Imaginary Victories for the Sabbath
SEVERAL of the religious and "reform" papers have been rejoicing over the "great victory for the sabbath" achieved through President Cleveland's request that the proposed Sunday concert in the Pension Building be omitted from the inauguration program. But the report of the doings on that eventful occasion, published in the Voice, the leading prohibition paper of the country, punctures a large hole in the little bauble. True, there was no Sunday concert in the Pension Building, but the same building was turned into an unlicensed barroom on inauguration day, and was run on into the Sunday hours. And on that same Sunday the bars of the capital were kept open and crowded with hilarious patriots gathered in from all parts of the country. If such scenes as the Voice describes may be counted as a "victory for the sabbath," it is demonstrated that the Sunday reformers can cut imaginary victories out of very small cloth.