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The Sunday-Law Movement in California

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Sep 19, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 38.

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The Sunday-Law Movement in California

By Editor

WE are informed by the Weekly Rest Day League that they secured a total of only 8,610 signatures to their petitions favoring the initiation of a weekly rest-day law here in California, to be voted on at the election in November. Many of our readers may be pleased to get the report in detail, which is in the next paragraph:—
"The following is the number of petitions certified to by the different county clerks and forwarded to the secretary of state: Kern County, 17; Colusa, 22; Amador, 24; Nevada, 42; Marin, 52; San Luis Obispo, 54; Sutter, 55; San Francisco, 59; Butte, 61; Napa, 73; Humboldt, 79; Yuba, 79; Solano, 80; Santa Cruz, 81; Orange, 84; Mendocino, 86; Lake, 89; Merced, 101; Sacramento, 107; Kings, 108; Sonoma, 113; San Benito, 125; Tulare, 149; Santa Barbara, 155; Stanislaus, 172; Imperial, 174; San Joaquin, 208; Contra Costa, 261; San Diego, 306; Fresno, 322; San Bernardino, 368; Riverside, 518; Santa Clara, 603; Alameda, 1,475; Los Angeles, 2,307. Total, 8,610."
On the face of it, the showing is that there is not very much enthusiasm in California in favor of a general Sunday law.—The Signs of the Times, Sept. 3, 1912.