Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — To Promote Heathenish Morality. [ARTICLE]

To Promote Heathenish Morality.

Tho Chinese government has issued a stringent decree against immoral literature. It is ordered that “all government officials who allow immoral books to be published within their respective Jurisdictions shall be discharged. Every private person publishing such a book shall receive 100 blows and be banished from his place of residence to a distance of 3,ooo'lees. The seller of an obscene book shall get 100 blows. Within thirty days from the issue of this law all tne obscene books of the empire shall be destroyed, beginning with those now in print/’