A fable of the spider and the bees
Subtitle: verified by the facts and press and pulpit comments which should command the serious attention of every American citizen
By: compiled by the New York National Defense Association
Contributors: National Defense Association (New York, N.Y.)
Series: Harvard College Library pamphlet digitization program
Publisher: New York National Defense Association
Published: 1879
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 61
Subjects: Censorship; Society for the Suppression of Vice (New York, N.Y.)
Other titles: Words of warning to those who aid and abet in the suppression of free speech and free press
Notes: At head of title: Comstockism with its ignorant censorship of the press exposed.

"Fable from the pen of Dr. E.B. Foote, Sr. ... originally appeared in the Health monthly ..."--Unnumbered page 2.

The fable is a parable on the suppression of literature, sex education, free thought, and radical social ideas by the web of the Comstock society. Three cases are cited in the second section: the suppression of Foote's marriage pamphlet, the blasphemy trial of D.M. Bennett of the Truth seeker, and the trial of Ezra Heywood for his Cupid's yokes.
Table of contents: title: A fable of the spider and the bees; title: Facts which illustrate; title: Comments of the press; title: The pen, pulpit and platform.