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Blue Laws Revived

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 8, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 10.

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Blue Laws Revived

By Allen Moon

From the Lake Union Herald of Feb. 16, 1910
In the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, several saloon-keepers were sentenced by the mayor to attend church service on Sunday, and to bring a certificate of the fact from the pastor of some church to the sheriff of the county, as a penalty for having violated the Sunday-closing ordinance. The sentence was carried out on Sunday, January 30, the saloon-keepers applying to the minister at the close of the service for the required certificate.
It is a crime to sell to men, to drink, that which will poison body and brain; but bigots see the criminality of the traffic only when it violates their religious sentiments regarding the sacredness of Sunday. And then they demand that the violators be sent to them by law to be instructed on the subject of Sunday sacredness rather than the crime of killing men with drink. This is blue laws with a vengeance. ALLEN MOON.