Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-02-13

aAAA 4lslNt no utflft 10 turn from nlb
pockets the money he so dotcs on, while
| am laying before the world the part
ne took on the side OF impurity In it's
organized conflict with purity. Indeed,
i have plan by which he may receive
more than ten times the amount he
Graves In an article published some
time ago In tho Evening Telegram, the
colonel makes this propositions 4 will
pay premium OF $1,000 a word for each
and every word ever said or wrote In
favor OF sending obscene publications
through the mails
81 accept that challenge. A conVen-
tion of the National Liberal League
met In Cincinnati September Is and II,
1919, In the call for this convention Is
the following sentence: The question
debated ut the Syracuse session In 1875
and laid over for q year for further
consideration concerning the Comatock
postal law OF 1873 us to what action
n any, the National Liberal League
should take In the matter. will come up
In due order A card published In the
Liberal papers signed by Robert @.
lngersoll. James Parton and Parker
PillRbury was headed;
"a convention for n free people to
make free land, Free Thought, free
speech. free ballot and free mails must
be secured by secular republic eman-
cipated from church domination"
Colonel lngcrsoll was the hero of this
convention. The Cincinnati CONNER
cial. in the report OF its proceedings,
said
~ speech from the hero Of the oc-
cAslon. Colonel II. o. Ingersoll. was the
leading feature OF the occasion"
Among other things the colonel de-
clared that the postal laws of the Uni
ted States were an engine OF opprcs-
sion" The Commercial further reports:
'rhe president Of the convention.
Ellgur Wright, spoke OF the Bennett
uUulF uuH nAuattp1 TINT rpnrfngg lind
no right to make laws regulating the
dissemination of obscene lieraturc,"
Nftcr speech from President
Wright, Colonel lngcrsoll, IA reported
by the Commercial offered the follow
ing resolutions
"RcsulVcd, that we express the
deepest sympathy with u. NJ. Bennett
aud his family. for the reason that he
has been convicted by religious big
otry ana Ignorant zeal, and has been
imprisoned and IL now langiiishlng IN
the cell of felon. when In truth aud
fact he has committed no offcnsc
whatever against any law of this
country
The resolution was received with
the utmost applause. aud the audience
broke into three enthusiastic cheers
for President lngersoll-'
They wanted TO make him either
president OF the league or Of the United
states, II not certain which, but II II
evident that he was popular enough
with them to receive any honor they
could bcstow Now. who was u. NJ.
Bennett2 lie was u gentleman pre-
vented from attending this convention
by the fact that he WIS at the time
In the pcnitcntlnry for selling and cir
Culating one OF the vilcst free love
books ever nut Into type, We have
the proof that several courts declared
this book obscene, See Frauds FIX
Ma f.NI. IA Ton
district court In Boston 40 declared II,
and the circuit court there, with full
bench. had maintained its rulings. The
state court of Massachusetts, had de-
clnrcd II obscene and sentenced u vcn-
der OF II to one year In the Dedhnm
iail The grand Jury OF Schuyler, N.
", NJ Watkins. had unanimously In
dicted this Liberal pct-mnrtyr. lie
had also been Indicted by the grand
jury ana convicted by the petit jury OF
the United states circuit court IN
New York and the findings OF this
court, where the same questions were
involved. were taken before the fun
bench Of the United states circuit
court here and this high court unanl-
mously sustained the lower court
Here IL an extract from the Vine
land Independent, published just after
this Cincinnati conventions
"a new purity called the National
Liberal was born recently at Clncln-
natl, Colonel lngcraoll and other fadl-
Gals being the responsible authors OF
ita existence. The party was organized
principally because Of tho refusal Of
President Hayes 10 pardon ID. NJ
Bennett. now Imprisoned IN the New
York penitcntlary for circulating OBJ
scene literature through the mills
MIR Ingeraol was very much incenAed
because OF the refusal TO pardon BEN
nett. and II II said he aworo vengeance
on the administration for the refusal 10
heed the petition Of the radical multi
tude."
II may also be Of interest TO know
that the secretary OF this convention
was A. @. Rawson. who hnd confessed
guilty 20 the charge or larceny In
New Jersey court september ~ ls6l'
IA the record shows, and was sem
fenced to one year in the state prison
at hard labor,
Now let Us go back to the roHolu-
lion offered by Colonel Ingersoll SYM
paihizinR with n. NJ, Bennett because
he was IN prison suffering Tor sending
obscene literature through the mails,
and count Its words. BE careful. for
every word Is worth $1,000. According
10 my count there are sixty words,
The Colonel owes me. therefore. 100000.
do not want penny for II, ] would
not like to use money made lecturlnR
agninst God ma Christianity. l be-
ileve I said | was willing that he
should have ten times MS much dam
age az he claims hope. therefore,
that he will he M good MS his word,
and take from this 10000 he owes me
$50. 900 Then let him send $4,000 10 the
treasurer OF the Society for the Sup
preston OF Vice. where II viii be
faithfully used IN protecting the laws
that guard the children In our
homes.
There are two books which any lover
OF good morals ought to read. one IL
entitled Frauds BxpoHed' the other
Traps for tie Young" both written
by Anthony Ccmstock. and they give
MS the history OF the Society for the
Suppression Of Vice. OF which Samuel
Colgate is president. In Its efforts 10
protect the young from the wretchts
who would pollute minds for tho sake
OF filling their pockets. FRAUDS FIX
posed" gives seventy-two pages TO the
conflict with the vendors OF obscene
literature and their friends. ] am In
dobted 10 this book for the fncts given
above all of which can be established
before any impartial court Traps
for the Young" gives hfty-two pages 10 \
the same subject and adds many i'm
pOrtnnt facts
In both OF these books Colonel II. q.
Ingersoll figures as the representative
advocate and hero OF the men who
sought to repeal the law against send
ing obscene literature through the |
mails. Finally after meeting defeat at
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