The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-18

meetings At the North street NJ. L.
church yesterday, confirming through
on, tho day, with hourly change Of
topics,
The most interesting subjects were
considered from II n. m. to noon and
from TO p. NJ, the former hour bo-
Ing devoted 10 talk and prayer For
Better Daily Literature" and the latter
to THE Publication OF City Politics"
About seventy-hye people were in the
church during the forenoon service re-
lerrcd 10. Rev. DR.. a. Moore was the
principal orator, and he scored the
press pretty severely.
Among other Things, lie said:
iii there is n dog Ityltt or Il rooster
fight gbng on anywhere, the next
mornins tire daily papers Of this city
Dish il up to you. in MI lis revolving de-
tails, with biz headlines. Ii some one
Scto TO come into your house and begin
to .cll youa,l'tie low things with which
one OF the daily papers regales you,
things that occur in the police court,
Tor instance, you would say: Get out
OF here. What do you mean by coming
into my house and talking about such
things il the presence OF ny children|
al he were TO come mo your home,
and there Tell all the deals OF d dog
fight held the night before, you would
cay: Get out OF mere
IN the dailypapars you lave all these
emanatons oil poisoned mndstnjected
into tic minds OF your children. 1t is
tine for the Chriatiau people 20 stand
up az ono man and to lnEisl On the
daliy papers adopting tone that will
not oiientt the tAient and moral people
OF the city. Whenever the good people,
tho religious people, do anything, you
find in the daily papers maybe as much
rs the length OF 4 finger, whereas they
dOs fight. l have been painfully con-
scious oil tho character oil the daily
papers since | nave been in the city. l.
don't presume they care whether the
good people patronize them, anyhow.
They are grasping after the support and
patronage OF the vicious. a,i5
these men are not christians. l
don't know whether there is q christian
on tho editorial staff OF any of the local
daily papers; don't know whether
there is a christian among the local
reporters on the daily papers in This
city, but do know that most OF them
are irreligious.
"Thc newspapers OF this city are
catering to the saloon clement. They
are catering to the Catholics. l don't
say they should be Methodijt in tone,
but |, do say they should not cater to
these two clements. Anewspaper COM
ing daily into our homes should advo-
cate higher moral principles, should
advocate higher cast OF thought. One
paper, it is true, is little more careful
in the way it presents low things to its
readers, but another dumps the stuff
IRON tho police courts into our homes,
making OF our homes slop tubs.
81 hope the divine power will sweep
away these communicating influences,
end make them holicr, though not nee
essarily religious. If the religious peo-
pe will do their work they will find a
change in tone in the papers. The local
columns might be better, and the ed
!iarials might be OF q much higher NOR.
al character.
Let the righteous people, who love
morality, express themselves and the
tone OF the city press will be changed
Withhold support from any daily OF u
low standard OF morality, patronize the
paper OF high moral standing. l.recog-
nize the power oil the editors for the
well being OF tho people, and / have a
notion to say: Take no daily paper until
better tone prevails.
THE press likes high standard, and
five show that that is what the people
want, that standard will be adopted.
Rev. Mr.. Lynch breathcd n ;fcrvent
prayer for the editors, reporters and
printers on the daily papers OF the
city;.in his prayer he recognized the
TACT that the newspapers are the great
esl agency OF the day, for good or ior
evil, and he prayed that they would ex-
eEt their influence ina right direction.
lie hoped that the pulpits would earth
quake cyclone and thunder against the
evil daily presa, and that the influence
OF their action would be such, that tho
time would come when one brewer
would not have more influence in this
city, than all the Christians put to-
ge.her.
REV. MIR. LYNCH ABANDONS
=, f. II.