Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-05-13
NON OBSERVANCE OF THE
SARRATH


SABBATH.
To many Of our residents, the non-ob-
servsnce of the Christian Sabbath has be-
come matter Of anxious thought, and a
desire 10 have il observed in a proper
manner is almost universal. The obstacles
are the proprietors of stores, saloons, and
Superintendents of mines and mills.
While each and all will agree as to the
propriety, yer each class have reasons
which they advance as excuses for per>is-
tence in what they admit 10 be wrong
doing. injurious to themselves and en-
ployees, and contrary to their instincts
and early teachings. A model Sabbath,
and the only one ever seen in this town,
was exempli6ed on the day of the obse-
quies of President Lincoln What could
be done then, is possible on any other day
or DAYS. Men with families now have
no opportunity to Pass single day with
them; those with children who would
like to teach them to remember the Sab
bath day to keep it holy" are obliged TO
refrain, as their example is to the con-
trary. Children, taught the life precepts
in the Sabbath schools, are injured by
seeing a systematic violation Of the Divine
commandments by an entire community.
Religious men, obliged to work in mines
for livelihood, are told that they must
work on Sundays or leave-thus placing
distress and poverty against their princi-
pie. Young men, whose morals and
principles are unfxed. find the latitude Of
morals here license and excuse for licen-
t;ousness and evil-doing. In new COM
nunity such evils are to be expected, en-
dured, and counterscted. We are now
four years old. and families daily add TO
the settling and permanency OF our insti-
tu,ions. We have churches, societies and
homes. where all can worship and enjoy
relaxation from the vexatious cares, trials
and hardships of the week. Il is COM
mon remark. that nowhere does time fy
50 swiftly. nowhere do prosperity and ad-
versity so ten exslt or depress the masses.
Yet no step is taken TO regulate social or
public life and bring it into accord with
that found needful in older settled COM
munities. The only arguments that are
needful seem to be: to merchantS-that
out ninety-;hrec in every hundred ever
succeed in acquiring compe,ence-that
their customers can do all their trading in
six DAYS as well a. in seven-that for their
own profit. and for the benefit Of their
clerks, they can obtain more income and
labor by intermitting one day in seven, so
thar for all economic reasons they should
close. For saloons, nothing but the strong
arm of the State will prove efectual. as
the idle, the dissipated and lawless will
always support and maintain them. A
rigid SUNDAY Law would be to the salts
faction of all employees, though resisted BY
the 2roprietors. Superintendent Of mills
and mines are more largely interested,
and greater in adverse influence than
al of the other classes combined.
Tney are salaried-oblised to produce GER
tain results, whether circumstances favor
or not, and make all things work to the
one end. If bricks must be made with or
without straw, the honest miner must &C.
ceps the terms, or leave. As matter Of
fact, more ore can be mined by men who
work six, than By men who work seven
DAYS in the week. The expenditure Of
brute force, and brain W ,rk in this town,
20 realize large profits for stockholders in
California and the East, will exceed
twenty-five per cent. that of any commu-
ni,y of the Psciic. An average life here
is ,hirty-6ve to forty, and the hundreds
who drop into their graves st-that early
age, are victims to the rapacity of men
who sit in fine. high-priced pews in
churches in California and New York and
kso.O tina, they are living and preyins upon
the life and substance of Sunday labor,
and laborers, in Nevada. Not mining
Superintendent but would close every
Sabbath, if so allowed by the Trustees of
his Company, and nothing but hosting
works would be found in operation at
Gold Hill on Sundays, which would be
required to keep the claims free from
water.
In mills, the loss is one day. whichever
way you may count it. Hitherto many
Of our best mills have been in debt, and
worked constantly to defray their OUTLAWS.
To-day, bu, few are behind, and the loss
of one day, though seemingly great one
should be borne, for the sake Of the public
good. 1t is difficult to exhibit this at
present, BY any other showing than East
ern mills and mills in California that do
not work on the Sabbath day. They live,
thrive, sustain public morals, enable en-
ployees TO live like men and not slaves,
and annually accumulate more for them
selves and make more for their employers
than they would if required to work con-
stantly. No good reason exists why all
business svocations should not cease en-
tirely on Sundays-and this article is to
call public attention TO the fact that we
ara behind the world in this respect, and
to excite discussion of the subject.
TIE largest tape-worn Of which there is
any record was taken from a man named
Curnow, by DR.. Vandenberg Of San Fran.
cisco. Il was FIVE hundred feet lung, and
contained forty-two thousand joints The
whole thing weighs two and half pounds
Exchange paper.
That chap was Wsshoe Jason, referred