Connecticut western news., 1883-09-19
MIR M. IL. DELEVAN AND HEALTH
 AND HOME.

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 Mir M. l.. Delevan of Port Chester, N. r., thinks that certain editors have done him a great injustice and that their criticisms of him and his connec- tion with Health and Home have been unwarranted and too severe. He also thinks that the article in the NEws of August 15, conveys wrong impression concerning him and Health and Home, and he felt that we ought at least to give him chance to exonerate himself We willingly granted him that privi- lege and he has been collecting. his evidence, answering certain inquiries that we made and explaining many points that looked conflicting We dis cover only three points which MT Dele- van desires to establish: First, that Health and Home is not an obscene publication second, that MT Delevan is not it's editor, simply it's publisher or printer third, that he has been too severely land perhaps) unjustly censur- ed.
 MT Delevan's letters to us have been very lengthy and explanatory and were not intended for publication, therefore only certain statements of his bearing on these points will be mentioned We have already mentioned that he thinks our article of August 15 conveysa wrong impression concerning him and Health and Home, still in his letter to us dated September 3, 1883, he states, 'you are under no compulsion you are under no obligations but those of honor, and so you can make it appear. do not ask you to publish an article endorsing Health and Home. I do aaot endorse ct myseJf defend it against the charge of obscenity, but cannot agree with all its teachings. Tho not even ask you to exonerate me, but think from the proof presented to you, you could hon orably say, that from fuller investiga tion of the charges made against me you think that some of the papers which have assailed me have done so without full knowledge of the facts. ," Mir Delevan writes us he could not en- dorse Health and Home because Gin it Dr Hale discussed problems that did not approve of-not that they were ob- scene, but because they sayored too much of free thinking.''
 In 8 letter to us dated August 23, MT Delevan states that Dr Hale is the editor of Health and Home and that he Dele van) does ssnot even open the letters that come for Health and Home, whether they are for business or publi- cation, but I send them immediately to Dr Hale and do not know, unless by accident, what goes into the paper un- few letters come for Dr Hale. He pre- pares every line of copy. He secures all the advertisements and forwards everything to me that he wants publish ed" So much regarding the editor. ssThe advertisement on which Dr Hale was arrested was an electrotype. :"
 MT Delevan states that he submitted to Anthony Comstock copy of the is- sue complained of, also forwarded to the post office department copy of the same issue. MT Delevan has shown us two letters, one from Anthony Comstock, the secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, and one from the postmaster at Port Chester, N. Y. MT Comstock's letter is dated August 8, 1883. We quote from it:-t'From a casual look over the paper fail to find anything that should feel called upon to interfere with. Of course every issue stands on it's owh merits, and while there is growing sentiment against publishing that which tends to lewdness, I dc not discover anything in the par ticular issue, which you sent me, that would justify prosecution in the case 3
 Mr c. H. Palmer, postmaster at Port Chester, N. T., writes under date of Au- gust 25, 1883, as follows:-''S. c. Beck ley-Mr Delevan has asked me to tell you whether Health and Home is allow in the mails. I have to say that copy of that paper of the issue complained of was sent to the post office authorities at Washington, D. C., for examination and an order was received by me, from the post office department to admit Health and Home into the mails and I do so. D We also received letter from Dr W. H. Hale, dated, Fargo, D. T., August 31, 1888. We quote from it:-"Editor NEws-The relations that MT Delevan and sustain to Health and Home have been published at the head of Health and Home ever since the relation exist ed. I edit the paper, MT Delevan prints it, and he is not at liberty to do any portion of editorial work. All com munications for the paper, and all busi- ness letters are forwarded to me-" MT Delevan has sent us the September and August numbers of Health and Home. We admit that the September number shows an improvement over the July number. The Social Science column, which formerly contained some rich and racy reading, is omitted, but notwith- standing Health ana Home is admitted to the mails aud passes Anthony Con- stocks inspection, we cannot recommend it as desirable paper for the house. holds of our country. MT Deleyan in his letter to us of September 3, says, HOf course shall now examine some expressions and the contents of the pa-