Strangely enough, the abomination known as the "matrimonial agency,"
bureau or what-not, has succeeded in hoodwinking the great American
press to a certain extent.
Advertisements appear in leading journals all over the country.
Without this the great fraud could not exist ten minutes. There are
numberless instances, we are quite sure, where the publishers have no
suspicion that they are furthering the cause of scoundrels. In others,
we regret to say, the motive for accepting these advertisements is
traceable to nothing more or less than just the plain greed of the
publisher.
It is impossible for a private citizen to prophesy whether the entire
power of the government of the United States can purify the columns of
some of our greedy newspapers.
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These matrimonial agencies are frauds. The newspaper man knows this
and takes their money for the advertisements, and becomes a messenger
of a crime for a paltry sum, and if I were the District Attorney
I would get busy and call the attention of the Postmaster General
to these alleged newspapers for the purpose of shutting off their
distribution through the mails.
Here are a few samples of the ads appearing in the reputable daily
press of the country: