The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-04-29
COMsTCCk's GRIMES.
DITCRADyANCE

ED1TORADvANCE:
AS you have given me credit for be-
ing posted on the Comstock question:
and sec in the last three ADVANCES,
articles bearing OH his infamy, also that
there are those who think you do him
''injustice," allow me to review the dir
ty subject with a few items showing
what some of the others OF the press
think Of him and 4 small portion of
their reasons, outside Of those you have
already mentioned, but enoughto etern-
ally damn any human being in the eyes
of justice.
His main efforts are directed against
those whom he terms Liberals and Free
thinkers with bigoted luminosity, us is
clearly proven by his own writings and
words. lie is Chief agent of the Y. NJ
C. y. and in one of his Annual Reports
to that body, says: ''Another class of
publications issued by Free thinkers
and Free lovers are in 1. fair way Of be-
ing STAMPED out" In letter dated
Jam. IS, 1873, he says: ''There were four
March, to-day three of them are in their
= ..
that I ,uorried then. to death. BE thnt
off 'cithout them.
y There is IL Christian spirit of inquisi-
ion fox you in the 10Th century. His
publishing a tract on Natural History,
entitled FLOW do Marsupial@ Animals
propagate their kind" lie was thrown
in Jail, his office searched, his books
and papers seiz.d and destroyed;
but when the District Attorney came
to investigate the case and examine
the book, he found it free from any
ground for the charge, and released Mr.
B. much to the wrath Of Tony, who
sworc he would yet have revenge. And
for what? Because ID. NJ. Is. had also
| published AN open Letter to Jesus
| Christ" which had aroused the wrath
| Of the Y. NJ. G. A. and they said he
| must he put down. Anthony frequent
! ly visited the office Of the Truth Seeker,
| threatening to prosecute them if they
| published the vile sheet any more, for
he would yet crush it out. and various
| other devices to stop Bennett with his
| paper all to 10 avail.
John A. Liant. Ed. Of the Toledo Sun,
WAS warned by Tony to discontinue his
| unorthOdox sheet; even threatening
newsdealers with imprisonment in the
! Tombs, for selling the Sun containing
"IngersOll'S Grafton on the Gods,3 and
after numerous other threats, sent u
decOy letter, under false name. to
Liant for several back numbers, publish
ed before the paper was removed to
| New York, containing 4 letter from E.
| p. Miller OH physiological matters; and
prayer from Train entitled, 'Beech-
er's Prayer" witty and sarcastic of
course. Receiving them, he had him
arrested and thrown into Jail, not even
admitting him to bail, for the purpose
of stopping his paper. When tried be-
fore Judge Benedict he was sentenced to
four years hard labor in prison; but pub
lie opinio., being so high against it, it
was mitigated to Ell hteen months and
$500, which left Il wife and three little
ones on the charity Of the people. =.
Here let me state that Judge Bene-
dict is one Of Comstock s tools to finish
off his dirty jobs with. His Court is
Comstock's favor+e. "Here," he has
been heard to remark, 1--WE always win. y
Il AIN sure of any case before him."
E. H. Haywood Ed. of the Word.
Boston. Mass, a gentleman of educa-
ton and culture, graduate from Brown s
! University, but liberal and writer
on social topics. the Y. Nj. C. A. SAID he
| must shut up. So they called Tony,
their 81 1000 year tool, to effect their
purpose. lie writes from Sqnam Vii
lage, n. Y. for copy of Cupid's Yokes
and Thrall's Sexual Physiology to be
sent to f.. Edgwell. Cupid's Yokes had
been b fore the public for years, and
| Thrall's work had passed through TWEEN
ty seven editions in the past fifteen
years, without anyone smelling any
thing obscene about them before. But