Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-19
10 household work. we're nonsensical.

Wv hou9ehoiu WORK, were nonSensical.
The Mayor couldn't interfere with your
cooks and buffers IL he wanted to. He
! hasn't the power to touch one of them
for Sabbath employment. You owe
nothing to his grace that your house
hold servants are undisturbed. The law
specifically exempts them.
e the Mayors threat to arrest an
organist or possibly Il choir singer
should not subject him to uncharltable
criticism He tells US himself that he
Is an antiquarian: that he remembers
the time when his eager feet beat n
path every Sunday to n church that
had musical instrument: that cod
is so real and religion SO vital TO his
worshipful soul now that organs and
choirs are unnecessary. Ordinary peo-
pie OF the community, who are not
naturally religious. who need all pos
sible aids to worship. who were not
raised to tread the narrow way of
the Mayor, must not Judge him harsh
ly.
IS. The bu:wark of Richmond and
Virginia is her courts. This foolish
ness which has been distributed
through interviews and which furnish
Ell splendid material for our able and
INDUSTRIOUS reporters, will be knock
ed into cooked hat when II gets be-
lore our sane and upright judges
Inese EXAMINATIONS Of the Mayor usu-
any taciturn man. but recently de-
X,
VIII vanish into airy nothIngness In
the presence OF our courts. Street cars
church orSanistS and milk wagons will
20 right on after the courts have dealt
His Honor one solar-plexus blow. The
Mayor has zeal. but not according
to knowledge Brought up under the
old regime. and after the strictest sect
he SURPRISES all our officials In zcaj
for that righteousness (which is ac-
cord!np to law.
SALE Oh TOBACCO AND
SOFT DRINKS WILL. STOP
a. The sale OF tobacco. soft drinks.
groceries. etc. on Sunday should, and
VIII be, broken up in IIchmond The
competition OF the Sunday soda foun-
TAIN is rnanifestly unfair for the con-
fectioner who obeys the law This
should be tho last Sunday when men
can gather behind a screened door In
any place OF business and trade Al.
| tcmpts OF soda fountains and cigar
stores to tvade this law by applying
Tor hotel license should be nippsd
! In the bud.
80 Employment Of labor In factories
on Sunday should cease forever in Vir-
GINA The contention Is made that
unless large factories work on Sunday,
orerhauling the machinery, poor girls
VIII be thrown ont OF employment on
Saturday or Monday. The answer TO
It Is this: DO not grind them into
powder six days in the week Pay
them living wages, with Saturday af-
ternoon as holiday. Let the reforma-
ton commence I'm the amelioration OF
those very conditions which necessi-
tate. as they claim, the disobedience
OF the divine law
IS. Our Sabbath laws in no sense In
fringe upon liberty of conscience. The
courts have consistently so upheld
! These laws do not attempt to say that
one must worship, nor even that he
must refrain from laboring at his trade
| on Sunday. If he observes another day
In the week. Every Jew merchant can
sell goods next Sunday il he closes
his store Saturday. That small, but
respectable. group OF Sevcnth-Day Adj
yentists. who have used this oppor-
tuntty to inveigh against the Chris
tian Sunday. need not yeX their souls
They are allowed, under the law to
ply their trades on Sunday, provided
they keep Saturday. Declarations on
soul liberty are ont OF place in this
instance. The disclaimers are either
| ignorant or presuming upon the ig-
norance Of the public. and In either
event they do not deserve credcnce.
PRESERVING sANCTI1Y
OF LORDS DAY
81. The only chance which laborers
will have for day of rest, and
believers for one day of worship. is by
preserving the sanctity Of the Lords
Day. Every capitalist who loves divi-
dends better than he loves human
! beings knows that. Every infidel