Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1853-01-13
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and We are glad to know that the views here
expressed are becoming extensively estab-
lished in the experience of rail roads.
The reasen in favor Of entire rest on all
Rail Roads during the hours of the Sabbath
seem 10 us to be cumulative, convincing, and
unanswerable.
Sabbath trains "VOnt pay"
This is becoming more and more the cur
rent testimony OF experience. Almost all
the New England roads bear it. We hear
it from some of those Ohio roads which have
had most experience. The reasons sre-the
longer journey. without using the Sabbath
Probably the considerate traveller would not
choose TO trust himself to such hands as can
be hired to labor on this day. There are
some who have noticed that far more acci-
dents occur on this day-in proportion to
the business, done, than on any other.
Again, Sabbath trains don't pay because
). they always cost the company and their
Roads the good feeling Of large and respect
able part of the adjacent community of which
we must say more hereafter
But, financially considered, Sabbath trains
must always be losing concern in the long
run-for the simple reason that it is cheaper
to the same amount of business in six days
equipped state,a road mayb so pressed as not
to Re able to do all its legitimate freighting
in weeks Of six days; but this will be only
temporary state. The rule will soon be
capacity enough for all business; and under
this rule it is miserable economy to spin out
through seven days what could be done
nearly one seventh cheaper in six.
i 2. The men employed on the Road and
on the trains, need Sabbath rest.
i They need it because they are human,
and their nerves and muscles will not bear
everlasting tension. They need it the more
because they often get only scanty allow
ance Of night rest: and yet the more because
their employment are unusually exciting,
and consequently, exhausting; and because in
most, cases they labor and must labor un-
der the pressure of heavy responsibility
Oyertask your engineer till his power Of close
attention falters, and the consequences are
likely to be terrible. 1t is the maddest and
most suicidal policy to over-work railroad
men. No class of laborers more need Sab
bath rest, for its physical benefits, than they.
! They need it also, to spend with their
families. They need its social, mora, and
religious advantages, and the more for being
so much cut off during the six days Of their
accustomed labor. No men have stronger
claim to demand the blessing of the Sabbath
f than they.
3. Thuse companies that run Sabbath trains
debar thems absolutely from the services of
the best class of hands. The most trusty,
competent, and accomplished men will not
60 upon their road to labor even occasionally
on the Sabbath,
We do not say there are no trusty men
among those who can be hired to violate the
the Sabbath: but we know their number is
small. We know that no sagacious business
man would be put into responsible trusts
We know that the experience of ages as well
as the eternal laws of mind prove that the
only reliable trustworthiness is the product
of cherished moral and religious principle.
! 1t is saying but little to affirm that the
interests entrusted to Rail Road employer:
: are too great and too precious to be entrust
ed to men who do not demand Sabbath rest
4. The demorahzing influence Of Sa65dti
j Rail- Roads is fearful AT the terminus o
, their routes and at all stations, they draw
together crowds Of idlers, whose throng OBJ
f structs regular business, (even supposins
4 such business important on the Sabbath }
: promotes rowdyism not to say ruttianlsm
The influence of these gathering is doubly
worse on Sunday than on other days because
they are made up of the class that know NJ
Sabbath-because the staid, responsible mer
of society are all withdrawn, SO that idleness
and vice have the finest sort of hot-bed for tht
terrific development of theirnature. The qule
of even such mems usual Sabbath is turned
1 into turmoils, fights, and drunkenness.
? Yet further, the influence of the Sabbath
train goes everywhere against the quiet and
sacredness of the Sabbath. 1t is bold, dar-
ing, dashing example of Sabbath proclamation
It seems to trampe down and crush the Sab
bath in its laundering, reckless sweep o.
g power.
:: Sabbath trains are most grievous offence
S to the Sabbath-keeping portion of the com
= munity No annoyance to their feelings NJ
s disturbance to their worship, could be worse
: As compared with the old mail-coach, they
= distance it in aggraVation of offence, as they
S do in the lightning of their speed, the thund
o er of their rumbling, and the fearfulness o
c their scream.
= We learn that steps are being taken in a
S least one New York village to indict the Sab
: bath trains as nuisance. No indictment
S could be more legitimate-both under th
common law and under the Sabbath statutes
our country.
On the other hand, the resting of Rail
;ns for the Sabbath would operat
bly, at the points where they stop
ould be the large and GROWN:
rs would have welcome op
a personal acquaintanc