
ment of their fellow man. And all
this in the face Of.the only command
ment which the Master saw tit to add
to those delivered to Moses on Mount
Sinai "LOve thy neighbor as myself"
l care not what may be your individ-
ual opinion on the moral question as
to how is the best way to solve the
drink problem. Some Of you may ad-
vOcate prohibition, some high license.
and others local option, but you can all
agree that no decent man can defend
in morals the low dive saloon or the
blind tiger. Happily for us we have
not the former with which to contend,
but the latter is ever with US. IdeSire
now to warn the keepers of such
places that they must cease such prac-
tises in this district or suffer the pen
alties prescribed by the law.
l trust that they will desist because
l assure you that it will be no
pleasure to me to administer punish
ment to the poor wretches who con-
duct such rendezvous of vice and
crime, but it must be done unless they
stop. They are menace to the COM
munity and more especially to the
cOlOred population and the youths of
the land. There are no conditions
that have so lowered aud destroyed
the best Interests of the negro race in
Central Kentucky than has the estab-
lishment Of these hot beds of crime.
You 20 to community where they
exist, and you will find this race, a.
ready suffering under the yoke of for
mer slavery, still held by the greater
bondage of moral turpitude producing
idle criminals. Where these practices
have been wiped out you find an in
dustriouS, hard working class, under
taking to earn their bread by the
sweat of their brows. However, it is
on the character and lives of the youth
that these haunts Of evil have their
most dreadful operations. The young
man will Dodge the saloon, where he
knows that the gaze of the public is
fixed, out in the stiffness of the night,
when he conceives that his parents
are at home asleep and unconscious of
his acts, that he will be drawn into
these secret and hidden places where
he not only contracts the evil of the
drink habit. but where he comes in
contact With other forms of tempta-
tions and wrong doing. These places
can be stopped and must be destroyed.
1 can say. not bOastingly but truth
fully, that since 1 have been City At
tOrney of Lancaster. that We have had
no blind tigers there. do not take
this credit entirely to myself, but ev-
cry member Of the city administra-
ton, who was associated with me
should have equal. IL not more credit
than myself. This result was accom-
plished without shedding one drop of
human blood and without even causing
as much as breach of the peace. 1
mention this to show you that it is
possible to prevent these dives. 1t is
easy to say that we should not have
blind tigers, and that you should in-
dict them and put stop to them. 1t
is easy to tell what should be done,
but we must know how to do it. In
this alone can We accomplish some
thing.
You are to be the judge, but 1 doubt