Connecticut western news., 1891-03-11

of schools and colleges, take the names and postoffice addresses and send their advertisements, and their circulars, and their pamphlets, and their books to every one of them.
 SENDING OUT BAD BOOKS.
 In the possession of these dealers in bad literature were found nine hun dred thousand names and postoffce addresses, to whom it was thought it might be profitable to send these cor rupt things. In the year 1873 there were one hundred and sixty-five estab- lishments engaged in publishing cheap, corrupt literature. From one publish ing house there went out twenty differ ent styles of corrupt books. Although over thirty tons of vile literature have been destroyed by the Society for the Suppression of Vice, still there is enough of it left in this country to bring down upon us the thunderbolts of an incensed God
 In the year 1868 the evil had become so great in this country that the con- gress of the United States passed a law forbidding the transmission of bad lit erature through the United States mails; but there were large loops in that law through which criminals might crawl out, and the law was dead fail ure-that law of 1868. But in 1873 an other law was passed by the congress of the United States against the trans mission of corrupt literature through the mails-a grand law, a potent law, . Christian law-and under that law multitudes of these scoundrels have been arrested, their property conf1s- cated and they themselves thrown into the penitentiaries, where they belonged.
 HOW CAN IT BE FoUGHT2
 Now, my friends, how are we to wal against this corrupt literature, and how are the frogs of this Egyptian plague to be slaina First of all, by the prompt and inexorable execution of the law Let all good postmasters and United States district attorneys and detectives and reformers concert 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 blessings of the postoffice to all honest business and to all messages of charity and kindness and affection, for all healthful intercommunication, he did not mean to make vice easy or to fill the mail bags of the United States with the scabs of such leprosy.
 It ought not to be in the power o1 every bad man who can raise a one cent stamp for a circular, or two cent stamp for letter, to blast a man os destroy home. The postal service o1 this country must be clean, and we must all understand that the swift ret. ributions of the United States govern. ment hover over every violation of the letter box.
 There are thousands of men and women in this country, some for per sonal gain, some through innate de pravity, some through a spirit of re venge, who wish. to use this great avenue of convenience and intelli gence for purposes revengeful, sala cious and diabolic. Wake up the law Wake up all it's penalties Let every court room on this subject be Sina thunderous and aflame. Let the con victed offenders be sent for the full term to Sing Sing or Harrisburg. am not talking about what cannot be done. I am talking now about what is being done. A great many ol the printing presses that gave them selves entirely to the publication of vile literature have been stopped or have gone into business less obnoxious. What has thrown of, what has kept | off the rail trains of this country fol some time back nearly all the leprous periodicals2 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 periodicals beer kept off the rail trains for some time back? Who effected it2' These SO cieties for the purifcation of railroad literature gave warning to the publish CTS and warning to railroad companies and warning to conductors and warn ing to newsboys to keep the inferna stuff off the trains
 PURIFYING THE NEWS STANDS. l Many of tho cities have successfully prohibited the most of that literature even from going on the news stands Terror has seized upon the publisher! and dealers in impure literature, iron the fact that over a thousand arrest: have been made, and the aggregate time for which the convicted have beer sentenced to the prison is over one hun dred and ninety years, and from the fact that about two million of their cir culars have been destroyed, and tht business is not as profitable as it useC to be.
 How have so many of the news standl of our great cities been purified7 How has so much of this iniquity beer baked? By moral suasion? Oh, no You might as we'll go into a jungle o: the East Indies and pat @ cobra or the neck. and with profound argument try to persuade it that it is morally wrong to bite and to sting and to poi son anything. The only answer te your argument would be on uplifted head t.! T i.:ss. and sharp, reckine tooth stuck into your arteries. The only argument for a cobra is a shotgun, and the only argument for these deal CTS ir impure literature is the clutch o1 the police and bean soup in the peni tentiary. The law! The law! 1 in yoke to consummate the work so grand ly begun!
 Another way in which we are to drive back this plague of Egyptian frogs Ii