St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-27
AFTER The SALOONS.
The Rest Day Leaguers Urge
the Stoppage Of Work
Sunday,
And, Incidentally, the Open
ing Of Saloons Is Com
mented Upon.
Exhaustive Address by Rev.
Wilbur Crafts on the Sun
day Holiday,
So Far as 1t Does Not Infringe
Upon Works Of Neees-
sity.

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| annual celebration of the resurrection
of Christ. But every Lords day is "a
| little Easter, celebrating the lordshIp
OF Christ over death and life. We have
an annual Labor day, in fact two of
them-the 1St of May and the first
Monday in er-increasinglyd de-
voted to the interests of labor But
these would be of little value without
the Sabbath, which is Labor'S Liberty
day every week. We have an annual
Thanksgiving day of family reunion,
but the Sabbath is the weekly home
day. We have an annual celebration
Of independence, but there would soon
| be little to celebrate if we should lose
the weekly independence day, in
which we practice it when the rich and
the poor meet together in the churches
| and elsewhere as equals, recognizing
one Lord as the Maker of them all.
Sunday work is slavery UNDERSIGNED.
The slaves of the South worked but six
days per week as a rule, and had one
day IN the week for worship and fell
lowShip. Half as many of our people,
black and white, are now free" to
work seven days in the week. Slavery
was called ''unpaid toll" The toilerS,
however, got their board and clothes.
But John Stuart Mill says that "oper-
atives are perfectly right i'll suppOSing
that were all to
Work on Sunday
seven days'wOrk would have to be given
fer six days pay;' that is, the Sunday
worker, like the swearer, serves the
devil for nothing and boards himself.
But we are told that 1.-The COM
teenth century" requires that Sab
hath nhSlrVanPn and Sabbath
should be relaxed. Nay, this is new
reason why they should be maintained
and strengthened. Did Adam. to whom
the Sabbath lawHOf work and rest was
given before tina fall; did he who knew
nothing of ''cut-thrOat competition" and
''Soulless corporations and hard mas
tiers" and wearying tricks of trade"
need a Sabbath law more than we do
to-day when sin has put its curse into
the Edenic blessing of labor?
Every change in the world since the
Sabbath was instituted has been new
reason why Gods Sabbath laws should
not be changed. They came to the king
dom for such time DIS this. More than
ever before we should forbid ourselves
and others to require any Sunday work,
except of necessity and mercy.
Let it be remembered that the home
cannot stand if its twin pillar, the Sab
bath, is broken down. The breaking of
the fourth commandment endangero
the seventh.
Because the Sabbath is the home day.
Sunday visiting, except of relatives, IS
an lmpertinence,
AS Well as a Sin.
Let the family circle have one day of
unbroken fellowship in the church and
the home.
But the Sabbath is also the weekly in
dependence day, when every emplOye
should be allowed to come out from ur-~
der human mastership' and stand erect,
with no master but Cop, and devote the
day to culture of intelligence and con-
scientiouSneSs. which are necessities of
life in a republic-intelligence to pro-
tect against the sophistries, cOnscien-
tousnesS to protect against the brides,
of the demagOgue, the worst of deSpOtS.
The ship of state is in danger OF be-
ing wrecked when those four seas meet
conscience, competition, combination
and the Continental Sunday. There
are in this country enough railroads
laid to belt the world thirteen times
with band of railroad irOn-an un-
lucky thirteen, q LAGOON coil, because
of the Sunday trains. When we reach
the portals of the twentieth century, to
which we look forward with mingled
fear and hope, there will be enough
railroads in our land to belt the world
twenty-five times. And they will be
owned by twenty-five men, each one
railroad king" in more than tigura-
tive sense, with an Iron crown" 25,000
miles around, compared with which the
lannon's iron crown of Europe is but
baby'S plaything. And when these
railroad kings tire of wasteful COM
petition and elect a railroad en-
peror to act for them all, he will have
power compared with which the mlghtl-
est Roman emperor or mightiest Rus
sian car will be but baby prince. AT
the same time other little groups. in
Guiding some of these same men, VIII
own all the oil, all the coal, ali the cot
ton. all the wheat and grain. all the
farming machinery, and a few ''mer-
chant princes" will make the rural
tradeSmen into mere agents.
VIII government of the people, by
the people, for the people" then perish
from the earth?" Yes, if the continental
Sunday is allowed to form a coalition
with the combination of capital in our
land. Government statistics show that
in Russia the
SO-CalIed Holiday
Sunday means Sunday work in 81 per
cent of the factories and II per cent Of
the establishments of trade and trans
pOrtation. Such a people can only be
''dumb, driven cattle for despOts to ride.
In Spain man was imprisoned for
twenty years, where lie could not Stanq
erect, and where he could only walk
two steps in one direction. Released,
he found himself the prisoner Of habit,
unable to do more in the open air than
in prison. Ii our people are slaves 364
days year, they will be slaves of the
same masters on the 365th. when NOM
inally released to vote. They cannot
stand erect in their manhood or go for
ward in the solution of the great prob
lens of state, about which they have
had no time to think.
But if we preserve our American
Sabbath, and so our national manhood.
the American King Everybody and
his wife, will in the future. as in the
post, prove wise enough, with God at
the helm, to take the ship of state
safely through the rising tidal wave OF
trusts into the clear waters beyond.
To those who challenge our right to
make Sabbath laws, we re ply that to a
republic they are the laws Of Self-preS-
ervation,as consistent with liberty-nay
more, as essential to it-as any other
laws to prevent bribery, ignorance, the
corruption of the home. the oYerwork
of the toilerS, the freedom of worship.
Good Health. a periodical of the Sew
enth-day Adventists, the chief oppo-
nents of Sabbath laws, speaking of an
other evil than notwithstanding. said:
1.-The great sin-suppressing force of civ
ilization is the civil law. and always will
be so long as men build their characters
on so low plane that fear of punish
menf, rather than the love or what is
good and best and what is truest, the
love of right itself, is the restraining
The context shows that by
'sin'' the writer means wrongs to man,
and so reading the sentence, it is an un-
admission of exactly what adj
vocates Of Sabbath laws claim as to
their relation to immortality.
To protect health, to prevent crime,
to promote intelligence and morality, to
punish wrongs to man, the state pro-
LectS the Sabbath as a day Of freedom
ior worship and from work.