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Show IS iriHLtH (fcjUII1IIIl'l A nil t. of a rather peculiar character charac-ter It now pending In Iho House of lte resenlallves at Wathlngton. It provides that the rostmaiter-General shall have power lo exclude from the malls newtpapert containing Hit advertisement! ad-vertisement! of medical specialists. Tho menu re purports to aim at tup. prosing Ihe Indecency tometlmia embodied em-bodied In those advertisements, and for this pur-ose Ihe Postmaster General Is to bo undo sole arbiter, Interpreter, In-terpreter, and administrator of the law. Tho supposition It that the bill Is lutilred by that wing of thu medical profeulon which It oppoied lo advertising. II must In admitted lhat there It a good ileal which It reprehensible repre-hensible In much of the advertising matter pertaining loinedleal uostrutnt and latent anaeeaa for all the Ilia that flesh It heir to, but It It qucttlouabie whether tt wnntil l. a wI-m i.,-.ltnr. toglve the rostmatter-aeneral absolute authority In determining what la aud what la not Indecent. The bill alms at a vital element In Ihe rovenuu of newspapers, news-papers, and If the Income from advertising adver-tising radical specialties were taken away the prosperity of many a country organ woul 1 be shattered. |