Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-03

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ingmen as their allies, are seeking to close the
sunday saloons and the Sunday shops, with al
their lawless toll and traffic and turmoil. Lee
| not the fair reinforce the other side and so be.
come curse rather than benefit.
| sunday opening would seem an increase Of
sunday toll, at the very time when every EN-.
| ploye in and about the city was most over
| worked. 1t would mean an increased danger oil
disorder at q time when the great throng oil
| strangers made the maintenance OF order un-
| usually important aud unusually difficult. II
| would mean an open defiance OF the law of Illi-
| nois, which forbids such Labor on Sunpay as
| the opening would involve on stupendous
! scale.
Such a Sunday is too common to need exhibit
ton. If Chicago would show to visitors from
| other cities
| REAL CURIOSITY,
| let her elect city government that will not
make Sunday the special day for breaking their
| oaths 10 enforce the laws.
| The people of Chicago are 20 be congratulated
| so quickly 20 the second place in population,
| but its best citizens cannot be content to have
| II at the same time second from the foot, with
| San Francisco only below it, in Sabbath desc
| Grafton. Chicago, and many an other city Also
! needs to remember that quality is more than
| quantity, that bigness is not greatness. No
leading city in America has larger proportion
or Christian men among its ''leading citizens
Let them really lead, as they can instead Of
leaving the leadership to the lawless minority,
whousurp control only because of the selfish
indifference and timidity of the so-called
merchant princess
The Bible tells of person who had curvature
of the spine, whom satan had bound for eighteen
years, whom Christ at last made straight -
Moral: Curvature of The spine is very prevalent
real Christ i'll our so-caIled Christianity as will
straighten and strengthen the backbone OF
mayors, councilmen, commissioners and good
citizens! In morals, let 1t be remembered, the
curve is not line of beauty nor is the arched
backbone the secret of strength.
The Columbian exposition should
EXHIBIT AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS
as well as Americas products. That first
Columbian exposition" personally conducted
after his discovery of this new world contained
samples not only of Americas minerals and
vegetables and animals, but also of its men
the red savages. We shall make poor show
ing for our 40 years of progress if We exhibit at
Chicago the half-savage Sabbath of the from
tier. with its toll and dissipation and childish
play, instead OF the quiet American Sabbath of
our best manhood.
The very tap-root among the American in
situations that underlie the American constitu-
ton is the American Sabbath, more influential
than even the public school in producing the in
telligence and conscientiOusness that are ne
cessities of life in republic.
Those who oppose Sunday laws usually miss
their point Their purpose is not to restrict
but to protect libery-the liberty to rest and the
liberty to worship. For instance, the laws that
forbid SUNDAY trains are not designed to IRE
strict the passenger pleasures but to prote ct
the railroad mans rights to rest and his rights
of conscience.
Two kinds of selfishness combine to run the
Sunday excursion. The selishness of the miser
who owns the road and OF the prodigals that fill
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lows must toll to run it. Such trains hog
trains
Whatever individual conscience NAV do. no
Sunday law forbids any one to ride.
A BICYCLE ON SUNDAY.
That wheel requires no Sunday work OF en-
gineer or hostler. 1t affords no opportunity for
one man to get his recreation at tn cost OF his
fellow. But when the wheel that You propose to
ride is living wheel, made of the bodies and
hearts and condolences of men who are kept on
the general rest day in their weary round OF
toll - cut off from rest and fellowship and
worship, then the law interferes, not to restrict
the ldlers pleasure, but to protect the toiler's
rest.
\ newspaper editor exclaims: ''What an idea
1t is that to go into art gallery or library is
any more wicked on Sunday than on Tuesday -
Talk about the mine lives of catl' That is
nothing to the ninety-nine lives OF fallacy.
You may drown it again and again in an ocean |
OF argument, having weighed it down with un- |
facts and figures, but you will find |
1t in a few hours scratching again at your door.
Let us nevertheless drown this editorial cat |
once more. Like most of the critics of the |
Sabbath, the editor lodges the real issue en- |
tirely. It is
NOT THE VISITORS GOING INTO THE MUSEUM
To which objection is made, but the employees |
stay ing in the museum, and others consequently
staying at other tasks, when they have a right |
to go to their homes or to church for that
rest which is needed to supplement the rest Of
the nights, that rest which can be fully enjoyed
only on the general rest day.
If 1t is said that employees that do Sunday work
may rest on another day of the week the reply
IS that two other days are not equal in value to
'he general rest day, of which no one can be
Justly deprived, unless for work of necessity and
mercy.
If it be said that every man is at liberty not to
work on Sunday, the answer is that his liberty
S to give up his lob, - when Jobs are few and !
lard to get He ought to give up his job rather
han his conscience, but he ought not to be
placed where he must give up either.
There is n o force in the plea that Sunday is
THE ONLY DAY FOR woRKINGMEN
o see the fair. AS at Philadelphia there will be
pecial holidays, when all workingmen who wish
o go can do SO without crushing either their
'wn consciences or their priceless rest day
Most people believe in stopping most of the
sunday work-all except the WORK that is to be
lone to fill their own pockets supply their
wn pleasures. But if Unnecessary work is
llowed to please one man, it must be allowed
n other forms TO please others.
To open the Worlds fair Sunday Is to cut |
he dixie OF Sabbath rest and let in the whole |
cean of toll. The only way to keep out of the |
cean is to keep the dixie whole.
The only large American exposition that has
pened on Sunday-that of New Orleans in 1885 |
was financially and every way an inglorious |
allure. Many of the exhibitors refused to run |
heir machinery or uncover their exhibits on the
ational rest dav, and the recei pts that tiay
'ere seldom half as much as on other days, be
ides alternating the best people.
Let the Chicago exposition initiate, not the
rench Sunday of the New Orleans fair, but the
merican Sabbath of the Philadelphia centen-
ial. To accomplish this, let organizations and
Individuals all over the land, especially pros
ective exhibitors, by petitions and letters, re-
uest the directors, the commissioners, the leg
;la at Of lllinois-if necessary the congress
ON misrepresenting the American Sabbath.
The American ambition to excel the EiffeI i
over may be justified BIZ exhibiting at Chicago
lie American Sabbath in all its lofty beneicence
day of universal liberty for rest, for fellow
zip, for worship.
The humans viii not. and the inhumans must
OF, crafty their misery greed for gold or 4
leir prodigal greed for pleasure, by robbirg
her men of their right to share in the general
'st day. {
tThe Sunday opening of libraries and reading
'oms is very different matter. Wherever the |
bod to be done is sufficiently self evident for :
en- to volunteer to do the work required to =
zen a library or reading room the Sabbath
ere can hardly be an objectiont TO such opening | d
r at least a part of the day, in the Young i
ems Christian association, whose methods I
Iould be studied in this connection.
To Compete With DistilIIng Trust
LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. IA Phila-
elphia syndicate recently purchased
le distillery of John Groacn at Union