Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-06-18
Fifteenth Against Nineteenth Century
Fairness.

EDITOR HERALD In recent number
of the Aberdeen Bulletin, writer on
Sunday dissertation wantonly ISLANDERS
the citizens and the city Of Aberdeen.
How any human being could have the
effrontery to sign himself "a Lover of
Fairness" after writing such a screed, is
beyond comprehension. l would like to
ask the author of that article by what
process of reasoning or sense of fairness
does he think it right or just to the citi-
zens Of Aberdeen, as individuals or the
city of Aberdeen as whole, to SO
viciously misrepresent the conduct and
morals of the people of the city, not only
on Sunday but every day Of the week,
through the columns of newspaper ?
What man or woman, with one particle
of fairness in his or her mental makeup,
who was not bigot, would class the
young men OF Aberdeen, who are hard
working, honest and respectable, who
earn their living by days labor in our
stores and mills and on our docks, with a
lot of tin-horn gamblers, simply because
they indulge in Americas national game
on Sunday?
yelling and cursing ball players .
The person who penned that sentence has
not enough warm blood in his OF her
veins to distinguish the difference be-
tween an enthusiastic shout of apprecia-
ton for good play and yell OF
demoniacal rage from the religious bigots
who would like to burn another Bruno
at the stake in the name Of God and
Sunday observance. yelling and ours
ing. ball players" This assertion in the
fate of the fact that the citizens Of Aber-
dem, with their wives, and the young
men and ladies of the city, go to the ball
park on any and every Sunday there is a
game. Their presence gives the lie to
the statement that the participants are
yelling and cursing ball players"
"Crowds of drunken men," What an
assertion to send out about ones own
city And all the more outrageous when
every honest person knows that there is
no manufacturing city of 5000 souls in
this broad land more orderly than Aber-
deem.
Worship God quietly" Religiously in
clined people have that right, and no one
In Aberdeen wishes to abridgeit. But do
they do it? Ask the man who is called
out OF bed at 4 AS o'clock. six mornings
out OF seven by our mill whistles, and
when Sunday morning comes is pre-
vented from enjoying refreshing sleep
by the continuous clatter of church bells
after o'clock, that call upon him to 60
and sit for two hours while some follower
OF John Calvin attempts to enumerate
the number of infants that are roasting in
hell and at the same time incidentally
/. tells him what a morally depraved and
degraded wretch is the man who will not
stultify his reason and intelligence enough
to believe it.
1t Is all right to close the stores one
day in seven in order to give employer
and employee a needed rest and recrea-
ton. 1t is right to stop gambling on
Sunday and every day in the week. 1t is
right to use restrictions to keep boys out
OF saloons at all times. But when. any
man or woman, or body of men OF
women. shall attempt to stop their neigh
bors from enjoying good, healthy recrea-
ton, whether it be sailing, driving,
bicycling, horse back riding, or playing