The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-30

pastor or bishop to speak To hlm aDOul
it. But a clergyman has no more right
to censure a Observation-Disclosures Tor
breaking the Sabbath han he has TO
censure a Free Mason for violating the
rules of Freemasonry.
And if the church member attend
church the rest of the day, in our de-
nomination, at least, is his to do with as
he sees fit, consistently with the general
Sunday principle already enunciated.
II do not look on Sunday baseball as
a concession to those who toll in fac
tories all the rest of the week. 1t is
e~verybody's right who cares to exercise
it. There are thousands of poor in New
ark who do not toll in factories all
week, nor a single hour in the week, be-
cause no man hath hired them Are
they to refrain from Sunday b~aseball2
If Sunday baseball can help them to for
get their worries for a few hours, a
benediction be on it! And there are
other Newarkers who toll not, neither
do they spin, any day, because they
don't have to. These would be doing no
worse than they are doing if they gave
their Sundays to baseball.
Hacked by Roosevelt.
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we used to say in the West, it is a
killing. For not only ave the church
to support me, but the state also; not
only Bishop Lines, but President Roose-
welt. The Puritans of Westchester
County, New York, having placed the
ban on Sunday baseball, the baseball
team of New Rochelle, under the guild
ance of Father Mclaughlin, a Catholic
priest, has taken refuge on the govern
ment reservation at Fort Slocum.
Father Mclaughlin believes that
President Roosevelt will sustain the
officers of the fort in case the sheriff
tries to make trouble. He feels this
confidence because of a conversation
he had with the President in Wash
ington last fall.
81 told the President said Father
Mclaughlin, that l did not see any
harm in people playing baseball or at
tending the national game on Sunday
after their religious duties had been
discharged. The President replied.
THAT is the kind of talk l like to hear
from a clergyman
Father Mclaughlin says the Presi-
dent told him that after he had at
tended services in his church in Wash
ington he often played tennis in the
afternoon. The priest denied that he
intended to umpire the Sunday games
at Fort Slocuni.
Sheriff Lane said yesterday he would
probably not interfere with the game at
Fort Slocum.
THE President of the United States
playing tennis on Sunday afternoon
Shades OF bigotry, what are we coming
to? Nor can it be pleaded for Presi-
dent Roosevelt that he is shut up in
a factory ALL week, and that Sunday
afternoon is his only chance to get a
breath of fresh air. On the contrary,
he INDUCES in some athletic sport every
day, and his residence is in a healthful
situation, with plenty of light and air.
1T is my privilege as a clergyman to
plead the cause of the church But it
is not MY privilege, if my arguments
will not persuade people, to abuse them.
That is an abuse of my privilege. Nor
have l a right to declare, If you won't
come to church, you shall not be al
lowed to do anything else
Puritans' Last Fight.
'The Puritan rigorists are now max
Ing their last desperate fight, when
n VeOptc gu thAOubh WIN thC III
tan blue laws, those laws will be black
as well as blue. Imagine n civilized
community where a citizen cannot buy
a glass of soda water on Sunday, as
now I'm East Orange! Were 1t not in
sufferable, il would be ridiculous. And
yet 1T is no worse to veto Sunday soda
water than Sunday beer. If "A man pre-
fers beer TO soda winter, why should he
be Disseminated against. And why
should not both the soda water army
and the lager beer army make common
cause against the common enemy:
II think they will. The many and
varied classes of citizens to be repre-
sented in the monster German-Ameri-
can protest against the Puritan blue
laws indicate that the issue is not a
race issue nor a class issue: it is
American liberty against Puritan
tyranny and by .-ocrisy. The German
Americans were indeed the first to pro-
test, and they nave been the most Wig
orous and effective in their protests;
and for this they deserve the thanks
of all lovers of human freedom. Why
should it be considered a sufficient an
swer to their demands, demands voiced
in their status as American citizens,
that they were, many of them, born in
the Fatherland? Wherever born, these
COMMUNICATIONS are amongst our
most valuable citizens. They are sober,
l~aw-abiding, Industrious, frugal, quiet,
patriotic, intelligent. They do not fig
ure in police courts. nor in divorce
courts. They are a home-loving people.
During my three months service on
the grand jury. there were few, if any
| can recall none-complaints involving
COMMUNICATIONS. Yet the favorite
reply of the Puritan rigorist to their
arguments and appeals is the eontemp-
tible insult, IF You don't>lik our ways,
go hack where yor came FROM
The reason the Puritan rigorists
make this reply is because they have no
better.
When bishops are encouraging, or at
least justifying, Sunday baseball. I, the
much-maligned, may gracefully retire.
My services are no longer needed. But
| will continue to advocate the right of
a man in other directions. until-who
knows?-a bishop may relieve me of
this task, too"