The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-08-28

have been held, stand as 1O1lOWS:
Pillsbury, %; Wakefield, 9; Baker, s;
Dillson, 5.
St. Panl was denounced last year as
acting the hog during the State Fair by
tleccing the public with 'exorbitant
rates and poor accommodations. This
year we hope to see St. Paul behave as
deceDtly as Minneapolis did.
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CoNYEN-
TION,
Will be held at st. Paul on Thursday,
Sept. 25. The counties in this Repre-
sentative District are entitled to dele
gates as follows:
Cottonwood /; Jackson l.; Murray i;
Mobiles /; Pipestone /; Rock /.
THE FAIRS.
Not the fair sex, nor exorbitant rail-
road fare, nor Yazoo and San Francis
co affairs, but the State and Minneap-
oils Fairs come off next week. The
two fairs are again vieing with each
other for the best show, the most at
fractions and tho biggest crowd. Ell
Their will be better than q circus and
both together will beat q circus and
menagerie combined.
The rivalry of St. Paul and Minneap.
oils in these annual Fairs is giving
Minnesota about tile most attractive
fair exhibition in the 'country. Next
yCar we hope to see them secure Ben.
Butler, Dennis Kearney, Roscoe Conk-
ling, Anthony Comstock, Theodore
Tilten and other celebrities.
BULLETS INSTEAD or BALLOTS
The Pioneer Press, in brief editori-
nj, rather congratulates Do Young for
shooting Kallocl,, i'll San Francisco.
We do not see it. De Young had been
making abusive personal attacks upon
Kalloch through the Chronicle. Kal-
loch responded in kind at a public meet
ing. Then De Young, like a coward as
he certainly is, drove to the hotel, call
t1l Kalloch out and shot him down ut
sight, kalloch being unarned.
Our opinion is that if the mob had
hung De Young to the nearest lamp
post, public sentiment pretty generally
would have said, ''seryed him right"
This De Young assassination is pre-
cisely after the TaZoo pattern. TIE
Barks>lales in Mississippi assume that
they have the right to stand as candi-
dates for Office, make tho canvass,
abuse their opponents, and rule the
yoost, but if amy man offers as an op-
posing candidate, he must of course be
put out of the way by the bullet instead
Of the ballot. The De Young's assume
the right to abuse their opponents with
out stint, but If the Kallocll,s retort in
kind, they must of course be shot.
We are not ut all an admirer Of the
Dennis Kcarncy type Of politician, but
our sympathies are heartily with the
workingmen in their efforts to better
their condition, not in their warfare
uron other workingmen, and we believe
III fair play among political parties as
everywhere else.
CRIMINAL PROCURERS.
In recent article we denounced
Anthony Comstocl as a spy and pro-
curer, who cntices men to commit
crime in order that he may have the
rewards and llonors of their arrest and
punishment. Here is another instance
Of his infamous conduct as related in
the Psychologist and Family Physician,
the organ of the New York Physiolog-
ical Society,":
'>Tl,is parallels Comstock and his five
Suppression of Vice confederatcs, who
at 32l Greene street, on the night of
June II, 1878, for $ll bribed three
women to expose their PERSONS, all for
the purpose of establishing their eff
cheney as suppressers of vice. No.
thank you; we have had sufficient ex-
emplilication Of the espionage method
in the doings Of the New York Sup
preston of Vice Society, without Dor
rowing any of John Bulls beautiful
brothel systems"
The same journal tells the following
OF how these societies for the suppress
sion Of vice operate elsewhere:
IA shocking case transpired at Hong
Kong, in 1877, of q woman who was
killed in falling from the roof of IL house
i'll her endeavor to escape one of the
spy police OF immortality. At the in
quest over her body the disgracefu] fact
was elected OH oath from government
official that men were bribcd to commit
Jornic0t'on IN order to establish eritltnce
against ,ronoen, the money for sucl,
bribeS being obtained from funds rotetl
by the British Parliament. Such is the
evidence Of John Lee, Her Majesty's
Inspector of Brothels, reported in full
in the Overland China Mail, November
8, 1877"
Yet these infamous Comstocks are
paraded before the world as public ben
efactors, and the Infamous Anthony
appeared recently at the Clear Lake re.
ligious camp-mceting as a chief at.
traction. When he tells us how many
times lie has sinned with fallen women
in the New York brothels, just for the
purpose Of reporting Oh them, it will
make interesting reading for tho Police
Gazette.
In the large cities there is class
OF men and women called ''procur-
ers," whose business it is to keep
houses of ill-fame supplied with girls.
And while Anthony Comstock is not
employed rs a runner for houses of this
kind, he is doing, in principle, just
what these other procurers are doing.
lie is enticing, invieglirg, and tempt
ing men and women to the commission
of crime in order that he may have
them arrested and punished.
For every arrest thus made the Lib
erals should have him arrested on the
charge of melting crime and being ac-
cessory thereto. Arrests should be
piled up against him mountain high,
and he should he kept continually lie.