The record-union., 1892-06-20
SUNDAY EVENING CONCERTS.
The Church-Goin Public are Arrayed
Against Them.
Chairman MARITIME of the Concert Com
mtttee Receives Long Petition
On the Subject.

A large number of the church-going
people of the city who entertain a preju-
dice against public concerts on Sunday
evenings, have begun crusade in oppo-
sition thereto, and yesterday these con-
certs were made the subject of sermons
IN many of the churches. Those who OBJ
Ject to them-and they comprise several
hundred church-going persons-say they
are IN dead earnest and propose to use
every means IN their power to discourage
Sunday concerts.
In conversation on the subject with
General MARITIME, Chairman of the Con-
cert Committee, that gentleman said yes
terday, when asked what effect this oppo-
sition was likely to have:
Find me family into which disunion
has crept, and you will find that family
Will never prosper. This applies as well to
any community, and especially so to this
city. We have to-day large percentage
OF our best people who are opposed to
| Sunday concerts, and they have a perfect
right to their opinions. The question
that now presents itself is, whether or no
1t Is good policy TO have this feeling of
strife between the church-goers on one
SIDE and the non-church-goers on the
other; and whether it would not be the
! better policy TO compromise this matter
by giving the two concerts per week on
weekday evenings.
sacramento has enough to contend
with, the Lord knows, from the outside
/ from jealousy and other causes. without
pIttIng one class of her people against
another, and all on account Of such a
trivial thing as open-air concerts. On
saturday / was presented with petition
containing several hundred names and
of NJ, Il
citizens, requesting that the concerts
usually held on sunday evening be
/ changed to some other evening during
the week.
The petitioners state that in their opin-
ion the best interests OF this city, both at
home and abroad, would be subserved
by this change. and that the ministers of
every local pulpit would cali up the sub
Ject at their Sunday services. l informed
these good people chat, while l was
Chairman OF the Concert Committee still
| was but one member, and that it would
be arrogatIng great deal 10 myself to
assume TO say what the committee would
do III the matter until called together and
the subject was discussed.
Speaking for myself, however, and
laying aside my connection with the
Management of these outdoor amuse-
ments, l feel it entirely wrong to have
feeling engendered among our people on
GniS account, ana though L have worked
as hard perhaps as any of the enterpris-
ing citizens who have done so much to
make these concerts a success, still |
never intended that my efforts in their
behalf should be the cause of dissension
between any classes of our people,
''And why should it? These concerts
are for our whole people. The merchants
who contributed to sustain them so in
tended, and while Sunday concerts are,
in my opinion, anything but an injury to
the morals of our young people, still |
have a respect for the opinions of others
who think differently, and out of respect
for the good people of this city who have
labored so hard in building up our
churches and laying the foundation for
the Christian lives for those who come
within their teachings, think it but
right and just that the concerts in the
future should be held during the week
one. say as near the first of the week as
possible, and the other on Friday or Sat
urday evenings. This will give the
working-classes plenty of time to attend,
as they quit work at o'clock in the
evening and nothing will be lost by the
change.
"TheSe are my own sentiments con-
cluded Chairman MARITIME, ''but it must
be left with the Concert Committee to de-
eide just what shall be DONE"