The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-11-05

earnest men and women may DO sOlle
thing towards stamping out moral P'oe.
spots without recourse 60 such l'l 80,
tering measures as TOO Frequently -
ga spreading the very cvI ihey "0
signed 20 destroy ,.. 800,
TO BEGIN with. / think vice in JUS mos
Objectionable form Is being sueceSs4 ~. NY
warred upon in the United STATES, -
evu rs confined within narrower hihils
and the Wretched creatures "hVse ~
lv Gain Is in the moral deeredalloh OF
humanity are not able 10 ply their trade,
,rt4tover 10 Doc. in the open light OF
5.v-that is. speaking generally. Men
,.bo work actively for the suppression Of
vice can remember when the traffic In
vicious literature in the tools OF infamy
and The paraphcruaiia Of wickedness was
as unrcsuamed as the apostle Of evil
himself could wish To-day all that is
changed Since the organization, now es-
o. ished iu an our large communities
ta battle against every form Of human
arritude. began their work, a tremen-
d1us alteration Ina the sense Of com
uHitics themselves with reference 10
social evils has been effected To-day men
ats not proud Of being sinners. Litefa-
tlre that never was anything but the
catcchIsm Of Satan IS not puYeyed IN
public. Resorts in which youth became
old in sin and where virtue was
synonym for contemplate weakness are
NOT rec0guized officially OF course we
have not AN become saints I'm this repub-
lie But we have come 20 see that mere
lv from the selfish point of view, It pays
t1 stamp out SIM
tfe easiest victims Of Satan's propaganda
i.ts is merely a repetition Of what all
fathers and mothers ought to know,
although many of them act as II they
ala not have had occasion 70 act IN
a case which IS typical OF the interest
every parent has In the suppression OF
vice. one morning, having boarded a
Summit train, 1 observed several young
lads standing on the platform of one OF
tte cars. A boy in the group handed
to another something he had been read
ire-something which It required no very
stuorienced eye to see was not Mt 10
De read.
Vow look az that" said number two
fl number one, fishing another publlca-
lion from his pocket and handing IL 10
Dis companion.
asked to see the occasion Of this by
rIsv and was shown, as 1 anticipated a
most pernicious and hlthy specimen u
rnrlish composition in the shape OF a
rriuted poem. Other varieties or the
same evil type were handed me by lhe
rsst OF the boys. one Of these yodths
Mas a student I'M "a New York lawyer s
Office two others went 20 school IN
Newark. 1 made 10 my business TO Visit
mat sch COL and. have private talk with
every boy there, whereupon 4 discovered
that all OF them without exception had
bsen reading this pernicious matter. i
further ascertained that girls I'm that same
institution whose ages ranged from SIX
te.p 40 nineteen years were the possessois
of more of the stun, too, indeed, having
made copies OF 10 and distributed the
same among their companions. These
copies had been made in the school-room
during school hours.
In tracing up this matter II transpired
that a young fellow Of nineteen had been
supplying the school children with these
polluting wares and from him 1t was
learned that a girl living I'm an elegant
house had for sometime been acting as
chief distributor. She I'm turn had got the
things from a young fellow employed by a
manufacturing concern.