The Sunday Question on Common-Sense Principles
It is about time that the Sunday question was settled upon common-sense principles. The people of New Haven have been agitated by the proposal to run the street cars on the Lord’s day, and a large meeting in favor of so doing has been held. The general idea of Sabbatarian laws is that no one shall engage on the first day in any works excepting those of necessity or charity. But wherever this law exists, it is now constantly violated, and, more or less, it always has been. It is held to be no sin to ride to church in a coach, although those who are carried might easily walk. It would seem to follow that those who are not opulent enough to own a coach should be allowed at a cheap rate the use of a car. Better have a mild Sunday law strictly observed than a stringent one disregarded.—N. Y. Tribune.