Remonstrance Against the District Sunday Bill
WE have just learned that the District Sunday bill is delayed for one week in the Senate Committee. That is, it will receive consideration at the regular meeting of the committee on Friday, April 22. We would suggest that our people who receive this notice in time to do so send either by letter or by telegram a remonstrance against the passage by the Senate of House Bill 11,819, “An act requiring certain places of business to be closed on Sunday.” These should be sent to the senator of your State or to Senator J. H. Gallinger, Chairman of the Committee of the District of Columbia. Please act promptly, that your remonstrance may reach senators before ten o’clock on the 22d inst. We suggest the following as a suitable form of petition to be used:— We, the undersigned citizens of the United States, twenty-one years old and over, do hereby remonstrate against the passage of House Bill No. 11,819—a bill to close certain places of business on Sunday, in the District of Columbia; believing the act to be a violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and the great principles on which our government was founded—that of complete separation of religion and the state; trusting that the members of the United States Senate will decide to permit our government to remain as it has been—the defender of religious liberty.