The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-06-03
PEOPLE ARE COMMANDED
TO OBSERVE SUNDAY LAWS

purporting or intending to guarantee
or assure 10 any person, or entitle
him TO a prize, or share of. or inter
est in, prize to be drawn in lottery
etc. Any Sone offending against this
statute, upon conviction, shall be con.
fined in jail ot more than one year,
and fined not less than $4,000.
Another species of gambling is the
keeping Of pool room. By "pooI
room is meant any room where any
pool ticket. chance. voucher or certi-
hcate emitting or purporting to emit.
tie the holder or promisee thereof, or
any other person TO money or othes
thing of value. contingent upon the
results of any horse race. prize fight.
game OF chance. game of skill or
science or other sport or contest, the
information Of which result is OBJ
tanned by telegraph. telephone. wire
less telegraphy, or other electrical de-
vice. The statute also makes 1t an
ohense for any of the above enumer-
ated message bearing concerns to
furnish or transmit information con-
corning the results OF any event men
toned on the statutes. Any person
found guilty OF violating any of the
provisions of the statute shall be
fined not less than $500 or more than
81 1000, and may be imprisoned not to
exceed two years.
desire to call your attention also
10 the statutes relating to Sunday
observance. Much complaint is be-
ing made in respect to Sunday viola
tons. The complaints have been
made from the pulpit. petitions di-
rected TO the officers Of this court by
Sunday schools and other religious
organizations; from many citizens of
certain communities and from nu-
merous individual complaints made
in person. Some OF the complaints
are of religious nature: other com
plants are to the effect that the Sun
day repose and religious liberty or
the entire community is being dis
turbed: while other complaints are to
the effect that the petitioner obeys
the law by closing his store or shop
on Sunday while his next door com
petitor runs his business on Sunday
the same as on other days OF the
week.
In view of the numerous com
plants as to violations and the APP
parent misunderstanding and mis-
construction OF the general statute
relating to Sunday observance / feel
ii my duty to instruct you particu-
larly and at some length on the same
sunday observance was at first a
religious regulation, but in the United
States where no particular religion
church can be opposed or supported
by law, Sunday observance, under
the Jaw, is viewed purely in secular
light, and is not a religious regula-
tion.
Chief Justice Fuller in the case of
Pitt VS.. Minnesota. III L. S. 1914. in
which a similar Sunday Observance
statute was being considered, said:
Its requirements are a cessation
from labor. In its enactment, the
legislature has given the sanction OF
law TO rule of conduct, which the
entire civilized world recognizes as
essential to the phys cal and moral
"ell-belng OF society Upon no sub
lect is there such concurrence OF
opinion. among philosophers, moral
lists and statesmen of all nations. as
on the necessity of periodical cessa-
ton from labor. One day in seven is
the rule, founded on experience. and
sustained by science. = The pro-
htoition of secular business on sun
day is advocated on the ground that
by 1t the general welfare is advanced
labor protected, and the moral and
physical weil-be,ng of society pro,
NOTED"
The earl.es: regulations We find
touching Sunday, as a civil institu-
ton, was an edict of Constantine A.
d. S2l. which declared that ION this
venerable day OF the Sun, let the
mag strates and people residing in
cities rest, and let all work shops be
closed" but under this edjct the
farmers were left free 10 cultivate
their fields and harvest their crops
on the Sabbath day.
Sunday observance was recognized
and required by the rulers of Eng
land for some time prior to the com
ing OF William the Conqueror. ant
10y statute % Charles II, CHI. I, il wa,
enacted:
Ihat no tradesman, artifice. work
man. laborer or other person what
ever shall do or exercise any worldy
labor, business or work OF their or
binary calling upon the Lords Day
or any part thereof, work OF necssi
~ and charity excepted"
The statute was a part of the rec
ognized law of Colonial America
and in one form or another has beer
copied into the laws OF every state
in the union. The statute of Yves
Virginia, with a few notifications
was copied from the Virginia code.
Section l6 of chap.er I4s of the
code reads as follows:
II any person on a Sabbath day
be found laboring at any trade OF
calling. or employ his minor children
apprentices, except in household OF
other work of necessity or charity
he shall be fined not less than five
dollars for each offense And every
day such minor child. or servant. OIL
apprentice is so employed, shall con,
sutute distinct offense. and any per.
son found hunting, fishing or carry
ing firearms on the Sabbath day shall
be guilty OF a misdemeanor anC
fined not less than Eve dollars"
And section II OF the same chap.
ter provides that nc Liability shall be
incurred for the transportation on
SUNDAY of the mail -.