Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-03-19

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Christian law-and under that law multi
tudes OF these scoundrels have been ar
rested, their property confiscated and they
themselves thrown into the penitentiaries
where 4 ey belonged.
HOW ARE WE TO WAR AGAINST TT
Now, my friends, how are we to war
against this corrupt literature and how
are the frogs of this Egyptian plague to be
slainS First of all by the prompt and in
exorable execution of the law. Let all good
postmasters and United States district at
torneys, and detectives and reformers con-
cert in their action to stop this plague.
When Sir Rowland Hill spent his life in
trying to secure cheap postage not only
for England, but for all the world, and to
open the blessing of the postoffice to all
honest business, and to all messages of
charity and kindness and affection, for
all healthful REORGANIZATION, he did
not mean to make vice easy or to fill the
mail bags of the United States with the
scabs of such a leprosy.
1t ought not TO be in the power of every
bad man who can raise "A one cent stamp
for a circular or a two cent stamp for a
letter TO blast man or destroy home
The postal service of this country must be
clean, must be kept clean, and we must all
understand that the swift retributions of
the United States government hover over
every violation of the letter box.
There are thousands of men and women
in this country, some for personal gain,
some through innate depravity, some
through spirit of revenge, who wish TO
use this great avenue of convenience and
intelligence for purposes revengeful, sala-
cious and diabolic. Wake up the law.
Wake up all its penalties. Let every court
room on this subject be Sinai thunderous
! and afame. Let the convicted offenders
be sent for the full term to Sing Sing or
Harrisburg.
am not talking about what cannot be
done am talking now about what is be
ing done A great many of the printing
presses that gave themselves entirely to
the publication of vile literature have been
stopped or have gone into business less OBJ
noxious. What has thrown off, what has
kept off the rail trains of this country for
some time back nearly all the leprous pc
riodicalsg Those of us who have been on
the rail trains have noticed great change
in the last few months and the last year or
two. WHY have nearly all those vile period
icals been kept or the rail trains for some
time back? Who effected it? These soci-
AZURE gave warning TO the publishers and
warning to railroad companies. and warn
ing TO conductors, and warning TO news
bows. to keep the Internal stuff off the
trains.
MANY of the cities have successfully pro
hibited the most of thht literature even
1 from going on the news stands. Terror
has seized upon the publishers and the
dealers in impure literature, from the fact
that over n thousand arrests have been
made, and the aggregate time for which
rhe convicted have been sentenced to the
prison is over one hundred and ninety
years, and from the fact that about two
million of their circulars have been de
stroyed. and the business is not as profit
able as it used TO be.
THE LAwl THE LAwl
How have so many Of the news stands OF
our great cities been purified How has so
much Of this iniquity been balkedg BY
moral suasion? Oh no. You might as
well 20 into Il jungle of the East Indies
and pat n cobra on the neck and with pro
found argument try to persuade it that 1t
is morally wrong to bite and TO sting and
to poison anything. The only answer TO
your argument would be an uplifted head
and a hiss and SHARP, reeking tooth struck
into your arteries The only argument
for a cobra is shotgun, and the only argu-
ment for these dealers in impure literature
is the clutch Of the police and bean soupin
penitentiary. The lawl The lawl in
yoke to consummate the work so grandly
begun
Another way in which we are 20 drive
hnck this plague Of Egyptian frogs IS by
filling the minds of our young people with
healthful literature. do not mean TO
saw that all the books and newspapers in
our families ought to he religious books
and newspapers, or that every song ought
to be sung t. the tune of "Old Hun
dred." | have no sympathy with the
attempt to make the young old. would
rather Join in crusade to keep the
vounp Young. Boyhood and girlhood
must not be abbreviated. But there are
good books. good histories, good biogra-
miles. GOOD works of fiction, good books OF
all STYLES with which we are to fill the minds
of the Young, so that there will be no more
room for the useless and the vicious than
there is room for chaff in a bushel measure
which is already filled with Michigan
wheat.
WHY are so per cent of the criminals in
4he nils and penitentiaries of the United
States today under twenty-one years OF
agey Many Of them under seventeen, un-
der sixteen, under fifteen, under fourteen,
under thirteens Walk along one of the
corridors of the Tombs prison in New York
and look for yourselves. Bad books, bad
newspapers bewitched them as soon as
they rot out of the cradle. Beware of all
those stories which end wrong. Beware
Of all those books which make the road
that ends in perdition seem TO end in Par
adise. Do not glorify the dirk and the PTS
raj Do not call the desperate brave oil
the libertine gallant. Teach our young
neople that il they go down into the
svvanps and marshes to watch the jack-o-
lanterns dance on the decay and rotten
ness they will catch the malaria and death
"Oh,m says some one, Il am n business
man. and have no time to examine what
nv children read. have no timeto in
snect the books that come into my house
hold" II your children were threatened
with typhoid fever, would you have time
20 90 for the doctor2 Would you have time
/ -, .ba r,,.nrrrpss Of the disease W Ould