President Roosevelt, in an article in the Century Magazine for October, 1900, expressed the following sentiment: "In this country we are long past the stage of regarding it as any part of the state's duty to enforce a particular religious dogma." It is to be hoped that he will remember and honor this utterance when the time comes, as it surely will, when he will be called upon to affix his seal to any Sunday-enforcement law. For compulsory Sunday observance in any degree is the enforcement of a religious dogma. Nothing but religion ever made Sunday in any way distinctive from other days, and but for the alleged religious character of the day we would not hear any clamor for its enforced observance on any pretext whatever. The physical rest argument, the sanitary claim, and
