The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06
NOVEL POINTS OF THE LAW.

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In upholding a ten hour labor law the
Supreme Court OF Mississippi went bach
20 the Old Testament 70 flint authority
for such regulation. The court. In State
Va. J. J. Newman Lumber Co. said
Laws regulating the time when men
shall labor are not new. The changed
conditions during recent years In the
business and affairs OF the people have
brought the discussion OF such laws and
their apparent necessity fresh to the
minds of the present day thinker but
IL we will look back through the ages
we will find such regulations in the law
Of the nations. Particularly we see
them In the statutes governing Jehovah's
ancient people, Israel. The greatest law
maker. who received his inspiration to
prepare the ordinances for tho govern
ment OF his people direct from Jehovah
and whose laws have always been adj
mired and approved. wrote special stat
utes regulating the time In which the
people should work. and regulating the
use u their property. Exodus xxiii., 10.
IL. Is az follows And six years thou
shalt SOW thy land. and shalt gather IN
the increase thereof butthe seventh year
thou shalt let IL rest and lie fallow. that
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wa, my 'raNe II oeas' .. u 10y
deal with thy vineyard, and with thine
o~liveyard.' And notice the provision In
Exodus xiii. IL. limiting the time in
which the laborer shall work six days
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limit thu corduc, OF The neonlo OF israel
II hardly seems to us TO he an unreason.
able limitation unon tho rirhts ~ the
people 10 provide tina, ten hours should
be enough for a DAYS work. esnec,ally
when II is coupled with n proyiso 40 this
time may be exceeded in cases OF
emergency or when public necessity
requires"
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A c~orr.sponden- Of La, yot,. .e,a.
80 ,o,lo,.,nn .x,r.o. 80 So, a.
recently IN the Oktohoma Sunnne C,our,
"It IL too easy for n man 70 n,cl, I'm
n%gureheads and dummie. and create n
separate entity 10 be used by him as an
engine OF wrong for hts own private
gain Tho road should be made rough
and narrow for such pirates" Luu
Notes suggests hi possibly the inability
OF the author 20 steer a true course
through the sea OF metaphor may be due
20 the fact that Oklahoma Is 500 miles
from navigable water.
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words spoken IN Jest was the question
before the supreme Court OF Wisconsin
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w 'o'u '""' u person mRht ne eNcusable
III making charges or immortality and
lhaeceheE against third persons, men o.
"oh!eh' on the ground that he was
merely INDUCING his own peculiar vein