Show The War on Indecent Literature Litera-ture The efforts that are being made notably throughout the South to suppress the circulation of obscene literature especially a certain class oft illustrated newspapers are to be heartily commended Not long since the newsdealers of Richmond Virginia Vir-ginia combined to prevent thsale of this kind of stuffa stand that may well be taken by newsdealers elsewhere In 1878 the Legislature of Georgia passed a law forbidding the sale ff certain illustrated nan era Pp w and a few weeks ago an agent of aNew a-New York publication went to Atlanta At-lanta and made a test case under the law He sold his paper was arrested for it and was sentencedto a choice between a 1000 fine and serving twelve months in the chain gang trLet us have more of such test cases elsewhere Let it not be said that decency and morality are ceasing ceas-ing to be potent facts in the community com-munity Let the law that has been enforced with such vigor jn the wideawake southern city oe placed on the statute books of every other State then let the law be enforced The average American is good > natured and longsuffering but we submit that it is about time that tne business of poking nasty newspaper pictures into the faces or travelers on the cars of pedestrians or displaying dis-playing them o > ii the counter side by side with decent woks or still worse in shop windows for the corruption cor-ruption of youth should be stopped There is eyil enough in man that cannot suppressed but that which it Is within the power of decent men to do ought to be done in the way of preventing the perversion of youthful youth-ful minds by contact with the vile matter issued from week to week to the corruption of morals and tho disgrace of journalismNew York Commercial Bulletin |