A Great Issue Over Religious Dogma
By Editor
In last week's paper, we had an article by S. B. Horton, calling attention to the Sunday laws that have already been introduced at this session of Congress. Mr. Horton also spoke of the efforts that are continued to prohibit the use of the mails to publications that express disapproval of another man's religion. On another page of this issue will be found an article from Elder Cottrell, telling of the efforts in Portland, and elsewhere in Oregon, and in Washington, to have a stricter Sunday, and to compel its observance by civil law, regardless of whether the individual chooses to observe that day or not. A case is prominently before the court in Oklahoma of a man who was prosecuted for working on Sunday, and that notwithstanding the fact that he is a strict seventh-day observer. There is no reason why common labor may not be performed on Sunday as well as on any other day of the week, unless we take into account the religious sentiments that cluster around the day.