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Pacific Press Publishing Company · New York · September 15, 1892

FromThe American Sentinel, Vol. 7, No. 36

The purposes to which Sunday laws may be, and are, put, is well shown in this item from Our Country, published at Boston:—

A summons has been served on William H. Mace, of Stoneham, the well-known proprietor of the refreshment saloon at the northerly end of Spot Pond, calling him into court to-morrow morning to answer to the charge of keeping an open shop on the Lord's day. An interesting story is told in connection with this case.

Before Mr. Mace opened his saloon there was a contest between him and one Michael McCarthy in the matter of obtaining a lease of the land on which his building stands, it being a very desirable location. Mr. Mace secured the lease, and since then it is alleged that McCarthy has been endeavoring in one way and another to make matters unpleasant for Mace.

Last Sunday Mace left his horse in front of McCarthy's house and weighted him, while he went into his own saloon, which is near by. It is said that McCarthy came out and commenced moving the horse away, whereupon Mace ordered him to let the horse alone, and some hot words followed. It is alleged that soon

after this incident McCarthy reported to Chief of Police Houghton that Mace was keeping his place open on Sunday, and this led to the complaint and summons against Mace.

Religious laws have always made an acceptable weapon for the malicious and the hypocritical against their neighbors. This will be found to be no less true now than in preceding generations.