The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-07-11
How to Stop Liquor Selling.


incorporated town, nor to sales made by
persons having licenses to make the
same at the date of the passage of this
act, during the time for which such
licenses were granted, nor TO sales by
manufacturers of such liquors in whole
sale packages or quantities.
It win be seen from the above act that
an Incorporated college. academy or
other institution of learning effectuaIly
stops the sale of liquor within a radius
of four miles from the school-heuse. To
do away with the sale of whisky, bran
dy, ETC., throughout the county, except
in incorporated towns, it is only neces-
sary to procure charters for institutions
of learning" twelve or sixteen miles
apart throughout the county. Under
the laws of Tennessee, as they at pre-
sent exist, it is very easy matter to get
charter for college or an academy.
The expense will be trifiing, and the
trouble scarcely worth mentioning. BY
an act of the Legislature of 1875, enti-
tied, "An act to provide for the.organ-
| ization of corporations" it is provided
that five persons may organize them
procure a charter for an academy by
simply writing down the instrument as
| provided for in that act, acknowledging
it before the County Court Clerk, as
| deeds are probated, have it registered in
the Registers Office of the county and
also in the office of the Secretary of
State at Nashville, where the Governor
orders the Great Seal of the State to be
attached, and then the school is an incor-
porated institution. All the work can
be done within a week or ten days, at
the expense of not oyer five or ten
dollars
If this law is enforced as it should be,
and if the good people of the whole
country will take hold of the academy
system as they should, it will prove to be
a sort of a double-barreled Good
Thing" In the first place it will es-
tablish large number of institutions of
learning of high grade. 1t will con-
centrate the efforts of the people to one
school-house in each civil district in each
county as the center of learning for that
district, while the common schools sur |
rounding it will be as satellites. We
mean this: Let each civil district in
the county organize and charter one |
academy, aad let the common schools go |
on just as they are working at the pre-
sent time. This will effectually and en-
tirely break all the liquor traffic in Haw
kins county, and at the same time it
will bring about revival upon the sub
ject of popular education, such as this
country has never known.
Three chartered schools in a straight
line will cut off the whisky for twenty
four miles up and down the big road,
and four miles on each Matchmaking q
belt of country twenty-four miles long
and eight miles wide, in which it viii
be unlawful to sell liquor Then es-
tablish three on the north of the noun
tain, and three on the south side of the
river, and the whisky seller is check
mated and pushed out of the county. If
few active, vigorous, strong men in
the different sections of the county will
take hold of the subject in dead earnest,
it can be pushed through to success in a
very short time.
Already the people of 81. Clair, Bulls
Gap, Whitesburg, Mooresburg, and per
haps other places are moving, and in a
very short time we will have a half
dozen chartered academies in Hawkins
county. 1t is to be hoped other neigh
borhoods will go to work. These two
laws (the one prohibiting the sale of
liquor within four miles of a chartered
academy, and the other making it SO
easy and cheap to procure a charter),
may at last accomplish what good men
and women have been struggling for,
and pleading for, and praying for these !
many years-the entire suppression of
the liquor trade in the county.
The man who engineered this last act
through the Legislature may or may not
have understood its full scope and mean
ing. Whether he did or not, he Ger
tainly hit the mark. He placed the
liquor traffic at the mercy of the good
people of the State. He tied the hands
of the devil of intemperance, and at the
same time placed in the hands of the
people an excellent club with which to
beat out his brains.
We shall watch the fight now between
the whisky advocates and the academy
builders with a great deal of interest.
1t Is a war in which our people are much
more deeply interested than they are in
the one which is going on SO fiercely be
tween the Russians and the Turks
much more deeply interested than we
are in politics or any other earthly en-
terprise. The morals, the honor, the
lives of our sons, and of the young men
of the country are at stake. Those who
are working to suppress the great evil,
are working for our boys-laboring that
they may grow up to be sober, useful,
honorable men. Let every patriotic
man and every pure-hearted woman in
the whole country go to work now in
this Academy Revival, and never rest
until we have a sufficient number of
these institutions chartered and at work
at the proper points in the county TO
completely strangle to death the demon
WHISKY !
This article has been very hastily aad
carelessly written. The subject is one
of great importance, and we shall refer
to it again and again, feeling sure that
we cannot better serve our country and
do good to our friends than by urging
them to build up good schools and at
the same time promote temperance