The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-24
The Women on Sunday.

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At the Woman's Suffrage convention
in Washington last Wednesday the plat
form committee raised merry war by
the following preamble and resolutions,
to wit:
Whereas, The constitution of the United
States promises non-interference with the
religious liberty of the people, and
Whereas, Congress is now threatening
to abridge the liberty Of all in response to
ecclesiastical dictation from portion OF
the people,
Resolved, That this association enters a
protest against any national attempt to
control the innocent inclinations of the
people, either on the Jewish Sabbath or
the Christian Sunday, and this we do
quite irrespective of our individual opin-
ions as to the sanctity of Sunday.
Resolved, That we especially protest
against this present attempt to force all
the people to follow the religious dictates
of part of the people as establishing
precedent for the entrance of most dan
gerous completely between church and
state, thereby subtly undermining the
foundation of liberty so carefully laid by
the wisdom of our fathers.
1t takes a minute or two to get it
through full head of hair that this has
reference to keeping the Worlds fair
open on the Seventh day of the week,
commonly called Sunday. Congress is
threatening to withhold it's two and
half millions heretofore appropriated,
should the Fair managers violate the pro-
hibitlons that went along with it. A
canvass of the House seems to show that
this prohibitory clause will not be re-
pealed, and Senator QUAY, that pious
gentleman from Pennsylvania, is on
record as saying that even should
the House pass the resolution it
Will get a blow in the Senate
that will put it to sleep. He takes the
position that reversal of the action of
Congress would cause the world at large
to look upon the great American nation
as a Sabbath breaker and desecrator of
divine law. Mr.. QUAY indorses to the
full the statement OF that eminent Jour
nalistic apostle of holiness, Colonel Ell
LOT f. SHEPARD, that no new reasons
have been urged for the repeal. that the
old one remain unanswered, and that
there are many new reasons on the side of
shutting the gates on Sunday.
1t is rather surprising, though it
would be hard to say why, that
the preamble and resolution we have
quoted from the proceedings of the
Woman's Suffrage convention should
have found expression there. Women as
general thing are the most radical of the
moralists, though when they get to be
reformers they are apt to astonish people
with their unconventional ideas. At any
rate, when the afosesaid preamble and
resolutions came up, there were enough
votes on the liberal side to beat a motions
to lay them on the table. so tq29, when
the subject was laid over to the following
day.
The preachers who make it business
OF poking their ecclesiastical noses into
legislation and other affairs of not
strictly clerical nature, are finding out
that the world is not nearly SO tolerant as
it used to be of such interference. People
are relying more and more on their own
consciences in the Interpretation of right
and wrong, aided, to be sure, by relig-
ious teachings, but not by dictation.
They feel that Sunday was made quite as
much for men as men for Sunday. They
regard as sort of worship all communion
with nature and GOD given science in
their visible forms. The preachers may
entertain different views and assert them,
too, but at the proper times and places.
There is such a thing, as these Suffrage
ladies say, as "a dangerous completely
between church and state,' and every
body nowadays is on the lookout to give
that notion stab under the fifth rib.