| Show A CRYING EVIL the astonishing prevalence of the senseless vice of profanity has doubtless caused every thoughtful person to wish thattie that the law might step in with penalties where christian persuasion has failed to effect a cure one might almost welcome with joy the reenact re enact mont ment and enforcement of the rigorous blue laws of hallowed memory so outrageous and shameless has the practice become and it Is with no small pleasure that one hears of the revival io in england of an old statute of george III according to which a laborer must pay a shilling for every oath uttered in public a man above th the ie grade of laborer must pay two and a gentleman PY five ave recent reports go to show that th these penalties are being energetically imposed and that the choice expressions so frequently dropping from the tl emens 1 1 lips are being converted into cola at a rate that is likely to make quite a material addition to the public revenues if the effect shall also be to check the practice and extinguish it altogether the final result will be worth all that it has cost and a great deal more profanity is the national vice ot of Ame america and it in ia growing with a rapidity that in ia positively painful our own community free as aa it was for a long time from the infection is in now ow most moat grievously afflicted the city ordinances on the subject are a dead letter for those who ought to enforce thorn them are themselves violators violator the buster bugler streets can scarcely oar oely be traversed tra at any hour when coarse brutal oaths eatha do de not 41 fill the air on some lome of the sunnier cornor crowds of loafers congregate and utter forth in common chalmen imprecations imprecation that are sho hooking shooting oking to the ear old and young vie tie with each other ih the variety and ingenuity of their swearing and the sacred acred name bame of deity to is hourly profaned by too foul to be permitted to in decent society letY for the make lake of civilization and christianity for the make eake of refined womanhood and pure childhood for the sake bake of the law of both god and man a sharp lesson leaann should be taught the wretches who thus thui give offense lenae of |
