p. 224, para. 1 | Untitled article

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · New York · July 16, 1896

THE good people who see nothing wrong in a Sunday “law” which applies merely to the saloons, should before giving it their indorsement, pause and ask themselves where the Sunday crusaders purpose to stop in their demands. In New York City the “law” closes all saloons, but allows many other places of business to remain open until 11 o’clock, A. M. In Boston, the “law” closes all places of business except drug stores; and in Pittsburg it has been announced that even drug stores must be shut on Sunday. And yet the party of religious “reform” do not proclaim themselves satisfied. They have never yet announced that they had secured all they wanted, for any place or occasion. Nor will any such announcement be forthcoming until they shall have suspended all business on Sunday except their own, and discovered some way to corral the people within the churches. The germ of Sunday legislation contained in “laws” seemingly quite innocent, such as those closing the saloons on Sunday, grows readily into a Upas tree of vast dimensions. The time to resist such legislation is at the outset.