Show v BLUE LAWS 7 J J B Lj LA Ao Hollenbeck j ij i l The goY governors have lave just bada had a meeting UhS Uh'S at Mackinac Island and w wa notice that Governor Richards Richards 9 o ol South r Carolina he he who rec recently nUY tried to to enforce an old blue law lily of oC South SOl C Carolina i lina th vas made a lawIn law Jaw In Il 1691 1601 or 85 st years b before foro the iho Revolutionary Revolutionary Rev Rev- y war and when whon church rind state stat W voto t d d. d G Governor Rich Rich- aids ards tried to prevent gol goli playing laYing In city of i. i Ho lie Io was a fanatic and i d h in iiii ina a fanatical f south he rte heno no doubt thought ho would make malce himself himsel and nd popular but the o mayor of oC Charleston opposed him hIm with great vigor and most of or time the In Intellectual Inte In- In r te and nt l liberal clement t o cf o the time state would l Miot not stancl stand stancl for it a alt and Hl 1 th the tho whole sch scheme mo is bound to fall In some states there has been efforts ef efforts ef- ef forts to n prevent nt Sunda Sunday t. t theaters i but the Utah legislature legislature has repealed repeal repeal- ed cd the tho strict Sunday laws and so time the theaters can can run wide open if they want to and ana why shouldn't o the they A theater is no more moro immoral on Sunday than it Is on Monday l And if it is prohibited on Sunday it it itIs 1 t Is sure a sign that it is so prohibited because Because of a religious jeason reason and ana the constitution of the United Unite ed States s says s 's that Congress sh shall shil l make mak-c no law aw respecting an nn establishment of religion or prohibiting time tIle free exercise exercise exercise ex ex- thereof thereof so that all such laws aws are unconstitutional ional and opposed opposed opposed op op- posed to the rights lights and li liberties erUes of of all people The Fhe doctrine 0 of r Proclaim liber- liber liberty ty y throughout all the tho land unto all the he inhabitants thereof is set for forth t tin h in n Leviticus L 25 10 and that that is undoubtedly undoubtedly un un- good sense o There Thore has been a fanatical wave I I to o pass legislation ill in the tho stales dales pro- pro the free tree pursuit of stud study r of and try to people to o think the wa way some of th the fanatics want Walt them to think u i l s 's S 3 alother another another an an- other clement of the churches that Hint want rant a to have a free fres mind to o study and think thin tI the e way he is inclined In- In lined to LI iii run ann too to investigate freely reely This rit oi at mental is iso isto isto to o be e commended for no Cot Cod will c condemn a man for being fret ILC In- In and sensible Timers J is J no punishment for a man to have goo good I sense antI and to try to to know truth tie ar it may a lead al and l if that would t take kea ji man Into Into-he into he old oh ortho- ortho ortho- ortho orthodox dox ox tell hell he should cheerfully go so I there here But there is no such place and nd a a man will undoubtedly receive a reward of or merit for a free and sensible mind and no rig m man will hay a right to chastise chastise him because tic lip c claims the right to to be he free fre and nd t to grow row Let us hope hope that this fanatIcal cal cal al wave will soon pass b by and let the lie people be free for Patrick Patric Henry Hensy T was bras s right gh me rile liberty 1 or of oi l g me death death- t. t I r A. A |