THE SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VICE

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · January 15, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 3

THE SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VICE.

The Christian Weekly, in its issue of Jan. 10, 1880, gives the following item of the doings of this society:—

“Scarcely had the rigorous efforts of its Secretary, Anthony Comstock, to check the lottery swindlers from using the United States mails, been made public before it was announced that he had broken up another fraudulent business by which multitudes have been systematically robbed. Nearly filling his office were boxes and mail-bags taken from a gang of bogus stock brokers, who, taking advantage of the feverish desire on the part of many to speculate in stocks, advertise large inducements for securing their patronage. Money has poured into their hands from the credulous, eager to share in the fortunes which they believe are so readily made in Wall street; but not a dollar ever left their hands, or was invested in the stocks, which their patrons were notified by letter had been done. The letters and the books which Mr. Comstock seized show that at least $120,000 a month had thus been stolen from the confiding dupes of these rascally swindlers.”