St. Paul daily globe., 1893-08-19
STEMS FINES.

The dignity of the court has thus
been asserted. and the question ut Sun
Gay opening is still an open question:
Philadelphia Record.
There will be little public sympathy
with the ruling which fines the worlds
fair directors 81 200 each for CON
tempt because they did not keep the
fair open Sundays.-Milwaukee Wis
cOnSin.
The Chicago fair managers who closed
the show Sunday in the face of an i'll
Junction have been duly fined and repri-
manded. The moral people of the coun-
try shnuld pay their fines at once
New York MorBing Advertiser.
Five worlds fair directors have been
adJudged guilty of contempt of court
and fired $1,000 for having the fair
grounds closed Sunday. The path of the
worlds fair director seems To lie be
tween the devil and the deep sea.-Buf-
falo Enquirer.
For that one Sunday of weakminded-
ness when they closed the gates of the
falr. the directors have been held i'll
contempt Ut eodrt and fined rouhdly.
Ii this shall enable them to discover
their own minds aud stick thereto. it
VIII be good thIng.-Butialo Express.
The situation is fast becoming ridicu-
louS, aud something ought TO be done to
reconcile the conflicting orders of court.
Perhaps the Judge would let them off If
they were to promise to open the gates
at half-price admission, as they ought
to have done long ago.-Bosion Post.
1t is hoped that Messrs. Davis. Gage,
Hutchinson, McNaily, kerfoot and Law
son will be made to pay their fines.
They need sanitary lesson. Their
idea of their own Importance has been
out of all proportion to the actual value
OF that article.-PeOria Herald.
The excessive lines imposed by Judge
Stein upon Director General Davis and
others for closing the worlds fair OH
Sunday when they couldn't help If,
have called forth indignant utterances
from the public that would almost jus
tify further action for contemplating
neapolis Times.
Ii costs a worlds fair commissioner
exactly $1,000 to have conscientious or
economic scruples against opening the
worlds fair Cn Sunday. At that rate
even the Scrup!es of the late iamented
Col. Shepard might have melted away
10y the slow process of attrition.-Broot-
lyn Times.
We do not believe that the courts can
force the directors of the Columbian
exposition to keep il open Sunday. or
that they will have to pay fines. large
or small, for refusing to obey an in
junction which seemed to have been
swallowed up by subsequent legal pro-
ceedings.-Cleveland Leader.
The court which granted the injunc-
ton refuses to indulge in this kind OF
bunco business, and five of the
directors find themselves loaded with Il
fine OF $1,000 each for contempt, and
Director General Davis is fined $3.50 for
a like offense. The way of the trans
greSsor is hard. even after he stumbles
back into the right path. - Boston
Traveller.
The couch of director of the worlds
fair is not bed of roses. If he advo-
Gates the opening of the gates of that
Institution on the first day of the week,
the uncO guid SabbatarianS pounce upon
him and devote HIM 10 wrath both here
and hereafter If he closes the gates in
obedience to their demands, he is hauled
before the courts aud fined for con-
tempt.-Detroit Free Press
TO people of common sense all this
legal squabble over Sunday opening ap-
pears ridiculous. The question is not
one of law points, but OF broad Justice.
Is it right that the workingman. who is
one or the contributors, should be eX-
cluded from the fair on the only day he
is able to visit it without pecuniary
sacrifice he cannot afford to make in
the loss of days wages?-New York
Evening World.