The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-02-09
Entered 1t Richmond. Indiana, post
office ~ second class mall matter.

office a. second class mall matter.
THE uNco'oUio AND THE SUN
DAY Newspaper.
There is nothing more common in
this'lif than the splitting of hairs on
the question of Sunday observance.
Many q man who would not get q
train to go sixty miles will hitch up
his poor tired horse on the Sabbath
day ana drive ten miles and back to
take dinner with his friends and
neighbors. That is case Of COM
mon occurrence. The man would de-
1end his action on the grounds that
he disaproved of the railroad company
doing business on Sunday.
There are other men who will not
write business letter on Sunday but
who will use the telephone to make
. business appointment the next day.
There are men who will not sub
scribe to Sunday paper who will
read their neighbor's paper the next
day. And there are men who will not
advertise in the Sunday newspaper
who will keep window dresser busy
TIL 1859 on Saturday night and light
up the windows to display his goods
on Sunday night so that the church
goers are enabled to see what the
man has for sale on Monday.
Don't smile at these subtrafuges.
The men probably believe that they
are entirely right.
The truth about the whole business
10 that the newspaper has Become
public utility. II the newspapers in
this country were all to 60 out OF
business at one time there would be
all sorts Of trouble Immediately. The
Sunday newspaper IL q part Of that
institution and no amount of contin-
uance In the hairsplitting line is like
" to put It out Of business. The ma
jority ct people can distinguish be-
tween real and fancied evils.
The contention that people should
not read newspapers on the Sabbath
b % absurd as the contention (which
Il scarcely ever adhered to) that
there should be no Talk Of what is go
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per tells Of the dealings OF the world.
II would be better for this country
II the newspapers were in the hands
Of more people on the day Of rest.
Z would let them know more about
Inc problems OF life. Most OF the
trouble IN this. world Is caused by ig.
n0rance. There In no educational
force 10 potent in this country as the
hewspaper.
To our mind there is too much re-
l1Gion In this country which will stoop
toIany thing during the week and will
pat on its northumberland with it's
Sunday clothes. There Is nothing
more objectionable in the Sunday pa
! pr than there ID In the week day pa
pr. II - this hairsplitting business
which u bred Of intolerance which is
- mistaken. A hundred years ago
n Scotland II the records Of the Kirk
are to be balieved. there were people
Who were fined for having watered
bowers or things equally wicked on
the Sabbath. We smile at that now.
We shall soon outgrow the foolish
mess about the Sunday newspaper.
II man has any Intention Of going
e church tho Sunday paper viii not
keep him away. And II having heard
To theory Of life from the lips OF 4
man who 10 paid to tell him about it
No pays : few cents to learn Of the life
afound him nj over the world IL that
not worth while?
Risht here In Richmond you may
hear theoretical persons say that they
viii not take the Palladium because
the carrier boys are deprived Of SUN
] day school. AS matter Of fact most
OF the carrier boys are attendants Of
Sunday school and several who have
tho hardest work to do are prize win
MR. Tor attendance. The fact is that
tAe boys set up early enough to 60 to
sanday school.
Th4re are many men who will ad-
vertise IN = street car (also . public
uttlity) which runs on Sanday from
early ID the morning tn late It night.
40 vil MOI advertise a the other pub
lie utility 1.-The new1paper which Is
pftnAsd saturday night ana delivered
sarly ~ eunday morning.
Il vas oily ysstesday that ! leader
II ths eouniy loc1l option llkht On his
~ a ~ ministsfisl meeting stopped