Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1907-11-01
TRAVELLING MAN
REGISTERS A KICK
Makes a Few Plain Remarks
About New Mexico's Sun
day Law.

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There have been heard a good
many expressions OF opinion on the
lid on Albuquerque by the sheriff on
Sunday last. Some of these com
ments have been breezy, some APPROX
ing. some picturesque and some pro
fame. The following vigorous roar
is from a travelling man who doesn I
even want a drink, and is a very good
expression Of the opinion of the drum
mers:
Sunday, Oct. 81,
Editor the Morning Journal:
1T appears to the travelling public,
and also to the better class of citi-
zens that the legislature of New Mex
leo must have been little unbal-
anced in the upper story when they
passed the Sunday law that is being
rigidly enforced in the city today.
All American citizens of ordinary
sense or Judgment have no objections
to Sunday laws, so far as common
sense and good Judgment are used.
But the very idea of refusing to sell
a travelling man cigar. bunch of
chewing gum. a package of candy, a
daily paper. that he might repair to
AAA2 AOObA anu H4tE a esF a lew tDiiElF
hours while he is compelled to re
main in the city.
why don't YOU close the churches
on the Sabbath? That is the day the
ministers labor for their daily bread
and beseech their audiences to con-
tribute for the many wants of Chris
tianity Why allow the street cars 10
run on the Sabbath? The motormen,
conductors and men working in the
power house have to labor on the
Sabbath. 1t is great wonder that
your wise ~ legislators did nol
make it a criminal offense for hotels,
restaurants and cafes 10 run on Sun
day l understand all the clubs in
the city were running wide open to-
day, serving not only cigars, but
drinks of all kinds as well
"Why were the houses of i'll fame
allowed to run wide open today
Places that are not fit to be allowed
to run any time in the year, Suppose
a mans wife or children were at the
point of death and the only means he
had of reaching them was by means
of livery rig. I suppose he would
be compelled TO have to wait until
his family were in the hands of an
undertaken.
This is a wonderful Sunday law
for ~ wise legislators to pass and
have enforced in a territory tat has
run as wide open as New Mexico
ever since Americans invaded its Dor
ders.
1.-THE travelling men viii break
their neeks to get to Albuquerque on
Sunday ] don't think. They VIII
shun the town and advertise your
wise (?l legislation from the Atlantic
to the Pacific Keep M this strin-
gent Sunday law gait and the popula.
ton of Albuquerque in 1910 will be
smaller than IT is today You will
have no more show of getting an in
dustrv for Albuquerque than you viii
of FLYING. It was impossible to buy
five cents worth, of fruit anywhere
In Albuquerque today. What harm
can come from any ones eating a
dish of ice cream or drinking glass
of soda or eating little fruit2 No
br0ad-minded man or woman would
object to such indulgences. It is only
the narrow-minded. narrow gauge and
illiterate who would wish to enforce
such unjust laws.
u am not and never was a drinking
man / do not take drop of fntox-
icating liquors. I am a teetotaler,
but glad to say. I have not one drop
of prohibition blood in my veins Be
sides. I never gamble nor bet on slow
horses. ] am an American and be
Heve in freedom. At the same time
I have no objection to reasonable
Gfnfav law strictly enforced. But
when it comes to the little harmless
things, I protest against any such
rsrrow-miuded legislation. You mighl
inst as well say TO any secret order
chat II had to admit everybody to
membership as to say YOU can not
buy or smoke a cigar on Sunday.
Yours Respectfully.