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...

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.

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.

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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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.