Another Sunday Bill Before Congress by C. S. Longacre

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 11, 1913

Another Sunday Bill Before Congress

By C. S. Longacre

THE regular session of Congress opened December 2, at 1 P. M. One of the first bills introduced in the new Congress was a Sunday bill. This bill reads as follows:—

“A BILL Prohibiting labor on buildings, and so forth, in the District of Columbia on the Sabbath day.

“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no labor in constructing buildings, or railroads, or work on streets, or hauling material shall be permitted in the District of Columbia on the Sabbath day.

“SECTION 2. That any person who permits such labor to be performed on his property, or who shall perform in any way such labor as is described in Section 1 of this act, shall be fined not less than $25 or more than $500. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.”

This, with the Johnston Sunday Bill introduced during the special session, makes two Sunday bills that are now before Congress for the District of Columbia. Our people should take up at once the work of circulating petitions against these Sunday measures. Tear out the petition blanks in the last two issues of the Liberty magazine, and use these in securing names of petitioners against the first Sunday bill introduced. The next issue of Liberty will contain a petition against both these Sunday bills. Our people throughout the country ought to get these petitions filled with the names of signers, and send them as soon as possible to one of their State senators or representatives in Congress.

C. S. LONGACRE.