The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-02-12
OBSCENE LITERATURE.

The Chicago police, = few days
ago, at the instance oil the Society for
the Suppression OF Vice. Taided two
or three OF the establishments in
that city whence obscene literature is
sent out through the mails The
Mathews Brothers, one of the firms
captured, have several aliases and
houses in different parts of the city.
Among the others arrested were G.
G. Horton, Peter W. Williams, Ed
ward Osborn ard Sarah Fisher and
Mary Lucas, the latter two having
camera with which they took their
own photographs in . nude state
selling them as "Parisian beauties"
etc. All OF these parties are well
known to the police of the Garden
City as dealers in obscene literature,
and it is probable they will be
dealt by severely. The circulars are
widely scattered throughout the coun-
try, and they have been doing an
extensive business in their disrepu'
tabls and soul-and body-6ektroyiug
traffic. During the past year or two
young ladies and gentlemen of this
city have received strictly conf
Dental" circulars from some Of these
came parties, advertising a large
number OF books with suggestive
titles, az Cranky Ann, the Street
Walker" "Three Fast Widows"
ETC.; photographs of nude women,
transparent playing cards, and otler
things intended to iniure the youthful
mind. We have Known pure young
girls in their FIRST toens. who
never had an impure thought,
TO receive these oirculAre, and
they wondered how anybody in Chi
cago had gotten hold of their names.
Personal advertisements are fire..
quenuy noticed in the papers, asking
pertors TO send their names and
addresses. These are frequently
answered by curious people, who are
then informed that if they will send
the names OF a certain number Of
young people, a chrome, book, card, |
or something of the sort will be given |
them. The curious boy or girl who
answered the Personal" writes to
the scoundrels the names of his young
acqusintances. The innocent boys
snd gills who receive the Matrimonial
Nslos and other vile publications in
tended for their ruin, will thus under
stand how their names are known in
Chicago and elsewhere. The extent
to which this neiarious trade has been
carried on in Chicago may be mag
ined when it is stated that on one
day recently two full mail bags of
letters containing circulars and OBJ
scene pictures went cut OF the Chi
cago postofice. ;
The societies for the suppression of j
vice in different parts of the country i
ire doing good work in ferretins out,
Exposing, and Furnishing the scoundrels !
Who are doing so much to poison their .
minds and destroy the morals of tie 7
Toung men and women OF the coun- 9
~; but the societies have a heavier !
ask on their hands than they can q
No sooner is one scamp t.
rought to punishment than smother
egius operations, and though OBJ =
sscles are put in the way of the a
regulation Of the vile advertisements Il
nd still worse prints and publica- al
ons. the fellows manage to reach the - :,
1blic eye and prey upon the purses 81
the foolish and unWaTy. It lie of
Ife plan for young people to pursue CO
pay no attention to these circulars %
to the suggestive advertisements in "a
g newspapers. Nothing but evil can kr
me from them. fas'