Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-02
SUNDAY REST.
Discussed by w. F. Drafts at the
Pavilion.

oONOAt nHoA'
Discussed by w. F. GRATIS at the
Pavilion.
Last evening the Pavilion was crowded
with people who had assembled to hear
Wilbur F. Crafts, Field Secretary of the
American Sabbath Union speak on the
subject of Sunday law. The Y. M. G.
A. orchestra was present and rendered
several selections acceptably. Rev. Mr..
Crabbe led in prayer, and then Mr..
Crafts was introduced and spoke as
follows:
PEOPLE OF CALlFoRNIA-I greet you as
citizens of one of the three mighties in
extent OF territory of the United States.
which three mighties are Texas, Cali
fornia and Montana. We used to sing,
"Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all
q farm" California alone is rich
enough to give a farm of seven
and one.half acres to every family
of five in the land. If each
man, woman and child was set in the
middle of his or her acre and half. and
the signal was given to sink down
into the grass or brush, the whole nation
would suddenly disappear. Coming
westward, l instructed myself as to the
comparative siz. of Eastern and Western
States by cutting up railroad map. l
found that to cover California required
ten Atlantic States, all of New England,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and
Maryland. AS the people of California,
like other western people, are 80 mani
festly deficient in local pride, I suggest
that this deficiency be corrected in the
next generation by setting the children
at this map exercise, feeding the little
States of the Atlantic shore to this sea
monster of the Pacific. California no
doubt will some day equal these ten
Eastern States in population and wealth
as we'll as territory. Your marvellous
climate alone would bring the population.
On one of the recent August days, lady
in Oakland said that she had just made
trip to San Rafael to get warm. You
can quickly find refuge from occasional
heat at the seaside, or by waiting few
hours, receive the cool sea air at even
tide wherever in the State. This is q
State in which you need even in
August, and in your warmest valleys, an
invention, with clock attachment TO lay
an extra blanket on each sleeper, at
every stroke of the hour from bedtime
till midnight. Surely this State will
have no lack Of wealth, but it will not
rise by booms. It is about as safe to rise
by bombs. 1t is dangerous to have
when they go off. Raising corner
lots is not your best crop.
Your soil is rich, not only in precious
metals, but in the gold of your peaches,
your oranges, your wheat; in the silver of
l al I,no I'D O1,r -,
the greenbacks of your corn and vines.
lyour strawberries for red apples, your
kins for fallen planets. In the Metro
is symbolized by a hare and lonely
represent her more suitably in varie-
ture your miracles of irrigation, as a
bare, but richly clothed a diadem of your
robe of the royal purple Of
. sheaf Of your golden wheat surrounded
by great household of sons and daugh-
ters. But extensive territory, numerous
pVPuAotAou ouu uuMcubo WoalLu uO uOt
make as e State great; only big, like Rus
ifornia will never be one Of the three
greatest States in the true sense of the
word until she is one of the
three best. She must learn to
yield not only gold and grapes and
grain, but alsp, With equal abundance
honesty, morality and charity. And
these can no more be produced without the
Sabbath than your fruits without water.
California is the only one of our States
without Sunday law. Not New Jersey
but California is the foreign land. The
only other spot in the civilized world
without any Sunday law is France. If
you would not be 'Frenchy' but an
American commonwealth. and would
draw for permanent residents the best
American families, you must cast out the
Frenchy and foster the American Sab
bath"
The speaker argued that Sunday
laws are not religious legislation,
but said that ''the right arm
Of the American Sabbath Union
is the promotion of the religious Sabbath,
its left arm, the preservation of the civil
Sabbath" Later on he said "The
apos.sts Jew who does not keep satur-
day but pleads his neglected religion
when arrested for opening his shop on
Sunday should have no consideration
from either gentle or genuine Jews. His
case is precisely like that of any other
heathen who cares for neither the laws
of God nor those of man."
"The Sabbathic Eden of the working
men can only be protected by the angel
of law, as one has said, standing at
| the gate with flaming sword to
keep back the spo'ler. The State
has nothing to 10 with the.
argument for change of day, only with
the wish of the majority harmonized to
the rights of the minority, but I may
turn aside to say that in the Fourth
Commandment, to which parties appeal,
there is no seventh day of the week, but
only seventh day after six of work.
This is great constitutional provision.
The Saturday Sabbath of the Jews and
the Sunday.Sabbath of Christians are
only bylaws. The Fourth Command.
ment can be obeyed by keeping either
| day, but society cannot wisely encour-
age or protect more than one of them. T"
In closing, he said: "The proposed
Congressional Sunday rest law at the
utmost would not affect more than 1000
of these Seventh day people, ~ they
cannot be in the mail and military SER
vice and interstate commerce and vet
keep Saturday, and the further iurisdic-
ton of the law is only in the District of
No1,, NJ b;o and To~r;to.:,. 4.