Adverse Report on Heflin Sunday Bill by S. B. HORTON.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 4, 1912

Adverse Report on Heflin Sunday Bill

By S. B. HORTON.

REPRESENTATIVE HEFLIN, of Alabama, introduced a bill into the House on December 6, entitled “A Bill Prohibiting Labor on Buildings, and So Forth, in the District of Columbia on the Sabbath-Day” (H. R. 14690), penalizing infractions thereof at a minimum fine of twenty-five dollars and a maximum fine of five hundred dollars. The bill was referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, who in turn referred it to the District commissioners. On December 23 the commissioners reported adversely on the bill, stating in effect that the proposed legislation would be detrimental to the best interests of the city, and that there is comparatively little Sunday labor in the District.

It would be well for both statesmen and churchmen if they could realize that religious legislation, which Sunday laws are now admitted to be by many of their advocates, is detrimental to both state and church in more than one way.

S. B. HORTON.