Show I I I i i i I I I I I SUNDAY Y J LEGISLATION 1 11 h by ly nil all that hint hinton Oregonian It I Is a agrees agreed ic I Iman Iman on one day clay out of or the seven sc everyman every man should re rest t from Crom his u usual ual wot 01 k I It Is not ilot agreed that an any person or tIe 1 set of or 1 persons ons l' should ha have hae the authorIty author author- Ity Ily to tu U dictate to him hInt how to sp spend I authol My hIts The rhe agitators time line on the day Iny of rest leSt who wish to close all places of oC amu amuse amuse- ement e- e m mont ment nt upon the first day of the lie I week weel deny en that their theia e Is I to s of ot with the attractions the hc churches They ro say sa that their I Sole purpose Is f tn to show a re respect le- le to the Sabbath But nut the fh first t lla day of the l Is Ig not nol the Sabbath I does docs It deserve o especial respect nor more than any other tin lay day There Is in the tho Idea Iden of or something something- showing respect to a day etar of the WN week Ono One might as QS well make obeisance to the vernal equinox The Thc only a admissible ground for making Sun Sunday ay a do day clay of rest lest Is hygienic hy h- anti and economic Nobody can preserve pro pre serve his health If IC ho hu works s eVl every r day But Bul also society i is so 90 ed others that nobody can enn rest unless q rest too tod Competition will wiil not permit penult one nc flO merchant to close iii hl store on unless othet othel stores close clofe noran nor Sunday un ay yin fin one barber acting alone lock his shop hop on the Ito first day clay In of the tho week with with- ut ruin These principles x furnish a rational basis laSIS for Cor statutes cloning of or business on Sunday they also aiso furnish ground for a law 1 Cf common to grant every mg ing on one day laY of rest In the w week C k though manifestly tl not nil all of them can Call have the sante day Sunday Suma legislation Is I 10 0 this extent lint Hut tolerable and perhaps necessary the aim at nothing orthis or of orthis this utilitarian Their wish is it to forbid by hy law what Ih they lie y are pleased etl to call de ration of th the Sabbath that thul Is till nil amusement theatres s games picnics vJ visits to li libraries ii- ii su and picture pictures galleries Of or tI the Sunday question those these persons take the bigots bigot's dire lire and irrational 1 view c It 11 counts for nothing with them that for rOI multitudes of oC people there Is no work will vill day hut Sunday when their permit them to visit to-visit the theatre the thc picture gallery or 01 tho thu library If It the they do ItO not go d to the hI countr on a II Sunday excursion the they cannot so go at all The Flue rich Ilch can enjoy the tho lit ti healthful Influences In week welI till the of If f nature every even du day In lit the poor pOOl only on Sunday The Flue rich ilch Cit can an ii vi ver enjoy games out of they choose hoo c the p- p por or only lIly on Oil Make Sun Sunday ny a n clo closed tIny day ansi and the Is d Joined Jome to UI 01 bot between Saturday a and nil dissipation Mon Monday ny He lie cannot go 0 to the theatre hut lint he can get et drunk for liquor maybe may mav be bou bought ht the till do day cloy before The Tho ar argument that excursions open theatres and nd o so so on force curtain pOI poe sons cant to work worl on Sunday Is not nol until elv Invalid but lh these se persons should hould ha have thou their day tC off orr in some sonic other lithe a pait lart ni III the tho week clI lh The Tho slight to them is far fai- outbalanced by till the en enormous normous n- n evil of or depriving thi thu working classes of tho tile only time limo when the can on enjoy joy outdoor life anti and wholesome recreation rt national Sunday legislation legisla Ila tion I Is a u boon to humanity linn Inn based on oil bigotry oll Is IS 11 ui tin d evil S r- r 5 1 |