Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-25
stated that they do their work before 8

stated that they do their WORK Deiore o
O'Clock in the morning.
Arthur Won Sunden, acting business
manager of The DISPATCH, and George A
Madden, managing editor, stated that THE
SUNDAY DISPATCH is prepared with
special attention in its literary style and a
view to making it an acceptable household
paper. Mr.. Madden stated that the c1rcu-
lation has varied from 63, 900 to $4,000.
! The Argument of Major Brown.
This closed the testimony. Major Brown
spoke about 40 minutes for the defense. In
opening he referred briefly to the act OF 1884.
He said: s'There is no doubt this
act is very broad and sweeping 1t isper,
haps the only statute OF its KIND
IN any of the States OF the
Union. Although it has never
been repealed or modernzed, no one be-
lieves anything similar could pass Legis-
lature of the present day. Intelligence Is
advancing. The people are more refined,
better educated, and their tastes, their
necessities are different
The speaker called attention to two cases
in Pennsylvania; one in 1859 against Nes-
bit, in which the defendant had been lined
for driving his employer to the Second
Presbyterian Church, and another in 1854,
In which the omnibus companies OF Pitts.
burg were the defendants. In speaking OF
them he said that since that time it is con-
sidered a necessity to have coachman,
and, instead of having omnibuses, there is
multiplicity of conveyances that were not
thought of when the obnoxious law OF 1874
was passed. "Omnibusses are too slow for
us, just as the act of 1894, said the Major
with a'smile
Commenting on the case of the Common
wealth against Nesbit, Mr.. Brown called
attention to the fact that the coachman was
only performing work of necessity, ana
that therefore he could not be fined.
One of the Points Raised.
'The gentleman could have walked to
church, said MI. Brown. 'He could have
driven his own carriage or he could have
stayed at home. 1t wasn't an absolute ne
cessity for him to be driven to church, but
it was a reasonable necessity and was so
held by the Supreme Court. A sentence in
the decision in that case was: Law there
fore does not condemn those employments
which society regards as necessary. A uni
versal demand makes it evident that society
considers the Sunday newspaper a neces-
sity. By strict construction of the act OF
1894 the statute forbids many things that no
person has questioned.
1--WE do not draw a line between secular
and religious newspapers So long as they
we think they are necessity. So are books,
and the literature of all kinds that have
done so much to place American people in
the front rank of civilization. There is
nothing so educating as the daily news
paper, and by that I include the Sunday
paper. They cultivate taste for literature,
as we'll as being elevating in themselves.
It does seem strange to me that in this COM
munity, or in any other community, there
should be any number of people, however
small, who think humanity would be bene-
flied by suppress1ng the Sunday paper For
thirty years these publications have been
made unchallenged.
Half a Million Allegheny Readers.
"Half million people read them in ALLIE
gheny county alone They have grown up
to read them and have learned to consider
them necessity, but now we have three or
four people, holier than their brethren,
who would deprive half million of their
rights. They want to reform the world;
make people holy against their own wills.
They do not give other people the right to
think for themselves. They think holiness
synonymous with their own opinions
81 think every person should have one
days rest in the week, and according to tes-
timonv we have received carriers get
through work before O'Clock on Sunday.
That certainly gives them enough time for
rest. They disturb no one; not even the
people who are crying against them. The
object of the statute of 1894 was not to
make men religious, but to give them rest. F"
In conclusion Mr.. Brown said that if
Sunday newspapers were suppressed there
was just as good reason for stopping the
Pennsylvania Railroad and street railways
The result would be to empty the down
town churches, to cage people in their
homes
Attorney Yost made very short reply
to Major Brown. He cited cases in Mime
sofa and Massachusetts, and also the milk
cases in Pittsburg. He compared the Sun
day newspaper with the liquor traffic be-
cause they are both run for gain. Referring
to Senator Neeb's bill in the last Legis-
lature that passed the Senate by big ma
jority and lacked only one vote in the
House, Mr.. Yost made the astonishing
statement that it had been killed by a vote
of IA to in committee. He confessed that
he himself took two or three Sunday papers,
but he thought they were printed on Fri
day or Saturday.