An Illustration

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 11, 1913

Mr. Tufts, author of the Sunday bill now before the California legislature, complained last year when we declared that a Sunday law placed a tax of 16 2-3 per cent upon the observer of another day. After observing religiously his own day, the Sunday law demands that he shall observe another day, and lose one sixth of his time—16 2-3 per cent—solely in deference to the religious views of the Sunday law people. It is therefore unequal and unjust.

But Mr. Tufts declares that the law exempts certain classes. But it exempts no observers of another day who do not belong to some organized society of kindred views. And further, Mr. Tufts' Sunday law coworkers in Washington have succeeded in setting aside the Johnston Sunday bill which granted an exemption, and inducing him to accept a substitute which grants no exemption whatever. Such is the ultimate object of Sunday law promoters. The “mild law” which Mr. Tufts and his coworkers are endeavoring to press upon the people of California, is but an opening wedge to more and more restrictive measures. Let our legislators reject it forever.