The Trouble with Sunday Laws
COMMENTING on the decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Court sustaining the conviction by the lower court of a man charged with breaking the Sunday law because he had picked cranberries on Sunday, the New York Christian Advocate says:— If a society with good sense could be formed to promote the prosecution of violations of the Sunday law, it would be a good thing. By good sense is meant judgment enough to direct their entire efforts to real abuses. Any law which rightfully has a place on the statute-books does not call for “a society with good sense” in order to decide when to enforce it and when not to enforce it. The trouble with Sunday laws is fundamental. There is no good sense in having them on the statute-books.