OBSCENE LITERATURE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1447, 6 May 1905, Page 2

OBSCENE LITERATURE.

I [(To the Editor Gisborne TimeSj I- Gisborne, May 6. 1,, “ lr> I 600 by your paper of yesterday that A. M. Ewart, of Wellington, has been - j convicted of selling a papsr.alleged to contain printed matter of obscene and immoral tendency. Truly Mr W. Richardson, of Auckland, the well kuown Mr Richardson, I was right when, during his defenoe.he told I fcbat 14 a Court of Justice was not a Court of law, and vice versa.” And,Ewart I is convicted whilst every newspaper in the colonies.is allowed to publish unchallenged I reports of polioe and Supreme Court cases j? “u theic diE g QatiD g minuteness of detail. Each fil-hy detail connecting.the record of man’s brutality and woman’s degradation is given with a full and clear account of vice and depravity, that cannot fail to have a contaminating and debasing effeot on tho minds of the young as well as to disgust the more matured readers. It may be necessary to hear these cases in the open court, but it certainly should be criminal to publish them afresh, and when. a_ Court of Law becomes a Court of Justice the parade of beastiinosa will cease to spread its poison for the public eye. I am, Sir, i W. J. RAYMOND, "f