Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-04-26

gress. A book such as no decent man would
touch with the tip Of his cane was few
months ago advertised in New York pa
per, and the getter-up of the book, passing
| down one of our streets the other day, ac-
kn0Wledged to one Of my friends that he
had made $4,000 out Of the enterprise
| More money than John Bunyau ever saw or
dreamed Of There are papers protesting
| to be religious that have not serupled to take
/ immoral advertisements. In one column of
\ paper we sometimes see a grand ethical
/ discussion, and In another the droppings of
most accursed nastiness. Oh you cannot
/ by all your religion Ia one column atone for
/ your ab2mlnation in another. am Teioieed
/ that some Of our papers have addressed
4 those who have proposed 10 compensate
/ them for such use of their columns, in the
words Of Peter to Simon Magas Your
I money perish with You. ! arraign the
newspapers that give their culumns to cor
rupt advertising for the neiariOus work they
are doing. The most polluted plays that
ever oozed from the poisonous pen of lep-
rous dramaties have won their dsathful pow
er through the medium of newspapers
The evil IS stupendous. Oh ye managers
Of theatres and ye proprlet0rs Of iniqui-
tous shows | charge you get money
Though morality dies, society is destroyed
and God defied, and the doom of the de-
stroyed opens before you, GET MONEY
Though melted, the gold be found upon thy
naked, blistered, and consuming soul. GER
MONEY GET MONEY 1t will do you good
when it begins to eat like a canker 1t viii
solace the pillow of the dying and soothe
the pangs of an agonized eternity Though
in the game thou dost stake thy soul and
lose it forever, GET MONEY Fill all the
newspapers that you can, and cover all the
board fences In the country with your nefa-
rious adyertlsements-GE MONEY GET
MONEY.
The bad newspaper hesitates not to assault
Christianity and its disciples. With what
exhilaration il puts in capitalists that Fill
one-fourth of a column the defaleation of
some agent of a benevolent society There
Is enough meat iR such a carcass of reputa-
ton 70 gorge all the earrion-croRs of an ini-
quitous printing preSS 1t puts upon the
back OF the Church all the inconsistencies
Of hypOcrites, as though banker were res
ponsible for all the counterfeits upon his in
stitution Ii jeers at religion, and lifts up
its voice until all the caYerns Of the lost re
sound with the howl of its derision 1t for
gets that Christianity is the only hope for
the world, and that but for itsenhghtenment
It would now be ike the Hottentot, living
10 mud. hoYels, or ike the Chinese, eating
rats. What would you think of a wretch
who, during great storm, while the ships
were being tossed TO and fro on the angry
waves, should climb up into the lighthouse
and blow out the light What do you think
of those men who, while all the Christian
and glorious institutions of the world are
being tossed and driven hither and thither,
are trying to climb up and put out the only
light Of a lost world.
There are to-day connected with the edi-
tOrial aud repertorial corps Of newspaper es- |
taBBSuments men 0f tlIr ms, vttftetrS ziIS
most unimpeachable morality, who are lv-
ing on the most stinted stipends-martyrs |
to the work to which they feel themselves
called While you sleep in the midnight
hours their pens fy and their brains ache in
preparing the morning intelligence. Many
of them 80 uurested and unappreciated,
their cheeks blanched and their eyes half
auenched with midnight work, toward pre-
mature graves, to have the proof sheet of
their life corrected by Divine Mercy, glad
at last to escape the perpetual annoyance
and fault-fndings Of a fekle public and the
restless and impatient cry of more copy.
II De Wit Talmage