The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-02-03
LET'S BE HUMAN ABOUT IT.

From present indications personal incnatons and
activities in the matter of harmless recreation to be
rgidy regulated by statute in this state In consequence
it is time for little earnest and hard headed thinking
well as pious oburgaton
to both state and church lie concealed,
neither dormant dead in this gladstone inscription of
Sunday school precepts the law books interpret
them for the of people OF all natlOnaes and
beliefs beliefs at ALL
The consequences of immoral reaction from excessive
moral exaction is steadily demonstrated in the fact that
both reared under the most stringent home regua
ton very frequently the weakest in resistance to
wrong when left ON their own responsibility
This is no argument against home regulation but it
ought to teach something in the of sense
public well as domestic affairs.
Too much regulation and surveillance in minor matters
of citizenship certain perver the public DISPOSE
on and the results apt materalize much the same
on highly magnifed scale. It's process that has no
visible ending
that widow depending for living the revenue of
little store may not sell necessities Sunday without
mourning penalty of prosecution
The prosecution originates not in behalf of the general
public, but from merchants larger SCALE devoid of
desire or occasion for selling anything Sunday.
Therefore one else SHALL
barber of the Seventh Day Adventist faith may not
labor Sunday in this state except in pain of legal pun
ishmen although his conscience him of hell WV
idly the orthodox believer is warned unless he keep
his Sunday.
That he is willing and anxious to keep the day holy his
church designates commands consideration from the
more enlightened Christian. Other BARRIERS not Ad-
ventis and they have decreed to do work Sunday
Therefore no one else shall.
wildly joyous proportion of this stubborn generation
prefer the theaer Sunday afternoons nights to church
service Possibly nconsderable fraction of those
who do not would if free to follow natural impulse but
they and the steadfast alike barred from such
indulgence
Thefore no one else should.
There is something pregnant of painful possbili
ties in the effort to force upon all standard of morality
extending far beyond the pale Of oenses defined by
OF enactment
There considerable to be gained even for the cause of
nd STR t1fTIa otto in
being BEAUTIFULLY human under all circumstances, espe
cialy in generous glowing Spokane with her opened
to people Of all creeds Notwithstanding Billy Sundays
airy cons gnment to hell of all beliefs but his own.
He who would attempt the ordering of the lives of his
felOwmen by law the day in six of labor they
given for regeneration, undertakes something that Christ
did not Credited with power to sway the earth from her
course he endeavored to force faith in himself
nor accordance with his teachings from the humbest
object lesson in love of liberty and forbearance it is still
profitable to consider AS the fountain of faith he was
the sacrifice but humanity shifted the burden of martyr
dom what it deemed the nregenerate and it not vet
entirely inclined to lift it.
there none to preach and to practice the gospel that
we're all human, with the borderline between the sanity
and the SHINING so narrow that step it either
wayi
Under the common law of creation and the mighty legal
fabric reared through the ages check and to chasse
is there million among ordained to rise in
might and deny the fleeing pleasures that delight and do
not harn7
The state liquor question and gambling issue are
barred debate in this connection Through successive gen
Grafton OF soddn greed the liquor dealer has descended
the muck and mire of the pit he dug and his is the joy
of it.
There saoonmen whose lives are clean and reputa
tlons good who worth having citizens and friends
but they conspicuous through being misplaced because
the class has sunk below them
Race track gambling is confessed robbery and the re-
sponsby of protecting its devotees from their own lack
OF sanity is patent and pressing
But these evils undenied and entirely sufficient to
task the present legislative caber Of this state which
conclusion is by means designed a slur.
Still devouty disconnected are however, zeaousy
of adj
be combated into affairs in which the general public can
End no evil.
OPINIONS greatest sss It DANGERS ss ;.:,on.,,. live.