The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-09-10
THE LEGISLATURE.
SEVENTY FOURTH DAY.
TUESDAY, Sept. O.,
AFTERNOON SESSION.
House resumed at lao.

lie I1uuSt ItSulllCU au 1 w,
Rep. Kaneaiii thought the Sab
oath law was liberal enough now.
lie would therefore move To indeh'
litely postpone the bill.
Noble Baldwin thought as he had
stated before recess, that IL ought
to go TO a fair committee. eN-
press surprise that representative
Of the workingmen should have in
tue bill. His answer is
that it was i'll the platform. Then
l say am surprised it should be in
the platform. l understand that
the effect in Germany is just as
Noble Isenberg describes it. 1t
works badly for the workingmen.
There has been a move in Europe TO
stop Sunday trains because they
make so much work. Great Bri-
tain has strict Sunday laws. There
was q move there to have libraries
and museums opened on Sunday
for the benefit of the poor but the
poor opposed 1t, because it would
be an opening wedge TO bring in
more Sunday work. The Sunday
law we have l consider very liberal
and it has not been made oppres-
sive. 1t allows works Of necessity
and prohibits public amusements,
only that would not interfere with
y mans going shooting, or playing
billiards in his own parlor, or
should think playing a game OF ball
in his own back yard or up Punch
bowl, if it disturbs no one, and was
not inconsistent with the use of the
day by others as day of worship.
/ think the workingmen had better
let the present law alone. This
strikes me as an entering wedge
which might lead to working right
straight through the Sunday. This
is sugar country and when the
crop is cut, some of the cane spoils
because it can't be cut soon enough.
Such law as this might lead to
working right through the week.
The entering wedge comes in with
the amusements, which necessitate
large amount of work. / think
those who wish to keep Sunday as
day Of sacred rest should be pro-
tected in this right.
Rep. Bush wanted to know to
what extent he would so trample on
the rights of others to protect his
own. The whole town had wanted
game of baseball and one man
had stopped it. Was that right and
justice?
Noble Baldwin said there were six
days in which baseball! could be
played in public.
Rep. Bush asked what right would
the hon. Noble have to dictate tC
him when or how he was to worship
This law was founded on an ecclesi.
astic view. They were trying tc
break down the barriers between
church and state on this question il
the United States, and the move
ment was calculated to destroy tn
| republic. If he kept Wednesday a
sacred nobody had any right to in
terfere and compel him TO keep an.
other day. This law was the open
ing wedge to persecution for reli
| gion, as under it people could be al
rested for exercising their liberty
That was what Mr.. Oleson was &C
ing to do when it was proposed t
have game of baseball at Makik
He wanted to compel people to G
to hear him preach at Kamehameh
School. How would a game OF bass
bal! out there disturb Mr.. Oleson ;
Kamehameha School? The be-
they could do with this law was
strike il from the statutes.
Rep. Lucas was in favor of tt
bill. The present law was liable
be made oppressive any day,
anybody who drove out in his ca
riage on Sunday might be ARRESTED
There was no law to compel worl
ingman to labor on Sunday. TT
workingman lived by his work,
was work he wanted, and some wi
could not get work other days mig
fl, the place Sundays of persons wi
worked the rest of the week. TT
law would protect those who went
church from being disturbed. TIL
amendment to the law, as had BET
stated, was one of the planks of u
National Reform Party.
Noble Muller did not agree wi
either Noble Baldwin or Notle Ise
berg. He knew that the latter hi
not been brought up to the stri
Sunday that he advocated. L.
speaker had talked with people
Germany, and found them in fay
of their Sunday freedom. He cou
not see how the repeal of the sc
tons forbiddng amusements W
going TO lead to the plantations b
ing kept working on Sunday. i
Oahu Railway conducted by chug
people brought people to town frc
German picnic early last Sund
morning and he could not see tn
there was anything wrong with thu
Noble Mccarthy said he was /
candidate of the workingmen, al
this bill was in accordance with o
of the principles of the National Il
form Party. The present Sund
J law was inconsistent with The Co
stitution, in that il interfered wi
the right of every person to the pr
suit of happiness. If that law W
tested before the Supreme Court,