Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-07-28
Tells of the Residents of the Mis-.
souri, Slope to be Found
on tho Grounds.
Various Local Happenings Chronicled
For the Benefit of The Tri-
buue Readers.
Notes From tho Fair.

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been made manifest that God and the
people are on their side. That both have
manifested their displeasure because of
Sunday opening. If the devil has had
any feeling on the subject he has kept
almighty quiet and left the poor con-
cessionaires to fight their battles for Sun
day opening alone. He may have been
around, but his hosts have had other
business to attend to and have shown no
appreciation whatever of a Sunday fair.
Even the attempt to make it popular by
devoting all of the profits to the fire vic
TINS was a fiat failure. The people don't
want it under any circumstances. Had
not the attempt been made to open it
had not the courts sustained the attempt
the aus of the American Sabbath
would have been greatly injured by the
attempt now so signally successful to
close the fair on Sunday. No one can
now allege with any hope of proving
their position true that the people of the
United States favor Sunday dissertation
on any pretense whatever. The Sabbath
is one Of the institutions of our country
which must and shall be sustained.
I went to hear Joseph Cook this morn
ing on the Sunday question, partly be-
cause I was prejudiced against him be.
cause OF his war on the Sunday news
paper, partly because 1 wanted to hear
him and partly because he spoke at a
church standing only across the alley
from my rooms. 1t was a great sermon,
and there are few Americans who can
not endorse the Sabbath position as
stated by him. It was the principle
the need of one day of rest in seven that
he regarded as having been established
by God-not the day itself. He regarded
the fourth commandment as containing
seven elements-seven colors united in
one, shining in a pure white light. He
thought it the duty Of all men to work
six days and to rest on the seventh, the
command to work being as imperative as
the command to rest. It was important
that this day be kept in due reverence,
and at stated periods, in order to get the
good which could come from it, not so
much because God commanded, and it
was wicked to disobey, as because the
rest was a thing essential to mans
health, moral and physical, and observ-
ance would bring strength to both the
physical and spiritual man.
When these religious questions are
brought down to man AMI given a physi-
cal al we'll as a spiritual application, and
in language that men can comprehend,
good can come from their presentation,
but the tendency Of preaching nowadays
is to soar into regions which the ordi.
nary mind can not comprehend. Show
a man that he is injuring himself and
those dependent upon HIM by a course
of wickedness, and make him feel it, and
you have gained a position from which
you car make him work up to his re-
formation. Talk to him about God as if
you were on terms of intimacy with Him
and had daily walks and conversations
with Him, and in the usual canting
style of the reformer, and you close the
door to success.
Beer and other Intoxicating liquors
are sold on the fair grounds to any who
may apply. None are allowed under any
pretense except in connection with meals
or at restaurants where the principal
business is to feed those who are hum
cry. These restaurants are kept
open early and late. They are
not mere resorts for idle men as the
American saloon has become, but are
necessary institutions, supplying the
things necessary for the comfort aud
subsistence of the hundreds of thous-
ands who are almost daily visitors at the
fair. Beer is drank as freely as water
and is sold as openly as coffee and at
one half the price and yet in the two and
one-half months I have been on the
grounds, l have seen but one man
under the influence Of Intoxicating H.
quors. I have made daily trips to and
from the grounds, requiring an hour
each way and I have seen but two
under the same influence. Women feel
that they can walk on any of the main
streets Of Chicago at any hour OF the
night and be as free from insult as they
are in the city of Bismarck or any other
place ut midday. Chicago has covered
itself with glory so far during the fair by
reason of the good order preserved, and
has given practical lessons in temper
ance which ought to be applied every
where. The saloon, where the sale Of
liquor to men drunk or sober is the prin-
cipal purpose Of their existence, leads
only to Ineffective prohibition and to
crime and distress. Sensible and sys.
J tematic regulation, supported by public