The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-31

Censorship Rights Waived When Lovely
Woman Enters the Arena.

Censorship Rights Waived When Lovely
Woman Enters the Arena.
Chicago Tribune.
Colonel John N. Hubbard is in frame of
mind. Colonel Hubbard is assistant post
master of Chicago, and it is his business to
see that no debasing literature passes
through the Chicago postoffice to SOW seeds
of vice in the young hearts of
this and neighboring towns. He has had
to put on the gloves with q lot of
pernicious writer's, and everybody who
reads the newspapers knows how he went
after old Leo Tolstoi and bounced that
famous gentleman and his "Krentzer
Sonata" out of the mails. The pub
icity give 10 Colonel Hlbbard's joust
with the count has placed the colonel in
Northern district of Illinois, and he rather
liked the job until come righteous person
sent him a poem of Mrs. Ella Wheeler
Wilcox and asked him to suppress that
Then the colonel had his frame of mind.
Mrs. Wilcox after long term of domes-
tic quatrain cut loose in Mrs. Frank Les
lies Monthly Magazine and hit the Tyre q
swing or two that warped the wires and
burned the gum-sheilac off the sounding
board. The result is burst of melody of
which the following Is bar or two:
Once more in our loves sweet beginning
put away God and the world;
Once more in the joy of our SHINING
Are the hopes of eternity hurled.
There is nothing my soul lacks or misses
As clasp the dr-am-shape to my breast
In the passion and pain OF her kisses
Life blooms to its richest and best.
She touches my cheek and CULVER
1 tremble with exquisite pains.
She signs. Like an overcharged river
My blood rHsht1 On thro my veins
She smiles. And in mad tiger fashion.
AS q she tiger fondles her own,
/ clasp her with ferceness and passion,
And kiss her with shudder and groan.
When Colonel Hubbard read this he was
inclined to confscate the magazine. Then
he reflected that Mrs. Wilcox was a woman
and he had q reputation for gallantry to
sustain. Finally, last night at 10: 80 O'Clock,
as he sat in his pleasant home reading DIR.
Jeremy Tayior's Holy Living and Dying. !"
he had about made up his mind he
wouldn't bar out Mrs. Wilcox, and he
was prepared to defend his stand with ar
gumeHts.
Pm not much stuck on this sweet
singer of Michigan" the colonel said
"But do not think there is anything in
this near so wicked as that man Tolstoi
wrote. You see Tolstoi is good writer.
Mighty few people raised in America, let
alone Russia, could use better English
than 'Kreutzer Sonata; which made
the nasty stuff all the more per.
nicious. 1t attacked marriage and other
institutions which we believe have come to
stay. Now there isn't anything go bad
about this poem. It's little fresh per.
haps, but it's what you might expect from
foolish girl who hadn't been raised right
If do anything at all about it I'll write to
her NAV and tell her how her daughter is
carrying on.
"There is another difference between this
poem and the Sonata One is short and
trivial. The other is $50 pages of vicious
ness. / believe you can raise more hades
in ten-acre lot than yon can in your door.
yard"
"But you will continue to suppress other
debasing literature?"
well, 1 should shudder," the colonel
replied simply.