Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-07-03
THE SUNDAY SUSPENSION.

THE SUNDAY SUSPENSION.
How the Bsrber shop Law 10 Evadsa In
Some Cities.
The Sunday suspension barber
shop law, which has Just become
operative in Illinois. has been in
vogue in many eastern cities. But
patrons OF barbor shops in the east
are not submitting passively to laws
providing for the closing of the
''parlOrs" Sunday. Legislation has
recently closed all the BROOKLYN bar
Der shops Sunday. At ffst there
was much discomfort and great fault
found. The BARRIERS thought their
revenue cut down, and the citizens
foresaw stubby chins. Then an en-
terprising knight of the razor an
nounced that he could be engaged to
visit his patrons at their homes,
where he would attend to their tom
serial wants. 1t works we'll. The
barber makes more money than he
did in his shop, and his patrons are
shaved without the trouble of wait
ing for the cry OF next" Of course
there has been protest and threats
have been made of prosecution, but
it is believed that a conviction could
not be obtained.
How It May be EIuded,
This might, and probably will, be
tried in Illinois after next SUNDAY.
The Cody laws provisions could be
set at naught by the adoption of the
Brooklyn plan, but of course there
are not enough BARRIERS in one city to
shave all the patrons who cali at
their shop, If house to house vista
ton had to be made in search of GUS
toners. By this method, however,
BARRIERS might do a thriving business
in the rooms at hotels occupied by
commercial travellers.
The Des Moines Leader takes other
papers to task for making fun Of and
ridiculing the Sunday-closing law.
and uses arguments on a plane of
high morality. saying in part:
''New York and Chicago papers
are trying to show the absurdity of
the law. They not only write
labored editorials to this effect. but
they print cartoons intended to ridi-
Guile the movement. 1t only goes to
show that the able editors of the New
York and Chicago press have not
studied the subject carefully. The
cause Of Sunday observance owes
more to the BARRIERS than to any 9TH
er class of citizens. We have found
it SO in Iowa, and we are naturally
surprised that the papers of
New York and Chicago have not yet
comprehonded the position taken by
the BARRIERS. In Iowa they under
took the Sunday-closing movement
themselves. The BARRIERS have them
selves demonstrated that shaving
shops are not such works of neces-
sity as the laws permit Sundays.
They have set good example. which
must inurc to the benefit of every
workingman, and no newspaper in
good conscience should. fail to sup
port them" 90
We have heard nothing from Dav-
export yet, but Davenport is too
wicked to be affected by any Sunday
observance act.
In Illiaois Cities.
The Quincy Herald says CT the ef-
feet of the law in that city: what
the outcome of the Cody law will be
SO far as free-and-easy, wide-open
Quincy is concerned remains to be
seen. So far as the shops are con-
cerned they will for time, at least.
be closed, for the BARRIERS are jealous
of their trade and would invoke the
laws aid against any member of
their craft caught violating the law
they themselves were obeying.
There are laws against saloons and
several other places of business be-
ing open Sunday, but in Quincy
they are not observed-they are
dead letters. 1t may be that the
same fate awaits the Cody law. IF
it's nobody's business but that of q
professional informer to attend to its
enforcement, and the BARRIERS don't
fight over it themselves, it is likely
that its provisions will not long be
vigorously enforced. = Front blinds
may be drawn and front doors
locked, but man badly in need OF a
shave will be accommodated. with
little more trouble than is now ex-
perienced by the man with the rich,
brown taste in his mouth in getting
a braccr and an eye-opener."
In Peoria the BARRIERS have with
one accord, as they have in Rock
Island, decided to uphold the law
and REQUIRE its full enforcement.