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Show Jn li is speech in tho New York legislature legis-lature on tho World's fair appropriation, appropria-tion, (icncral HcgTSO gave tho following follow-ing reasons for opposing Sunday opening: The World's fair of London was closed on Sunday; the exhibition of 18,Jil in Now York aud the Centennial Centen-nial in Philadelphia in 1870 wero closed on Sunday, no world's fair and no exhibition ex-hibition of any kind has ever been opened on Sunday except in Chicago; Chicago is great and beautiful city, but it is tho most godless city in tho country, except Leadville theaters, SaioOM and dance houses being open on Sunday; he would yote for no measure meas-ure that proposes to desecrate Sunday, "Sunday was instituted by our Lord, 1 believe in the Christian religion; I believe be-lieve in virtue and morality; I am not a religious professor, but 1 believe, in Cod and our Saviour and a holy Sunday." |