Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-02
AN EXPLANATION.

A. $50 O'Clock Saturday night q
communication was handed 10 thc
Journal. signed b. several we'll
known ministers Of the cts protest
ing against the opening Of the fair
grounds Tor purposes Of entertain
mcnt on sunday night and CRITICS
ing the management Of the fair for
an alleged decoration ~ the Sab
hath This communication was ac-
compahied hy ,he request that II be-
published couspIcuously in sunday
morning issue Of the journal
For several reasons The request
was declined In the first place.
standing alone It was not news
story but The expression Of an opIn-
lon and the hour az which it was re-
cdved was too late for lts insertion
tn the department Of the paper In
which such articles are usually print
ed. Considered az an item Of news
1t was incomplete without state
ment from the fair management IN
reply or explanation, and 1t was inn
possible 70 get such statement on
Saturday night
Furthermore, the circumstances
We're such that II would have been,
70 our opinion, manifestly unfair TO
the state fair mauagcmout 10 give
publicity 10 such q protest and cuh-
oism. The giving OF a sunday pro
gram az the fair grounds was wholly
unexpected ana 10 tho nature Of an
emergency step Rain saturday night
had rendered - impossible 10 give
the fireworks display that had been
planned and advertised and it was
Improbable tf not impossible TO
postpone the entertainment until
Monday night Season tickets had
been sold with the understanding
that they were good for certain
number % fireworks exhibitions and
the management was under "a moral
obligation TO keep IT, promise 90 tho
purchasers OF those tickets Tho pro-
gram sunday nlght was not for pu-
vate gain, but 10 assist in the fnau-
cial success OF an enterprise in which
en- the people or the state are inter
cstod--an enterprise rccognlzed by|
every one ag being wholly mcrItou-
GUS
The question Of Sabbath obscry-
Buee seems 10 us 90 be largely one Tor
individual conscience. The ministers.
whose names we're sieHcd to tho com
munication submitted to the Journal
and an who hold 10 tho same views
had a perfect right 10 stay away from
the fair grounds last night as IL Is|
presumed that they did do. and mol
one has "a right 20 question the pro-
priety Of their action. ON the other
hand there are thousands OF people
Just as good ln every essential par
ticular as those gentlemen who hold
contrary Wow and who could soc no
harm IN Witnessing "a fireworks dis
play on Sunday night, and as long
as their Indulgence IN that pleasure
did not lntelfcrc with the rights Of
their fellsw men the Journal can not
see that it lies In the mouth OF any
one 10 critiCisc or condemn them.
N conclusion, We can not refrain
from the observation that none OF the
names signed TO the protest referred |
10 have ever appeared on any COM
municauon submitted 10 the Journal
protesting against Sunday saloons. ,
Sunday picture shows sunday base
ban and other SUNDAY amusement 1
enterprises that are hahimally con-
Quoted FOR private gain in Albuquer- /
cue To Oct these things go uuno- /
tced every day and then protest /
against a sunday program put on a.
am emergency for the benefit OF a
worthy putlic movement strikes the
journal as being, TO ga the least a
trflc Illogical