The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-01-31

gatives under its police powers II
inheienO. lhey may not be alb
rogated by repeated violations
They may be repealed upon tn,
demand of the public judgement
but never on the demand OF the
law-breakers unsupported by en-,
lightened public sentiment.
The so called antiscreen ordi.
nance was made necessary by the
action OF large section of the
saloon men. Setting up the claim
that they were obeying the law
they employed lookouts and spot.
ters and proceeded to do secretly,
what they feared to do openly.
The unobstructed view of the
saloons interior during the closed
hours was made necessary by the
sneaking system of violating the
law in impendetrdIia. Sneakinq
things do not go well with an in.
telligent American public, no mat
ter what may be done sneakingly.
Most certainly the sneaklng viola.
tion of any of the laws does not
commend itself to OF en-faced
honesty and frankness.
Whether Sunday observance, as
we recognize it, in this country is
right or wrong, is really not q
question in issue in this connec-
tion. Among the symbolic ex-
pressions in Genesis we find one
in substance to the purport that
in six days God made the earth
and all that is in it. and on the
seventh day he rested hence the
sacredness of the Sabbath. Ac-
cept this idea literally and no
harm can befall mankind by its
observance as a day IT rest and
holy meditation.
But the ymbolism must refer
to the physical and not the spiri~
tual, since God, spirit, connot tire
and therefore does not rest, re-
cuperate. In other words, it is a
reason, coming down from peri
ods immemorial for setting aside
one seventh of Our days for rest.
meditation and mental and spiri-
tual culture, in some form which
is the antithesis of the fierce toll
and moil and rush of daily labor.
The concensus of Christemdom
during modern centuries is that
it is day for rest, meditation,
religious thought and observance
and capitalization. 1t is an in
stituvion. An institution inca
pable of harming any nation or
people. Capable of comforting un-
told benefits on the human race.
That the United States and the
state of Ohio should deem 1t worthy
of recognition, and that the great
mi aiority should favor its peaceful
observance along general, if not
homogeneous lines, accounts for
us having Sunday laws on our re-
vised statutes, and the legal inter-
diction of the ordinary vocations of
life on that day, save in works of
charity or in cases of grave neces-
sity.
The running of saloons on Sun.
day is no more a necessity than the
of dry goods stores ard
groceries on that day You
could mt find real business man
who would have the nerve to say
over his own signature, that
the business of the city of Colum-
bus is going to the dogs because
the retail dry goods stores, gro
ceries and all other kinds of busI-
ness houses are not kept running
lay and night and seven days In
the week, and that the thieves
would get rich by ped lling their
stolen goods on Sunday, because
he goods of honest merchants
we're closed against buyers.
The complaint is made that the
'aloon men who run their places
n respectable manner have to
suffer" along with the dive and
len keepers. This is true. The
aw cannot discriminate. 1t must
reat all alike who engage in the
BUSINESS, if they violate its pro-
'islons.