The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-24
sunday Work.


lEot We IusIttctf.t
Messrs. Editors. win you answer al
question for an old subscriber who mas peen
4 reader OF the Dispatch for many years
why do you allow your paper 70 De dis'.i'
buted Sunday mornings As Chr'stisn ear
tors YOU doubtless recognize the opigauou
TO keen the Christian Sabbath In some way.
Even IL you take the lowest grouna-tnal IL
4 10 be observed only as q day OF rest iIon
unnecessary work-upon The GROUND tnst
the fourth commandment, the only exp,ess
law on the subject requires notn'ny put
entire cess alton from work, and that 10 Keep
the Sabbath day-A0ty only means tnas y ~
b be set apart for rest and so made diuervh.
from ot,ler days; still, why DO you make or
allow the carriers TO work on tna. usy w
delivering the paperf II was not 80 oen,-
ered- n mistake not, a few years ago. AT
terxsrds Il was delivered Sunday but dated
Mrday: and now II Is delivered and dated
Sunday. and Is openly, as 1t was before
really. sunday paper. Surely you would
moi violate law OF God. or connive at VI
sJation OF It, to crafty that large class OF
readers who are not scrupulous about their
SUNDAY reading, especially when by so 90
ing you put snare in the way oil those VINE
think they ought TO be scrupulous, auu VINO
believe that the Christian Sabbath, or LORDS
day, ought TO be kept hoty in other ways
than by rest from work (; and especiaiIy,
also. when, as | suppose, you have as yet
no Sunday competitor to fear. f.f
We are glad that our good friend has
asked us this question. We reply that tue
work OF Tuesdays issue Is done on Mon
day that OF Wednesdays issue IS done on
Tuesday; and that OF each days issue on
the day Immediately preceding the one on
which Il Is dated. Consequently the work
OF Sundays issue is done on Saturday. III
we were to publish paper on Monday, the
work upon it would be done on SUNDAY. IL
would be dated on Monday, issued on Mon
day. and delivered TO subscribers on Mon
day--all under false pretences-but would
have been the product Of Sunday work.
1t IS an impossiblity to publish daily
paper such as p. z. and other men like him
demand without more or less OF Sunday
work. III we were to put our paper to
press carly enough Saturday night to get
the whole edition worked of, mailed, and
sent TO the post-office before IL O'Clock, we
should thereby merely transfer the Sunday
work to postal employees. Besides, our
paper would have no news in 1t later than
GP. NJ. Saturday, and u. 2. would scorn to
take such paper-e especially on Monday.
IL we were TO compel our carriers to de-
liver papers Monday morning to such per-
sons as =. p, they would complain OF us as
Oppressors OF the poor. The carriers pur-
ho fpnp Ire these
their own private property, except in the
case Of very few copies which are de-
livered to the editors. u. p. can make any
arrangement which will suit him and his
carrier as to the time when his paper shall
be delivered.
But, finally, due regard for candor re-
quires us to add that ii any other journal
were to put out daily issue in Richmond
on Monday, doing all the work upon 1t on
Sunday, the editors of the Dispatch would
be forced in self-defence to do likewise. II
we failed to do so, nine tenths, or perhaps
ninety-nine huudredths, of the strictest
Sabbatariaus in Richmond would discard
the Dispatch as Old-fogyish and behind the
times, and take d" live paper" containing
all the Sunday news. We would get no
sympathy il we should lose all OF our SUBJ
scrbers.
We must take the world as it is. d" The
Sabbath was made for man; not man for
the Sabbath" This writer was brought up
after the strictest manner Of the Presbyte-
rians; and he will never be able to divest
himself of the early impressions made upon
his mind upon this subject. He has not
outgrown these superstitions," and ex-
poets never to outgrow them. But his con.
science upbraids him not for publishing
Sunday paper. On the contrary, he every
week congratuates himself that he is able
to be so faithful to his Presbyterian predi-
lections as to do all the work Oil Saturday
which he is in continual dread OF having to
do on Sunday.