The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-29

to boast Of the fact abroad, that none
or our mechanics or merchants, or
professional men, or other prominent
citizens are drunkards. To this fact,
mainly, ! think may be attributed the
comfortable condition of the great
majority of our citizens as the owners
OF q comfortable home.
There is another subject which
consider of vital Importance, and OF
which / feel that must not omit
speak. allude to a proper observ-
ance OF the Sabbath. Our last legis-
lature passed a Sunday Law which
nave not yet seen. doubt not it is
wise law, aiming to prevent secular
employment on that day. The most
common evil to which towns on large
nav1gable streams are subject on Sun
day, Is the arrival and departure OF
steamboats,, and the discharging and
receiving Of freight. Heretofore at
our landing these occurrences on the
Sabbath have not beer so frequent
or SO numerous in a single day as to
attract much notice, or disturb the
/ quiet SO desirable on the Sabbath.
The great increase of business this
spring has wrought a change in this
respect. On one Sabbath not long
since. ten or twelve steamboats, land
ed at our levee, most of which were
loaded for this place. In the absence
OF an ordinance prohibiting the dis
charging Of goods from steamboats, on
the Sabbath, our merchants felt
obliged to receive them, and conse-
7, quently our streets were flied with
/ horses and drays engaged in hauling
! goods, with all the noise and COM
motion incident to such employment.
I st. Louis, with her immense com
merce, believe utterly prohibits the
like business on the Sabbath. May
! We follow her example, and thereby
set an example worthy of imitation
, by other and older river towns in our
, state.
), remarked that had not seen the
Sunday law passed by our last legis
!ature, and that no city ordinance had
: been passed for our relief in this re
} spect. But in that book which con
: tains the foundation of all law, for al
4 times, and binding upon all, reads as
), follows:
+ Keep the Sabbath day to sanctif.
q it, as the Lord thy God hath com
manded thee. Six days shalt thoi
q labor and do all thy work. But the
] seventh day is the Sabbath of thu
$ Lord thy God; In it thou shalt no
+ do any work, thou, nor thy son, no
8 thy daughter nor thy man-scrvant
9 nor thy maid-servant, nor thine OK
y nor thine ass, nor any of the cattle
e nor thy stranger that is within tn
IS gates; We shall keep Ny sabbath AM
s reverence My sanctuary. am tn
IS Lord
, Having referred briefly to the In
Z portance of railroads to OR city.
u may not be inappropriate to spea
= more particularly on this occasion
: the several projected railroads an
e other public improvements in the col
- struction of which the city has dee
IL anu vital interest, in some Of the
le as a stakeholder to large amour
anG in all of them as being the reel
IS lent of the benefits which her positic
Or as their natural terminus secures
e. her
se 1st. The Keokuk, Fort Des Moin'
.. and Minnesota railroad, of which OF
D. fellow-citizen, Gen. II. 7. Reid,
70 president, running hence to Fort d
IL. Moines, the future capital of the stat
~ and eventually to be extended alol
70 the valley of the Des Moines to Z
on north line of the state, is an ents
iu nrise of the Importance of which 0
citizens have manifested their sen
re- by authorizing, by vote near
ef' unanimous, corporate subscripti
re of 5000, oO0 The county has al
10 voted a subscription of a like anon
A respectable private subscripti
So has also been secured. Very tn
IRE ough preliminary surveys have be
made under the direction OF s. Dwie
cy, Eaton, Esq, chief engineer; and
'er will be gratifying to our citizens
II learn that about forty miles of
M road have been definitely located, a
10 that it is the intention of the direct
nus to place the grading. building and 7
aa' sonry Of that portion of the line
10, der contract during the pres
- month.
That the bonds, which 1t will
III come our duty to issue to this ct
a. pany on account of the corporate s
=, scriptions to its stock. will ever
come the least burdensome to our
ss, no one who has any adequate conc
n ,. ton OF the wealth and resources
~ the valley of the Des Moines, can
- moment believe; but on the
III trary, there can be no doubt but
;. it will prove to be most pronta
- and judicious investment.
ery The distance by this road II
.un. Keokuk to Fort Des Moines is al
1 al 80 miles, and do not hesitate
hat saw that no road Of the same len
woe has yet been constructed in the
and tire valley of the Mississippi.
and traverses country so well impro
well. and SO densely populated, as