Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-15

| WHOLESALE ARRESTS ARE ABSURD.
| Though this statement is considered alb
surd it has led to interviews with lega
authorities whose opinion are interesting al
this time. The right of the Law and Order
folks to enter information under the laws Of
| 1894 is not disputed, but instead of simply
| a fight against one branch of necessary labor
the public expects crusade all along the
| line. In no city has ever an attempt been
made to interfere with the Sunday papers
and as a result the threat of such thing
naturally attracts attention.
| Rev. w. J. Robinson was seen last night
and in answer to a question about the re-
ported move of the Sabbath Reform Asso-
| citation, he said: 81 have no communication
| to make on that subject"
"What about the story in an afternoon
paper to-day to the effect that a concerted
move would be made next Saturday."
81 regard that story as purely work OF
| imagination and without foundation. That
| interview is utterly false. That reporter
was told just what tell you, that have no
communication to make, and he went away
without gaining any information and put
words in my mouth that never uttered"
ROBINSON DENIES AND is SILENT
Chow about the rest of the story about
the action to be taken by the reform asso-
citation next Saturday night?'
81 suppose that was invented also, just as
the alleged interview with me was; the re-
porter certainly got no such information
from me. And if he got it from anyone else
he has been deceived"
'Is there any such move contemplated"
81 know of none SUCH OF course, we
are always moving, but that story is false so
far as 1 know"
seWas Rev. Mr.. Crafts, of New York,
brought here by your association a
stated?"
''No, he came here on his own RESPONSE
bility."
as it probable that there will be any
move in the direction of rigid enforcement
of the blue laws?"
'That 1 can't say"
Captain Wishart was seen at his residence
on Mt. Washington last evening and re-
fused to give any information whatever.
He said that he had read the article in
question, but politely referred the inter-
viewer to the people who had given the in
formation, saying at the same time that he
was sorry not to be able to give any infor-
nation, but that he had made it a rule for
the past four years to adhere to Quay's
principle, Don't talk"
CAPTAIN wIsHART DOES NOT DENY.
But" said he, "any time that I have
anything to say on what has been accom-
plished by me call on me. and anything that
is talkable will be happy to tell you all
about it. 1t is too bad that you have had
this long walk for nothing, but it is a pleas
ant moonlight night, which adds consider
able to the enjoyment of stroll of an
evening"
And, with a pleasant adieu, the Captain
withdrew, to the house, shutting off any
further conversation.
B. F. Jones, the great ironmaster and ex-
Chairman of the Republican National Com
mittee. sees the ultimate destruction of the
American Sunday is the present move of
the Law and Order League. Last night he
said
"The Sabbath observance people move
without reason. To operate blast furnace
without running on Sunday is an impossi-
bility. 1t has been tried and has proven a
failure. OF course no more work is done on
Sunday than is absolutely necessary.
Of the men at the blast furnace only
10 or IL per cent of them work on Sun
dav. As TO the machinery 1t is like q
trotting horse and has to be rubbed down
and kept in good shape so that the work
will not stop. Of the 5,000men that we en-
ploy not over five or ten of them have to
work at the machinery on Sunday. They
time to go to church if they want to. This
work must be done so that the men can go
to work on Monday. Otherwise they would
lose dav each week, and in consequence
their families would suffer. In fact, the
Sunday work in the mills is boon for the
laborers, for it gives them chance to work
six days a week.
DEATH TO THE AMERICAN SABBATH
If the mills alone be closed on SUNDAYS it
means millions of loss every year to the
working people in wages az we'll as to the
manufacturers, and it benefits no one. We
have a good. quiet Sabbath now, but the
enforcement of these laws would create
such a reversion of feeling that in the tide
it would create would be swept away all the
good restrictions we now have; turn the
American into the European Sabbath, and
compel men to work seven days where they
now work six. The world travels too fast
for it to come to dead standstill, and it is
but handful of people who now call for
this change"
Several attorneys were seen in reference
to the statement that at midnight Saturday
every person found at work in q newspaper
office would be placed under arrest. Attor
ney c. 7. Orr said "That is simply bosh
Everybody knows that forcible and imme-
diate arrest cannot be made on Sunday.
excepting Tor felony or breach of
the peace. A man could not he
arrested on sight for working on Sunday.
There must be information made and war
rant issued. In the case of Commonwealth
versus Eyre, Chief Justice c. J. Tilgman
rendered decision, part of which reads:
when the violation of the Sabbath con-
sists of work without noise or disorder
there is nothing in it like an actual breach
of the peace, nothing of so opressing nature
as to Justify an immediate and forcible
remedy, such a proceeding tending TO dis
turb the peace. Therefore the serving of
all legal processes is forbidden except for
felony, treason or breach of the peace. +"
LAWYERS LAUGH AT THE MOVE.
w. c. Erskine was of the same opinion.
and cited number of pertinent cases. He
was inclined to think that point might be
raised on the question of the necessity for
the dissemination of news and information.
That was not the point at issue, however.
He said: ''The issuing of the newspapers
cannot be prevented in the way spoken of |
An arrest could not be made on Sunday.
nor could it. be made before mid, |
night Saturday on the assumption that |
it was in contemplation 10 continue work
after midnight, as the offense must actually |