A welter of adjectives was an outstanding feature of Comstock’s books. He gives his reader very little opportunity to judge for himself as to the character of the crimes his prisoners committed, for he does not state concretely what they were, but he uses phrases about them such as “diabolical trash,” “carrion,” “leprous influences,” etc. On only two pages opened at random in the “Traps” book, were noted the following words and phrases: “moral vulture,” “terrible talons,” “cancer,” “damns the soul,” “frightful monster,” “homes desolated,” “whited sepulchres,” “putrefying sores,” “immense cuttlefish,” “turgid waters,” “jackal,” “pathway of lust,” “lust is the boon companion of all other crimes.” In the light of modern psychology, this choice of language carried to such extreme, betrays fear and sex obsession to a degree that would hardly seem to fit a man for sound service either as a law maker or as an enforcer of the law. However, now let us take a look at Comstock through the eyes of others. His biographer, Rev. C. G. Trumbull, wrote of him thus toward the close of his career: “Mr. Comstock today likes to dwell upon what he calls the wonderful goodness of God in those early days of the fight for purity. And it _is_ a story of God’s work, not man’s, when we remember that it was an unknown clerk, twenty-eight years old, who had hardihood to go to the national capitol with the idea of getting his own convictions put into legislative action; that finding there two or three other bills pending in the same field (one regarding the District of Columbia instigated by the Washington Y. M. C. A., the other by Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, amending the inter-state commerce law to prohibit sending obscene matter from one State to another) he stuck to it till all were merged in a single bill of five comprehensive sections; that he prayed his bill through both houses in the strenuous closing hours of the winter session, and that he returned home under appointment as a staff officer of a cabinet officer of the United States!” Dr. Trumbull adds that the Y. M. C. A. “gladly paid the expenses of the Washington campaign.”