Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-11-21

so many loops through which all people
might crawl, that it was a dead failure
In 1873, another law was passed that
caught multitude OF scoundrels, in all
parts Of the land, and their stock OF
goods was Confscated and they were
thrown int prison. twas law against
which no gooi man would mske objec.
ton. But it aroused the indignation OF
the
Worst People
in ali the country, and league was
formed to force Congress to repeal the
law. and petitions rolled up at the door
of Congress-. The first name on the Pc
tition is the name of Robert q. luger-
soil, the champion blssshemer OF Amer
lea. This same blasphemer also reques.
ted the Senate of the United States to
have this law for the defence OF society
repealed, but the attempt before both
Houses was failure. The Committee
OF the House OF Representatives May |,
1878, sent the following report;
THE Committee on the Revision OF
the-4saws, 10 whom was referred the Pc
tition of Robert G. Ingersoll and others,
PRAYING for the repeal or modification OF
sections l,7S5, 3,S7S, 1898, $3.50 and
2,49l Of the Revised Statutes, have had
the same under consideration and heard
the petitioners at length. In Ihe opin-
ion OF your committee the post office
Vas not established to carry instruments
OF vice or
Obscene and Indecent
pictures, or leNd books your committee
believe that the statutes IL question do
not violate the constitution OF the
United States, ard ought not 10 be
changed. They recommend, therefore,
that the prayer of the said petition be
denied"
Nv friends, that only illustrates that
lntidei,y which wipes its feet on the
Bible and spits in the face OF God is
also the foe oi good society. | DO not
wonder that when Mr.. lngerso,l asked
the Mayor OF Toronto tor license to lee
ture in that city, the Mayor replied:
NO, sir; you may have no God IN the
Uuited states, but We have one up here
in Canada, and YOU shall not come here
aud blasphcme Him One OF the worst
oi the men whO had been sending OBJ
scene papers through the mails was
tried. condemned and put III prison.
President HAYES Was applied to for
pardon, but having examined the case,
and finding there was no excuse and no
mitigating circumstances for the william,
he refused 20 pardon the culPrit Ihena
society OF S)-cdl.ei liberals, passed res
olution OF deepest sympathy ior this
Filthy Creature,
and the resolution was presented by
Robert Ing,rsyll, and was passed by the
meeting with great enthusiasm. 1t vii
vet be demonstrated, aud II no one else
will undertake the WORK, | Will, that
while Christianity i the mother OF all
virtue, Iuiilelitv in this century ia the
mother OF AL vices without any cxcep'
ton. ANY man who could petition the
Congress OF the United States for the
repeal OF the law against sending through
the mails, obscene and depraved ll;era.
ture, is the foe OF every decent man Ia
America, and offers an insult 10 every
clear-minded man AMI pure hearted
nan in Cnr!S,landom.
Now, how are We to fight this plague
OF a corrupt literature: First, by the
prompt aud ineXorable execution oil the
law. Lei all good postmaSters, and
Unite, states Distric! Attorneys, aud
detectives, and reformers cOnSort to-
gether iUT the defence.
Public Mora!s.
When Sir Rowland Hill spent his life
in the effort to gain cheap postage for
all nations, and wrought reform by
which the great blessing OF the pOstof
ice should be opened 10 all honest tusi-
ness. and 10 messages of affection and
charity and nealthiul intercommunica.
ton, he did not mean 10 make crime
easv. or to ill the mail bags OF the world
with the scabs of moral leprOsy. | like
the wav that Jay Gould last week
pouuced upon the culprit who was dis.
gracing our munlticent postal system.
The fact that the offender lived in Fifth
avenue instead OF hm street, makes his
crime more outrageous. The New York
pos,otice never did q better thing than
when it assign fifty postmen to watch
the postolfice boxes, and the police de
partment OF New York never did bet
ter thing than when it detailed fifty de-
tcctves 10 make i summary arrest. We
must have the postal service OF the
United States clean, and
Kept Clean,
aud the people must all understand that
the swift retributiOn OF the United
States government hovers over every
violation OF the letter box. There are
tens of thousands Of men and women,
sometimes for purposes OF personal gain,
sometimes through innate depravity,
and sometimes through = spirit OF rr.
venge, attempting to use this avenue OF
intelligence and commerce for purposes
salacious. revengiul, and djsbolicaI.
Wake up the Law Wake up all its pen.
altics. Let every court room in the
land, on this, subject, be a sign thuH-
derous and atlAme. Give the culprits
the full number OF years at
Sing Sing or Harrisburg, and let that
governor be hurled out OF otiics ii
he pardon before the expiration OF the
time: and am not talking about what
| ran be done am talking about what is
being done. The publication OF new
books OF an
Abandoned Character
has been almost stopped in this country.
Many OF those loose pictorial weeklies,
which wer. on every 'ailroad from
Bangor to San Francisco, have, for the
most part, disappeared. Why? Be-
cause the societies for the puritcation
OF railroad literature have compelled
this iniGuitOus stuff to keep off the
trains. The Doctor then rapidly
| sketched the work which has been done
hy this and kindred societies, and con-
cIriHd with the following eloquent
GeJd Books
/ We get so used tO seeing good books
/ that We do not realize what a good book
| is. | stand II on end; look at it; meas
ure its height, and depth, and length,
/ and breadth; examine it's leaves. What
| pushing on from impressions in clav 10
/ bark of trees, from bark Of trees to pa.
/ pvrus, from papyrus 10 hide OF wild
/ beasts. from the hide of wild beasts to
tie miracle Of a paper factory, aud here
Won have it, Paper, white and pure,
/ and as pure "a the infants soul, white
ior divine inscription. Look at the
/ printing and compare TO this book the
! wooden planks on which Solon's laws
we're written, and the tables OF lead on
which Hrsiod's poems were written,