The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-07-08
CONSIDER THE SABBATH DAh'

Bloomsbury Park, one excuse l"
this given by the park management
being that the wide open SUNDAY
is for the benefit of those who 90
not have the opportunity TO WISH the
places during the week. IN othei
words. the management says that the
desecration Of the b IS Tor the
benefit Of the working ma and his
family.
That the working man and his
family desire to make a sport a
Of the Sabbath can not be %conceiv-
ed. OF course, there are some people
who work, some who idle, some
wealthy, some poor, who show little
or no respect for the Sabbath, just
as there are people who with DELHI
GRAFTON break each of the Ten Com
nandments, but those do not repre-
sent the best moral life of Raleigh,
Of North Carolina, or Of this coun-
try. No amount Of sophistry a
prove it SO.
North Carolina and the South has
become the citadel of those h be-
lieve in the Sabbath. and a proper
observance of it, n Raleigh is con-
sidered a city in which the best life
Of the South is represented. The
working people here are not to be
corsidered as a class which calls for
Sunday dissertation and they should
resent being so cHssed. The wide
OPEN Sunday at Bloomsbury Park
entices and tenpts many people who
A~A 1a~n1or~ 49, -ho oo~a l;t<1o f~r
their own moral lives or the mora
lives OF others, and it can but be on
sidered a menace to the best for
which Raleigh should stand.
That the Sabbath has a value to
!. working mel by it's proper observ-
. ance, and a value to all classes of
! life, is recognized throughout the
world. Bearing directly upon this is
!, a leafiet sent out by the Sabbath OBJ
: ~servance Department Of the National
Woman's Christian Temperance I'm
ion which is as follows.
. Many letters appear in certain
8 journals in favor Of an open Sunday
. AS 4 necessity for the working man
who has no other time for amuse-
: ment and who should have this time
!, to visit picture galleries and beer gar
dens with his family. and to go on
short excursions and to visit or par
). ticfpate in ball games and to go to
concerts and theatres: The fact il
that most working men do not want
an open Sunday. Those appeals axe
often, if not always. made by nien
who have plenty Of time on weeh
days for all these things which they
seem to think so necessary for the
:. comfort aid we'll being Of man. Sam
uel Gompers. writing to the Secretar.
: of the Federation Of Sunday Res
yAssociation of America. said: MAY
: I a the opportunity Of conveying
to YOU my hearty COMMUNICATION O.
= the principles and purposes Of tn,
:. association which you represent. No
y. only am I personally in hearty &C
" cord with any movement which Ia,
for its object the preservation Of o1l
days rest in seven, but the American
ed Federation of Labor. representa-;
% over two million working men an,
TO women. has EN- phatically declared it
We self in favor of the Sunday rest da,
rs. and it has done as much, il not more
all than any other organized body @
res men and women to enforce the oh
Cd ~Servance of the Sunday rest day Ed
eSs ward Baines makes the foloWin
plea for the working mems rest day
nc IF to any class as abbat {
sacred rest is a priceless boon, it
10 to the Sons of Toll. If to any elias
,.r the destruction of its sacrednes
nd ""uio w " curse " ~ouio oe SO
!. them
OF Believing. as ] do with all m
II mind and soul that a pious and vel
IN trained family in humble life is OIL
of the greatest blessing
and safeguards of society-the vel
salt of the earth-I coSet for IT