The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-12-21

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necessary in this county, absolutely
as the Home for the Poor, and yet it is
needed. There is not room always
in the State Asylum. and preference
being always given to those who are
violent and dangerous, and those who
have pull" there are many among
the poor, right here in this good coun-
ty, who are a burden to the homes
they are in, and who deserve to be
better taken care of than they are. or
can be, in the families where all is
work and poverty and privation.
One of the crying needs of this
! county. is a county farm put to the
/, best uses. 1t should be large farm.
+ Upon one side or part of it, should
be a, building devoted to a Reform
and Industrial School for unfortunate
or incorrigible boys and girls. On an
other part should be a building for
the aged and helpless poor; and in
vet another place should be an Asy-
lum for the Insane; and all of them,
and the farm itself, should be under
the management of one man. For their
sake, and for economy sake, the in
mates should be required to do as
much of the work as they can. and
the balance of it should be, and could
be, done by the county hands.
That would encourage the officers.
perhaps. to enforce the vagrant law,
which is "consummation devoutly to
be wished Housekeepers in town
and country are almost begging for
cooks and house maids, and farmers
are in equal stress for farm labor,
while hundreds and thousands of able
bodied men and women. white and
black. idle aSd loaf and gamble and
steal. rather than do an honest days
work. Every one of them should be /
put to work The law against va7
grants in the first place, should be /
and made so plain and /
strong and simple that saloon loung-
ers and gamblers and pimps and pros
titutes cannot escape its penalty Then
public opinion should demand its i'm.
partial enforcement. The officials of
The town and county should be requir-
ed to play no favorites 1t is remark
ible how the Sheriff and his deputies
md the police officers of the town,
AN nose out a negro crap game in the
part of the county. and yet
overlook the long, lean. cadaverous
ooking gamblers who loaf in the sa.
Don corners of this town every week
n the year When the saloons go. of
curse some of this gentry will go
nth them: and when the saloons go.
will be easier, in town and country,
D elect men to Office who will enforce
ne law. But II is time to begin now j
get ready for these better times.
To begin now, or soon, while the
legislature is in session, to make
roader and wider and deeper and
Ironger the law against vagrancy: TO
lake it so plain that even the Of J
GERS of the law cannot dodge IT, and !
} make its so strong than no offender.
ian or woman, white or black can
scape from It. The town people want !
lis law; they want to get rid of this
'um. who cheat or steal or beg for !
eir living or sneak out an existence :
e,thass expense ot-some. heavily iaden-
II s,oxeraerkeds-w wife. or mother or 1
lughter. It would surprise, IL not I
.rrify, the. general public, to know
wv Ren.~yepns. and sniddie~ :
ed, in this town are trifiing and low
wn and mean enough to do no man .
n of work. and allow their wives and NJ
others and daughters and sisters to -
pport them. There ought to be a
" that would compel every one of :
EN- to work; and there ought to be hi
" officers who would enforce the an
y. impartially and to the letter ST
And the farmers have long pleaded on
this law They know that such sill
so
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