Smyrna times., 1906-06-13

mon tnan mOraDty. FOR shame that ftl
sensible man in charge of one of ouiA
city dailies could so insult the intelli-
gence of the thinking public as to ut !
ter such unspeakable trash and call it
an editorial.
2. But in the next place he says "we
fancy that perhaps nine-tenths of the
people of the state would arise and
protest should an effort be made to
suppress all Sunday trains" This
statement clearly reveals what kind of
people that editor associates with. 1t
is fitting deliverance from the pen of
man who denies the divinity of the
Lord that bought his pardon on the
tree. And it is deliberate and un-
pardonable insult to the Christian cit
izenship of this commonwealth, to as
sert that nine-tenths of them are in fa-
vor of what is a clear violation of. the
Sabbath. l would be very slow to
permit the editor of the Morning News
to fix my moral standard of judgment,
for it would inevitably lead to all sorts
of excesses. He will find out if he
lives lorg enough that the vast major
ity of the people on this peninsula are
Christians at least in sentiment and
not Unitarians, who fix their own code
of life and profess to save themselves
by their good works.
3. Here is another brilliant scintil-
lation from the pen of the wise man
from Wilmington. ''It has come to
pass that Sunday trains are just as
necessary as Sunday meals" If the
writer did not know that the editor of
the Morning News is a sober man he
would be tempted 20 think from the
reading of the fore going that the
brain that concOcted such an absurd,
silly statement was befuddled with
liquor. Sunday trains as necessary
as Sunday mealsl' Think of It'll The
assertion is so grotesquely ridiculous
that it merits no answer, it answers
itself, the only wonder beng that any
sane mind could have permitted such
| sentence TO pass muster.
f. The only other statement noticed
is this: "Cognizance must be taken OF
the fact that those who work for six
days in the week are entitled to one
day for the pleasure of visiting distant
friends ard an opportunity to get rid
of the city, that is bound to become
monotonous to the drudger day after
day. This is a weak and specious plea
for the laboring class. But the editor
had not thought past the end of his
pen, or he would have known that the
men who operate the trains on Sunday
are laboring men and the only labor
ing men who do not have every Sun
day in the year, with but very few ex
l ceptions. Now he would, under pre-
tended plea for the weekly toiler, com
pei over a million men to work on Sun
day that the others may have the op
t portunity of violating the Sabbath
What beautiful consistency is this
Further, he has forgotten, if he evel
knew, that the worst enemy of the la
boring class is the violation of the Sab
i bath. Sunday travel means in timt
i Sunday selling, indeed in many of Oul
/ large cities it means it now, for tn,
stores are open nearly all day on Sun
= day. What would our brilliant edito
say should the merchants of Whining
ton keep their stores open on Sunda,
Il to accommodate the people who insis
d that that was their most convenien
i time to deal? The one is as necessar
as the other In closing the write
:, predicts that in the very near futur
u violations of the Sabbath will gro'
g less and less for the reason that an ell
IS lightened public conscience and
+ righteous enforcement of wholesom
a laws will see to it that the country
safety is secured by strict observanC
" of Gods holy day. For such a CO..
le summation let all lovers of sound mo
ID ality labor and pray.
,e ROBERT WATT.
"a Smyrna, Del, June 7th.