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Show 8ABBA1H-BREAK1KG. 'I'lio cit ol Ntwark, New Jcrcey, is nniking ft duepbrate tflort to revive tho I'urilan Sunday and preserve the Habhiith from secular dfacri'.liou. An old "blue law" lute becu rcburrccttd which pro'nibila'ltie transaction of any worldly business or the performance of any worldly work on the first day of the wuvlr, mid two weoka ago to-d.iy to-d.iy the fir.it cnmcst attempt to en' forco t it 0 ordinanco in all ile atrict-nc-tia wns made. The qu cation bad been imitated for some tirao, and Lbo ciTortd of the authorities put forth chiefly nyainat tlio boer gArdens and liquor saloon, but the proprietors of theae proteated against the discrimination discrimina-tion nrv.1 il"inaudtd tliat if owe portion of the ordinance he carried inlo ex ecution all should be. On the 27th' of April the police went to work in cannot, clcaing barber shops act! drug etoroa, stopping the aale of Sun-d;iy Sun-d;iy pupnra, eupprotBius U10 milk-man milk-man and ice man, preventing riding inatoam-cau and horse-card uud car-riiit:ea car-riiit:ea except iu Roing to and from church, and 1'jr once putting a quiotus upon a- busy city. There wore "sptciala" and agents ovorywhero iu tlio town 00 tho watch for oflenders in tho Blignttet particular against tho law. Tho timid portion of the commuuity, fearing thoy might unintentionally subject themselves to arrest, impriE-oucd impriE-oucd themselves in their houses, and thoao who wanted to violate- the statute stat-ute did so without letting the officers) know that they were guilty. The city never before padded such a quiet day, and judging from the protests being cnailo through the press, the people do not caro to Bee another Sibb.itu of that kind. There is an almost universal cry for tbo repeal of the restrictive laws, even tbo clergy yielding somewhat, and suggesting that the ordinance ba "bent" in eomo particulars. Wo qucbtion if it is posaiblo to faithfully and eficctuatly enforce the Btrict Sabbath laws of last century. The Puritan Sunday is a thing of the peat, an the Puritan of a hundred years ago is no more. Nei'hor can be resurrected. Ju many of the olci ami Christian countries of Europe-Sunday Europe-Sunday ia regarded as a day of retention, consequently these trades which furnish the means of amusement or pleasure are carried on opouly. The immigrants from those nations have an almost controlling influence upon the laboring labor-ing and middle classes of American society. They bring their customs anil habits into thia country, where they aro readily adopted, and because ol their great power at the ballot box, official have not dared to rigidly enforce en-force laws which run against the pleasures and customs of the voting masses. There is also a growiog carclcflir.rdj on the subject of Sabbath observance among the descendants of the Americans of '76. AH the cities and towns ol the republic have excellent excel-lent laws against the desecration of Sunday, but they are not and cannot be enfjiced, because the controlling sentiment of society is opposed to1 them. Tbs tow us of Utah, peopled very generally as thoy are by a. highly religious population, and having wholesome laws, cannot entirely suppress sup-press Sabbath-breaking, though approaching ap-proaching nearer to it, perhaps, than any other community on the continent. |