| Show ia THE FIEND it is astonishing to behold the dexterity bilth which tin an ordinary vi hisky guzzler wv will wriggle through a tissue of 0 lies lien to avoid disclosing tile tho name of 0 tile the I 1 lawbreaker a w that sells him his liquor tit there ere was one of 0 them before the I 1 lie justice court yesterday yes est erday Cerday that lit in nil all probability surpassed all previous record in the line ol of perjury and adroit evasion ile ho hadon hail on 8 munday n day evening by clandestine means which he was not inclined to disclose close i mine aine into possession of a bottle of 0 beer and a flask of 0 which taken conjointly iid li ad made made a beast of him and b hopeful of f about the same age 1 aadi training in tho the examination BO i 1 as tile tho questions were directed d against himself though they disclosed facts quite tho the opposite of his plea he be a quitted himself fairly tor a person ot of his lii s mental caliber but when this the justice sought to elicit the name nama of odthe the druggist draggist that hal had accommodated him with tho the unlawful bevel beve ago iago his memory suddenly betrayed will ile he hud had lind had a bottle liott of beer yes certainly but lie so could remember not where lie he got it iti I 1 thought a man had given it to him on the ilia street know tile the roan man bevel had seen him before th the man just A 0 time out and asked I 1 him m it if lie ha alli tt nl a bottle of beer and that was all remember ifil young roan mail were asked to e cuse himself tor for resorting to such auch an 1 idiotic subterfuge to screen tho the deft braved ved scrub that violated the law lavand and I 1 forfeited tr for felted the esteem of every self respecting spec ting member of the com community in I 1 aich he be resides the ignorant per juror ji imand and dupe would probably turn and I 1 oo 00 asks i isk what would people think of him after doing ruch ail n ungenerous act yes yea what would people think 7 they ought to think that while his purchasing the liquor in a clandestine manner find and then sneaking out of sight like a alicea dt ot ealine eiling curto guzzle etwas it was a ly thing to do to resort to perjury and lying to screen tc an accomplice wild m as it hundred meaner and baser than himself in ia an act of pusillanimity and moral cowardice worthy only of a professional fess ional scamp men afen for the tha jakeo I 1 shielding ing a friend sometimes refuse tc to I 1 testify against him and allow themselves bobil to bo imprisoned and even murdered rather than bo be liia isis betrayer bs trayer but noone no one alro lio has an iota of manhood will become a perjurer to protect any mortis in man n in any cause but is ia this in fact the popular way of regarding this tub act was not the question of the buy boy altogether in point as to how ilia public would look upon him if lie ho shou should id ex f boie iw his big mercenary destroyer yes i il liow w would they looV look upon him Is it not too true that in tho the esteem of this a cum community of professed prote aed prohibitionist a etian could not coin commit mit it a moro more ignoble and perfidious act than to become instrumental in exposing these vultures ot of the hie public morals to tile tho oi the lie law while in perjuring himself in their r behalf he is gaining general plaudits pl audits ve AAm 1 1 ilahi only say for s ih aine upon such tolly folly I 1 tit the a public that alier aber wishes a tradition me BO entirely without the lie pales of logic and common sense benso de dc serves to be cursed with tile the fiend to the end of their heir days and they most assuredly will be ba unless thy they change chaug their otheir tune lit in this particular again there libere are certain citizens who by y dint of social and public activity are I 1 looked to as the natural protectors protect oia of society I 1 from the propagandist of vice A hose afes lifes labor is to 0 o corrupt tho ilia mor inor ill al atmosphere around him and prey A upon the tha passions and appetites odthe of the vi week eek minded persons whom isis his vicious allurement have made worse than im beccles be I 1 ciles where those upon whom ft lorn society depends for protection agati lucli as tass become their indirect apolo apologists apologist a and lit in too many cases their clandestine abettors abet obet tors and patrons bolat Is ia to be expected of the besotted babii aalt 1 l ve and the impotent and ignorant dupes dupea that from time to time are enticed ed into their dens anti and are dragged before af w the police court to answer tor for indecently i 0 the public peace it the present system of things in provo Is maki making ng I 1 liars and vagabonds of tho the youth liars back door snoops and habitual toss pota of cil many who are not youths find and methodical hypocrites hypocrite 3 and moral cowards of iv u s all the sole will fall aion upon tu the promulgators of that fall fallacious ail and 11 1 1 pernicious which ostra L or P popular confidence n bious and unselfish informer int ormer upon liw law J j Y lebner leB neB |
