The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-08-06
SOME LEADING EDITORIALS.
ME SUNDAY cLoslNG pRoBLEM.


From the Denver News.
There and there will continue to be an repress
be conflict between those who insist upon asrct
Of Sunday sumptuary and those who contend Tor
reasonable opportunity pass the day IN sueh
pasmes and with such ndugences their natures ana ap
petites
Those who favor cosedght saloons and utter exclusion
the citizen from where malt spirituou drinks may be
purchased Sunday must have learned by this time na
their views prevail with officials only when they are in hgh
ing and charging continuously their opponents
Let the be dofed let the Sunday closing sodiers
from the handohand struggle for single day ana
the ground the conflict gained for them is lost ana
the fight again the very first The reason
is plain There is tremendously large influential rich ana
powerful class interested in the open Sunday gives
them opportunity make and there is yet larger ana
influential class that be made to feel a II
is criminal sell buy glass of beer Sunday In Den
it safe there thousands OF this latter class
most of them weo-do hstrate citizens who believe that
they much in of good government and good NOR
ais as the most eloquent minister in the pulpit
When the strict Sunday observer reflects that all govern
mens in this country popular governmentsthe National
government being the urhes removed from direct control
of the peopeha city governments are selected by the
ballot they will understand why that Sunday sumptuary
laws difficult OF enforcement Statute books may be
filled with laws which unless they mees popular approval
dead letters 1t is very difficult to induce men to
rgidy enforce laws when they feel that for doing SO
they will be beaten the election The following
condition which Sunday restrctonss know exists
They rule extreme partisans They will approve
officials enforcing Sunday while they engaged IN
doing but when election day if the faithful servant
of their party, they against him for who is
and deprived of the of those who stood for liberal
Sunday the faithful the bleachers to wish
that he had been wiser if he had not been good
Even minister will admit that il it isn't unlawful and
immoral to drink glass of beer week days il isn't i'm
moral and shouldn't be unlawful drink glass of beer
Sunday 1t isn't the fact that people drink beer on Sunday
led Sunday closing law, but that Americans
rule inclined give degree of sancty Sunday that
they don't attach week days and the NOISY and turbulent
in which places where liquors sold likely to
be conducted Sunday when unrestricted These things
with the far greater number that likely to frequent
saloons Sunday than week days take from Sunday all
appearance of that sancty with which their education and
training tend surround it. With the entire working
muity idle is Sunday far greater evil results
This every observer knows and creates the trouble
some in this moral and religious equation
Those who favor Sunday closing have fortress
fight from behindhe fortress of the law which forbid
liquor he sold Sunday. This together with the acknowl-
edged evils of ntemperance and the justice of the claim
decent Sunday constitute strength which is formidable
But the other hand the thousands who made
comfortable by these restrictions who believe they should
be allowed do Sunday they do every other day.
without being questioned and who be brought
line with the aceticism of Puritan Sunday.
The News proposes both sides of this everything ques-
tion Why not meet and agree upon grounds
Why subscribe to scheme that will afford those who
need glass of beer and an opportunity to quench
their thirst and that will prevent disturbances and keep
places of tightly closed during certain OF the
day scheme which will strip open saloons Sunday
the greatest evils which unrestricted from them
and the time for the professors religion
chuchgoers and children immunity from offensive inter
ference with their church and Sunday school attendance that
the most dsagreeabe feature of the open Sunday they
required to