Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-07-28
Sunday Closing.

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me little space in your widely CIR
culated paper, I would be pleased to
give your many readers few points
on Sunday closing of the Worlds |
fair.
We find the clergy and the rum
seller banded together in a common
cause. While conference, synod, and
council of clergymen are busily en-
gagged IN passing resolutions, and
while systematic effort to boycott
congressman is beng carried on
within the sacred precincts of the
church, the brewers. with equal &C
tivity. are working for the same end.
Read the circular letter issued by the
Beer Brewing association, lnstructing
its agents to work for Sunday closing
at the fair that the opportunity for
the sale of beer might be increased.
This letter was read by Rev. DIR. A.
H. Henry of the M. E. church, at an
American Sabbath union meeting in
Chicago.
Strange, indeed. The temple and
the gutter marshalling their forces to
prevent thousands of people enjoying
the instructions and pure pleasure
offered by the great industrial fair.
The church and the saloon, one loud
with threats, the other silent but not
less active; one actuated by a desire
to show her external power, the other
by greed for gain; one representing
organized conservatism, bent on show
ing the world how all-powerful the
ancient edicts of the Pagan Christian
Constaine are in the Republic of to-
day, the other representing the power
of INSCRIPTIONS avarice and unlim-
tied wealth. The tolling thousands
whose hope Of seeing the Worlds ex-
position hangs upon the Sunday
opening, have small chance in this
day when the glorious old-time Amer
lean independence is called IN ques-
ton by these great bodies of earth.
Why do the churches want the
Worlds fair closed on Sunday? First,
to as nearly as possible force people
to occupy their scantily filed pews
Second, because it is a step in the
well-laid plans on the part of the
Acknowledgements to unite church and
state and re-establish a Christian the
ocracy. The brewers want it closed
for the millions of dollars which will
be spent by the people, who have
nothing to do, if the gates are closed
on Sunday. A f00d of small petit
tions and memorials are rolling II
upon Congress demanding that all
appropriations of the government in
aid of the Chicago Worlds fair shall
be made with the proviso that the fair
shall not be opened on Sunday. Sc
bold and pictorial are some of these
memorials that Senator Vest was
constrained TO rise in his seat las
week and protest that they practic
ally amounted to political blackmail
In many cases they are accompanied
by the threat that any member o.
congress who shall vote aid or appro
priation for the Columbian exposi
tioD except with the Sabbatarian pro
viso, will be systematically boycotte'
at the polls by the UNCONVENTIONAL con
stituencies cited IN the memorials
These memorials are usually ad
dressed to Congressman who stan'
on doubtful ground in the matter o
a reelection. Some have the cour
age to speak as Mr.. Vest did, that h
should vote as he pleased regardless
of the threats.
If the opening of the Worlds fai
meant the closing of the churches s
that those who desired to attend re
ligious services would be prevente
from doing so, the plea of those VIII
assume that they have a monopoly G
l truth, and who wish to make all VII
think otherwise bend to their conceI
ton, might carry some force bC
3 the opening on Sunday does not
any degree interfere with the libert
of those who wish to attend publ
service; they have all the opportun
ties they could have otherwise.
: A statement by Boston, ministt
= has the following, THE churche
have all they can do to keep aliv
/. They have no religion to spare. Their
is scarcely a church where religion
truth is the central attraction, and "
5. ministers must conjure by the soci
s principle and by amusing, lecturln
a to the audience in an engaging maj
, ner, or We have empty pews- Loo
at the topics We advertise. ! do n