| Show from the N X york herald herwid sp 21 is 1857 THE MORAL morel CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY the recent developments excited el cited by the seizure of obscene literature in frankfort street give us a very curious insight into the ilia moral or rather the tiie immoral condition of the country oil one e would naturally suppose that in a republic like ours where education tion wealth and refinement are more equally distributed than in lil any otier part of the world that the men would ba more pure a and d the he women more chaste that the sanctity of the t I 1 e home bome circle would be respected that the good the tire true the tiie beautiful would ba be exalted that tile the bad and the obscene would be cat cut down cast off and despised such is the theory such are claimed to be the results of a general system of common school aduca education ti uca tion such as lias has ba buen been baen en extended from new england through th the central and western states but what are aie ale the facts in the case a shown by the recent action of the police we find herp here a mall man engaged extensively engaged engage din jin in reprinting the most roost disgustingly obscene works thit that have ever been issued from tile london and paris presses se accompanied with plates too loo filthy for description crip tion sad evidences of the ilia fact that the mole moie noble able the art the more degrading it becomes b combs comes when brosti prostituted prostitutes well we find also that the persons who buy hese these things are the leading nien men of the co country antry preachers teachers and guides of the people no members emberd of the tile national congress lights of the tile L pulpit the iha bench benell and the bar upon the political rostrum presidents of councils and caucus esan conventions directors of banks aud and insurance offices pillars of the tiie chuch leaders of class mee meetings tings devons and elders ciders who pray at tile the corners of the tile streets mighty wrestlers wrest lers with the devil with whom it t seems the victory reste rests join with these developments the fact that the newspapers teem with accounts of seductions adulteries adul teries violations of the domestic hearth desertions of children by their natural protectors y elopements elope ments ac ac and it r would really seem that oar our social system ls is is 13 rotten to lle ile lie the core the increase of these crimes against society hai has been much more ra rapid pd than thau the hie in increase creese of population lation and it cannot be e said that it is owing to f foreign 0 re ign imm immar I 1 gration atlon bec bee because the sinners shiners are chiefly well informed well weil to lo do people not perhaps all in lle ile lie tile best society bu but persons s whose abbia positions one would aniuk should teach th em the necess necessity its ily of placing some heck check to ti their T passions anat toil toll C tv ca was I 1 moal moat most I 1 eff acta illy found in the preservation orl of the rn arrige and those social enactments conveniences and compromises which make the common law of bf society and which however unfair and irks inks irksome olne in individual cases are after all the oui out only y guide and safeguard for ibe the majority because they are founded upon pan common sense thirty years ago this position was generally i deceived as au an axium axiom and our people were much happier and better belter for it our country was not riot perhaps arcadia but wives respected and obeyed their husbands husbands cherished their wives children obeyed their parents but mi missionaries came to tell us that we were all wro wrong hg and to prove it to us pili phi 0 robert dale owen and fanny wright came camo over like st paul to athens preaching leaching and converting many owen was full of all sor a of new tangled ideas agrarian I 1 tic and otherwise and fanny wright tola the tile wives of amelica america that they tiley were all mean spi il it ed slaves and that the very best thing they could do would be to run away with any dlce nice young man for whom they took a fancy they joined issue with the antislavery anti ariti slivery slavery agitators who were just then commencing their work and fulminated their doctrines from the ro strums of lyceums and lecture lialis halls and once occupied the boards of the tha pa pah pak park k theatre all sensible people looked upon lese iese hers hess less philosophers as harmless Ju lunatics naties laughed at them and baij that fiat the tile temporary excitement would cease after it had lost the charm of novelty the tile seed however was sown and we are now eating ilia bitter fruit it was from tile the V right and owen doctrines that some hard headed spinsters spin conceive conce lve ivi ed tile tilo idea of the rights conventions tit the preach ings and teachings oi of which have car ried sorrow to many a hearth before the promulgation of the fanny wright creed a single elopement seduction or a crim con ill in respectable society would make an excite t merit ment all over the country now hey they are too fr frequent to excite much attention except from tho th aggrieved agni eved parties the rights mania ia st strongest agest oil on the line of country from bolton rolton boston roston west to chicago ch cleo bigo it is in the cities and towns upon that line ilia lile that hat their conventions are held and the tile journals of those same citlau cities are constantly publishing accounts of 0 abductions seductions adulteries adul teries escapades of married anen and elope fenja of married women oven and fanny wright were however only the pioneers before the grand army or lewdness they surveyed and laid out the broad that leads down to the pit it it was reserved for other missionaries to g the way clear that all ali might walk therein these missionaries adopted the doctrines of Fo founer ueler including that of 0 promiscuous intercourse between the sexes lexes sexes they imported all the filthy books upon tile the subject and reprinted them in boston they organized phalanxes all over the country and round found plenty of male and female dupes their chief priests were the ilia philosophers who now dow edit the tribune and that journal was their special organ for fo r several years vea 1 rs the tribune attempted to cram down the tile dil fil throats of or the he american people the filthy doctrines of Proud hon sain saint simon and fourier the phalanxes all fell through gb but the effects of the teachings tz of ther aber P prole i e clors or s is still apparent 7 these ll 11 s e philosophers continue to preach the same doctrines through rough if the tribune while their confederates f ede rates are engaged in publishing the dirty literature for dissemination di through the tha country ait alt these fellows revel 1 in obscenity ness and beastliness of or every description they carry carr v on their trade chiefly in the he country consta constantly nuy making recruits for the brothel the ilia prison and thu hospital it was wai they ich who brought these dirty books first to this coi col country it is they who havo ad the country they alone are responsible for forthie the disorganization of society the desei t ed hearthstone the general immorality of file youth south of our country and aud a id their rapid progress in ill crime th they thes ey have sown the wlad widd we rep reap the whirlwind mr herald we heartily coincide with your testimony touching tile the awful moral condi condl conditio condition tio ll 11 of the countr country y except bah but dissent from your alleged causes for that condition and most particularly ticul arly object to all your strenuous orr ouR and lying efforts to subject the people of utah to the tile same cursed condition of modern civilization eliy apay asician heal thyself |
