Show 8 0 the of sunday utterly and wholly irrespective of any doctrines beliefs or issues the t he sentiment Is steadily gaining that there la Is grave threat in tile the decadence of sunday as a day of rest in california citizens citizens Cit izene who havo have no ino relation whatever es ea or creeds creed hut but are observant 0 of i mural several times remarked to us ug that something la Is wrong in alil i matter of the disoso of one day of readout of seven find and that tile many seems to be to them against the community us it whole and they are perfectly free to bay that they view tho growing crowing blare gold of if the aw day as precisely the reverse of progressive were there lie re expressions confined to it very fe faw w ohp thay would have lesi lesa wei Blit hut but thoy they uro quite julto general and theredore represent a larre largo public sentiment in the current number of that admirable nil rable review the forum arof 13 rot smyth discusses al cusses chiq question of tile the preservation of sunday from the standpoint of pure economy and without entertaining any religious cons considerations ideran tons in the debate th the s points this capable scholar malted makes deserve clea orve far morn or of public attention thun they are likely to lo attract through the medium of a review pro lenor smyths nevord accor 1 I I 1 m closely with the V views jews ot a very of thoughtful citizens tillit that they may lie be stated with the he certainly ot of awakening ak entill echoing ree ponso in thousands n Is of minds ife HB holds bolas that him history tory p physical if demand and sanitary selene science 0 show a sunday to lo be necessary to the funnily family atiat 19 a the unit of organic org aniz ed ad human life it is the pivotal essential of sovi socie ety tv which cannot be founded upon the point of mere individuality any custom that hat produces less of power and ruthm lit at ill the e heart of 0 society threatens ensser serious lous disturbance of Df all social functions find and thus assails the state industrial independence Is Is an PS ea sendal I 1 of well being that Is 18 tho the laborer cannot he ha a slave and bo be a mannor occupy the slave attitude though nominally freehand free and be independent de endean as is the need he be should be for 0 r the well being of society without independence there is foo DO puch thing as rood good citizenship or fatherhood or heathy social unit ship so men without industrial independence are are put on the wrong side of tile tho social danger bange r line this independence must be sufficient for the t he maintenance mall intendance inte nance of the family lo in and moral health and here the prof makes clear the broad difference between iero ere existence and healthy condition ii the state CUD can be enough for fill all plain and proved practical purposes the state cannot safety safely regulate eulate re mans business nor yet can it leave oil fill the work for the health and healing of the people to the in good bood samaritan Bamar itao we might TO go beyond the illustrations of the prof and point out how the state does now intervene to prevent individual right from becoming com injury but this Is not nee ess ea airy miry the ibo reader will call to mari mind sufficient instances conceded to be invulnerable so the essayist cornea comes to the app application it of his sunday I 1 Is Is necessary to the american hom conae e the christian homeard home arft historical institutions which were we re founded antl and have been built up lip together as 03 parta of one and the some social economy for the mass of men sunday la Is the one and only time fur for home of 0 the whole busy week if industry la the ere creation 3 and support of homes then t the h e time given on sunday to home Is no not too large a proportion of time to dt devote to tit ilia best beat purposes of our lives but as aa industrial independency independence Is an essential part of social vitality and time Is personal property when on one sells all ilia hid timo time hu he throws his bis very soul into the bargain he sac orifices at its vital center his persona personal I 1 liberty lie ile ought to retain time enough to enable him to lo discharge his hii social octal obligations and maintain his bis physical existence experience cfall of all men proves I 1 that hat the least time to with out danger in addition to enough for sleep li ii measured by the one d day y of each week experience has demonstrated rated the economic as ai well as a the moral wisdom of the sabbaths Sab batha baths rest the evidence is emphasized by the increasing restlessness of the week weak day it life fa of tho the Aule american rican people ao 11 ho if workers sell sel I 1 their N bun uz day they sell that a essential I 1 ID physical and moral well it goes 0 on u industrial independence will be blotted out if the sunday of the laboring man over ever co comes m es to be le legally g at sold bold or that of the business man surrendered whether the individual ali will or not the whole economy of modern ufa life will settle into it a bobel hopeless 0 8 s grinding and wasteful industrial d du huntr 1 slavery so bo citizens ought to stand together for the of the rest day of the week the sunday laws that do not co compel ropel but protect 0 ought gh 1 to ha be maintained that Is t h t that h at say bay to to the min man you vou shall dball not be compelled in a fe free state to work every day like a slave at af any forge force such laws say to tired workers at desk delik or bench money cannot compel your service at least this one day lit in each week such laws cons consorte orve personal I 1 liberty instead of restricting itchey say gay to the thou thousand sandi of homes homed this lay day Is youri be glad lid for la Is rele asod from the hand of 0 the task master such laws ought to be the last a free state should surrender a f for 0 r they I 1 touch c uch tho vital society ei t y and protect socie tys homes finally ho he holds sunday ought to be preserved front from the encroachments encroach ments of clasi clas i all by appealing in its ito behalf to common dense and common humanity class is break breaking ing bliwn low n so sunday aday it coi one set of men to pay tribute out of ti their a ir I 1 tiros rue and freedom to another class LO li this go on until each class in its own interest Int ernst hll all it can of sunday of another class and the rest day will bo be wholly loit lent the Prof osor no not t liitt killa lii tf to the extent of coercion laws lawi in slats that it Is not for the public rood good tol erato tho the bu business enslavement mentor of any ci als a of it men even in their tin OMI supposed interests and that society 1103 it a rag right t to demand protection on its holiday from tho the vices of tim tho town he would IQ in shortt short hold back the he heavy hand of capital stop the noisy wherlo of prevent riotous excess excels in order that all it classes anil and colnai I 1 I 1 alons of men mea may have time to breathe to think and to rest the article at least brings bringa the question forcibly to the er eri 1 in our anxiety to conserve personal son al Ilber liberty we are not going to the other extreme and the liberty and iko of so claty S F record union |