Connecticut western news., 1883-07-25

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 IN ITS issue of July II, the Valley Ledger propounded four conundrums about the Sunday train. No 1 was;
 Measured strictly by the scale of right and wrong, wherein lies the difference
 between a Sunday milk, freight, passen- ger and accommodation train, and a Sunday newspaper and passenger train ?" Our reply was; "We don't see any great difference, measured by the rule you furnish us to use, do you ?" We further stated "we have our doubts about there being any necessity for run ming even the milk train on Sunday. !"
 We also stated; ''the same excuse given for running that train cannot ap- ply to the newspaper train" We also gave several reasons why it was an i'm possibility for the milk train to do as much harm as the newspaper train can. The principle of right and wrong is the same in both cases all the difference is the milk train alone cannot make day for excur- slons, while the newspaper train can and does as long as the excursionist can re- turn home on the milk train. If the Led ger is not satisfied with the answer we gave will they please enlighten us and the public by publishing their answer to their own conundrum and not dodge 1t by appealing to the inventor of rat traps or the father of Zebedee's chil- dren to help it out of it's dilemma.
 The Ledger's second conundrum was,
 "Are the morals of those communities through which Sunday trains have been run for years, as bad as those anti train ists predict, and if so, can suchdemoraliza- tlon be traced directly toSunday trains :? This question removes the battle-ground from the Housatonic valley to some oth- CT section of our country. Sunday trains have never been run through the Housatonic valley until this season. In the first place you fail to inform us how bad those morals are which you say the anti-trainists predict. We have seen none of those predictions you refer to, ii you have, please state them and To- cate them so we can investigate the sub- Ject. We venture to say however that Sunday trains have not improved the morals of those communities. The Sunday trains question and the rum question are similar in many respects. You stated last week that rum reveals mems characters, just as the cutthroats' dirk reveals the blood of its victim, and that one is not required to be temper ance fanatic in order to see that so far from making mems characters, rum demoralizes and destroys them, I a. gree with you on that point, and now look at the Sunday train through the
 same spectacles and you will see that one is not required to be religious fa-
 natic in order to see that Sunday trains have demoralizing tendency. The third conundrum was '"The principle objection being that it would take young men away from church to haunts of vice, when young man finds his greatest Sunday pleasure in haunt of vice, is it probable that he would att tend church regularly if the Sunday train did not run ?" It is not probable that he would attend church if he is as demoralized as you picture him. He and Miss Huldy Oldheffer would proba- ply lock arms, take the Sunday passen- ger and newspaper train, come up the road and spend the day at some rum hole in Litchfield county, where they would be under less restraint than in their own town. The fourth conupdrum was; ''The train having been run now for two months or over, have the first symptoms of demoralization made their appearance in consequence, and if so in what form ? Yes sir, in more than one form. One Sunday recently party of young men came up the Housatonic R R, stopped at 8 hotel and conducted themselves in such manner that the landlady told her husband if those young men came another Sunday and repeated their conduct, she would leave town and her husband could run the ho- tel to suit himself. This is only one instance, we could mention if we chose reports current of what took place in other towns along the road. Another feature of the demoralization cansed by the Sunday train is this, it brought ev- cry Sunday into our quiet little village of Canaan Q young man who had no re- gard for the Sabbath, but went about the streets yelling and hawking news papers for sale, and stopping church goers on the street and importuning them to purchase papers, If this thing is considered all perfectly right, why not pedd1e all kinds of merchandise on Sunday as well as newspaperes? Be- fore advocating Sunday train it would be well to consider calmly what the "New-York Sabbath committee says, as follows; The authority and better observance of the Lords Day constitute the only