California and Sunday Laws
By Editor
Now that the Puritan Sunday has won at Chicago, the next great battle will be over the midwinter Exposition in San Francisco. California as a whole has stood on the right side of this Sunday question for many years, and the reproaches which have been showered upon her by the Sundarians are in truth testimonials to her honor. It is true that recently some counties have, under pretense of "temperance laws," adopted Sunday closing, but Dr. Thompson, of the Sabbath Union, calls them just what they are,—so many victories for the Sunday sabbath. He said recently in this city that California in the matter of Sunday laws was breaking out in spots like the measles, and soon, like the measles, the spots would all run together and cover the State. The disease is worse than measles; it is better compared to virulent smallpox, or fretting leprosy. Woe be to the commonwealth of the Golden State when she succumbs to religious domination! It behooves the friends of true liberty to lift a warning voice.