San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-10
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What the People are Saying,

What the People are Saying,
THE Sabbath was made for man, and
net man for the Sabbath,
IT was on bright, sunny day, centuries
aCo-the fields were yellow with Tipening
grain, and the Son OF Nan had passed
through one of these fields and his GiScl-
pies Dlucked the grain as they followed
Him. aud the PhariSeeS, then as row.
were StiCKIerS for the law, and they said
TO Him: Behold, why 60 they on the
Sabbath day that which is unlawfG,
their question provoked the grand reply
The Sunday law of Texas is not quite
so phariSaica as the Jewish sabbath
law, but modelled after it,.
Ia no CITY in this glorious land of ours,
do the christian sabbath bells chlme
more sweeLly than in this good city; IN no
city do more devOUt christians bow at
sacred alters, than do here; liberty OF
conscience, freedom ia religion, unmOleSt-
ed SanctuarieS, mark the hours of every
seventh day.
The busy life of every day occupation
rests: drunkenness and dissipation Is al
most unknown. or bears so favorable a
contrast with other metropolitan cities
that our city eXciteS the remark OF every
stranger.
Sunday is a legal holiday and no more;
to attempt to make it by law anything
else is flying backward eighteen centuries
when the same attempt met with the re-
proof of diety itself.
Our city is Sunday observing city, its
streets wear the quiet of self imposed
rest. but our cosmopolitan people feel at
liberty to eat good dinners, to wan
der through the fields. to sip their beer in
shaded gardens, TO listen to music, and
throw off the tcdium of business life.
But the phariseeS are not happy. the
people must not sing, dance, or drink,
this is their day and the whole world
must revOlve on its axis to their liking.
The Texas Sunday law must be en-
forced.
Is it enforced anywhere? There are
some dull Texas cities whose saloon doors
are closed. but behind darkened parti-
lions drunkenness has full sway during
every hour of the long Sunday. The
stranger is not welcome in those cities.
San Antonio is the favorlte city of the
state: devout, but liberty loving old San
Antonio: hundreds of strangers find
refuge within her gates every Sunday.
This circumstance adds to her prosperity,
and the happiness Of her people.
But the pbarisees are not happy; those
good, straight-laced people who smite
their breasts and thank God that they are
pure and holy.
If the so-called Sunday law is inforced
in our city it will only result III the same
thing that exists in other townsville hiving
of drinking men in low dives, while our
open air gardens will be closed, where
the most temperate people of the COM
munity meet for social recreation.
The excellent gentlemen who occupy
our pulpits,-the religious people VIII
thrOng our protestant churches, have on
ly studied this question from zone sided
standpoint, aud not from the broad basis
of catholicism, and our city is the best
sunday observing community in the
state, and they don't know it.
Wewarn Judge Fleming and his aSso-
ciates not to venture upon this crusade.
A prosperous city is better field for re-
ligiOuS effort. for good morals, for law
and order than city whose closed public
ha lis. deserted streets and vacant gardens
typify, stringent times. unhappy laborers.
Seeking employment in vain; idle me-
chanicS; empty hotels: light passenger
trains. The chimes OF the church bells
sound like funeral notes in such cities
Don't cast pail over our happy old city.
We have much law-that we can only
digest part Of it is no sign that the body
polite is unhealthy, or that we are overly
sinful. If we could only lcSSeh the sell
fiShneSs of men, the world would be hap
pier. San Antonio needs no Sunday law.
nor do her good people need to be told
how they should behave by travelling
mOuntebankS.
Two Negroes Combat.