The Saturday Half-Holiday Movement
The Christian at Work says, "The Saturday half-holiday movement is fairly under way, and the stores and offices are generally being closed, some at noon, mostly at one o'clock, others close at three, and still others refuse to close at all. But the movement is in the air—it certainly is in the air, and the end will be a free Saturday holiday." Perhaps all do not see the significance of this movement, which the religious papers are so actively championing. It is simply a move toward a strict Sunday law. One argument against such a law is that it is an injustice to the laboring classes, to prohibit them from having a holiday on Sunday, when they have been confined all the week. The Saturday closing movement was devised to remove that objection, so that there could be no excuse for not having a quiet Sunday. It is claimed that business will not suffer by the change, if it becomes general.