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A Blue Law

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 19, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 16.

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A Blue Law

The people of Texas are popularly supposed to be a rough, irreligious people. But the Legislature of that State, at its last session, passed a law which would be denounced as “blue” had it been enacted in one of the New England States. It provides for punishing profanity by a fine of one hundred dollars, if the obnoxious language is used within a certain distance of a dwelling-house. The idea of the law is, doubtless, to protect the young from being demoralized by evil communications.—Religious Intelligencer.