San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-20
SHORT STOPS.
What the People are Saying.


There seems to be class of our
citizens who imagine that they are
aggrieved because certain police
regulation is not enforced.
The Sunday law is nothing more
than a police regulation, and any
citizen who is personally incOnVen-
iduced or injured either in mind or
estate by the violation of this law,
can step into justice of the peace
office and swear to his complaint
and have the offender arrested and
brought to trial. That's all there is
to it.
The mistake these good people
are making is that they imagine
that the Sunday law is a religious
affair. They ought to know that a
law enforcing religious observance
of any day would be fragrant
violation of our constitution, an
outrage upon our civilization, an
insult TO our country.
The churches of every denOmin
alton are protected from mOleSta
ton, and every one permitted to
worship God, or not to do SO, as
they may see fit.
To gain this liberty of conscience,
this right to worship God as they
saw fit, it became necessary for the
people to trample under foot the
obnoxious laws made by Kings and
parliaments.
Opposition to obnoxious laws,
whether passed by King George or
the Texas legislature, is a virtue
the people are proud to possess.
Not single arrest for drunken
ness during the twenty-fOur hours
last Sunday, and yet it
is announced that the Young Mems
Christian association are terribly
agitated over the open saloons on
The disciples of the holy Wanna
maker, are evidently anxious to
have the front doors closed so they
can steal in at the back door, and
get up a few cases of drunk and
down for the city police.
No good citizen should engage in
any crusade to enforce a law that
Will array one portion Of the peO-
pie against another and disturb
the good feeling that exists be-
tween all our citizens, especially
when there is no necessity.
No citizen has yet complained
that he has been injured or incOn-
by the nOn-enfOrcement
Of the Sunday law, on the contrary,
the observance of the day as legal
holiday is almost universal, and
our city is as quiet as a church
yard, on Sunday, and but for the
rawlings of over Jealous piety there
would be no attention paid to the
fact that places of amusement and
rcfrcshment are open to the good
people who care to patrOnize them.
If this is to come to a struggle
between certain religiOnists on one
side and certain religionists on the
other, instead of being a matter
that should emenate, if at all,
from individual citizens agrieved,
then our city will experience a
check in it's prosperity, and
serious blow at its good reputation.
The Sunday law is enforced in San
to the satisfaction of a
large majority e it's law abiding
people; to the satisfaction of a
large majority of it's business peO-
pie; to the satisfaction of the great
body of it's taxpayers.
To the extent of it's being police
regulation, it is observed more per-
fectly here in this law-abiding,
sober community, than in any other
city in the state. But this is not
satisfactory to a few pious people
and they want to get up Sunday
law war.
1t is well that the great bulk of
the people mind their own bust
ness and never go to law unless
they are individually concerned.
Or else we would have our women
rising up in mass convention to
have the laws against adultery and
similar offences enforced, our
fathers and good old men rushing
into public meeting to have pious