Blue Laws Wanted by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 16.

Blue Laws Wanted

By Editor

Blue Laws Wanted.—A New York paper tells us that Philip Goetz, of No. 87 Butler Street, Flatbush, called on the magistrate on Sunday, March 22, to have Mrs. Cook, one of his tenants, arrested for running a sewing machine on Sunday. The magistrate was not in. "'Isn't there a law prohibiting any sort of work on Sunday?' asked Mr. Goetz. 'Yes,' said the clerk, 'but it is one of the old blue laws.' 'Then I want the blue laws enforced in this case,' replied Mr. Goetz." And this illustrates how personal spite will put in operation unjust laws. Such laws ought not to be on the statute book. Mrs. Cook had as much right to sew in her home on Sunday as Mr. Goetz did in his on Monday.