Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-08
SUNDAY AND SUNDAY newspapers

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SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS
The Woodland Democrat quotes in full an
editorial note Of the RECoRD-UNIoN, con
corning the manifest antagonism of public
sentiment to the Sunday hoodlum picnic
and the growing disposition to secure fol
the one day in seven more of consideration
as a day when boisterous amusements
carousal and rowdyism ought to cease. In
that article We also said that the sentimen,
referred to was ndt opposed to rational use
of the day as good taste, the demand fol
change, and the necessities of rest and re-
cuperation require, even when these are
manifest by indulgence in reasonable
amusements. Upon such expression our
contemporary thus comments:
The above is from the RECORD UNION, and
right beside this friendly sympathy with the
sentiment against Sabbath dissertation is a blaz-
ing advertisement stating that the RECORD
UNION in order to be . abreast with the times,
will issue regular Sunday edition. This is not
youthful ebulitiOn, but the determination of a
respectable, staio, elderly journal. How does it
seem as to consistency?
We are amazed that so old journalist
as the editor and proprietor of the Demo
crat should have committed himself to the
confession of such rank ignorance. The
intelligence bounded by comprehen-
sion that cannot distinguish between
rowdy picnics, boisterous amusements and
drunken routs, and the sober and educat-
ing vocation of issuing a clean newspaper
for reading by the people on Sunday, or
any other day, Is really unworthy of con-
sideration. But since our contemporary
asks how the expression quoted from the
REcoRD-UNIoN, and its announcement Of
the SUNDAY UNION can be reconciled, we
are disposed to reply, since it will reach a
few other hide-bound people who strain at
gnat and swallow camel in disapprov-
ing of newspaper that is compiled, origi-
mated, composed and made ready for the
press on Saturday, but who do not even
entertain the suggestion of gagging over a
newspaper that is the product of Sunday
work entirely, in order tina. the editor of
the Democrat, in common with the rest of
the community, may enjoy coffee and the
record of the news of the world on Mon
day morning. There is no question of con-
sistency involved in the case of the REC
ORD UNION; it has published Monday
edition, the product of Sunday labor, for
more than third of a century. That it
now proposes to publish newspaper dated
on Sunday, but the product of Saturday
labor, in no wise changes its relation to
the public or to the Sunday question, and
the decent observance Of that day. If all
the world does no more to offend the Sun
day sentiment than this journal, neither
clergy nor laymen need entertain any fear
of dissertation of the day. We recall a
time when the Democrat was COM
posed, printed and issued on Sunday-it
being an evening paper-and its proprie-
tor and editor held that he was
serving God and man thereby. The
Woodland community will bear US out
that his religious convictions and profound
regard for things holy were as deep and
sincere as those of his successor who now
takes the REcoRD-U UNION to task, but un
like his predecessor, holds the FIRST instead
of the serenh day holy. We have no pa
thence with the bigotry and short-sighted-
ness that exclalMs against the clean, help
full and Notwithstanding newspaper
dated on Sunday, but that has stomach
for the all-around newspaper that is wholly
worked up on Sunday and simply dated on
Monday. The REcoRD-UNIoN yields to
none in its regard for the sentiments of the
Christian world, and In sincerity has labored
diligently through the medium of these
columns to afford its priest and apostles
a wider hearing than their pulpit insures
and has labored on Sunday to that end /,
has not come to our knowledge that any
of these worthy people whose profession
like that of the journalist, is the better.
ment of mankind, have ever objected to
the industry of the press that makes The
newspaper vehicle for carrying to the
world the voice of the pulpit, even though
that industry involves labor on Sunday
The SUNDAY UNION will be as clean g
newspaper as the family of seifrespect and
Christian convictions can ask for 1t will
be an influence for great good to all, and
especially to those who, disposed TO attend
remain away from the class of Sunday ex
cursions referred to in the outset, and de
vote their hours of rest to its perusal. The
daily newspaper is as essential to well.
informed life in this day and generation a.
the Sunday breakfast or the Sunday ser
mon, and that the RECORD UNION did moi
long ago respond to this necessity is 1t.
present regret. If any people, saints and
sinners alike, cease to read such Sunday
newspapers as the SUNDAY UNION will be
they, and not the newspapers, will be tn,
losers.