The Connecticut labor press., 1920-12-04
LAWMAKERS CHASED
 AS WEAK IN MORALS"
Blue Law Organ Criticises Sen ators and Represen-
 tatives.

Weak in morals and incapable in mind, . Is the way in which the Lord s Day Alliance of the United States, seek ing to dry-clean the country, character lzes "the great maj ority of Senators and Representatives in the State and National Legislatures"
 For years the lobbyists of the alliance have buttonholed and cajo1ed and threatened and pleaded with legislators III their efforts to grease the wheels and start restrictive Sabbath legislation on its whirring way
 The founder of the Lords Day Ali ance of the United States, the Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, once described nIm- self as a Christian loBbyist."s
 Christian lobbyists of the alliance who took up the work of Dr. Crafts when he embarked upon the greater task of purifying the entire world pride themselves on their knowledge of the ways, habits, customs, style and ire quency of feed of the genus legislator.
 With this in mind, the warning watch your legislators" circulated throughout the United States through the medium of the current issue of the Lords Day Leader, the official publica- ton of the Lords Day Alliance, is of more than passing interest.
 A few of tehse senators and repre- sentatives in the state or national legis- latures,' declares the Lords Day Ali ance, are thoroughly good and trust worthy; a few. others are as thoroughly bad and vicious in their purposes and actions, but the great majority are neither very good nor very bad. They are simply weak in morals and incapable 1o1 fo11 whoever seems to them at the moment to promise that which will be for their own personal or political advantage
 The New York Worlds investigation of the activities of the Eord's Day Ali ance of the United States has revealed two new phases of the crusade to bring about a pure United States, mo matter what popular opinion may be-" :
 The alliance has launched propagan- da with a view to having laws enacted to make young Americas attendance at Sabbath school compulsory.
 Also that the alliance does not re- gard the Sabbath as a day of "indolent rest" and therefore frowns on the idea of man sleeping late on Sabbath mornings.
 It was the Rev. Dr. David James Burrell, pastor of the Marble Collegi- ate Reformed church, New York city, president of the New York State Anti Saloon League and a member of the board of nlana8ers of the Lord Day Alliance, who thus voiced objection to citizen of tl4e United States regard ing Sunday as day of rest. Said he:
 The fact issthat, if need be, one can manage to get on without recreation but no man living can afford to starve his soul.
 ed namely, that of regarding the Sab bath as a day of indolent rest.
 Our nights were given for sleep. To abridges the time allotted us for the restoration of our physical powers at the close of our working days, with the expectation of making 1t up by sleep ing over on Sunday, Is simply to rob the Lord of a portion of time in which He has reserved a proprietary right."
 Dr. Burrell is one of the reverend doctors who is seeking to impress upon the country, and by means of the Lords Day Alliaace to have enacted in- to federal law, his ideas of how the people of the United States shall spend Sundays. Speaking not so much as president of the New York State Anti Saloon League as manager of the Lords Day Alliance, he said that one of the best ways to set about to save the Sabbath was to eliminate the Sunday newspaper, which he called "the enter ing wedge of Sabbath desecration of our time"
 He continued:
 It seems a little matter to you, my friend to trade with newsboy on the Sabbath morning, but think of the pro- fessing Christian people all over the country who are corrupting the rising generation that way. The exchanging of nickel for a newspaper is as much to that newsboy as the sale of corner lot would be to you. And tens of thousands are being thus educated for larger forms of Sabbath-breaking when ffafa1r frrntu nm ',