The Sunday Question and the Late Strike
AMONG the lessons which Dr. Joseph Cook draws from the late strike are the following: "The worth of the national army," he says, "is better understood and the necessity of increasing its numbers is very generally granted by an aroused public sentiment," and intimately connected with this is the Sunday question. He declares; "The worth of Sunday has been emphasized by the lawlessness of those who rarely observe it. Most of the rioters and many of the strikers have been men who have little or no regard for Sunday, and who receive little instruction and hear hardly any discussion of the labor question outside their own organizations." Would we understand that all these things which are lacking, according to Dr. Cook, must be furnished through the forces of the law, and if necessary, by the increase of the army?