Sunday and the Laboring Classes
THIS is the advice which Archbishop Ireland gave to workingmen at the Labor Congress in Chicago; we quote from the New York Observer of October 19:— Workingmen, hold fast to the observance of the Sunday; it is your day more than the day of men of other conditions of life. The Sunday effaced or diminished, you are in abject perpetual slavery, or rapidly moving thither. Heed not the specious pleas addressed to you in the name of your interests by men pagan in mind and barbarous in heart, who seek to win you over to the profanation of Sunday in order to be able to gratify their own lust of greed. It was the same prelate who said, a few years ago, that “the violator of a Sunday law is the worst of criminals.” Protestants and Roman Catholics are together on the Sunday question. Protestantism, so called, is going over to Roman Catholicism. Sunday belongs to Rome.