The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-09-10
Afternoon Session.

The House re-assembled at 40.
Rep. Kanealii thought the Sabbath
law was liberal enough now. He would
therefore move to indefinitely postpone
the bill.
Noble Baldwin thought as he had
stated before recess, that it ought to go
to fair committee. express surprise
that a representative OF the workingmen
should have introduced the bill His
answer is that it was in the platform.
Then | say that am surprised it should
be in the platform. | understand that
the effect in Germany is just as Noble
Isenberg describes it. 1t works badly
for the workingmen. There has been
move in Europe to stop Sunday trains
because they make so much work
Great Britain has strict Sunday laws
There was move there to have libraries
and museums opened on Sunday for the
benefit of the poor but the poor opposed
it, 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 a mans going
shooting, or playing billiards in his own
parlor, or l should think playing game
of ball in his own back yard or up
Punchbowl, if it disturbs no one, and
was not inconsistent with the use of the
day by others as day of mirth. 1
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 Sun
day. 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 work
ing right through the week. The enter
ing wedge comes in with the amuse-
ments, which necessitate large amount
of work. l think those who wish to
keep Sunday as day of sacred rest
should be protected 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 a 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 said the law was ecclesias-
teal. The seventh day was instituted
Let everyone observe that according to
his conscience. / don't want to 60 to
church just because Noble Baldwin and
set of people here want to make me-
This leads to persecution, and the law
makes it possible. How much was Ole
son disturbed, living at Kamehameha
School, by game OF baseball on the
Plains?
Rep. Lucas was in favor of the bill. 1t
had been said that it would be hard on
the workingman. There was no law to
compel anybody to work on Sunday. 1t
had been said that the plantations might
run on Sunday. Perhaps they might, but
no one need work unless he wished to.
A different set of hands could work Sun
| day. This would not interfere with the
churches. They could 90 on just the
| same. This Sunday law was demanded
| by the platform of the National Party,
! and there was not workingman in the
| Sandwich Islands who was not in favor
of it.
Noble Muller could not agree with
Mobiles Baldwin and Isenberg. He had
never been able to learn that the En-
| perior of Germany was in favor of a
strict Sunday law He simply wished
| to prevent Sunday work. The poor peo-
pie were just the ones who needed this
| law. They had to work hard all the
week, and ought to have a chance for a
| little amusement on Sunday. He should
vote to pass the bill to engrossment.
| Noble Mccarthy - Surprise has been
expressed that | as representative of
the workingman should have brought in
this bill. The platform on which | was
elected calls for liberal modification OF
the Sunday law; as such have brought
| this bill In. Some have said that this bill
| is not liberal enough, but my observa-
tons among the members convinces me
that it is as liberal as is likely to pass.
1t has been said that this bill would con-
flict with the rights of the working man.
Yet this act prohibits all work except
necessary work, and Section grants
him the right guaranteed by the Consti-
tuition, which, it says, allows every
person the right OF pursuing and obtain
ing happiness. That is all that anyone
does who goes to see a ball game on Sun
day, and no statute has right to stop
him. If the workingmen had money
enough to make test case, believe 1t
would appear that the present Sunday
law is unconstitutional. 1t has been
said that the present law would allow
one to play billiards in his own parlor, or
ball in his backyard. That would not be
possible under the present law-for any
| individual could say that it interfered