Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-10-21

! WIN domestic tastes, WIN view u
marriage Address ---- Box, Pitts
burg, Pa"
"a talented and attractive younl
miss asks the financial aid OF SOM
generous soul, who will give her help
ing hand in pursuit of the dramatic art
Security given. Y, Enquirer"
"a nice little widow, with means
would like the acquaintance of a iollI
bachelor; object amusement. Address
X, Enquirer Office"
Gentleman of means, middle aged
nice habits, kind and liberal, desire!
! the acquaintance OF a nice and pretty
young lady, 1S to % years of age. One
employed in an Office or store preferred
VIII assist the right party Please give
postofflca address. Address s., En-
quirer Office"
1t Has Blasted Homes.
The personal column Of The Enqui-
rcr has blasted happy homes, ruined
| end debased young women, corrupted
and depraved young men; the courts
I have been the beneficiary Of its victims
! through arrangements and divorces.
Archbishop Elder delivered a sermon
in the cathedral in Cincinnati 1885, in
which he condemned most bitterly the
course of this newspaper. Every day
it is filled with reading matter that is
filthy, nasty, obscene and abominable.
The amount of injury that paper is do
ing right in our midst is incalculable.'
At the county federation of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union of
Franklin county at its meeting Sept.
! 16, in Columbus, o., Mrs. Mary w. Cas-
sell, the chairman of the committee on
resolutions, reported the following,
which was adopted:
Whereas, The Woman's Christian
! Temperance Union, as an advocate OF
purity in literature and art, have for
years recognized and deplored the i'm
moral tendency of the personal column
in the Cincinnati Enquirer, as an
women of our state and a potent in
fuence in increasing the business of
the divorce court; therefore be it
Resolved, That we improve this op-
portunity, when the Cincinnati En-
quirer is brought prominently before
the nation by the candidacy of its
owner for governor of our state, to
protest against the continuance of this
pernicious literature; and be it fur
ther
Resolved, To request the manage
ment of the Cincinnati Enquirer to
strike from their columns the brazen
advertisements of the brothal and
house of assignation.
What Religious Editors Saw.
The following is the personal opin-
ion of the Rev. DR.. David H. Moore
D. D., editor of the Western Christian
Advocate, Cincinnati, O.:
The most disgraceful and lamenta-
BILE thing in journalism in Cincinnati
is the Enquirer's personal columns
The paper itself, as a newspaper, is
almost Indispensable, and yet every
number is injected with the virus of
sensuality."
ne lOllON llS 10 TIC bplhlOl VI III
Rev. George w. Lasher, d. D., editor
of the Journal and Messenger, Cincin-
natl, o.:
81 regard the personal columns Of
the Cincinnati Enquirer as one Of the
most potent agencies for the debauch
ing and ruin of our young people. Its
wide circulation enlarg5s its power for
evil, and the character Of the com
munications found in that column
makes it certain that those who pat
ronize it are either unclean when they
begin, or become unclean before they
cease its use. In my judgment it
ought to be suppressed"
The following is the personal opin-
ion of Rev. Fl. Max Lentz, editor Of
the Lutheran World Cincinnati, o.:
"The Enquirer is paper of such
enterprise that it is a matter of great
regret to all friends of moral order
TO see it continue the personal column
from day to day, which is a rank Of
fense against sound morals and pure
living. We would be glad to see such
united and hearty action taken against
this great evil that it could be sup
pressed and the paper made fit for de-
cent homes, as it can never be with
that dlsgraceful feature for which
there is not sound excuse in pure
morals or even in decent policy Let
the personal column be suppressed,
even if il Is necessary to quit the pa
per-"
Ought to he Suppressed.