The Idaho Sunday Law by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 21, 1911

The Idaho Sunday Law

By Editor

Unintelligible, Inoperative, Inequitable.— The Idaho Sunday law, proclaimed by Mr. Tufts, a Sunday-law advocate, to be one of the best, is pronounced by Governor Hawley, in his message to the Legislature, to be "unintelligible," and its repeal recommended. A despatch from Boise, dated February 1, says that the "liberals" of the House passed a bill "amending the Sunday rest law by which bakeries, fruit and shoe-shining stands, may keep open on the sabbath. The Representatives supported the measure unanimously. The Senate passed and sent to the House a bill allowing city councils and village boards the right to permit moving-picture shows and theaters to remain open on Sunday when petitioned by a majority of the electors." A few more such amendments and the Sunday law men would doubtless pronounce the law inoperative. Whatever form it takes, a Sunday law can never be made equitable or consistent.