Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-03-09

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/ H-rris burg
/ am noI talking about what eanu0t lie
4 done ! am talking now about what - he
/ ing done. A great many Of the printing
\ presses that gave themselves entirely 10
\ the publication 81 vile literature have bees
4 stopped or have gone lnto business less OBJ
I noxlous What has thrown OF, what has
kept Of the rail trains # THIS country for
I some tune back nearly ali the leprous pc
riOdicsls' Those OF Us who have been on
\ the f4il trains have noticed great change
I Ia the last few months and the .ast year CT
I two. Why have nearly all those vile perioa-
/ lcals been kept OF the rail trains for some
1 time back Who effected itg These s0c.-
/ cites for the purilo.tloa " railroad liter
allure gave warning 10 the publishers cna
/ vysraia, % railroad companies, and warn
4 ing 70 coDauc ors, anu warning 10 news
! bors, 10 keep the Internal stuff OF tie
/ trains.
! Many OF the cities have successfully pro
/ hibitod the most Of that literature even
/ from going on the news stands. Terror
/ has seized upon the Publishers and the
I dealers in impure literature, from the fact
/ that over "a thousand arrests have been
/ made, and the aggregate titao !3r which
/ the convicted have been sentenced 10 the
/ prison IL over enc hundred and ninety
/ years, and from the fact that ahoct TWO
| million of their circulars have been de-
stroyed, and the business L. not as profit
! able as it used 10 be.
THE LAwi THE LAwl
/ How have 30 many Of the news stands OF
our great cities been purified How has so
much OF this iniquity been baked, BY
moral suasion? On, no. You might rs
well so into jungle of the East Indies
I and pat a cobra on the neck, and with pro
/ found argument try 10 persuade 1t that 10
| Is morally wrong 10 bite and to sting and
| to poison anything. The only answer 10
4 your argument would be an uphficd head
| and hiss and a sharp, reeking tooth struck
| into your arteries. The only argument
| for cobra is q shotgun, and the only argu-
mcnt for these dealers in impure literature
/ is the clutch OF the police and bean soupin
/ a peniten;iary. The lawi The law. in
/ woke to consummate the work so grandly
/ begun!
Another way in which we are TO drive
back this plague of Egyptian frogs is by
/ filing the M IDS Of our young people with
a healthful literature. DO not mean 10
say that all the books and newspapers in
( our families ought to be religious books
( and newspapers, or that every song ought
/ to be sung to the tune of 'Oid Hun
/ dred" l have no sympathy with the
/ attempt to make the young old. would
rather join in crusade To keep the
young young. Boyhood and girihood
must not be abbreviated. But there ere
I good books, good histories, good biogra-
phies, good works Of fiction, good books of
I all styles with which are TO eli the minds
( Of the young, SO that there will De no more
room for the useless and the vicious than
there is room for chat in bushel measure
which is already filled with Michigan
( wheat
! Why are 80 per cent. Of the criminals in
/ the jsils and penitentiaries OF the United
1 States today under twerty-one years Of
age? Many Of them under seventeen, I'm
4 der sixteen, under fifteen, under fourteen,
under thirtecn' Walk along one Of the
corridors of the Tombs prison in New York
ard look for yourselves. Bad books, bad
newspapers bewitched them as soon as
they got out of the cradle. Beware OF al
those stories which end wrong. Beware
+ Of all those books which make the road
that ends in perdition seeni TO end ia Par
adise. Do not g!orify the dirk and the pis-
toll. Do not call the desperate brave or
the libertinc gallant. Teach our young
people that IL they go down into the
swamps and marshes TO watch the Jack-o,
/ lanterns dance on the decay and rotten
ness they will catch the malaria and death
oh" says some one, Il am business
/ man, and have no time 10 examine what
my children read. l have no time TO in
spect the books that come into my house
! hold" II your children were threatened
with typhoid fever. would you have time
to 60 for the doctor' Would you have timo
( to watch the progress of the diseased Woald
! you have time for the funerali In the
presence of my God warn you Of the fact
that your Children are Threatened with
/ moral and spiritaal typhoid. aud that IN
( less the thins be stopped 1t will be TO hem
funeral OF body, funeral OF mind, funeral
/ Of soul Three funerals in one day.
/ Ny word "a TO this vast multitude OF
/ young peoph Do not touch, do not Dor
3 row. do not buy a corrapt book or cor
Z rupt picture. A book will decide a man ;
/ destiny for cccd or for evil The book ron
reed yesterday may have decided You fer
I tiu,e and for eternity, or il raay be a book
[ that may come into your possession to
T morrow.
THE POWER OF coon BOOK
/ A good book-who can cxsggcrate SIS
power' benjamin FrsEslin SAID the; BIS
I reading Of Cotton Mather's ESSAYS 20 Do
! Good In childhood gsve him holy sspirs-
tons for al the rest os his life. Grorze
/ Law declared that biography be rs-d 10
childhood eare him al hs safssq1sTst
properties a clergyman. many years
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