Sunday Closing Is Not Temperance
By Editor
An Eastern paper says: "A strong temperance movement has been developed in London." And the reason for the statement is formed principally in the fact that upon "a recent Sunday all the drinking places in that great city were closed." But as the saloons continue running as usual six days in the week we fail to see that any great strength has been developed in behalf of temperance. To close saloons only on Sunday is to tacitly admit that the liquor business is legitimate on all other days. "Sunday closing" and "high license" are not in the interests of prohibition; for the more "respectable" and law abiding the saloon business becomes, the more dangerous it is, and the harder to suppress altogether.