, 1876-11-11
Weekly Pugsl Sound Dispatch.
SATURDAY. NOV. II, 1876
HOLIDAYS vs.. HOLY DAYS.

from the presses OF this establish
ment, has given rise to some remark
among the more serious of our pat
-rons and We propose to answer il
Boldly. We Issue the DISPATCH on
Sunday that, in common with our
compositors and pressmen, we may
enjoy the repose designed by Him
who ordained "Six days shalt thou
labor and do all thou hast to do. y
Had we designed to issue this paper
on Mondays, our compositors would
be obliged to pull off their coats on
Sunday at noon, to distribute type
for the next days issue. Under the
present system, however, they find
the Sabbath day of rest from toll;
and in what other way they spend
their time, is more OF our business.
The prejudices of Puritanism
against Sunday newspapers are fast
disappearing, and to the late Morde
cal NJ. Noah, of New York, more
than ''any other man." is due the
credit of disarming this intolerance.
The blue-light law element fought
it with unabated zeal and it, at first,
seemed vain to argue with them that
the only Sabbath breakers i'll our
craft were the publishers OF Mon
day morning papers. But the name
sake of the Captain of the Ark
fought the battle nobly, till at last
bigotry suecumbed to liberal Chris
tianity and prejudice yielded to in
tclligcnce.
ahis was mainly attributable,
however, to false and pernicious
sort Of religious education, which
makes Sunday too much of day of
azorship and not enough of a day of
relaxation. The schoolboy has his
holiday on Saturday, bat the clerk
or the artisan, must wiring his daily
bread from out the frowns Of Nature
en- shat day, as we'll as any other. Is
It any;wonder that religious obser-
~-Yances become irksome to youth
who are he,de9--that's the word-to
>-he sanctuary twice day, with
sandwich of Sabbath school thrown
in2 The buoyant mind Of 6 child
. cannet always be droning over
.ireary platitudes and ecclesiastical
dognlas; and parents ought to real
ize it.
l'ne Germans manage this thing
better than we do, both secularly-
and religionsly. They have their
Kindergarten schools, to lessen the
,irksome monotory of study through
the week. On Sunday mornings
thev 90 to some church and in the
afternoon, to some garden OF recre-
alton. Take the great "Belvilere'
garden at Dresden. 1t has orches-
tra of sixty instrumental performers
every Sunday, besides q dozen of
She i,ighest-salaried vocalists. Go
sSkere On Sunday and you will see
father. mother and children, all en-
ioying that glorious music and qui-
etly slipping glass of beer or white
wine. The band strikes up an air,
and the prattling youngsters begin
to dispute whether Auber, Beetho-
ven or Mozart, is the author Our
word forit, that in thetwenty thoas-
and souls who congregate there,
not q drunkard can be seen nor
blasphemer heard. We need more
of this early home education in
America and we shall have fewer
Stokeses in our penitentiaries.
Though not & churchgoer by
habit, we respect religion and honor
those who sincerely preach tie words
of the lowly Nazarene, whose ORR
tlamme of peace was borne by the
sublime old Italian sailor in triumph
across the stormy seas. We have
pursued the arduons avocation of an
editor for fourteen years out of the
past twenty; and in all that time, we
defy any man to produce a single
line from our pen in which the name
OF the Deity is spoken, save in rev.
erence. And until we do so recant
upon the blessed teachings of our
absent, but not forgotten, mother,
we shall have no cause to be
ashamed of publishing the SUNDAY
DISPATCH.
The Coos County Oregon) safe
in the Treasurer's office has been
robbed again and some $4,000 alb
stracted. While We heartily sympa-
thize with the Treasurer and his
bondsmen, we don't pity the people
of the county a bit. It serves them
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