Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-04

victims of Satan,s propagandists is mere
~ a REPETITION of what all fathers and
mothers ought to know, although many
OF them act as if they did not. I have
had occasion to 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, l OBJ
served several young lad standing on
the platform of one of the cars. A boy in
ne group handed to another something he
mad been Notwithstanding which it
required no very experienced eye to see
was not fit to be read.
Nov. look at that said No. ., to No.
/, fishing another publication from his
pocket and handing it to his COMPANION.
| asked to see the occasion of this by
play and was shown, as | Anticipated a
most pernicious and filthy specimen of
English composition in the shape of a
printed poem. Other varieties of the same
evil type We're handed me by the rest of
the boys. One of these youths was a stu
dent in a New York lawyers office; two
others went to school in Newark. mad,
1t my business to visit that schoo ana
have a private talk with every boy there.
whereupon l discovered that all of them,
without exception had been reading this
pefnlcious matter. | further aScertained
that girls in that same institution whose
ages ranged from sixteen to nineteen
years. We're the possessors of more of the
stuff-two, indeed, having made copies of
t and distributed the same among their
companions. These copies had been made
n the school room during school hours.
In tracing up this matter it transpired
hat a young fellow of nineteen had been
supplying the school children with these
oollutlng wares, and from him it was
earned that a girl living in an elegant
house had for some line been acting as
thief distributor. She in turn had got the
Kings from a young fellow employed by
manufacturing concern.
1t required one days active work in
Newark to get to the source of this stream
II evil. The incident is typical of too
many cases. In the majority of such in
:idents parents seem entirely oblivious 10
he dangers they manifest. Fortunately.
III fathers and mothers are not so neg
ectful.
Nor is the evil confined TO one local
~. In New York city young men in
booksellers, shops have facilities for pro-
iagating the germs of evil, and in an APP
talllng number of cases have taken al
.antage of the fact. Reproductions of
ncient nastiness have proved highly
angerous in this way. What magic
property there is in age hat renders
trtlcles wicked centuries ago virtuous.
hough classic, IN this nineteenth cen
ury. is not easily ascertainable to an
rdinary mind. So far as l can dis
over the argument is that genius can
ender even sin desirable. 1t is d cur
ous commentary upon this theory thu
he %virtuous literature W hich has de-
eended to us through the centuries is
OF nearly SO much in demand as the
Their variety.
Questionable advertisements are by no
ieans the least of the demoralizing in
npnceS which SupDrpSSOrS of vice have
} contend with. The labor entailed III
erecting out the gentry whose revenue
derived therefrom is always great.
hicaKo and the west Seem the places
herein this noxious poison thrives. Al
adustry in degrading publications re-
sntly took root there which for a time
threatened our people with an inundation
( immortality more fearful than the
lack pest itself. With reference to such