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Show THAT AI'OLOUV. A nasty article appeared iu tho Tribune Trib-une yesterday which shamed the vilest efforts of the Police (lazette and kindred publications. To admit the stulT into a respectable household is tantamount to initiating the innocent youth into the deepest slough of human depravity. No parents watchful over the moral education educa-tion of their children could afford to pass the paper into their hands. To say that it was filthy, gross and vulgar would still express it too mildly. This morning tho Tribune offers an humble apology for the foulness it served up to its readers, "unrelieved by any suspicion suspi-cion of wit or any symptom of sense." And yet tho article was the legitimate outcome, if perhaps tho culmination, of a policy which the Tribune pursues in all its departments. It panders to tho sensational and being "unrelieved by any suspicion of wit or any symptom of sense," it naturally drops into the licentious. The article in question is only one of a long series of similar "breaks,"' and the apology comes not from a conscientious regard of decency, but from a stern necessity to stem tho desertion of subscribers. No man, least of all woman, having care for wholesome home influence can afford to admit a sheet which any day may servo up foul reading. Hence the apology. |