Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-01-23

stopped altogether. and it must be brought
down to the minimum In every depart
ment. Such is the new law in Germany.
Its effects In Berlin are very marked The
shops now can be kept open not more than
Eve hours on Sundays. The trader NAV
choose his own time, but the hours he Sc
lects must not be from ten 10 twslye. nor
from ak 10 seven, becsuse thess are church
hours, when everything must be shut M.
| Another requirement Is that the shop keep
| er, having chosen his time for Sunday
| opening. must report the same to the DO
| lice, and have their sanction, with a mo-
per record at police headquarters. This
makes ii easier for these officials to see
that the new Law Ia properly regarded, and
one of the best evidences that German su-
thoiities are in earnest in this reform In
that the police so TAR have fearlessly done
their duty.
1t is quite true that these conditions are
| not ideal. The reform indeed is a very
partial one, and when 1t Is remembered
that these new regulations do not affect in
the least the ever privileged drinking ss-
| loon, the situation becomes more unsAtis-
| factory still. But the new regime Is q de-
cided Improvement on the one 1t supplants,
and however far this movement may fall
short Of what Is needed, IL certainly indi-
Gates progress. O5e has to remember
II
ment either in it's origin or intent 1t is
quite in harmony with religion in 80 far ss
1t restricts from Sunday labor and Gus
pends business on that day But the en-
actment of this law, we have been assured,
was not In the least due TO any sction on
the part of the churches or TO any desire
TO keep Sunday as holy day. 1t is strict
| ly working class reform. Ii originated
In the demand OF this class for a day of
rest from secular toll, and. as ali are
agreed, 1t was taken up by the govern
ment largely as a matter of policy, becsuse
1t was puahe3 20 urgently by that growing
party in Gernlsn politics known as the So
| cisl Democrats
In regard to France, If one may Judge
of the nation generally by vha. Is obvious
in Paris, the improvement here is little less
marked than in the duminions of The Ksls-
er. With this difference, however, that
tbs changes in the former of these coun-
tries are due solely to the force OF senti
ment, without, as yet. any advanced ao-
tion of the legislature on the subject
But it the recent years have witnessed no
change in the French law, they have at
least brought forth one very tangible
thing, and that is a Sunday Observance
society. Its full French title is La Ligue
| Populsire Pour Ls r. pos Du Dimanche en-
| France" The hrst president of this
| league was II. jules Simon, ard the gen
tlemsn now filling that offi . is NJ. Leon
Say Both sre members of the French
| academy, and besides being eminent in
literature, they are distinguished In pc
1 htical life. Jules Simon is a senator and
one of the finest orators in France. whilst
| Leon Say Is sn eloquent and influential
| deputy. Neither of these gentlemen is
| confessed Christian, though the ls-t named
Is nominsliy a Protestant
| This society, however, is in no sense
religious body, nor does 1t profess to
seek religious ends. Senator Jules Simon
said of it some time ago, I'VE desire
that our workman msy have days rect
once week. and Sardsy Is naturally the
day We hsva chosen. Bnt our lndertsk-
Ing is a difficult one, because il runs
counter to numerous customs and inter
ests- Two years sgo our society numbered
twenty persons, to-day We count over
twenty-five hundred members, made up
| of Republicans, Monarchists, Catholics
snd Protestsats, Bishops and Freethink-
sIs We have slres6y achieved eome prsc
iicsl results In the post-cffise We have
got the hours shortened ca Sunday, and
We are row labnrirg with IL railroad com-
panies
These words sufficiently djeclos4 both
the Objects # this society and the rspii
| growth it has hsd. Bat as an index OF
what the recent psst has witnessed in Paris
in The way OF Sunday reform. they are too
modest altogether. Some Of the signs If
Improvement .hc ..sIt0s to this oity cEn
fes with his own eyer, but to get the
| praRcest and tTussL view ole must con-
veise "n this subject with intelligent and
progressive Freuchmen. Twenty years
hsve wrough. changes for the hetter
which are ;Tuly IcaTvelous No siatis-
u. k-,s -, s-,lr
| hold that within that period the number
Of workmen following their ordinary CO.
cupstiops on Sunday has been reduced
by more than nne-hEjf In railway circles
the chief reform is in The Sundsy delivery
of goods. Formerly this wss carried on
sll day lcng; now IL is only done in the
morning AS to the retail stores, the CON-
mon notion is lhst they are al open, with
raI, exceptions. at all hours on Sunday
and that the heaviest trade Is don. on that
day. This, however. is a scandslous falls,
cy- Such LOtirn may lave had OILY too
good foundation in times gone by, but
the Partisan Sunday nf To day IL RlmoEt as
different 10 this Ina;ter Irum wbst il wss
formerly as Paris itsrlf IL from the aspect
1t presented prior TO the Third Nspol,on's
time.
A present many of the stores do not
open ut all Oh Sunday, and many of those
WnlC0 90 Ctsel are closed again sIscE lew
hours. This is especially Noticeable In
those quarters where the bts. clsss of trade
Is done. In poorer quarters, as a matter
of course, thu improvement il lees marked,
and 1t ne-d hardly bs ssii that csfts sbd
places of that kid are no more affected
by this change of sentiment in Paris than
they are by the Wholesome but inEdsou ukte
laws which Tegal4ia the Sunday trsfsc of
Berlin A. to the post-ofieF, II Is quite
true that a number Of deliveries have
bssn dispensed with, but tbe postmsn
still waits upon you several times in the
forenoon, and experience has shown rs
that on Sundays, as on other days, yoa
con be troubled with letters very late at
night. Ii is gratifying 10 note. however,
that, excepting in thCse lines in which the
letting out of the hres would involve con-
siderable less, manufacturing is very gen
orally at standstill during the hours of
Sunday, and the came msY be said also,
with even less allowance for exceptions, Of
the great Wholesale trade of ihis city.
A Partisan gentleman who is very prom
inent In literary aud philAnthropic circle g
pointed us with pride TO the Sunday as
pect worn at tina present dsy By the Rpe
Aboukir. This Is the very heart of the
wholesale quarter. Forty years sso," he
observed, my father in law, a Wholesale
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