The morning news., 1891-03-09

Now, my frie-ds, nov are We . Nai
against this corrupt literature, and hoT an
SLANT First Of al. by the prompt an1 mex
orsbls execution 4 the Law. Let al good
r,ostmas,ers and United States district a.
fornevs, and detectives and rsIormers con-
cart in their action % stop this p-agoe
VIXEN Sir Rowland Hill spent his lie u
irving % secure cheap postage not o-4y Tor
FnglEnd. but for al the world, and % open
the blessing Of the Poscof1cs % al no9es'
business. and 20 al messages of cnsrlty,
ard kiudcesz and affection, he did no- mean
70 make vice easy OF % I'll ths mail bags Of
the United States with the scabs .ot such
Q lsprosy.
It ought not TO Be il the power OF every
had ruau who can raise one-cent stamp
for 8 circulsr, or twO-oent stamp for 9
letter. 10 blast q man OF destroy home.
TIE postal service of this country must De
clean. must Be- kept clean, and We must al
understand that the swift re.rlb1tions Of the
United States government hover oTe- every
violation Of the lettsr-ooL-
There are thousands OF men Iend women
In this country. some for personal gain, soEns
through innate dsprsyity, some through :
spirit Of reTenge, w1o wish . Use this great
avenue Of convenisucs and intelligence for
purposes revsngeful. salscious and dlaoohc-
Wake Up the law. Wake up all it, penal
ties. Let every court room On this subject
be a Sinai thundsrous and edane. Lst the
convicted offenders be sent for the fun term
20 Sing sing or Harrisburg.
am not taking about what cannot oe
done. l am talking now about what Il be-
ing done 3 great many Of the printing
presses that gave themselves entirely 70 the
publication Of vie literature have been
Stoned OF have gone into business less OBJ
noxiOus " hat has thrown OF, what has
kept of the rail trains Of this country for
some time back nearly al the lspro1s
perlodicalsi Those Of rs who have been on
the rail trains have noticed g great change
IN the Last feE months and the last year or
two. Why have nearly ali those vile
periodicals been kept of the rail trains for
some time back Who effected iti These
societies for TIE publication OF railroad lit
ersturs gave warning 70 the publishers and
warning 70 railroad companies, and warn
ing 70 conductors, and warning 70 news
boys, 10 keep the internal stuff OF the
trains
Many Of the cities have successfully pro
hibited the most Of that literature even
from going on the newsstands. Terror has
seized upon the publishers and the dealers 10
Impure literature, from the fact that over a
thousand arrests have been made, and the
aggregate time for which the convicted have
been sentenced to the prison is over one
hundred and ninety years, and from the
fact that about two million Of their clrcu-
lars have been destroyed, and the bust
ness Is not as profitable as It used 20 Be.
How have 50 many Of the ns1Sstsnds Of
our great ciries beea purihsdl How has 50
much Of this iniquity been baikedi By
moral suAsioni Oh, no. You might es well
20 into Jungle Of tia East Indies and pat
cobra on the neck, and with profound
argument try 20 persuade it that u Is moral
ly wrong 70 bite and 20 sting and to poison
anything. The only answer 70 your argu-
ment would be an uplifted head and hiss,
and a sharp, reskinZ tooth struck into your
arteries. The only argument for cobra is
q shotgun, aud the only argument for these
dealers in impure literature is the clutch Of
the police ard bean soup in penitentlary.
The aUl Ths law! invoke TO conSum-
mate the work % grandIY begunl
Another way IN which We are % drive
back this plague Of Egyptian frogs n by
filing the minds Of our young people with
q hsalthful literature. do not mean TO
say that all the books and newspapers In
our families ought 20 be religious books and
newspapers. or that every song ought 20 be
sung 70 the tune Of "Old Hundred-n
make the young old. l would rather join
in a crusade to kesp the young young
Boyhood aud girlhood must not be abbrevi-
sted. But there ars good books, good his-
tories, good biographies, good works oi
fiction. good books Of all STYLES with which
we are 70 I'LL the minds Of the young, &c
that there will Be no more room for toe
useless and the vicious than tbsre is room
for caah in g busasl measure which Is al
ready which is already filed with Michigan
vhsat.
WAY are 50 per cent. of the criminals In
the jslls and penitentiAries Of the United
States to-day under q year, Of agel Many
of thsm under II, under 10, under Is, undsl
i. under lSf Walk along one Of the cor
ridors of the Tombs prison in New YorA
e1d look for yourselves. Bad books
bad negspapers, bsWitchsd them as soon a.
they got out Of the cradle. Beware of al
those stories which end wrong Beware ol
al thoss books which make ths road
that ends In perditlon seem % end In para
disc. Do not glOTify the dirk and pistol
Do not cal The Desperate bravo or tb,
hbertine gallant Teach our young people
that IL they 20 down into the swamps snC
rnarshes % watch the jack-o'- lanterns dane
On the decay and rottenness, they vii
catch the malaria and death.
"O,7 says some one, 81 am busineE
man. and / have no tius to examine whaf
my children read have no time 10 inspec
ths books that come into my household
ycur childreu we're threatened with typhoiG
doctori Would you have time to watch th,
progress Of the diseased Would you have
time fOr the funerals In the presence oi
my God warn you Of the fact that youI
children are threatened with moral anC
spiritual typhoid, and that unless the thins
be stopped ii will be TO them funeral O
body. funeral Of mind. funeral Of soul
Three funsrals In one day.
ny word is to this vast multitude o
young people: Do not touch, do not borrow
do not buy a corrupt book or q corrup
picture. A book viii decide mans DESTINY
for good or for evil The book you reaC
yesterday may have decided you for tin
and for eternity, or it may be a book tina
may come into your possession tomorrow
A good book-who can exageeraoe Ii
poweri Benjamin Franklin said that hi
reading Of Cotton Mather's essays, ITO D
Good, /" in childhood gave him holy aspira
tions for all the rest of his life. Georg
Law declared that a biography he read il
childhood gave him all his subsequent pros
perities. A clergyman, many years age
passing TO the far west, stopped at a hote
He saw a woman copying something from
Doddridge's Rise and Progress.n I
seemed that she had borrowed the book, an
there were some things she wanted esp,
cially 10 remember. The clergyman had i
hissatchel copy Of DoddridKe's "Rise an
Progress" and so he made her a present {
it. Thirty years passed on. The clergy
man came that way and he asked where Il
woman was, whom be had see
long sgo. They said. "She hy,
yonder in that beautiful house, BE wsr
there and said to her: "Do you remembs