The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11
A GRAND AND BEAUTIFUL RES
FORM.

The New York World refuses to.
print the libidinous letters and dis
gushing details incident to the relations
between Rev. Joseph p. Thompson
and Mrs. De Land. The leading news
papers Of Gotham approve the conduct
of the World and henceforth we are
to have decenter journals in the East.
1t is time q reform were insugursted.
But what is Conkling going to do
about it9 II Mrs. Sprsgue be innocent
as many believe, he has only sacrificed
her to his inordinate vanity. He led
the woman to ruin in the eyes OF the
public that the world might say "see
how the paragon of Washington
women runs after the mimi
table Adonis of the Senate |"
What grief must befal Conkling
if the press refuse to give public
ity to disgusting details Of social
depravity The New York; World is
wise and right, but it's policy cannot
be pursued. Public tastes are too
thoroughly perverted and the demand
for vicious, depraved personal and
sensational newspapers must be sup
piled. II the World may not pander
to perverted tastes its rivals will,
and charming recitals Of Conkling's,
Thorlpson's and Beecher's escapades
must be printed. But it were infinitely
better for society and government and
for the religion OF Jesus CAsist, if
these men and countless thieves, de-
nominated ''defaulters," were no more,
and equal numbers of murderers
and stage coach robbers substituted.
Then the press might give every detail
of devilish crimes done, and men and
women would only be shocked by
bloody deeds and abhor aud punish
them; but rottenness and pollution
pervade homes and families and cities,
and we can only deplore the vices of
those who cannot see evils that atf1ict
their own homes and forever lift up
their hands in holy horror while con-
templating glazing vices of the shot
gun Democracy of Yszoo. Would not
the World dc well, while asserting the
purpose to reform its conduct in pro-
motion OF decency and public and pri-
vate morality, to teach its ,ntempo-
raries how to measure accurately
and justly the difference in char
acter of vices and crimes, and
the evils they effect In the
North and in the Souths Tell, US some
philosopher of the World or Herald,
which has wrought most harm, the
shocking, disgusting, violent murders
OF Dixon and Chisholm or the sdven-
lures Of the Adonis of the Senate In
Rhode Island2 Who has ministere1
most to the ruin OF society, TO the dis
ruption of its very foundations and the
overthrow of the religious faith of our
1 Ahthcis, RcNr. AuouipeOu huu DSoCucI
or the ten or twenty murderers await
ing the hangman's beneicent offices In
Texas9 Who are the more thoroughly
depraved, the innumerable default
ers," who steal thousands, or the daring
devils who now and then overhaul q
sleepy stage coach and tamper with
mail packagesl The great macs of
Southern people are farmers. They are
honest, industrious and conservative,
as are all farming populations, and
while Northern newspapers are reform
ing their cwn conduct and character
and refusing to print details of domestic
vices and crimes let them not make up
the deficiency of interest, TO befal their
pages, by portraying IN exaggerated
colors the peculiar misdeeds of the
South.