Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-07-10
DOCTOR RExFORD.
(Continued from Second Page.)

Il
respect OF their fellow citizens they
must grant to others the rights which
they claim for themselves. The State
| of
OHIO is NOT AN EPwoRTH
LEAGUE Ia
nor a Society of Christian Endeavorers.
but commonwealth of 900. 900 people,
every one of whom is entitled to follow
his own conscience if in so doing he
does not infringe on rights of others.
1t is my Judgment that the Board of
Agriculture has done a wise thing and
Christian thing in deciding to oper
the gates on Sunday.
1t is right in principle and it is
RIGHT AS A GREAT CIVIC POLICY.
1t is certain that there will be thous-
ands of people in Columbus on the Sun
day of the fair from the farms and cit
les of the state The fair grounds will
be the best place for them. Under our
present city administration, as in ad-
ministrations before, there are open sa
loon on nearly every square of our city,
and scores of other places that are
flore dangerous and corrupting tnan
the saloon; and If we can trust our jour-
mails there are 300 persons in Columbus
engaged in soliciting strangers into
these drinking and gambling and bro
thel hells, and many persons unfamiliat
with the devices and tricks of these
wretches can be lured to their destruc
tion before they are aware of their dan
ger, and it seems to me that the Pas
tors union ought to hold up all its
hands in favor of the open fair, if for
no other reason than that it will be
THE SAFEST PLACE IN THE CITY
Have the ministers opened crusade
against these forms of sin all around
us? Very little has been said about
these evils in the Pastors union. The
masses will not go to the churches
and the open gate of the fair may bt
the means of closing many another gate
UnaC le2QS 10 peTulLlOu
Besides this, there are thousands O.
4 men, and women, too, in the state wht
cannot come to the fair on any othel
day. The cheap excursions give then
an opportunity On any other day the!
cannot come without having their wag
es cut down, and this they cannot af
ford. believe they have the right t
see and know what Ohio is doing in it
S manufacturing, it's stock and grail
products and in the many other de
II partments of it's vast activities. be
lieve that they have the right to ge
away from the average
GRIND AND SLAVERY OF THEII
DAILY LIFE.
Thousands of them will talk of da
'9 at the fair as an event OF their live:
They have right to meet their friend:
whom perhaps they may not meet fo
years if they do not see them at tn
= fair-and what law of heaven or cart
can be broken by friends meeting wit
friends?
The cheap excursions have favor
able side to them. If the railway
could only do what the State Board {
> Agriculture has done and rule all in
toxicants from their trains and not a
low an intoxicated person to ride O
them either to or from the city the
would vastly
IMPROVE THE CHEAP EXCURSION
And then if the railroads would or
ly realize that by lowering the rate
and carrying more people not only o
excursion days, on all days, they woul
help the people to live longer lives b
giving them more privileges. The raj
roads do not lose money by cheap e1
cursions, and why not, therefore, lowe
= the rates and carry more people tn
year round and so help the people
. live? The golden-rule is none!
- making rule as well as life-makir
IN rule, if our grasping money corpori
tions could but realize it.
like to see man whose back
ry bent down over an anvil or bench {
IL a desk six days in the week, straighte
N up and
BEND THE OTHER WAY
~ for Sunday in fair and manly fasl
at ion, and if in one day in the year
can go to the state fair and take h
Us wife or sweetheart with him, and {
~ home filled with a good will and
ms whole world of new observations, a
a. glad of it, 1t is a natural concessio
ne and believe that if the church and ii
90 ministers of the gospel would fave
tn this and say 'Godspeed" to the farme
II. and the mechanics and the laborir
classes generally the people would hay
or a greater love and respect for Ii
church. Deprive a man of what he fee
e. to be natural right and he will stril