Show DAY CLOSING IN INI I FA VOR WITH t WRITER Proposed L Law w by Mcay Mc Me- Cay ily ay Would Mean v Persecution 1 y M. M A. A Hollister Y rIca tho the haven of or refuge for tor the d id an and 1 persecuted of or the world Worl H y upon as the home of ot tho the free tree ton lion on founded and developed upon I Ideas Incorporated Into law have haYo havethe havethe ithe the name America a a. synonym of ot otI ty t jr I y I laws taws have haw made this nation rise rise- to first place among mong the nations of oC tho earth and the tho great c statue oi or of Libert Liberty J presented to America by Prance France Is a fitting tribute to this thiM na- na na nation nation tion rind ami to these ile glorious principles In of ot these however the early settlers of or This country having es escaped escaped es- es the tho oppression of or their home homeland land t enacted Into laws lawi here nere principles that the they hoped would protect them In their desires but In fn fact tact brought persecution to others Instead of or grantIng grant grant- hi Ing freedom to all These blue laws which fell feU Into disuse and because because be be- cause causo the evil ovll In them was S seen were not removed from the statute books 01 or of orthe the states and now a n revival of ot these reli Io political ideas s of ot those days daI ant and amt also of mediaeval times Is being forced upon the tho people and these same blue laws are being belll enforced again or others others others oth oth- ers enforced that are just justIg justas as I evil in principle HISTORY IN MAKING But some will say ar In justification of Sunday laws that persecution can never nev nc er again Ilg occur In enlightened d America but let lt us seo eo history in H its making today In Virginia an old blue law for attendance on Sunday was punishable with death for a third offense and the death penalty Is upon the statute books of other states Such Sucha a a. law as Is proposed In house bill 15 by McKay McKa Is a a. very good Illustration of ot nn an old Georgia blue law which prohibits prohibits prohibits pro pro- hibits nn any pe person on from pursuing his ordinary calling or business or huntIng huntIng hunt- hunt Ing Ins Insor or fishing etc on Sunday and If lC found doing so was charged with a n. and was subject to a A. afine afine fine not to exceed one ono thousand dolLars dollars dollars dol dol- lars Imprisonment not to exceed d six m months or to work on n x chain gang ganS' not nol notto to c. c exceed twe twelve e months monthA and any gale HC or more of ot these punishments may be ordered at it the Wio discretion of ot the tho judge Tho The first case caso In G Georgia was of Aman a A- aman aman man who was ploughing his own field on Sunday se sentenced i to jail fall and be being beIng be- be ing of or frail constitution n died seven months afterward as a direct res result lt of ot this Imprisonment February 1879 In 1889 Mr 11 Conklin of oC Big BIg- Creek Forsythe county count Geor Georgia ia was arrested arrested arrest arrest- ed ed tried d before r a n. jUl jury and tined fined t twenty five lve dollars and the costs amounting In all to el eighty three ht o dol dol- lars Tho The offense w was sass s cutting wood O near his own door on Sunda Sunday Ho had hod no wood prepared for his stove atthe at atthe atthe the time and and was chopping fome some to keep his family from froni suffering their clothing having become wet In a storm It was ns necessary they should be dried In or order er to preserve their health He had conscientiously observed another da day as tho the Sabbath but this did not excuse him hint from tho the purl purpose OS of ot the law As a EI Juryman said They did not convict him for what he ho had done but for what ho said he had a n. right to do do work on Sunday which by bytho the tho wa way was a right DIST DISTURBED THE PEACE Another nother Instance was of or two men arrested for painting a building on Sunda Sunday Tho The witnesses a against them although living the tho other side Rdo of ot town charged that they were disturbIng disturbing disturbing disturb disturb- ing the peace How However er th they y admit admit- cd ed that It Il was not the work done but the tho fact fad that tho w work ork rk was done dono on Sunday that disturbed th them m and th their lr peace They wore were fined fifty dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars each or ninety days das In jail Four our years later 1693 a Mr Ir Baker In Mar Maryland land was fined eleven dollars and served three forty days In Jail for tor plowing on Sunday Sunda From 1895 to 1896 no less than twenty-seven twenty persons suffered Imprisonment of ot from five days to days lays In jail for Cor Sunday labor and nine of ot these served time on tho chain i gang and In every cry Instance these men o considered good citizens good neighbors neighbors neigh neigh- bors hors and Christian gentlemen but un unfortunately unfortunately unfortunately un- un fortunately for Cor them were observers of or another day as tho the Sabbath than Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day and believed that they had a God- God given and nal al right to labor six days In the week I 1 In Tennessee it s s a misdemeanor to Lo follow common avocations on Sunday Sun Sun- cIa day t such uch as selling merchandise farming following a n. trade as barbering barber- barber barberi i ing ng or to engage o In hunting fishing g I etc In 1890 1590 ono one man a Mr King was waa arrested for cultivating his corn on Sunday Sunda which wa was so 80 tall at tho the time as is to really hide him from sight yet et etho ho 10 was hunted out and arrested This ca case c became one of or the most celebrated i of oC Sunda Sunday law persecution In the states and tho spirit shown b by witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses prosecuting attorney jud Judge o and jury lury was so plainly ono one of at religious reUs-lous bigotry as to be almost unbelievable CASE DISMISSED In 1916 less than a year yer ago o in HIlltown Hilltown Hill Hill- town Pa a n. Mr Ir Fisher had two sons cutting corn on Sunday Sunda In a hollow on his farm away from Crom tho ho public high high- highway way The constable suspected them to tobe tobo tobo bo be at work and without a EI warrant arrested arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested tho boys bOf and haled them before the court The Tho court discharged the case caso however on grounds of or unwarranted unwar unwar- ranted arrest and ordered the tho fine CIne previously previously pre pre- collected b by tho the constable to too ho o returned and in order to harass the family as much as possible the tho constable constable constable consta consta- ble delayed tho the return of ot the money until Saturday a day observed Ved by the family as tho the Sabbath This shows the spirit back of such legislation In the same year car 1916 G G. G J. J Krieger K-Ie-er and sots sou of oC Blaine county Oklahoma were arrested for exposing exposing- their merchandise merchandise mer mer- chandise for tor sale on Sun Sunday ay In a a. decision de decision decision de- de lately handed down by tho the supreme su supreme supreme su- su preme court of Oklahoma it was made very plain that such legislation Interfered Interfered Inter Inter- with constitutional natural and religious s rights of ot the Individual anil antl tho the case cac was dismissed From tho thu above o in Instance It would seem seem that an any arid and all legislators would forever refuse to enact such legislation and commend themselves to the public by opposing such measures and preserving pro pro- serving the liberties of ot th the people |