Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-20

a well kept Sabbath, and of all coun-
tries can best afford the requisite relief
to her laborinq people.
A civil Sabbath law should be SO
framed as to make it legally impos-
sible for one man or class to compel
another man or class to labor.
Without this greed and selfishness
pleasure seeking will force hundreds
and thousands to work or starve. No
manly man when once made to see the
relation which his recreation sustains
to another's toll, will wilfully persist in
seeking enjoyment at the expense of
those who must work seven days in a
week to furnish the means of it.
A civil Sabbath law to fully an
swer it's benefit intent should close
the doors Of dissipation and demorali-
zation such as the saloon. the dance
house, the house of the strange wo-
man and every place admittedly cor
rupting and destrutive to health and
public morals.
The civil Sabbath draws strong coll
lateral support from the vast moral
and educational advantages INSOFAR
ably associated with an orderly Sab
bath. These tend to uplift and ennoble
citizens and thereby benefit the state.
The right to legislate a civil Sabbath
into being, and guard it against the
constituencies rapacity of bad men in
bad business is one feature Of the
right of self protection which state as
well as individuals enjoy. The state
right is paramount inasmuch as it en-
cages to protect the individual which
engagement it cannot fulfill without
a French statesman said London is
kept in order by garrison of three
small battalions and two squadrons:
while to control the capital of France
half the size, forty thousand troops
of the line and sixty thousand national
guards are necessary" But the strang
er who arrives in London on Sunday
morning, when he sees everything Of
commerce suspended in that gigantic
capital in obedience to God: when in
that colossal bushes she finds silence
and repoSe scarcely interrupted by the
bells which call to prayer, and the I'M
mense crowd on their way to church,
then his establishment ceases. Instead
of Christianity being dependent upon
civil law it is pure religion which con-
tributes in maintaining society as IT
should be.
Laplace wrote: Il have lived long
did not believe, that no society can be
upheld in happiness and honor without
the sentiments OF religion"
Judge Nj. B. Hagans of Cincinnati,
upon the question Of the Sunday Sab
bath law recently said: 1T is a ques-
ton which Is grounded upon the needs
of society and lies at the foundation of
the state. 1t Is essentially q civil reg
ulation made for the government of
man as a member of society,"" It is not,
therefore. extravag CANT to declare that
the dGv set apart as a day Of rest from
secular employment Is the American
Sabbath. The laws are founded on the
needs of man FOR a day of rest and are
therefore justified by the public policy
of the state.
Judge Allen G. Thurman the en-
inent statesman and jurist of Ohio in
a recent discussion used language
equally clear and strong thus: 1--WE
have no union of church and state, nor
has our government ever been vested
, with authority to enfore any religious
observance simply because it Is re-
ligious. OF course it is no objection
but on the contrary is a high recon-
mendation to a legislative enactment
based on justice and public polity that
it is found to coincide with a precept
of pure religion but the fact is never
the less true that the power to make
the law rests in the legislative control
over things temporal and not, over
things spiritual.
Thus the statute upon which the de-
fcndant relies, prohibiting comm or
labor on the Sabbath could not stand