Inconsistency of Sunday-law Arguments.
The effort to make liquor-selling on Sunday appear worse than the same traffic on other days leads men into many inconsistent positions. The New York Examiner (Baptist) quotes Mr. Low, Republican candidate for mayor, as saying that the extreme of the Sunday-excise law is the extreme of injustice. Then by way of reply it says this is an aphorism which Mr. Low would hardly apply to the case of a murderer condemned to death. There would be good logic in the comparison if murder were forbidden by the law only on Sunday. Every argument for Sunday prohibition of liquor-selling is a tacit admission that the traffic is proper on other days. To be consistent with its criticism of Mr. Low, the Examiner must assume that murder is wrong only on Sunday. Truly, “the legs of the lame are not equal.”