Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-13
a CreK1atIoRlst who. Wont be CIasEed
Among the Dirty.

EDITORS APPEAL-In your issue of Tues
day, eleventh instant, there appears the fol-
lowing notice: Sanitary Sergeant Broaddus
reported the following nuisances." Among
the number is a dairy, corner Bass avenue
and Dunlap streets, Filthy aud offensive in
extreme; manure In back yard, cow-pens bad;
occupied BY A. 81. Murrell, owned by VIM.
Warren" The above report is false, don't
live on the corner of Bass avenue and Dun
lap street. l live some two hundred feet,
more or less, east of the corner. l have not
got any cow-pen. My stable is not filthy and
offensive IN extreme. 1t ID as clean as it can
possibly be kept. The said Broaddus rode up
to the front gate, from the alley-way, and
called out: "Who owns this place?-who
owns this dairy ?'-receIving an answer to
each question. He dld not get off of his horse.
l was polite enough to hold his bridle-rein
while he wrote the above foul report. He
was told that Sanitary Officer Jackson in
spected the premises, declaring them 0. f.,
and that we complied with the regulations
suggested by said Jackson. Notwithstand-
ing the above statement, and said Broaddus
not even getting off his horse, and asking no
questions in relation to the matter, he makes
the above false report. The report is calcu
lated to do me great injury. Sergeant Broad
dus 8 way Is a newlwayifor public servant to
do business. 1t is a sanitary officer S business
to get on his feet and carry his eyes and his
nose all over ones property, first having
but it is downright SANDER to ride around on
the outside thereof and then make his official
report therefrom. | don t tolerate filth. My
household mas been crematIng the sweepings
and garbage, for convenience sake, long be-
fore Colonel Heating suggested 1t as santa
ny measure. | would not have written this If
Sergeant Broaddus had made true report.
l am entitled 10 as much consideration and
respect as the man who reported me, said re-
porter knowing the place had been inspected
and declared 0. K. A. H. MURRELL.
June IL, 1879.
Bennett and COmstOck.
EDITORS APPEAL.-Tnere has Just been
perpetrated in New York city an injustice
which strikes at the principles of our republi-
can government. Congress has employed
man named Anthony Comstock, at a salary
of four thousand dollars year, to search the
mails for obscene matter and arrest the
senders thereof. The law leaves Comstock to
define the word obscene, and he includes
within Its meaning every liberal work, either
on physiology or religious subjects. Mr.. d.
NJ. Bennett, editor of the Truth Seeker, a
liberal paper, has been sentenced to thirteen
months imprisonment and to pay fine of
three hundred dollars for sending through
the mail a book called Cupid's Jokes. IF
this work on a phllosophlc subject caa be
called obscene then every medical work on
obstetrics or esoterlc diseases, or Mathews q
Theory of Population is of the same character
and can be excluded, at the option of Com
stock from the mails. 1t is not that Guilds
Y0keS contains any obscenity within itself,
but because an obscene hypocrite, Anthony
Comstock, the special postal agent of the
nited States, sees nothing in the book but
the reflected light of his own grove ling
mind. As specimens of Comstock' s degrade
ton IN mind and body, give a few traits in
his character. In Boston, before meeting
of clergymen, Rev. Jesse Harris asked Com
stock the following questions: "Mr. Com
stock, did you ever use decoy letters and
false signatures?" 10 which Mr.. Comstock
answered yes" Did you ever sign a woman s
name to such decoy letters?" ''Ies." "Dld
you ever try to make persons sell YOU for
hidden wares, and then, when you had sue
ceeded, use the evidence thus obtained to
convict them?' Yes" When Rev.
Jesse III. Jones denounced as Infamous
such conduct that would even disgrace
a Boston policeman. On the fourteenth of
June, 1873, Anthony Comstock paid three
young women to exhibit themselves naked
before himself and five witnesses, and then
dragged the unfortunate creatures to Jail for
doing what he induced them, by hire, to do.
The girls were discharged by Judge Glider
sleeve on the ground that they were deceived
into committing crime which reflected
more disgrace OH the ensnarers than on the
actors. This is the character of the man
upon whom congress has conferred the full
powers to search the mail for obscene htera-
ture, ard 10 arrest any person who sends
what Is, in his opinion, obscene literature
through the mails. ComStock has boasted