The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-22

argued that he objected to no person
going to church on Sunday, but in
sisted that he should not be inter-
fered with IN going to the Exposition
SO long as he wronged no other person.
The Sunday closers are logically weak. be-
cause they are trying TO interfere uniustly
with other people. Nobody insists that
they shall go TO the Exposition on Sunday
If they do not want TO go. whereas they
assume TO say that nobody shall be per-.
mitted 10 go. however much he wants to
do so, which is not fair play. Suppose
strict Sabbatarian should say tina: because
he devoted Sunday exclusively to church
worship that his neighbor should not be
permitted to hunt wild flowers with his
children in the fields on Sunday.
a Chicago business man relates that he
employs seventy-five men: that when the
fair aas awarded to Chicago they sub
scribed for stock to help make it sue
cess. But when congress voted in favor OF
closing the gates on Sunday they signed
petition asking for q change in this deci-
sion, explaining their action thus: at is
not right to have this fair closed on Sum
days. We want to see it not once but
many times. and if we can only attend
week days. we can only go once or twice,
as We cannot afford to lose so many days
work" Many strangers who go to Chi
cago will suffer loss they can i'll afford if
they are debarred from the grounds on
Sunday. The Continental Protestants,
including the rigid French, Swiss
and Dutch Calvinists, have always
allowed innocent amusements on Sum
day. meaning ali amusements that did
not involve violent physical exercise or
some form of gambling. The late Prof
Louis Agassiz, who was the son Of ortho-
dox Swiss Protestants of Huguenot blood.
testified that he was brought up to regard
innocent recreation as proper on Sunday
afternoon and evening; that he had often
danced with the daughter of the pastor of
his village church Sunday afternoon on
the green, while his father and the pastor
looked on with interest and entire ap-
prevail. The truth is that the members
of congress who voted for the Sunday
closing provision did so In open violation
OF the constitution and against the best
interests of the masses. The Indianapolis
Netcs has this good word:
Organized labor everywhere in concert has
adopted resolutions urging it; everyw here /, is
signing petitions a-kiDg IT, The labor world is
made up OF tho>e wno are confined 70 their TASK
from early morn till late at night They have
no opportunity to visit picture gallery, 10 use
reading room. except Sunday, when such use
becomes to them the truest rest, the greatest
help Their earnings at the best are not so
great as to permit large savings. Those OF
them who shall! be able to amass sufficient
means to see the fair, can not make the
sight a long one; they must crowd iuto few
days what the more fortunate may give
weeksto. To deprive those people OF an oppor
tunisy TO see this vast museum, this great gall
ely and educational Institution, on Sunday; to
shut them up to the city of Chicago to crowd its
not streets and TO find diversion in hot theaters
and -alopns-with the hundreds of acres of the
worlds wonder in Jackson pa walled in, and
they walled out, sin and wickedness for them
10 iooA at and enjoy on that days a refine
ment OF cruelty. sublimiIy of idiocy, lunacy
Of Judgment, morals run m ID.