The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-16
ABSORBED AGAIN.

ABSORBED AGAIN.
The announcement came last week,
Just as we went to press, that the Chi
cago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
line had been absorbed by the North
western. or rather that there had been
a formal consolidation. Negotiations
have been going on to that end and this
will no doubt be the result. The line
for some months has been understood
to be under Northwestern control, the
blanks of the latter being used and re-
ports being made to the Northwestern
Office at Chicago. So the wedding has
been understood as a foregone conclu-
slsn by both families.
Whether this will be Of any marked
benefit to us remains to be seen. 1t
should have the effect to reduce rates
to Chicago, both freight and passenger,
and to open up lively competition with
the Northwestern's great rival, the
Milwaukee. which comes near enough
to make itself felt in this and the sur
rounding counties.
We suppose now that the Algona
branch, if continued, will strike for
Heron Lake and use the Black Hills
branch rs part of the proposed line to
Tracy.
THE BLOODHOUND OF THE CHURCH.
The journal has actually walked up
to defence of Anthony Comstock.
The ADVANCE has been showing him
up for two or three years as the spy,
procurer and bloodhound of an infa-
nous society in New York, the main
object Of which is to suppress free
thought, or rather to suppress the adj
vocacy of liberal views in religion.
The Journal has taken up the cudgel in
h,s defense.
According to the article copied by
the Journal in his defense, he is lone
of the saints.' lie has done a mobile
work. Let us see:
/. He boasts that he has driven fif-
teen poor fellow mortals to commit su-
icide. MAY their ghosts haunt him
day and night and never give him an
other moments rest till lie makes a.
mends for the crimes he has commit
ed.)
2. lie hired three women in Green
street, New York, and paid them S14
to expose their persons. He enjoyed
the spectacle for an hour, 1.-THE hypocrit.
ical brute) and then had the girls ar
rested for Indecent exposure of per-
son." In a private letter which we
have received from Hon. A. l.. Raw
son, President of the National Defense
Association, he says:
When Comstock hired the three wom-
Ell in Green street, this city, to expose
themselves in q nude condition. con-
trary to law, and for the purpose of hay-
ing them arrested, SO as to bring q scall-
dial and od!,lm on the Captain Of the
Police of that District, the n. D. A.
tried every court in the city and coun-
ty to have him arrested and could not
have it done. Tie courts were then I'M
der the domination of the theologians
COmStOck's society was so popular
that we were pnwerless. We succeeded,
however, in defeating him in the court
on the trial of the women, they being
discharged and he being severely rep
rimanded.
We can be thankful that there was
one judge in Now York who was not
under the domination of the church
and who could reprimand this blood
hound for hiring three poor women to
commit a crime. Yet this infamous
procuror is paraded over the country as
Il saint" is received with open arms
at prayer meetings and camp meetings
and is looked upon as one of the bull
warks of the church party.
3. lie boosted years ago that he
would suppress the Truth Seeker and
the Banner Of Light because they were
liberal papers. He tried various ways
Of catching the venerable D. M. Ben
nett. editor of the Truth Seeker, had
him arrested for publishing AN Open
Letter to Jesus" and so on. Failing in
these attempts, the wretch went to a
small town in New Jersey and, under
an assumed name, wrote letter to Ben
nett in which there were ninc lies, as
the 1l)n. Elizur Wright pointed out,
requesting a copy of Cupid's Yokes.
Bennett sent it. lie was then arrested
and sent to the penitentiary for thlr.
teen months. Yet this liar and instig.
ator Of crime is heralded over the coun.
try rs a ''saint.'' Every member of
Hayes administration said a great
wrong had been done and recommend.
ed Benefits pardon: The namby.
pan'by Hayes, however, after ordering
the pardon made out, succumbed to
Ms. Hayes and her preacher, and let
Bennett remain III prison. MAY the
memory of that wrong follow Hayes
and ill his pillow with tlorns.)
4. This "saiut'' and church blood.
hound las a museum, a church side
show, OF obscene books, pictures and
instruments, which he parades before
preachers, Sunday School teachers, and
church saints. Most Of these articles
he has taken by force from their own.
ers and is turning them into money for
Comstock. On these baudy articles,
the saintly preachers ana church lambs
feast their eyes, and the wicked world
is shut out from seeing the museum.
Yet this imp Of hell, Anthony Com
stock, who daily feasts upon this OBJ
scenity himself, goes before the church.
es and tells how bad it is TO allow any
but the saints" to enjoy obscene books
anu pictures. The fact is, this man
Comstock should be watched and plac-
cd under arrest every time he exhibits
his museum of stolen obscene arti.
Giles.
We feel deeply on this subject and
perhaps speak bitterly. Personally we