The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-04-19
cANADA's RIGID SUNDAY LAW.


France year, passed Sunday laws
The French law purely secular being protection salient
provision of compensation giving time oil the other days OF
dependent position has work the
statutory weekly The Canadian law the other hand religious
having forced into existence by the of the Dominion
getting through parliament was necessary to let
province Quebec That province by large majority
Catholic people enjoyed the liberty
celebrating
election campaigns Quebec political % held
mainly on SUNDAY after mass at the
Quebec number the bill and avoid splitting
maoremer Laer though Catholic having supported
concession the Liberals from Protestant eonstuenes-the
provision bill action prosecution
for leave of the Ato
which the ofene alleged to have been
after the expiration of sixty days from the time of the com
mission of the alleged ohense some OF the provinces nave SUNDAY laws
permission General the federal act
uPersede nuf local legislation At least this is the view taken
Attorney Scotia circular he has issued the
British Columbia last month Premier Mcbride in
Dominion Sunday Act particularly to the right of the Attorney
grant the prosecution of offenders
nended he had option and
the law against local owned by member
of the Provincial Government kept issuing Sunday
The feeling Vancouver
stated weeks that the law would not be enforced
Glasgow Herald calls the Canadian Sunday observance law eccentric
the duty the Attorney General of Quebec that the law
systematically polite disregard At the time
this Scottish journal continues sit incumbent upon his learned brother
observed with the degree of Putanic
the need the community which is pa in respect sunday
And would happen rigid Presbyterian became Attorney Gen
eral of Quebe''
to explanation authors
fair The Lords Day Advocate published by the Dominion Lord
which
the following condensed abstract is made:
the Lords Day sweeping applies mental well manual
laborers.
exemption necessary customary
worship is held ergymen, caraker, chorises etc
including sale
etc. an exemption letting out physicians nurses ambulance corps
the relief sickness and suffering
Druggists only sell drugs and medicines the restricted
Neither
other things be sold in hotels under circumstances.
The exemption continuous industrial does not include
@ repairs alterations or installation of plant but is limited processes
o such continuous nature that they can not be stopped without serious
Alliance further, that
Sunday permitted
providing for "the and work incidental thereto
The Alliance there is authoritative Interpretation of
anything but through traffic He points that the work
agents platforms stations absolutely prohibited
exemption of the continuance their destination of vessels in
transit when the Lords Day begins and work incidental thereto the Alliance
takes the construction that does not refer to the destination freight carried
by vessel but of the itself train,
possibility difficulty this interpretations it would railway
from adding car of perhbe freight or live stock to train passing through
junction point
carry passengers
Day unlawful for ferries boats do s but added that there
uncertainty jurisdiction authorize traffic
Only the Dominion has jurisdiction international and inter
provincial ferries The provincial and municipal authorities their
tive jurisdictions But doubt
can authorize traffic of any ferry or boat on the Lords Day
In reference to the clause ere the Alliance commentator holds that
operation sightseeing
which hire letting
for the of business labor to
morning mentioned terms are not given
though forth publication, distribution papers
the Lords Day absolutely prohibited added that the distribution of
Canadian subscribers
arrive the Lords Day. not permitted that day This applies hotels
well 10
On the exemption of of His Majes mails the Alliance
probable of
nails
of milk for domestic use will not permit the delivery of milk daymen
milk Dealers This n coker''
In conclusion the Alliance the applying
pov
and the Alliance provides blank
This
the ofense committed the Attorney General applied telegraph
telephone. The to
before laying the information 1t will
with the general of the associate secretaries the Lords Alliance
before initiating proceedings
1t Honoulu's
should have been collection
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