Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-14
Eaoies' department.
MURDER-THOsE TERRIBLE REEVE
LATIONS.


The reading people of our city, and, in
deed, of the whole country, have been great
ly excited during Il month past by the Trunk
Mystery" the detection of"Dr.n Roscnzweig.
MADAM" Burns, and others. 1t is well that
these revelations have thus come prominent
ly before the public in such n way us to
arouse attention. To us there is nothing
new in all this. The longtime readers of
the -Americdn 1~yricuuurtst know how fire.
quently this journal has uttered words of
warning; how often it has spoken in depre-
catOry and sorrowful tones OF the course of
certain .journals-albeit admitted into and
supported by Christian families-that have
acted us the paid and efficient agents of the
incarnate devils who for money, murder in
cold blood their hecatombs of living mortals,
born or unborn. Not long since we showed
that, to pay the expenses of advertising, &c.,
these murderers must receive from their vic
tins ut least S150,OOO IL year, to say nothing
of the hundreds of thousands, if not millions,
expended in gilded mansions and luxurious
''country-seats," and we inquired how great
the number Of victims necessary. ut the ordi-
nary and extraordinary charges, to roll up
these great sums of money. We have long
been aware that the success of these danger
Gus practitioners has arisen partly from II de-
ficient moral sense, II failure to perceive the
enormity of the crime of extinguishing II liv-
ing spark of life yet unborn, and from a fatal
reliance upon the assurances of the safety of.
such infanticide, so far AS the parent is con-
cerned. Time and again we have tried, in
as delicate language us the case would admit
oil, to speak of the peril to her life and health.
We quote II few extracts from our own col
umns, as specially applicable at the present
time: On no rational ground, except that of
sheer ignorance, can we explain the fact that
many professedly religious journals, and 9TH
ers that claim to be respectable, continue to
admit a certain class of medical advertise
ments. Some of these, published in leading
religious papers even, covertly advertise the
worst possible private medicines . There
is probably no one thing so readily seized
upon AS the prospect of, or IN offered remedy
for, disease. The suffering invalid, with his
judgment impaired by disease, becomes a
ready dupe, and the more terrible or proba-
bly, incurable the disease, the more eagerly
he swallows the bait. But, passing by the
general run of quack medicines, we refer
now to IL specific class. In II chance number
OF one of the most respectable N. Y. dailies,
or one so considered, and patronized by II
large class of respectable people, we find un-
der the head Of Medical half IL column, or
thirteen advertisements, of which ut least
ten are really of the worst possible character.
For example, the first one is addressed to
Married or Single Ladies' protesting to re-
move all stoppages or Irregularities, from
whatever cause &c. eve only quote what
Is placed before your families every day in
the year, in ut least half the journals print
ed.) The 4th, 5th, 9th, It'll, 9th, 18th, and
18th advertisements are ofvery similar char
acter, some more hidden in their expressions,
but all indicating what thoy are aiming at.
These cost for one insertion $40, and there is
an average of as many on each of $50 days in
the year, or over Sc, 500 II year paid to one
paper, with much larger sums paid to others.
We name far less than the actual sum, when
we say that $500 are paid yearly by this
single class of advertisers for publicity alone.