Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-11-21
CORRUPT LITERATURE.
ONE OF The GREATEST PLAQUES
WHICH AFFlICT THE PEOPLE.
Bad Books the Curse Of the Age, the Scabs
Of leprosy on our Civilization, the
Nest Loathsoma ard frightful
Of the Ten Plaques.
GOOD SOCKS THs ONLY WEAPON.

Arm OF the Lord. Awake Awake,
Put on thy sire myth, the Nation shake
the Reverend Doctor announced his
text 10 be Exodus win. s: "And the
frogs came up and covered the land OF
Egypt, and the msgicians did so with
their euehantments and brought up
frogs on the land OF Egypt"
There is now universal aversion to
frogs, but with the Egyptian they were
honorcd and sacred while living, and
a'ter death were embalmed and remains
OF them can, to-day, be found among
the sspulchres OF Thebes These crea'
lures, so protected OF the ancients once,
became, at divine behest, obnoxious and
loathesome, and went croaking. leapirg,
hopping into the palace OF the king and
the bread trays and the cOuches OF all
the people. And evan the ovens, which
instead Of, as now, being built at the
side OF chimney quite high above the
ear;h, were a mere hole in the grouEd,
with an earthen pot sunk@n, wore filed
with frogs. Ii the people attempted to
eat OIL q plate frog alisntei on the
iooG; or pGt on q shoe, !: was preoccu-
pied by frog; or attempted to put 4
head on Il pillow, trog la taken pos
session.
Fross HIEn snd Low
and everywhere. L0athersomc frogs,
shiny frogs, Oesjeginx frogs, inuumerablo
frogs. great plague OF frogs. But that
was uut enough. The magiriaus pro-
posed % SHOW that there Was nothing
miraculous about il; that they could
produce the Ike creatures hv slight ot
hand. and tuey succeeded on Il small
scale. ior YOU know slight OF hand can
DO wonders. A. Moses hsd thrown
down a staff ami it became 4 Serpeat,
aui then ur took hold Of II and II again
.yramr \ s,aU, 80 the serpent chtrmer',
kaOWIuk thai tArre WAS ssrpsat III
E,vp.. which, 10y being peculiarly
pressed on the meek, becomes rigid as
a piece of wood, seemed TO change a
SERPENT into staa and staff into 3
serpent, and these magieians likewise
Initiated the Plague
OF frogs, perhaps, 10y the smell OF food,
COaxing great many into certain
place, or, perhaps, shaking them from
some secluded place, as magicians will.
But while they might make the plague
worse, they could not make it better.
My text SAYS, The frogs came up and
covered the lant OF Egypt, and the
magicians did 80 with their enchant-
ments and brougat up froIs over the
land OF Egypt"
have to tell you that the plague OF
frogs has come back, and is at this hour
affecting this nation. They come In the
shape o.
Corrupt Literature.
Tn-v hop into the store, into the shop,
into the nome, INTO the garrett. in,O the
cellar, on the drawing room table and on
the shelves OF tic library. One OF them
hops on the school boys hand, while the
teacher is looking the other way. Tbs
Young woman reading the forbidden
novelette, by gas light, after she has re-
tired at night, has one OF them jump on
her pillow. They leap into a great
many news stands, the mail bags at the
post office empty hundreds OF them on
the floor. The magic,ans Of literature
instead Of destroying them help to in
crease the number. The land is pos
s-ssed with them. IL ia one Oi the most
devastating, oatIscme,
Ghastly and Frishtfu.
of the ten plaques of our modern cities.
! do not put the case too strongly when
saw that One-haif OF the books printed
and of the newspapers published ought
never TO SO the light. They are so full
OF pes:ilence that the whole land
swelters in the moral epidemic.
Literature ot q nation must decide the
morals OF the nation. Ii good books
predOminate, virtue predominates. Ii
bad books are in the majority, then
vice raigns. began with the litera
ture lowest down, that which pretents
70 no good and from cover to cover is a
scab OF Lsprosy.
There are hundreds Of men whose en-
tire business It is 10 dispose OF this kind
OF literature. They show them to lads
on the street Tney secure catalogues
containing the names OF students - the
colleges and the female seminaries, and
send their evil pamphlets and a!ver'
,.Eaueuts ut iniQuity 10 every place
pu-,rs the absence oil the president OF
one OF the G.gst Young ladies' semina-
TIvs on our Atlantic coast, 4 mlScreant
60. s' a'.d up. aimed 4 catalogue OF The
students The president returning and
U"tln- Whist jat been done immrdlste.
v reppr.ct ms fears To the public au-
tborlty and a.s"r tnnG search the vii
lain was found, having in his possess,
/ ion not only 2 catalogue OF that instltn.
I ton but OF "nIjsg"I In eight OF which
| there hal lrsady beel done da nning
Work with SON, of the students. The
PRESIDENT o. college writes: 81 do mo-
dare to pub i~h 4 catalogue on accoun
! of these sramps" In possession Of
Leprous Dellsrs
, of this s0r. were found the name ant
pnstofIica al dresses OF OYER 300 900 per
sons To whOm they ;GuHEut it might bt
/ a..van'aypyns 30 send their circulars
. Ia 1875 there were lG5 different style.
/ Of these books, whiCn arH the transcript
. Of hell, published IN the [ hjtei States
AMI tuvv SN- J.. across the Ian ! with 4
pssaH nf q : rUc,iOn. These books art
the author Of suicide. and divorce, anC
woes that take IN all time and all eter
pifv. one oj these publishers Sent tort.
twenty different books 0: this COrrup
stYla. each one seemingly worse thar
its predecessor. II twentviour tons o
this ssisciNus Ii'erItu-e has been les
troyet bv the society fDr the prevention
If wee. mere Is rEonZh left 10 bring or
me land the rhundrrboj'sO OF IN incensel
God. What J. more remarkable IL, tha
more ofthr publishers oi these ahand
Orei hruAs have
Lived IN Brooklyn
/ taas in any CIV d! tie United States
! rnCv hyei Ner,. aui a,trn led II bust
ness In N,w York, sfue Uf their iactor
. ieS on this site UGr East rIVer, and some
on TIE other. hu, they dared to make
. tr-,r resi- lrur- N 'h'- "l'v OF churches
DIvrn ont tr0n lui- city entirely, o,
, Tor ~" m - p.-'. now. these vulture,
/ ~iil lEEbt ON sniu-. her field, and they
[ nee d - Er puT-u-d and exterminateC
/ from ,srIssc cu'rm The evil became sC
/ grra, th2'. n 1863, = iaw was passed b,
trp Congress II the United States, for
| bidding the transmission of eorrup