The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1915-10-02
AN APOSTLE OF OBSCENTN PASSES
HI Vain HrrT
Saint Anthony COnItOck 3 dead.


IL Is under the Federal statute framed by him. and known
as the United States ComstOck law conceived and de-
deeency but for purposes Of bama and 10 pub
LEGATIONS like The Menace which have dangerous or often
sye to certain powerful institutions and interests which
has been invoked except gain such endt is under this
law that four members Of The Menace staff have been indicted
on seven separate counts with the undoubted intention
rOAdng them to the pentsntiAry.
IL under this law that myself indicted on nine
counts IN the Federal court Cleveland nearly years
After theeyears fight this indictment was noprosed
which action constituted admission Of my innocence
WERE THIS LAW OPERATIVE AGAINST REAL OBJ.
SCENITY, 1T WOULD PUNISH CATHOLIC PERVERTS WHO
FALLING FILTH
never has been my disposition to kick eorpe Ibavo no
desire to the dead and the Comsoc such pro-
my part would supererogaon Nor shall ever
be SAID OF me that attacked dead For
writing about but crawling who even
classification in brute creation and who il report be
true had descended beyond the depths which il is possible
for the plummet of degradation 10 sound.
By those who had opportunity the truth Comsoc
was rpued to be degenerate of the most oathsome type ad
dced to practices which are nameess in the unhaOwed
nomenclature of the pave.
Nevertheless is ComsOc but the spirit of COmstocl
ism which in him persOnifed, that attack.
Had Comsock been what he purported himself to be- would
ndorse and applaud him. But he the hoowest hypocres
His mind infested with maggotS. Nothing could be
than Comsock himself among those who knew him
what he really was his very synonym for obscenit
ALL HIS LIFE AFTER HE FASTENED HIMSELF TO THE
MAILER.
The of his Oenses was that he permitted his aged par
ents to die in the amsheuse which public record
recall words with which described his
"a character in which brutality hercey as the
red that blazes his brazen cheek"
Personally oppose the obscene and abhor with all the
tensiy of nethermos nature Every print picture object
of actual obscenity would wish instantly
stence Of whatever Comstock in the his
cdenay have done suppress such things genuinely
glad But to him such action WAS incidental
sary by his pretenons. During his official activities acquired
personal collection of books and pictures unthnkabe lew
ness which he treasured miser cherhes his gold
which is said he reveed private the maggot
carrioncarcass
And this person presumed to pose as the
tor of nations mora The noerabe nsoence of the thing
with all its holy humbug and Hmalayan hypocrisy what for
exhauss the ultimate possibilities of linguistic expression
Of Comstock dead say nothing which have said
of Comsock ngad repeatedly and brought conspcuousy
his notice. and which the grosSnes of his guilt dared
to deny.
Let us have done with gentle lies about the dead Grey
Change does not alter persons character Were
in life the Last Transition does transform his attributes
And Comstoc beast of such ouness his
fit for fertilization Of the fields of the open
So pass him from deserved denuncation Just DAM
nation