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Show ' MlvAY'S BLUE LAW. House bill No. 152, by McKay, seems de.iigrncd to close down all business ac- u i'-ls in tho state on Sunday except ' A'r. McKay j-het'p ra;np. Mr. McKay h;js pTcparoil, or h.is bnd preparer for 1 bint by ?onie export in blucncs;-, ono of tit e bluest Sunday, closing laws devised ' fit no the days of tho dbmal Massahu- fci'Hs colony. Tt provides: Action 1. That station t2o4 of the i i ( nru piled Laws of Utah, 1007, is here- " by amended to read as follows: ' "Section 42-1. Every person who lteps open on Sunday any store, meat i market. Trork?hop, bar, saloon, banking luniso, theater, moving picture theater, . b;isebaJl pork, or other place of business, i fill1 the purpose of transacting business tlierein, is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fino in any sum not jl loss than $3 nor more than $100. ''Section 2. This act shall take ef- i ' foot upon approval." If such a measure became a law rail-t rail-t ay trains might be permitted to run 1 through the state if they did not stop. The law would do;;e the railway ticket ofTi'-es so that nobody could buy a ticket on Sunday. And if they boarded trains and bought tickets on the train the train rould become- a place of business and ', caild be closed and the train crew fined. Patients could not be admitted to hospitals on Sunday, because a hospi-tul hospi-tul is a place of business, nor would we j'ind it- easy to bury the dead, for the b ndertaker runs a placo of business. And perhaps some of out perfectly re- ; tpectable people would iut be able to bave their hotels and boarding houses ? ta Sunday, for such places are places of business. Mr. McKay would, we presume, pre-sume, l.ike to have the doors closed and j the guests sealed in their rooms. ' The law might uot stop the printing of Sunday newspapers, but it would make it illegal to accept advertisments after midnight of Saturday. It prob- ably would prevent tho getting on? of any Monday morning newspapers, as the i business is transacted and the work done 7 oh Sunday. ... , The efforts of a few people to make ail other people miserable have been marked by some strange perversities in 1 tie course of history, but none of their. ; efforts has surpassed in perversity the ( bill introduced by Mr. McKay. "We take it for granted that Mr. McKay did not . realize the scope of lite law. for we are: J nire that if he had designed all that j bis measure provides for he would have : .been self-sacrificing enough to include j siieep camps aud stop all Sunday work j ct his camp. j The chief purpose of the bill, we as- fin me, is to close the theaters, moving picture houses and other places of i amusement on Sunday. All pjac.es of biuoeont amusement are really a help to the Christian'observance of the Sabbath, Sab-bath, for young people and others will be spending their time in a much more laudablo manner at a theater or a baseball game than tliey will if ' -b ft to their own devices, with no recreation recrea-tion provided. Klue laws have the effect ef-fect of stopping innocent amusenieuts and promoting vice. It will be noted that the act takes-effect takes-effect nnou approval. We call this to the special attention of Mr. McKay, because be-cause we are very solicitous about his welfare. Salt Lake will be an awfully melancholy place for Mr. McKay if his law goes into effect before the legislature legisla-ture end-. He will be compelled to sojourn so-journ among us for some day?, enduring what we endure, instead of getting back a : once to the gay 1 if e of the sheep camp. We trust, too, that Mr. Me-Kav Me-Kav enjoys sound health, for his law would prevent him from having a pre-ser:rtion pre-ser:rtion filled in a drug store ou Suu-dav, Suu-dav, and V.'en if he did succeed iu evading evad-ing his own law, he probably would have to hire someone, if he were very sick, to thvow the proscription in a; his hotel ho-tel window or employ an aeroplane for the purpose, as the doors of tlin hotel would be eluted. But perhaps Mr. Me-Kav Me-Kav lives at a private house while in the city. |