Sword and shield., 1885-12-12
The Mile Law.

In Tennesse they have what is
known as the four mile law. that is
a law that no liquor shall be sold
within four miles of any Incorporate
ed, or chartered institution Of learn
ing, except in cities or towns OF
certain population. By this four
mile law in Tennessee the evil infu-
ence of the liquor trade is held off
at arms length from the schools and
colleges of that State, and the
young of both sexes are alike pro
tected. This law has been tried by
our sister State for many years, and
such is its universal favor with a |
the people, that no politician OF aay
party can be found with sufficient
temerity to oppose it. Would it not
be well for the legislators, soon to
assemble in Jackson, to enact SIM
liar law for this State. We have
similar law for the protection of tie
boys at the A. & NJ College, and at
the University, and possibly at other
Colleges in the State and now we
ask the same for our daughters at
the Industrial Institute and College
at Columbus, and why should We
not have it? Oh! says some one,
"girls don't get on sprees and get
drunk and what harm can saloons
in Columbus, do with the Industrial
Institute and College p | will tell
you, this is State Institute, draw
ing its patronage from every part of
the State. The girls are deprived
of all the home influences, while in
Columbus, three hundred or more
are congregated in this school, under
the care of one man and about
dozen ladies they must necessarily
walk the streets of Columbus and
be more or less exposed to the con-
trolling influence of the city. The
College while in public street, is
mile, from that part of the city
which is regular policed-it is stu
ated TOO, on one of the main streets
that leads out into the country and
over which there is a large amount
of travel by persons coming in and
going out Of the city. Saloons make
drunk men; drunk men are often
boisterious and frequently obscene
and vulgar. We want to feel that
our daughters, when away from US
and beyond our immediate protec-
tioa and care, shall not be subjected
to indignities, or forced to listen to
the culses and obscenity Of men
made drunk by saloons In the city of
Columbus Columbus has had this
great benefactor bestowed upon her.
and if it is any deprivation to any
part of her citizens to be relieved of
the evil influences of dram shops,
we hope they will not complain, for
they must have known they were to
get the College, cum onere, and for
thr great advantages of the College
to Columbus, it is not asking too
much, we submit, that her people
shall consent to an absolute Prohi-
bition of liquor saloons in this city.
FRIEND.
In Tennessee there is law some
what similar to our law on Corpora
tions. but especially applicable to
the incorpdaative of schools and col
leges.
By the Temperance Law, any num-
Der of citizens can, upon application,
have themselves incorated as a body
polite for school purposes, and pro-
ceed to establish school, either
small one or a large one, as their
circumstances may admit, and by
provision of the law, no liquor can
be sold within four miles of any in
corporated school. We suggest that
the friends of education, the moth
ers and the fathers of the State who
love their children, and hope for
their usefulness and happiness, join
their heads, hearts aud hands in
effort to secure such laws for Missis-
sippi. Who Will start the move ?
Suppose we all move together: If we
will, success will attend our efforts.