Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-26
SUNDAY LAWS IN NEW JERSEY


The people of New Jersey, Ike those of
Memphis, are discussing the Sunday laws.
A fight is going on at Newark in regard to
the Sunday laws, and it is very pretty fight
as it now stands. The BARRIERS, the Ger
mans and vendors of malt liquors have car
ried the war into Africa In the sanity city
of Newark, on Sunday morning, the wagons
and vehicles of butchers, bakers, milkmen
and gardeners were allowed to parade the
streets as usual. A few Puritans, who
thought this sort of business all right and
proper, organized "a law and order associa-
tion," for the purpose of rigid enforcement
of the Sunday laws. The whisky shops, the
cigar stands and the beer gardens were in
continently closed under the law, which was
very clear upon this point. The saloon
keepers, the BARRIERS, the proprietors of the
beer gardens, backed by the German popula-
ton, organized for the purpose of fighting the
association which had selected them as espe-
cal victims. The result of the contest, which
is fierce and full of bitterness, is thus an
nounced by the New York Tribune: "They
found, to their surprise, that all secular en-
Payments were forbidden on the Sabbath
day. There was no prohibition of a mans
kissing his wife on that day. Such an alb
surd enactment was never heard of any
where. This unnatural provision was en-
bodied in a set of laws which were never en-
acted, and which had no more permanent
basis than the fertile brain of Yankee
scribbler. But the New Jersey law-blue
enough for Sabbath breakers--did prohibit
all manner of activity, the working Of yeast
alone excepted. The Sunday laws of New
Jersey provide that no travelling, worldly
employment or business, ordinary or servile
work on land or water works of charity or
necessity alone excepted), shall be done or
performed on the christian Sabbath. 1t is
also provided that no goods or chattels shall
be exposed for sale or vended, as meat, fruit,
fish, herbs, milk, or vegetables; nor shall
anyone travel on that day, except when 60
ing to or from church, or going for physi-
clan, surgeon, or midwife, or in the SER
vice of the United States mail car
riage. The running of passenger stages
is prohibited, and the movement of
the wagons and vehicles of butchers, bakers,
milkmen. etc., is expressly forbidden. No
body would have supposed that such sweep
ing statute was borne upon the books of any
State in the Union if the Law and Order So
ciety of Newark had not attempted to en-
force the law fortidding the sale of spiritu-
GUS and malt liquors upon the Sabbath day.
But those who rebelled against this enforce
ment said that if they could not sell their
beer and spirits on that day, the milkmsn
should not sell his milk, the butcher should
not sell his meat, nor the peanut merchant
vend his nuts, nor the street cars Iun, nor
the New Jersey Central railway and the
Pennsylvania railroad move their regular
trains. This was a strike at the business and
bosoms Of. the people of New Jersey. Nine
tenths of them, possibly, do not need that
the beer saloons and whisky shops should be
open on Sunday. But cessation of the
trains and an embargo on butchers, bakers
and mikmen would carry want and woe into
many households on Sunday. 1t Is said that
those who have revived the statute against
the Sunday selling of milk, meat and vege-
tables, intend to make so odious all statutes
against Sunday traffic that the entire mass of
legislation bearing upon this subject shall be
swept from the statute books"