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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1880 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1883 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1880 Edition.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1883 Excerpt: ...son wants to break off this habit, but is so
infatu?ted and crazed that he cannot. When he gets in with his
youthful companions he seems to lose all control over himself."
There is a remedy required. The proper enforcement of the law can
and will check this evil. If this be not soon done, society must
give up the reins of government to the gamblers and criminals of
the State. They are fast usurping a controlling influence. They are
coining money from the masses, and they turn about and use their
pilferings as a lash to secure the means for their nefarious
schemes, and to perpetuate their infamous practices. A prosecuting
officer who sees no harm in gambling and fraternizes with gamblers
is not the proper one to administer the laws. That which
healloweth, how can he condemn? With the winnings in his pocket,
how shall such an one justly punish the one from whom he has won,
or destroy the scheme that has brought him gain? These men,
moreover, claim to be able to have their candidates appointed to
office, and of course do not appoint a man who will enforce the
laws. What they want and mean to have is non-interference. Business
men, a clerk who frequents these places, and is brought under these
seductive influences, is not to be trusted in office or store. The
wild excitement that fires his brain will unman him. The things he
would not do will he do. Your interests are jeopardized; your
property stolen; you are impoverished in proportion as the gambler
is enriched by your employes thus crazed. Let the laws be rigidly
enforced. Wherein present laws are defective or weak, let
Legislatures promptly amend and strengthen them. Then let the
public arouse themselves and demand that these laws be vigorously
enforced and the encroachments of this and kindred evils b...
Being Of Full Exposure Of Various Schemes Operated Through The
Mails, And Unearthed By The Author In A Seven Years' Service As A
Special Agent Of The Post Office Department And Secretary And Chief
Agent Of The New York Society For The Suppression Of Vice.
1883. After more than eleven years' experience contending for the
moral purity of the children of the land, and seeking to prevent
certain evils from being brought in contact with this
ever-susceptible class, I have one clear conviction, viz., that
Satan lays the snare, and children are his victims. Thus spoke
Comstock, self-styled guardian of the moral purity of youth,
special agent of the Post Office Department, founder and leading
spirit of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, and
premier anti-vice crusader in American history.
The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice sounds like the
satirical invention of a modern wag, but it was a very real
organization dedicated to policing public morality in the late 19th
century. Its founder, Anthony Comstock, was notorious as a crusader
for "decency" and a strident advocate of censorship-so strident, in
fact, that George Bernard Shaw coined the term "comstockery" to
refer to his zeal for the cause. (Shaw was one of Comstock's
victims; so were Theodore Dreiser and D.H. Lawrence.) In this rare
1883 work, hard to find today in an elegant edition, Comstock
offers the "warnings, restraints, guidance and sympathy" that
"alone" might "save the youth" from vileness and corruption, and
compulsively itemizes the "traps" that were seducing American
youngsters into lives of debauchery and vice, including "pernicious
literature," gambling, "free love," "lewd art," and more. A
hilarious artifact of 19th-century "scandal," this inadvertently
delightful book makes for wonderfully iniquitous reading today.
The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice sounds like the
satirical invention of a modern wag, but it was a very real
organization dedicated to policing public morality in the late 19th
century. Its founder, Anthony Comstock, was notorious as a crusader
for "decency" and a strident advocate of censorship-so strident, in
fact, that George Bernard Shaw coined the term "comstockery" to
refer to his zeal for the cause. (Shaw was one of Comstock's
victims; so were Theodore Dreiser and D.H. Lawrence.) Here, in this
rare 1880 work, hard to find today in an elegant edition, Comstock
obsessively details the results of his work as a special agent in
the New York post office, which granted him the power to inspect
the mail, determine what was "obscene," and harass the senders with
the full power of the law behind him. A relic of American
Victorian-era prudery, this makes for wickedly amusing reading
today. American author ANTHONY COMSTOCK (1844-1915) also wrote
Gambling Outrages (1887) and Morals Versus Art (1888).
Being Of Full Exposure Of Various Schemes Operated Through The
Mails, And Unearthed By The Author In A Seven Years' Service As A
Special Agent Of The Post Office Department And Secretary And Chief
Agent Of The New York Society For The Suppression Of Vice.
Being Of Full Exposure Of Various Schemes Operated Through The
Mails, And Unearthed By The Author In A Seven Years' Service As A
Special Agent Of The Post Office Department And Secretary And Chief
Agent Of The New York Society For The Suppression Of Vice.
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marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
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that are true to the original work.
1883. After more than eleven years' experience contending for the
moral purity of the children of the land, and seeking to prevent
certain evils from being brought in contact with this
ever-susceptible class, I have one clear conviction, viz., that
Satan lays the snare, and children are his victims. Thus spoke
Comstock, self-styled guardian of the moral purity of youth,
special agent of the Post Office Department, founder and leading
spirit of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, and
premier anti-vice crusader in American history.
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