The Sunday Saloon a “Desecration of the Sabbath” by W. A. C.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 9, 1909

The Sunday Saloon a “Desecration of the Sabbath”

By W. A. C.

THE following from the National Advocate for August, 1909, the oldest temperance paper in the United States, under the heading, “Heavy Fire on Sunday Saloon,” shows not only that the Catholic Church is lending its influence to the Sunday closing of saloons , but that in doing this it does so, not simply in the interest of temperance, but with the idea of protecting the sanctity of the day,—of preserving it from “desecration:” —

“While in no wise mitigating the evil of the week-day saloon, the Sunday saloon was singled out for withering fire by the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Illinois. It was declared a desecration of the Sabbath which should be eliminated absolutely.”

When in the temperance movement Sunday is singled out for special attention, we may pretty well rest assured that religious sentiment and religious reasons lie at the bottom of the legislation demanded. W. A. C.