The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1895-03-23
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IftiE W. i time. not 50 Wy long
e vI}et tfere was ~ fan.fn the
staiut, hook con pelling places of bus
mess !" cl se on Sunday. and when.
in this ttsvi. only d establishment
remained closed OF that day. that OF
the late lantnted l.. V. Riviere.
For - veal years. every business
house. with tie exception Of = few sa
loors has remained closed on Sunday.
What has been the result of even Il
partial Observance in tie community
If the Sunday taH2
Before tie Sunday Law went into
effect. is il not the fact that our streets
were crowded with people. WHO Io,,ng.
ed III TIE stores. buying Il few articles
of necessity. but mainly filling them
selves with vhi~hty, which was not
only dispensed from the saloon bars,
bnt finm the numerous groceries
which iavs bal attachments 10 their
legitimate trae in provisions AS Il
result of this unrestricted =whisl1ey
traffic. is IT not the fact, that the htiSi-
ness part of the town was forbidden
ground to our wives and daughters
on account of the promiscaous crowds
that blocked tie passage ell the side
walks. and made the air iedoient with
ribald and hlaspiemaEs language ?
Who does not remember the street.
broils. caused by Sunday wltiskey,
and which kept the Town Constable
busy waking arrests. or in preserving
the peaee2 Then, the office of Justice
of the peace Was Il lucrative. one, for.
every Monday morning there was Il
harvest Of east S of disturbance of the
peace, Of assaults and battery. and
offences Of that character. al OCCASION
ed by unlimited Sunday WLiskev. In
those days, the lot of the average
clerk was of the most nnenviabie char
acter. While his friends aud com
paAions we're enjoying the delights
attending the performance of the re-
li2ions obligations imposed upon all
Christians, the clerk was obliged TO
report for duty at day-break. on the
Sabbatil-day Of the Christian. and.
from that time TO three or four o'clock
in the afternoon. he was compelled to
have his nose to the grind stone, so to
speak. When he was finally released
from his worse than servitude. lie was
SO ~ out with his days lahors be-
hind the counter, that lie had no in
chnation To dress. and 90 out to enjoy
the miserable remainder of the Sunday
left HIM by his employer.
New, look on this picture. after the
Sunday Law has begun to he ohsery-
ed IN this parish a most grateful and
enjoyable peace and quiet settles over
anr lovely little city. The streets are
Tiled with our wives and daughters
and little children who. ON every
bright suEshIny Sunday NAV be seen
mingllng in social Intercourse, Will,
nothing to make them afraid to ven.
ture out Of their hor SEES. The mecl,ap.
lc rests III the quiet Of h. cottage.
with his little family cirele. around
him, and when he ventures out on the
streets on Sunday evening, lie does
not fear to meet drunken men who
will modest him and his dear ones.
The clerk who has been giving his
fourteen hours of labor every day to
his employer feels that there is one
day in seven, at least, when he can
devontly thank God that his sIackles
are off his hands, and that he can in
humble imitation Of his Maker. rest
from his labor: that he can Der
his strength for the exIausting and
combining duties of the week. Owing
to the closing of the numerous ave
nues Icy which Sunday whiskey used
to be dispensed, crime has diminished
very materially i'll our parish, and the
burden on the Taxpayer, which was at
Dne time so heavy by reason of the