SOME of our prohibition papers we see are still deceived with that thousand times exploded fallacy that to protect men in their right to observe a day of rest it is necessary to have a law to protect the day. Protecting men and the rights of men is one thing. This is just what governments are instituted for,—to protect men in their rights. And this does not apply to one class, but to every class. In fact, the government should know no class among its citizens. All are on an equality there. But protecting a day or an institution by law is another thing. That always means favoring the class which hold to that day or that institution. If the Sunday institution be the thing around which the government shall throw protecting and fostering arms, then the class of people exalted above all others are those who hold to Sunday, while those who oppose Sunday as a religious institution are really placed by such laws in antagonism to the government, while those who are merely indifferent to the so-called sacredness of the day are by the same government placed in an inferior position to those who observe the day. Legislation to favor a religious institution of any kind is class legislation, and should not for a moment be tolerated in a government.