The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-29

tne cOrrupClOn OF the DOOy pOuJlc, anu the
kind of pbysic it needed.
Although we do not wonder that advertisers
should take for granted that people who buy
Reynolds Newspaper have good deal Of
creduity, we are little surprised by the evil
dent belief of other advertisers that English
Republicans are full of personal vanity.
Captain Stafford CO. S. J" heads this adver-
tisement, ''To Short Persons" He possesses
"a remarkable physiological discovery by
means of which he can give to the little pa
triot that increase in height and symmetry
of figure" which a Republican ought to have
if he ought to have no superiors. Any Re-
publican who intends to submit to the old
system of marriage to one wife can have an
exact portrait of that wife, and the date at
which he will marry her, if he will send thir-
teen stamps to certain citizen. More than
one advertiser offers to provide English Re-
publicans with ''luxuriant whiskers and
moustaches," or ''moustachios" as one firm
persists in calling them A certain citizen
has "a formula which guarantees whiskers,
etc., to grow heavily in six weeks to the
smeothest face without iniuring the skin"
AS so large a proportion of the English re-
publicans are mere boys, there must probably
be some demand for this formula.
The speciality of these Republicans, how
ever, in the evident estimation Of still
greater number of advertisers, is neither cre-
dulity nor vanity. There is certain disrepu-
table class of merchants who have for sale the
most beastly and disgusting wares which are
ever offered for money. 1t is perhaps only
through helong prevalence of an anti-Republi-
can morality that they are reckoned disrepu-
table. Whatever the English Republicans
may really think of them, the owners of filthy
books and filthy pictures have evidently great
faith in the English Republicans; for they go
on advertising in the organ of English Re-
publicanism week after week. The nation
which is the source of all political purity ap-
pears to be the source also of all the impure
books and plates offered to English Republi-
cans. Cartes de visite at 30s. per dozen are
recommended as ''French;" the beautiful set
of richly -colored prints are 'French. "
Every week the English Republicans are
invited to buy 'Paris by Night" This
guide to the Holy City of the new moral or
| immoral world contains a description of all
the casinos, cafes chantants, and demi-nI0nde:
a complete epitome of everything connected
with gay life in Paris. The advertisers also
presume that there is great demand amongst
English Republicans for some insight into the
| life of converts. No less than three books
on the Mysteries of Converts are advertised
| in the last number, one of them bearing 9
| suggestive title which we forbear from tran
scribing. Some of these merchants appear to
have in the background a library of besstli-
ness for English Republicans to draw upon, as
they offer to forward catalogues of books and
| prints for few stamps. The most sur.
| prising thing, considering the expensiveness
of some of these wares, is where the Republic
cans can find the money to buy them. The
Queen, the aristocracy, and the priesthood
are every moment robbing them of the
very necessaries of life-there is scarcely
a page of their organ ever printed on which
this statement does not occur-and yet 'the
people are invited to give half crown fol
one filthy picture. We presume that the ad
vertisers place their hopes in the future, ant
believe that when the year One has come, anG
'the people" receive their own hard earned
property, now held back from them by the
erAsninn eristocraey, they will fly in thou
| sands to the dln9y chops where piles of mast,
Photographic pictures, and books are being
stored up for them. On the whole, we cal
only come to the conclusion that the foules
vices which democratic envy ever imputed t,
corrupt and effete oligarchies' have nowher
better patrons than in the new political sec
of English ''working-class Republicans"