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Show WHAT THINK YOU OF THIS? j The facts ami circumstances revealed by the PT. idem-e in the notorious Thaw trial are so morall-filthy morall-filthy and hocking that the postmaster general o: the Dominion of Canada has shut out from th-moils th-moils the yellow journals and all newspapers priming prim-ing the details of the trial. The Canadian govern ment some years ago passed a law for the prut.-.-tion of the morals of its citizens and under th: ; law all newspapers, magazines and pamphlets r.ul. ' lishing filthy evidence of trials or printing hide cent or questionable advertisements cannot cms.-the cms.-the frontier and if Canadian publications viol-, the act they become guilty of a misdemeanor und. r the law. The Police Gazette. McFaddens I'h.v,; cal Culture and similar publications cannot ente- j the Dominion. The law holds up a prohibitive j hand against, all lewd photographs, painting and j illustrations; against suggestive theatrical poster- j ; and plays, and forbids entry to atheistic literatim-and literatim-and certain publications of the radical socinlUr-.. Any newspaper agent or boy on trains operated i., or passing through Canada convicted of surepr,-ciously surepr,-ciously selling or giving away immoral books . -pictures : sentenced to jail without the option ,,! a fine. i The Dominion of Canada is the best govern.-.! and most law abiding nation on earth. Divorce practically unknown and the only body in Cann.ij authorized to give a bill of divorce is the Domiir ion Senate at Ottawa. A divorce in that countn costs anywhere from $2,000 to $3,000. The Carbolic- senators take no part in divorce proceeding, and when an application for divorce is to be r,,u sidered they leave the chamber en masse. The P minion has a population of 6.500.000. an energetic, industrious, progressive and religious people, and from statistics annually published there are les murders and crimes against law and order committed commit-ted in Canada .from ocean to ocean, than in any territory or state in the union. The laws are enforced, en-forced, the, judges incorruptible and the member of the juries, with rare exceptions, are above purchase. pur-chase. Only a short time ago a man who attempted tpAribe a member of a jury was convicted and sentenced sen-tenced to six months in the central prison. Toronto. Murderers when convicted by a jury of their countrymen coun-trymen are hung. There is no motion for aj new trual. An appeal la.s with the minister of justice' only. Ninety per cent of murderers are hung. The state does what it can to co-operate with the churches to protect and safeguard the morals of the young. There are no saloons, they are hotels or inns, and must have four or five rooms for the ' accommodation of locals or travelers. From 7 j o'clock Saturday evening until 0 Monday morning j all places where liquor is retailed are closed and 1 closed fast. Any hotelkeeper convicted of selling liquor to a minor or to a woman looses his license on the second conviction. There is no established church in Canada, no legal union of church and state, but there is a moral union of men of sense and experience, between the church and the parliament, parlia-ment, by which each in its respective sphere work wtih the other and both together for the temporal welfare and salvation of the people. If the state does not co-operate with the church, the right arm of the church at once becomes paralyzed. So lonu as the men. who are elected by the people to speak for them and represent them in the framing of laws for the preservation of order and decency in society, say we shall have prize fighting, gambling halls, wide open saloons, day and night. Sunday and Monday the influence of the Christian pulpit can reach those only who listen to its voice. Every sane man. every man who knows something of th'-past th'-past history of our race and has at heart the moral and physical health of the people will admit to himself an dspeak it from the house tops that the church and the legislature must work together and stand together unite even for the protection of the state and the preservation of the people. Without With-out this union or understanding there can be no discipline, no order and without order there is lawlessness. law-lessness. And the fruit of lawlessness are the White, the Brown, the Thaws and the whole wretched gong of murderers, seducer' and adulterers. adulter-ers. " |