The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-10-30
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at those who, debauching women, bring into
the world boys and girls that have no father
who say, 'this is my son. or F'this is my
daughter!" Aiming against infanticide
That's the whole policy of the statute; if your
honor will consider it fairly you will see that
1t does not say that you can seize drug that
is going through the mail, and by subtle ana
lysls take out of that drug some arsenic, some
strychnlne-S0moe element q0hacb, By itself,
a0ouzd destroy. No! You can do that with
almost any compound that is prepared. Some
OF the very best compounds known to the
pharmacists are the scientific mixtures of
those elements which, when taken singly,
would destroy life, after destroying health.
Congress did not mean to say that you can
go, for instance, to old Doctor Sam John
sons Dictionary, which that ragged scholar
worked on year after year in his attic, in Grub
street, London, and pick out the plain English
of certain definitions there, and indict the man
who sends the whole book through the mail
The book in its entirety is monument of
learning You can go there and find filth,
but as Doctor Sam johnson himself replied
to the lady who said to him at social party,
doctor Johnson, [ object to your dictionary
because it has so many filthy words in it."
The stern old photographer frowned upon
her, and growled, ''Madano, you haze been
looking for then1!"
Does the law mean to say: Go to Shakes
peare and pick out those lines which are
familiar to every reader, and indct man for
sending Shakespeares through the mail,
because those lines are there?
Any such construction will not only cast
out Shakespeare, but all of the English
dramatists of olden times and many of those
since.
The law does not mean to say: Go to Holy
W1oI+ law IL
English words of the old English transla-
ton. and indict one for sending them through
the mail because they are obscene. They are
obscene! | could read passage after passage,
until your honor's face would mantle with
the blush Of modesty; but in sending the
whole Bible through the mails no man VIC
lates the law, and Congress did not mean
that.
Now, then, is the defendant at the bar
indicted for publishing book which IN its
q0hOle tendency and character is obscene and
demoralizing? There are writings. I could
name many of them, your honor will volun-
tarlly call them to mind, qOhe4e the qOhOZe
book Is meant to infZ0nae the sensual pdssi01o
Does the learned District Attorney in his
Indictment say that this entire series of
Magazines, or any one single copy of the
Magazine, IS Of that tendency and character?
This law requires him to do it.
The learned District Attorney says: II
can 60 to Watsons Jefersonian Magazine
and can pick out certain passages that are
obscene;' and [ can say to him here in the
presence of this Court and this Country. he
can go to the word of God and do the very
same thing.
Take a sermon, if your honor please. Sup
pose sermon delivered by Spurgeon, or
Wesley, or Cardinal Gibbons, on the Seventh
Commandment, "TA0u Shalt not commit ade1-
teyy." | cannot conceive that the preacher
would not 60 to the sayings of Solomon, and