Show I 1 ART AND MORALS anthony comstock Coine tock the lie notorious opponent of classical dise ical art iu fit new york ork ilia has been lecturing upon art and mw mor aid wore alio diilio itt tj the credit of these reverend 1 gen gentte tie men that they are nio not all of them bigots they had met for the especial purpose of hearing aisi mn own applause of by sir air colli block in his ilia opposition lIn to A nhat hat ho lie alls calls the nud nude auli aud lewd in art it was expected ot ote ourse thattie that the mip mr aisters would enthusiastically endo endorse be proceedings but when a resolution to that effect effect N as ed lov dr spoke thus freely and sensible upon tho the subject eject ive wondered on dered ully hy Com stocke life rife mal vas not talen taken tal en long ago lie ile lias become IK ily contact ere are cowards at heart f am ignorant ot of llna this subject I 1 confess eyed e en after mr Comb toek hoe has shuken hie 11 as lie assumes tUis umea it is ie invulnerable he ile mocks anth caution lon with sincerity and under the pale r of the law rut B ut there aro are one or two pointe points hivie I 1 should like to liae have cleared up uy why dorsht our Exe cutly e committee in in the new nev boric 1 baptist bogety V go out and ask a m ito cepro bent berit the toned societies socie tie s of art ar in thia this countr country to defend tho the potation position ho the artists hae taken we hae have heard one aide I 1 of tle ille bilics bucs lion tion and it would mould not bo be right and proper for ue us to call on the aplist B chur churche ellea to endorse one side of a ab subject for there there is 19 another side to the hid subject it be as nell mell wh phileo ileo a are about it to endorse in f byrnes and mayor ile itt and all the aldermen who he hae lave not gone to canada the governor go arnor of now york president cleveland andi andol eay gay it t not irreverently the tile heavenly beings it is 3 something new tar a minister to acknowledge that there mere are two sides to any an question of this kind it is is a biffi sign favorable ble for intellectual groth that inen men can bo be without being bigots bously nide nude and lewd in art ia id no better and is entitled to no more consideration dun than the obscene in in practical life Butth but them cro is 1 a va st deal of didrence die rence between the tile viciously bously nude and lend lea d and the classical work ot of paint CM eni nod and tors the latter and da to the elevation of man nian s annd 11 I 1 af and the perfection herft action of ins his ply physical 1 leing being S sensible people feel considerable distrust diss of the man who goes gac es around constantly proclaiming pro clanning that lie has gazed upon some victuro an luro that IIA r lua ilia moral pense and awakened unchaste ta td in in his hi bosom there arc are thousands and millions of urt art admirers on earth m who he can look at tho the apollo L Ee hidero or venus denue of milo with no thought except that of t linsto admiration admira tiou atia veneral in ing regard gregard it esthe is atie opposition of this large and powerful po erful class which abich barely saves ui froia an all exhibition of witch burning at hie the hands of moral sensation alista like comstock the reverend jit alah in the tile remarks ahn lawe vie quoted from linn ilia struck bt thol tho vey bynote note let alio artiste talk it they c fa give no defence and if epou a fur fair shou hotting ing it is i clear lear that freedom in art ie Is lly unmoral nd destructive truc tive of thought then let wery g a d acher statue malych is lach repeals reveals anything of tile brinan form except the faco the bands 1 rd alid the feet be banished lani shed from humala sight but if it ie is clear to reasonable it in inde indi from f rom tho the she shoeing in g made by b y tho the artists that it is 19 only the m wilfully im impure who impute impurity to clas classical sival v 01 k then lei let tho people who anaka a 1 nauseating exhibition of their affected morality subside for a timo time thoc can be no excuse for the title crable horrible circulation of vicious pictures permitted on oil advertising card stairl another in ways was and gild seat broad broadest bro adist mist forthe for alia temptation of youth such things should bo be punished to alie full extent odthe of the very severe law jaws exist but the tile great trouble mth ith mr af r comstock Comsto cl and nien of ills his kind la is that they confound those with art ami and such oa 01 things haie lave no more relation coart to art than the rack land and thumbscrew thumb acre screw haye to rel on some of the ultra moral of these poo pie are intensely modest that they bitiah to read paradise lost and turn their heads away if they see undressed beef hanging in the market 1 1 |