California and Religious Liberty
By John O. Corliss
giving out of such information, many would be induced to vote for the proposed Sunday rest law, who would not do so were not the aforementioned religious class to be protected. But let voters remember this in using their Initiative privilege on this question: The proposed law once on the statute-book, a second majority vote could remove its exemption clause as easily as the first one placed it in the law. And ground would easily be found to induce such a movement. A religious law has no more right on the statute-books by use of the Initiative, than if placed there by a vote of the legislature in session. The only safe course in this thing is to let well enough alone, by giving an emphatic NO to every proposition to foist an enforced Sunday rest upon the people.