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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 11, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 2.

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WHY ON SUNDAY ONLY?

By Editor

Notice that it is the "Sunday-observing up-state people" who are determined that New York Sunday laws shall be enforced; and here let it be clearly stated and distinctly understood that the closing of the saloons ought not to be, with morally strong and Christian people, a debatable question. The saloons should be closed. They are evil and only evil. But when you single out Sunday as a day upon which they are to be closed out of deference to the "Sunday-observing up-state people," you begin to mingle the religious question of Sunday observance with a matter that should be purely a question of temperance and the closing of the saloons, not only on Sunday, but on all days of the week alike; for there is no dodging the fact that if the saloons are closed on Sunday only, a sort of sanction is given to the idea that it is all right to drink on the other days of the week. Regardless of what they may think of Sunday, no temperance people can afford to make any such compromise as this.