Sunday Enforcement in Missouri
IN a recent number of Current Literature there is printed a four-page article entitled “The Story of Joseph W. Folk,” the governor of Missouri, accompanied with a large picture of the governor. In speaking of his recent great so-called moral triumph, the article makes the following reference to Sunday enforcement as one of the great victories achieved: “He has enforced the laws against selling liquor on Sunday, so that the hotel bars and all drinking places are closed on Sunday in first-class cities of Missouri for the first time in the history of the State.” Why does not the governor continue his work of “civic reform” until the hotel bars are closed on other days of the week as well? Is it any more uncivil for a person to become intoxicated on Sunday than on other days of the week?