The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-01-03
lcoPYRIcur, 1894 !

ity perhaps needs an addcndum.
Some one said: "Show me the pictures
of nation and | will know the morals
OF nation"
In books we read about things, in
the picture before us we see the best
representation that can be given to the
senses.
Puck is a power, Judge, Truth, etc.,
WELD the most potent influence in the
political world to-day. Some caricl-
lures in Puck and Judge startlc, con-
vince and move the masses Their
caricatures have made President IIar-
rison better known standing under his
grand-daddy's hat, or in it, or by it,
than he is known as eX-presidcnt.
Cleveland as the Stuffed Prophet has
been set forth wildly by Judge Our
great dailies realizing the power of
pictures not only have them in the
advertising columns but in their col
umns both reportorial and news.
If pictures in books mean so much,
and we may surely say the children's
pictorial Bible has given the little fell
lows the wisest and highest views of
Prophet, Priest, and King. Dantes
Inferno was made famous by Dore.
What amount the obscene and nuded
placards on the walls of every city and
town in the United States of the av-
erage theatrical performer have done
to debauch public sentiment? In many
cities see the protest of good mothers
and the Woman's Christian Temperance
union, calling upon the authorities to
have pictures removed from the walls
along the streets, III 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
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
theater in this country for three mortal
hours and watch the half-nuded 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 a
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 a 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
either led or followed him to the very
place where his manhood was de-
bauched and his purity endangered.
The only conception | have OF a
mother, a wife or daughter is n
woman who is we'll 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
in the theater who had never sat with
his wife before little more respecta-
BILE performance.
Social impurity, like intemperance,
goes IN at the lroht door Oh inc glioeu
ana gay ana seemingly oeauVliut uh',i
hnally ne Is kickeo ouU aC 'ne oacN
door OF corruption
Leu inc goou women oi our country
make n crusade upon the pictures
piacarded upon inc walls Oh our eities
ana towns herc'er 'hcr caInes'
voices are nearu ineh VIII near "a,hor-
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