Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-08-15
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[Fr.m the New York Evening, POST


[Frsm the New York Evening" Post
| The casual and lawless New Highlander
who, some hundred years ago, was accus-
toned to digging in the garden. or chopping
wood, or picking up stones-for which lie
often was made to suffer the prescribed pains
in this world, not to speak OF his fate in the
other--would now find his favorite method
OF protesting against the conventionalities u
| society in such common use as to be no
longer pleasant or desirable In his eyes. la
one way or another Sunday has lest much of
its distinctive character AZ day OF rest The
compact and artificial life Of large cities abb
solutely demands. in certain parts Of its COM
plicased machinery, craseless labor, but
even 10 rural districts businesses have spruag
up or are so managed as to require men to
work on Sunday. The management of cheese
fact tories, Of smelting furnaces, of steam and
horse railroad cars, OF steamboat travel and
or those newspaper Offices which publish
Sunday editions, Indicate in an alarming
way the tendency Of modern custom, both
in town and country, to disregard the wise
provision which declares that in six days we
ehall do MI our labor. aud on the seventh rest.
The evils OF this innovation are felt grfav-
ously by those whose time tor rest is thus
consumed. 4 striking example OF this is tur-
nished in a paper which We find in tks report
for 1873 81 the New, York Sabbath Commit
tee, an organization always earnest in its Of
forts TO perprtuate the first day or he week,
not only as day of rest. but as the Sabbath
The paper referred to Is in the form of PEI
ttion. in which tour hundred and fifty loco
motive engineers recently asked Mir. Wander
bilt to put M end to the Sunday traffic OF the
New York Central and Hudson River Rail
roads. sSome of the evils Of working seven
days in the week are therein recounted. At
first but one train was run on MIR. Wander
bits roads on Sunday: now there are thir-
ty run each way, involving not only the labor
Of the engineers, but of many brakemen, sta
tion-masters, telegraph operators and many
snbordinates. Four reasons are urged against
this Sunday traffic. First, that tits never
ending toll destroys the health; second, that
those who thus work seven days in the week
are deprived Of .sll church, family and So
cial privileges that other citizens enjoys
third, that children observe and instincliyely
Initiate the example OF their fathers, thereby
tending TO make this special evil G ganeral
one; and fourth. because 1t destroys the sell
respect OF those who are thus deprived Of the
weekly rest which is commonly given to cat
tie. The petitioners f-.ther declare that they
believe they en- do IS much work in six days
rs they now do continuously in ssven--which
is un do,btedly true-and therefore ask for
some relief.
This question, looked at so,ely IS matter
Of dollars and cents, 10 I. Tery Important one,
aud. il our opinioa, ought 20 be d ciGed in
favor of tie mantaincGca ai one day in seven
az day OF rezG. 1t IL true that the conditions
Of modern society aie eglh - to reauirs SER
viee of some kinds to bs rendered Gu Sunday. |
but there il no reason why any aorting man,
he writes for the public Journals or
drives pair of horses in front OF horse car
should be deprived OF all time to rest. Ii |
there is anything to which man has . right, |
Il ID to his time, and those VINO hire cut Il cir
services to othrrs ought TO insist that one
seventh of their time IL their own, to Ge used /
ss they ses ft.. IndiferaHs.e to CT gtab,nissinn /
"a this point viii lead to the degradation and |
OF labor, as COMPARED with cap
tai, more than any other ore thiag. and SO
will unnecessarily and dis@sgrously co,npli- |
cate relation which is already sufficiently |
delicate and sensitive. Such business as the |
public conysnlence requires to be done on
Sunday ere in Their natufe special, and they
should be carried on by special wcrkinen
The profits derived fran tkem are extraordi-
nary, and it ID only fair that the cost oi main
tanning them should also be over end above
The ordinary expenses. Otherwise tue work I
men will BE- les efficient, will wear OFT soon
sr, and lagor itself will become weaser and |
less respectable as population and capital
increase.