The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-10-17

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ssr Eer s,--i-ed 81. Fiz>-eoGs protest.
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rhas :. cane frura a sCurcs likely %
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That II snozld 81 needed i oEe q
The sinzuLar rhi1zz about modern NE
AID yer Efrh IRE naEseoCs E0en@rEe-
of The Cnicszo and B1EsIo MidEays
strong zpon II. thers l. ~ question
abo1s the fact
We are not, IL IL % d s1PpossS1
essentially an immoral people- We
have no sympathy with vice and no
desire TO nave n paraded before IL
AID yet II recent years there has
zr1En Up anaerDGntabIy ana .uhtly rhe
idea that oce Of these eTp0sitions o.
national fairs IL rot complete without
a disgusting and vulgar sifeshoT 10
uau6er 20 the worst instincts Of the old
beass stiu left IN mankind.
NJ noet humiIisting fact IL that
no other people IN the world has per-
mftted the growth Of this delE=ion-
We are accustomed. with our Snug
Anglo-SaIon coraplacency, TO think our
morals lnenltsIy superior to those OF
Continental nations. And yet TIE
Chicago Midway would not Be tolerated.
in any exposition in any city Of
Eafope. We are accustomed TO thin <
that at least in our outward show and
decorun OF morality We are better than
the French And yet at the great
Paris Exposition of 1900 there W az
nothing like one Of our Midway
1T ia customary to defend these things
we believe. with some blsther1ng
assertion that they are necessary to
attract the crowd. We have long
wanted an opportunity to deny that
truIy internal talsenOod- We Hnow
the American people better than that
they are not attracted by unclean sug-
zestion. IL il not necessary to have
these things it IL 40 far from neces-
sary, that we believe any exposition
or2anized and managed on the str1ctesf
lines OF absolute purity viii prosper
more than any show of impurity.
THAT persons OF diseased minds or
defective moral sense used to hover
around such places is perfectly tru g;
1ust as persons similarly afflicted 90
to see depsAgId theatrical entertain
ments. like ''Sapho" and some Others
we might mention But these are a
ANAL part of the community, and that
the very much larger part that likes
cleanliness and sunlight should be in
suited for the sake of these owls. Is an
impossible proposition Yet that Is
the literal meaning of the thing
against which Miss Gould has made
her timely protest.
Let these people have their rotten
plays if they must have them. Let
them have their degraded actresses
willing to portray Kings mistresses and
fallen women These are things with
which the Government and the nation
have nothing to do; these are Things
that merely exhibit the amount OF IN
healthy mentality remaining IN tine
community. From this sort OF af1iic-
ton no people is wholly free.
But a great and dignifed national
and international exposition, one OF
the greatest in the worlds history
held to commemorate a memorable
event in our development, an exposition
to show to the world what we really
are-there should be no place for Mid
ways in such an enterprise. We hop'
the managers at st. Louis will giV'
earnest heed to Miss Gould's protest
We can assure them that she speaks TN
firm faith Of the vast majority OF thu
American people.