Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-14
For Sunday Reading
Ill Sorts dObinious
Legislators on Sunday Baseball

i Albany, y. H.. April Zo.-Ine NC
Graz, bill legalizing Sunday baseball
by amateurs between $3.50 and $50
p. m. squeezed thru the assembly today
receiving q votes with 81 votes in the
! negative. Cheering greeted the an
nouncement of the result.
Assem- blyman Perkins led the oppo-
sition, declaring that it was an artful-
| ly designed entering wedge 10 destroy
the sanctity of the American Sabbath.
! Il yield to no man in my love of the
great national game" he said but
will not be a party 10 commercializing
the Lords day. Splendid as is the
national game, ii can not be played
without accompaniment Of excitement
and noise
Il am proud TO be classed as noisy
citizen in such a connection" eX-
claimed Speaker Wadsworth from the
floor, having surrendered the gavel to
Minority Leader Frisbie. Mr.. Perkins
pointed his finger at the speaker and
said:-
Il fear you will regret, personally
and politically. the step you are TAX
ing. 1 fear you will hear from your
constituents"
with perfect good nature. the gen.
lleTldu mas UtliS SI Su Ii!S " a. IMP
me and the same spirit I accept it.
replied Mr.. wadsworth. But I fear
the warning had come too late. The
late beloved Mark Twain told story
of a man who climbed a chimbley' and
fell off and broke his neck; whereupon
all the neighbors promptly remarked,
1t will teach him a good lesson What
ever the future may hold for me ! am
and always shall be in favor OF clean.
wholesale sport and innocent, healthful
recreation seven days in the week.
do not believe that this sort of. thing
violates the Sabbath. / believe that 1t
makes for the betterlnent of men, and
that is my conception of following in
the footsteps of the divine master. I
would rather have my boy shouting at
the top force Of his lungs when Casey's
rnitts close over the long fly in the out
fieId-'two out-than have him loafing
around street corners Sundays. telling
stories, ogling women or debauching
himself with beer in the saloons.
ITO my mind it is very clear that
the great God-fearing american peo-
pie is ready for, and is going to have
another Sunday-a more liberal Sun
day. 1t seems to me that our Sun
day blue laws are made for the rich.
that they do not properly take into
account those who stand the burden
and the toll of the worlds drudgery
six days in the week. Who begrudges
the rich their Sunday automobile
rides, their Sunday golf all the other
diversions with which they are ac-
custolned to amuse themselves on
that day? Shall we continue to say
to the privileged class. Do as you
will and to the tired bread winners,
who haven't got the price, Thou
shalt not In the name Of public
decency, in the name of public and
private morality, register my solemn
protest"
In defending his bill, Assemblyman
McGrati opened the door Of sacred
history and produced a formidable ar
ray of pontiffs and prelates who es-
poused the cause of wholesome sun
day amusements.
Il don't know much about those
fellows" Assemblyman McCue re-
marked, but as a saloon keeper,
should like to say that if the REFORM
srs really want to close the saloons
on Sundays. they couldn't find any
surer may than to pass such bills as
these