Sunday Law in New York.
By Editor
THE new Penal Code which has just gone into effect in New York, provides for the strict observance of Sunday. Only works of necessity and charity are allowed. As the Police Commissioners have already decided that the running of surface and elevated railroad trains, ferry-boats, and delivery wagons, the keeping open of ice-cream saloons, newspaper offices, etc., is not a violation of the law, it will be seen that "charity" may cover a multitude of sins. The general opinion is that the law will be enforced in such a manner as to make it odious, as was the case in California. Over 500 arrests were made in New York City last Sunday, but there were very few liquor-sellers among those arrested. Milkmen, butchers, bakers, grocers, barbers, rag-pickers, news dealers, and Hebrew storekeepers were the chief victims. In Brooklyn the drug stores were closed. There will, no doubt, be a reaction in a short time, and Sunday traffic will go on as before. Yet all these efforts to enforce Sunday observance, bring the question before the people. No cause, good or bad, wins without a struggle. People seeing the inefficiency of State laws, will soon begin to clamor more loudly for a religious amendment to the Constitution of the United States.