The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-12-21
an JONES' LETTER.
a Neeao sa on asocial Purity"
.,.,rated southern Writer ana
re oe'e n.cries the Evil Influence OF
speaker displayed Obscene Pic
PuOn. whore Reform l. Needed
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Ny J.r Tss needs an addendum.
ny pea1 nne said: "Show me the pictures
s0m a.;on and will know the morals
Il 0 nation" oho,,t things r.
~ = oicture before us we see tne PES =
the ppsentation that can be given to the
enses 1,,doe Truth. etc.
fas. the most potent influence In the
vl ,:.i, a.. world to-day. Some carica'
pOns n puck and Judge startle, con
1uies and move the masses. Then
s .u;satpres have made President liar
sau better known standing under his
I,s sna.daddy's hat, or in 1t, or BY it.
gIanI no is known as ex-president.
'l n,ar :, as the Stuffed Prophet has
]. .,' set forth wildly by Judge. Our
~ dailies realizing the power Of
s s;s.ures not only have them In the
p s1sr.;s;no columns but in their col
- both reportorial and news.
Il pictures in books mean SO much
~ we NAV surely say the children's
a an Bible has given the little fell
iows the wisest and highest views OF
pronbet Priest, and King. Dante's
Inferno was made famous by Dore.
What amount the obscene and nuded
rlacaris on the walls Of every city and
town in the United States OF the av-
eraoe theatrical performer have done
4 debauch public sentiment? In many
cities see the protest of good mothers
and the Womans Christian Temperance
rnion, calling upon the authorities to
Nave pictures removed from the walls
along the streets. in the interest OF
home and decency. You can debauch
nation socially with these pictures.
Do these pictures really represent the
thing like it is? To gaze upon them for
4 week, as you walk the streets of
cities, then can you explain how de-
cent woman can take her husband and
sit before the footlights OF the average
theatcr in this country for three mortal
hours and watch the half-nudcd forms
dance before their eyes, not knowing
that the pictures were the first lesson
and watching the forms behind the
foot-lights the second, then her once
pure and noble husband was graduated
| in school whose only diploma is q
| night key by which he could enter
without arousing the balance Of the
family
Mathematics, philosophy or the Ian
|guages were never more definitely
learned in any college than social inn
|purity and debauched sentiment is
learned before the foot-lights of the
average theater
A many wife has walked up to the
consciousness that her husband is not
"as pure as the morning dew" without
ever looking back to see how she has
|ether led or followed him to the very
place where his manhood was de-
|bauched and his purity endangered.
The only conception have of q
mother, wife or daughter is a
woman who is well dressed and thor
oughly dressed and modestly dressed.
Whatever weans me away from my
model changes my sentiment, damages
my purity
No man ever sat with the bald heads
10 the theater who had never sat with
his wife before little more respecta-
bic performance.
Social imrurity, like intemperance,
goes in at the front door of the gilded
and gay and seemingly beautiful until
lnally he is kicked out at the back
door Of corruption.
Let the good women of onr country
make crusade upon the pictures
upon the walls of our cities
ind towns. Wherever their earnest
'oiees are heard men Will hear, author
" Will heed Every woman that loves
ne social purity of her home ought to
ignt thepietures that would debauch it.
Inc public performances set the
une Tor parlor performances and wax
loor performances.
Inc evening dress had its origin on
u, stage behind the foot lights and
MI have its end in hell.
What we see may determine largely
mat we will do, and the most horrible
a - after all to my mind is the fact
ia. cigarette pictures. tobacco boxes,
siiumed soaps and so on carry the
'c.ures OF the originals.
!. Inc women of our age ought to be
= leaders OF the modesty of the age.
ave they become the leaders Of the
' =, of the age?
Inc minstrel shows and the adver-
sed nall nuded theatrical performers
y lne shows for the bald heads are
I, !. most largely patronized as a usual
! - humanity keeps the pace set
The pictures.
generally the theater, the ball room,
! eiuo rooms, are frequented by the |
ue crowd, where else the male por-
~ !, u the crowd goes deponent sayeth
me average community In this couu-