Pennsylvania Sunday Law
By Editor
Pennsylvania Sunday Law.—The secretary of the Pennsylvania State Game Commission writes to the White Haven Journal that "the act prohibiting hunting on Sunday was not drawn with the idea of protecting the sanctity of the Sabbath, but was drawn with the idea and for the purpose of giving the game of the State one day's rest in seven." For some years past we have heard a great deal about laws to enforce one day's rest in seven, no doubt because of any religious idea, etc., etc.; but we notice that such propositions are always embodied in Sunday laws. We happen to know that the first proposition of the kind was made by a prominent Sunday-law champion for the express purpose of securing a State Sunday law in California, and that it was urged in the councils of its advocates as a means of covering up the real object of the law. But it is hardly probable that the Pennsylvania game birds and animals would have any choice as to the day of rest from their enemies.