Sunday Law and Religious Intolerance
By Editor
IN the report of the Upper Columbia camp-meeting, in another column, will be seen the statement that the man who had charge of the restaurant on the ground was fined $25 for keeping it open on Sunday. Our northern neighbors are wonderfully strict. The California Sunday Law makes an exception in favor of restaurants, and the juries usually include saloons in the exception. Even the much-abused Connecticut Blue Laws would allow a man to eat on Sunday. But we incline to the opinion that in this arrest there was something more than simple zeal for the strict observance of Sunday. The world seems to be moving—backward toward the time of the Inquisition.