Religion: The Clipsheet

The Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has a publication known as The Clipsheet. The following article recently appeared under the caption "UnAmerican Indecency in New York Theatres:"

For the first time the New York theatre has sunk to depths of indecency which must be characterized as alien.

In years past there has been dirt upon the American stage, but it has been American dirt. It has been foulness which Americans could understand and, while it represented what was lowest in American life, was still human and not...

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