| Show I 1 JUDGE FULLERS RULING chief justice fullers fallers suling filling on anthe the sunday opening question contains one or two surprises but they are not sharp ones and perhaps to those who know his honor and his bis methods of reaching legal conclusions better than does the writer hereof would have no point at all it is a strictly legal performance for mance manoe the lav la v employed being unadorned by ornate phrase and each sentence being as incisive and as much to the point and as naked of anything but its cold self so as a scalpel in the hands ot of a surgeon law to is law sentiment is sentiment and religion is in religion with the chief justice and in keeping them not only separate but erecting barriers against their commingling com mingling hereafter he has ban done the state some service in thit that he be has at least established order out of chaos although to many it may seem that the method war the one adopted to bring creation two things are settled by the decision the appropriation for the worlds fair was a gift and slay any interest which the government may have in the exposition will not be curtailed or injured by reason of the opening the latter coming from auy any lesser dignitary or any ordinary per son on would probably be taken for a tiaiso since looked upon merely as a means of obtaining funds and dispensing the greatest amount of proper gratification to the greatest number dumber a seven day business busine a against one if 1 six days could scarcely be detrimental to those financially concerned but we are of the opinion that there will be at least a few who have riven some thought t the law who will be for a time somewhat confused over the first proposition and perchance wait for their judgment to become better bal lasted before venturing an opinion gifts by the government to private ew ei terp rises have not as an a rule been looked on with great favor even when the public was to some extent concerned in their the general effect of the ruling will we think be beneficial while it jig ig not always a pate cafe and far frona from a proper suggestion that the sabbath day should have no other recognition than such auch as la is accorded any holiday there are still some rome exceptional features attaching to the worlds world Is fair there are a great number of working people in and contiguous to chicago with whom sunday in ie the only time when it will be practicable for t ern em without considerable loss to see bee the show at all again agalos the saloon and abady resort interests are loudest of all in their clamors for closing and even if there were bereno no other good reason for opening alis ought to suffice As ae a great miny amny who have LO ko other ether place togo to go would inevitably drift to the done dena it is proper that a leu less docious on a grand sad and scale to receive and entertain all be provided so BO that viewed in abe light of publio public policy alone judge fullers Fuller 8 ruling has bout about all the support it requires there to is a goodly number who are as well disposed toward the sabbath day as any people can who can see no ne special harm barm in the gates of the white city being ajar on that oc occasion ceplon so long as aa the me in if not in operation it is ig a vast aggregation of the artistic the skillful the curious ano and the i blime I tuie re preset ting every clime rand and every race the result of com commingling mingling with such auch scones nene and peoples in ii to elevate the mind to set it to exercising health ully fully to cause the heart to turn from effect to cause and thus thu to bring the soul sou into better communion with man kind and lead to genuine christianity itself aside aide from the dangers dangen avoided and the wickedness escaped they con tend tead that there la is more of good than of evil in to the great pair fair on the day of rest if this be the correct view the fact that the chief justice made no use of it does doe no not diminish dimin iab its force in the least it in matter in sub aub tantia tion of the ruling |
