The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-08-07
The American Sabbath.

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Are the Christian people of II
United States willing to give up tn
Sabbath - . day of rest and quiet
and order Are the working elass1
satisfied that turning it into . day a
amusement and revelry will not On
long deprive them of its advantage
as . day of exemption from toll : II
it is not wrong to 60 upon excursions,
to frequent beer gardens and b-ss
ball parks on Sunday then it IL not
wrong for parties interested to exact
the labor necessary to provide for the
Thousands who thus seek their 90,
pleasure on the "day Of rest" And
II some may work, must work, can
be compelled to work, BY and BY. the
avarice Of capital will demand ssvss
days labor instead Of six, from all IL
dependents. If saloons, and grsesp.
les, and drug stores and livery stables
etc.. may ply their business unrs-
stricted every day in the week, Why
may not every other business avail
itself of the same privilege
But then where is the weekly rsss
90 grateful to the weary toiler Il Il
gone, and the life which il already
dreary enough, becomes cherries b
the extreme.
Do We see signs of reaction? Il the
country about to take the matter
in hand and let the rollicking. rioting,
revealing, reeling cities know they
have q mssteri Have the rural
masses at last learned that proud
municipalities, though rolling in
wealth, ough: not to be allowed to
trampie under foot the constitutions
and laws and statutes of the states
that create. foster and protect themi
begins to look like it.
We are not pessimists nor alarmists.
But things have come to a pretty
pass in the country, when it is found
to be the interests of millions upon
millions of capital to encourage the
masses without distinction of age, sex
or condition to drink wine and beer
and whisky to the utmost limit of
their capacity and endurance and
since these silly guzzlers can't find
time to consume sufficient quantities
during the six days, to set apart the
seventh as day wholly given to fill
ing the Golfers of the liquor dealing
aristocracy He is a fool without .
single wisdom tooth cut, who can not
see the selfishness of these gigantic
corporations, in thus destroying our
American Sabbath and jeopardizins
every ching that our people have
hitherto considered sacred and essen
tial in our Christian civilization.
It is not strange that the high II
cense laws should include Sabbath
closing clauses. For as things nov
are, it is manifest that if the wretched
results of the traffic every week day,
justify the repression sought to b
effected by high license, the intensi-
fed evils of Sunday traffic justify, nay
require, suppression on that day
The dealers pretend to be indig.
nant that there should be discrimina-
ton against their business ! If they
must close on Sunday. so must every
other business-and they twill see to
it. indeed that they will" They can
not see that their business differs from
almost every other in thai it is wholly
demoralizing and thus at ennlity With
the very existence of society.
We uaed to hear of twin relics of
barbarism, slavery and polygamy.
Bloody war swept one of these away.
II may require the same terrible
agency by and by to get rid of the
other. What shall we say Of these
oiamese twins, Sunday dissertation |
and the liquor traffic They are not |
''relics OF barbarism" but they are
;ancerous sores upon our body polite.
They will require the knife for their
removal. We hope that Law and
gospel may be the surgeons, and not
grim visaged war.
The time is certainly not remote
when the people must call halt. or
deliberately make up heir minds that
l Sabbath If rest and quiet aud So
briefly and order, to say nothing of
my religious aspect of it, is no longer
, desideralion to the peace, prosperity
Ind true freedom of the great Repub-
ic.-St. Louis Evangelist.
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