The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-12-02
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Charged with Copying Out Of Book.

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out Of book certain passages of the same
language which the district attorney says are
unspeakably vile How does he know, is he
a Latin scholar! How does the ordinary
reader know, is he Latin scholar?
The district attorney says it is true that it
is vile thing for bachelor man to take
woman off in private and pour such ques-
tons as that into her ears. A vile, unspeak-
able polluting article like that, may it please
your honor, but The logic of my energetic
young friend, the prosecuting officer, dill
gent for the case Of the government, the logic
of my brilliant and promising young friend
is. that the worse d thing Is, the safer it is
from exposure. Make it SO bad that you
can't speak of it without bIushing, and you
make it immune because you can't speak Of it.
The preacher in the pulpit must never utter
a word against adultery any more, it is an
obscene subject. If a preacher breaches
against adultery, it would be corrupting
morals and especially to warn the people not
to be corrupt In morals.
The white slave traffic and the destroying
of some fifty or sixty thousand of our amabe
girls every year, disappearing from the
streets, nobody knows where-today they are
seen, tomorrow they are gone today white
snowflake on the human stream and tomor-
row gone forever The white slave traffic is
run with cadets the men who live on these
unfortunates keep them in chains and slavery;
who carry white men to them at any price,
who carry negro men to them at any price.
\ Dung men, and old men, at any price, to
make the utmost possible dollar out of a wo-
man. and because it is an obscene subject. Of
course it is obscene. The social evil itself,
the bawdy- house itself, the woman who sac
rifices herself so often, the keeper of woman
to
which you must not talk about it in the pulpit,
In books, in newspapers; you must not dis
cllss it because the whole subj ect is obscene.
SO, | say, he admits the truth of that, he
admits the truth of the allegations, but he
says because true,-he says because the motive
may have been goodbye must be ashamed
because we tried to put a stop to an evil prac-
tice. | can't believe that the Judge will give
you that as the law, but | believe that he will
allow me, now that the demurrer stage is over,
and without going on the merits of the case,
] believe the defendant will be allowed to
show you that he will go no further than the
limit, to enumerate records by the books IN
every mans library, he will go no further
than Luther, Talmadge, John Knox, In fight
ing the same thing that / have been fighting
for seven years. No further than Froude in
his history of England, no further than an
other we'll known historian went in his mys-
teal history of the middle ages, not as far as
Shakespeare, nor as far as Byron, not as far
as Tom Moore, nor as far as Alexander Pope;
no further than John D. Rockefeller, Jr., goes
in his book on the white slave traffic; in
other words, that this defendant conformed
entirely to the standards on the same thing.
Further, this defendant will show you, if
allowed, that the very book from which the
leaves are taken that are described by our
brilliant young friend as being SO unspeak-
able vile. was copyrighted by this same Gov
eminent that is prosecuting this defendant,