Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-12-09
CHARGE TO THE GRAND JURY,
By Judge JnO. l. Buckley.
DELIVERED IN GREENE COUNTY,
November 14th, 1910.
Continued from last week.
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yonr duty to see that the overseers,
contractors and board of supervisors
are complying with the statutes in
keeping up the highways and
bridges.
GAME LAW.
The Mexican Boil Weeyil is threat
ening devastation and ruin to the
great cotton industry of our State.
They have crossed the Mississippi
River into the Delta, and are rapidly
forging their way eastward. Scien-
tifc minds have been baffied how to
successfully remedy and check the
pest. | have been requested to call
your attention to the promiscuOus
killing of birds which our statute for
bids, and makes it penalty by fine
and imprisonment IN the county jail.
1t is said that there are forty-three
different kinds of birds which eat the
dreaded boil weevil, and other insects
which damage the farmers. The
principal birds being the bull-bat,
bee-martin, lark and partridge.
Therefore, | urge you and the officers
of this county to acquaint yourselves
with the Chapter 81 of the Code, and
see that same is strictly enforced in
the future,
CHILD LABOR.
We have a newly added statute
which question has agitated the minds
of manufacturers and other citizens
of this State for the past several
years, known as "The Child Labor
Law" No child in this state, under
twelve years old, is permitted to
work in any mill, factory or other
manufacturing establishment If he
is under sixteen years old, whether
he be black or white, he shall not
work over ten hours per day, OF Fifty
eight hours per week, and he must
not work after seven p. M, or before
six o'clock a. m. Before he can be
employed to work, he must present
an affidavit from his parent or guar
dian, stating his place of residence,
date of birth, name of last school at
tended, and grade of studies.
The sheriff is req uired to visit such
places of business monthly, and the
county health officer shall visit them
twice per year, or oftener if requested
so to do by the sheriff.
The managers of such institutions
are required under maximum fine
of 500 to furnish the sheriff
and health officer any desired infor-
nation, and, if the law is violated in
hiring minors, maximum fine of one
hundred dollars shall be imposed, or
a Jail sentence from ten to sixty days,
or both such Enc and imprisonment
RETAILING LIQUOR.
The most degrading and corrupting
traffic known to the criminal laws of
this or any or any other state is the
unawful sale OF intoxicating liquors.
1t makes my heart ache and limbs
tremble to even think of the subject.
The horrifving results which the sale
of blind tiger liquor bring forth are
too numerous 10 mention. Ninety
per cent of the various crimes com
mitted in the Tenth Judicial District
of Mississippi, are traceable directly
or indirectly to this nefarious and
detestible traffic. 1t corrupts and
debauches the young men of this
country, and causes tLeir good moth
ers and pure sisters to keep their
faces continuously bathed with tears
1t breeds more trouble than anything
known to man, and our officers ought
to hunt down these cess pools Of
crime, arrest the Offenders and con-
fscate the goods as they have right
to do under our statute. 1t causes
Robbery, embezz cement, perjury, rape
and murder and burdens the people
with taxes in order to hold criminal
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jury in screening sellers of blind
tiger liquor than any other crime
known to the law. When anyone
patronizes this cess pool of crime.
there is compact then and there en-
tered into by and between the seller
and the purchaser, that the patron
will commit the crime of perjury in
order to shield and protect the seller.
If any witness. during your sitting,
commits perjury and thereby damns
his soul to screen 'blind tiger, -
you promptly indict him, and we will
send him to the pelltentiary, which
will have tendency to purify the
morals of Greene County.
The reason that blind tiger''can
exist in any community, the officers
are derelict in the discharge of their
official duties. The public ought to
condemn such officers and demand
their resignation and elect in their
stead men of integrity, sobriety and
with enough courage and moral back
bone to enforce the statutes against
the illicit sale of whiskey. | long to
see the dav when the electors of this
country will be more considerate in
making their selection on ministerial
officers, who are expected and will be
at all times be on the alert with