The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-11-16


Julia waited. Tho signal came, and
she Topped over into her escorts arms.
"Give me air. she gasped.
"Air air!" cried the man.
The crowd parted, and the man and
woman emerged at tho front. The
woman revived, and the pair made ready
to enjoy the show.
Just then, however, an ambulance
dashed up. Some one had turned in
signal.
"You can't be too careful about
these cholera cases, said tho surgeon.
"I'd better take you both along for in
spection.
And they did not see the parade.
The whole truth is, the course of the
management in this fasco and the bear
ing of our people toward 1t at every
stage of development has made clear
one thing--the nation has rendered q
verdict upon the Sabbath question that
must tell in shaping our future.
ONE DAYS REST IN SEVEN.
In this conflict the people have re-
emphasized the truth of the Christian
Sabbath-namely, that one day y'srost in
seven is not the invention of priestcraft
but IS the primal ordinance of human
ity, 20 whose sanctity ecclesiasticism
can add nothing, from whose glory in
fidelity can subtract nothing.
First, we say they have reaffirmed the
true basis Of the Sabbath an ordinance
primal of the human race. The people
have said. Moses or no Moses, command
ment or no commandment, Bible or no
Bible, right or wrong, orthodox or heter-
odox, whatever dogs and cats may be
able to do, as for man, the Sabbath
with its rest is TO him an absolute ne
cessity of nature Such necessity in
deed that, if God did not establish a
Sabbath, he surely committed the crime
of creating being who can not live
| without one. And this is but re
affirmation of the unvarying record Of
| history. France went mad with rage
once against ecclesiasticism. They
| mistook the Sabbath for an invention
Of priestcraft to cheat them out of a
day. They abolished it by law, only
| to wake in short time from their de-
| lusion to find that God had founded the
Sabbath in love for man and had writ
ten it in the red blood of natures eter-
nal decree. They found the law of the
| Sabbath written on their tired hands
and feet, in quivering muscle and throb-
bing nerves.
| What any nation of the old world has
found a necessity for rest to the hui
man body is q double necessity to the
people of America. While the old
| world travels one mile we rush over
two. We are a nation ~ maniacs in
rush and drive. The pressure of life
with us is becoming more and more an
insanity. OF all the people God has
created we should cherish the Sabbath
1t Is the one oasis in the desert of our few.
erish host. 1t is our one remaining bul
wark against the greed of the century
Our lust for gold is taking the hear
out Of the nation. The Sabbath is the
one pause in the mad rush. 1t is the
one hour left when we may return t.
reason for the moment-gain the con
seriousness of our humanity. Every
effort we have made in our national life
to drive through this day with tht
rush and roar of the week has proved
or is proving a failure. Men who ar,
forced to work on Sundays never givt
the best service. They break dow
early. Their overwrought nerves ant
muscles are the cause of many fatal ac
cidents in which the nation pays lif,
for taking life.
NOT THE woRKINGMAN'S WISH.
Every attempt to break down tn,
rest Of the Sabbath in the name Of tn,
American workingman is a subterfug
and lie. The workingman does no
desire to work seven days in the week
The hue and cry set up in his name i
the thinly guised hypocrisy of greeC
crying for the last possible tribute o
his muscle and his hearts blood. TIL
men who seek to break down the Sab
bath as day of complete rest are tn
enemies of labor; their twaddle on tn
subject is but the echo of some capital
istic glutton behind the scene VIII
wishes to work them to the last drop o
blood in their veins. No class of work
ingmen desire to work on Sunday. /
fool editor of weekly sheet in New
York tried to get up "a sensation to sci
his paper some time ago by advocating
the opening of the theaters on Sunday
He wrote to all the managers Of tn
theaters and the leading actors an
asked their views. And he got them
But they We're not what he had ex
pected. To a man manager and acto
denounced the movement. And one O
the reasons brought forward agains
it was the fact that Sunday opening i
the west had proved itself curse
They declared that it made the life O
the actor we'll nigh impossible and di
not increase the revenue Of the theateI
what they gained on Sunday being in
variably lost on the first days of tn
week, and the extra labor was 80 muc
dead loss in the long run.
What we need to do for the working
man is more and more to shorten hi
hours of labor. The world is the game
by 1t, directly and indirectly. Thou
sands of street car men are now force
to work from 10 to 10 hours day, an
some of them do not get Sunday Of
In a year. Such system is the quin
, tessence of brutality.
The worlringman Is overworked now
What he needs. what he demands an
what he will have is fewer hours c
work and more days of rest. Ever
attempt to rob him Of the perfect rest G
| the Sabbath is crime against human
, ity. Why the great mass Of working
/ MON haya ,,nt apn1an xuith loY1dar an,