Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1883 — Indecent Literature. [ARTICLE]

Indecent Literature.

Earnest efforts are being made at Indianapolis and other cifciesjto banish indecent literature from the community. Such publications as the Police Gazette ami the Police News clearly come within this category, and the effort to prevent their sale will certainly commend itself to the judgement of all friends of pure literature. The law against traffic in indecent literature in this State is n.« fol. lows: Whoever sells or lends, or offers to sell or lend, or gives away or oilers to give away, or in any manner exhibits or has in possession with or without intent to sell, lend, or give away any obscene, lewd, indecent or lascivious book, pamphlet, paper, drawing, lithograph, engraving, picture, daguerreotype, photograph stereoscopic picture, model, cast, instrument, or arficle of indecent or immoral use; *.* * or advertises the same or any=of‘tlrerii for sale, or writes or prints any letter, circular, hand bill, card, book, pamphlet, advertisementy or notice of any kind, * * * or gives information, * * * or manufactures, or draws with intent to sell or have sold, or prints any such articles or things—shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, nor less than ten dollars, to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months, nor less than ten days.—Ex.