Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-12-23
Declares Judge Wallace in Sig
nifiCant Statement Concern
ing His Interpretation of Mis-
souri, Blue Laws,
DETERMINED EFFORT TO
ABOLISH SUNDAY LABOR
Eleven Hundred Indictments
Already Returned, Kansas
City Is Promised Continua-
ton of FanatiCaI Crusade.

ll0n or FanatICal Crusade,
IBy Morning Joarnai Special Leased Wire. ]
Kansas City Dec. 22.--Judge Will
lam II. Wallace, of the Jackson count,
criminal court, who has been credited
with having started the Sunday OBJ
servance movement that now has be-
come widespread, has issued a signif-
cant statement to the Associated
Press on his interpretati ton of the Mis-
souri, law that he is seeking to en-
force. He also arraigns those whom
he says violates the law for pecuniarS
gain, and dweils upon what he
says Is a crying need of one day
OF rest out of every seven. As a re-
suit Of Judge Wallace's campaign the
grand jury has since September 20.
last, returned 1,101 indictments
against violators of the Sunday law;
forced hundreds Of shop keepers TO
close their places OF business on thar
day and within the past three weeks.
has placed over half a thousand Sur
day working actors actresses, theatri-
cal managers and their employees, and
others, under bond for hearing later.
That jury Is still in session and the
judge says he will not cease until the
law is respected to the letter.
Judge Wallace has for many years
p been one of the foremost lawyers In
the state, and has always fought for
law rnforcCmuIits He was appointed
to his present position by Governor
Joseph w. Folk who has accom- |
pllshed what no other Missouri eXecu |
tive has ever done, namely the clos !
ing of the saloons on Sunday
Judge Wallace, in his statement, |
says:
"It Is a mistake to suppose that the |
Sabbath is purely religious institu-
tion and that its enforced observance |
is for the benefit of the church. The |
Sabbath was ordained before man hat |
fallen or there was a church or neeo !
for redeemer. BY divine example !
the Almighty ordained it, by resting
from the work of creation on the sew
enth day and He impressed forever |
upon its sacred character by halloW-
ing it. The Sabbath would be with
us had sin never entered the world.
Hence when we think logically anc. /
historically. II is easy to conceive /
how it is that a desire for day of
rest Is a latent intuition with the Ia
boring man. The tyranny of SIX
thousand years of human avarice has
not eradicated t. Justice Field, so
long a member Of our United states
supreme court was li6nA Hiith 40 PAiN
of the supreme judges of California. /
he declared that Sunday laws are en-
acted primarily for the protection ot +
abor We cannot wonder, there re. /
that men who work for wages IN al
the departments Of human indu Try
are sending I'm the unanimous endo. Sc
mcnt of the labor unions TO whicA I
they belong Nor should we wonder /
that avarice Is turning its guns upon
the friends of Sunday Observance. ~
can on Sunday glut its ravenous NAV
with more Of the wages that nave
been paid the laborcr. than on any
other three days Of the week com
bined. The Sunday theaters. as rich
harvest as the Sunday saloon Is
proof to this fact.
but consistent as it is with the
needs and constitution OF man. the
idea of one day In seven as day oi
rest was not evolved by natural re- 4
ligion or human philosophy IL Is a [
divine revelation. II is the peculiar
feature of Christianity. by which ~
meant the system Of theology taught
by the old and the new testament Its
origin Is with the Bible and not with |
confucianism or brahaminism ~
buddhism or the NEUROLOGICAL re-
ligions of Greece or Rome or OF any 1
other nation
"trpon the two doctrines briefly
Stated above, namely that the constr
tuition of man requires and the WORD
of God commands one day in seven As
a dav OF rest. are grounded the sun
dan statutes Of the several states OF
the union. With the rarcst exceptions
our judicial decisions. whose name u
legion. rest upon precisely the same
foundation. Ministers ana ptlests
could not have pronounced the sab
bath more sacred than have the
Judges. Sunday LAWS have been de-
clared constitutional by practically /
every state i'm the union. The supreme
court of the United States. Justice
Brewer rendering the opinion. has de-
cided that We are "a religious people I
and that Christianity IL part OF oui /
Law.
answering your query as TO th-
cause or the widespread movement
for Sunday closing. it seems 10 me A.
the abuse Of the liquor habit = aid I
Ing the cause OF prohibition. so the i
open and defiant desecration of the
Sabbath Is opening the eyes OF men
10 the importance Of Sunday ohserv-
ance. Then. too. the truth contained
f. tho statement Of Daniel Webster.
that the Sabbath e. the bulwark OF 3
our liberties because it Is the bulwark
Of our morality = pressing itself
upon the attention 81 patriotic Ameri-
cans and the Anglo-SaNOn every
where when his attention Il turned 70
the subject. j. quick 10 appreciate the
sublime truth 80 aptiy expressed In
the declaration of Mr. Gladstone that
the question Of Sunday Observance
j. for the masses Of the people pre-