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teeoceedings of The Senate and House
or commons, New Bills leatt;odneed
one The Budget Debate Continued.
Sir Charles IL Tupper introduced his
bill to amend the Fisheries Aot. He Geld
*het the bill contained substantially the
•same provisions as did hie bill of two
yeas ago, mei which was allowed to
stand, bemuse he was called awey to
'ranee on the Behring Sea arbitration,
The ehief feature of the bill was with re-
-goad to the lobeter fishery. Even should
the bill pass, it would not be enforced
this yea's:. The bill provided for a license
'system for canning lobsters. At present
Injustice was being done bona, fide eau -
nem because of violations of the close
',season. It provided that drift nets might
be -used for salmon fishiag in. •the Bay of
Vainly under license.
Mr. Gillies Rua that before any cloer
e.eason was fixed, it wcrald be well for the
(<4overnment to consult with fishermen as
well as offieials,
Sir Charlet Ilibbert Tapper moved the
seconcl reading of his bill to further
amend the Steamboat Inspection Act.
The bill provides that stearaboat owners
shall pay a tax not exceeding tea cents
for every ton gross tonnage for in-
• spection.
The motion was carried.
Sir Charles H. Tupper moved the sec-
enid reading of his bill to revise the Act
respectieg the safety of ships. The bill
deals with ithe restrictions unposed. upon
'ships earrying deckloacls.
Sir Charles H. Tupper 'moved the sec-
ond reading of his bill to amend the Aot
respecting certificates to masters and
mates of ships. The bill provides "that
instead of the fees provided by the Act
nespecting certiacates to masters and
mates of -ships, the Governor in cannon
may establish a scale of fees to be eharged
ler smell cernacates; and until so estab-
lished the lees to be charged shall be the
following: Fur a •certifieete of compe-
• tency as master, $15; for a certificate of
competency as mate of a sea -going ship,.
ea8; for a certificate of competency as
mate of a ship trading on the inland
. waters of Canada, �r on the Minor waters
of Canada. or on coasting voyages, $6;
for a certiacate of service as master, $8;
for a certificate of service as mate of a
sea -going ship, $5; and for a certificate
-of service as mate of a ship trading on
the inland waters of Canada, or 011 the
minor waters of Canada, or on coasting
voyage, $4."
The bill was read a second time.
Hon. Mr. Daly moved the second read-
ing of his bill to repeal the Homestead
•Exemption Act. He said that the law as
it stood prohibited the laws relating to
homeeteadspassed in the provincial legis-
latures coming into effect. Until the Act
was repealed the Northwest Territories
•nouncil could not act.
The bill n'ae read a second time.
Sir John Thompson moved the second
reading of his bill to provide for the ex-
amination of witnesses on oath by the
'Senate and House of Commons.
The motion careied.
Hon. Mr. Ives moved the second read-
ing of his bill to consolidate the Act, re-
specting the Northwest Mounted Police
-force,
"SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.
Sir Sohn Thompson presented the sup-
plementary estimates, nhich provide $2,-
'889 for Owen. Sound harbor improvements.
The total estimate is $1,227,456.
Sir John Thompsou introduced and
moved the first reading of a bill respect
ing a certain treaty between Her Blitan
nic Majesty and. the President of the
French Republic.
Hon. Mr. Laurier—' Has the First Min-
ister anything to say in explanation?"
Sir John Thompaon replied that the
*bill was simply to ratify the treaty.
The bill pas -ed the first reading.
Sir Adolph Caron, replying to Dr. Lan-
derkin, said that the postmastenship of
"Owen Sound became vacant January 1,
1893, No appointment had been made.
'The office was in charge of the deputy of
tb.e late postmaster.
These public bills Were read a third
• time:
Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper—To amend
emit consolidate the Acts relating to the
harbor commissioners of leContreal.
On Hon. Mr. Ives' bill to amend. and.
'consolidate the Acts respeeting the North-
west mounted 'rake, there was consider-
able cliseuesion on the clause appointing
Mr. White. comptroller of mounted. police
'to the rank of deputy miniter, a position
'which he has practically filled. for • years.
under order iu. council. The &ease was
Adopted on a divi io-a
t. number of i'emsunaer the head. of
oast service and lighthoases were 'seised.
Sir John Thompson gave notice of this
'resolution.. which he eael had already the
eonse•nt of the Orown : ("That it is ex-
pedient to provide that tar Governor in
.couneil may, as soon ea an agreement is
reached between the Goverruneats of the
Provinces of Ontario and Quebec,as to
the manner in whin}, the land hereinafter
referred te co be divided and disnibut-
ed between the said. Provilleee, or as soon
as the mariner of the (Retribution tb.ereof
is determined by the arbitrators appoint-
ocl uurler the toithority of chapter 6 of the
statuteof 1891, should the question of
the distribetien th.ereof ba referred to
and determined. by such arbitrators/ pay
to and clivide between the said. Provinees
in the proportions agreed upon or deter
mined by arbitrators, and in hill dis
• charge of any further obligetion or lia-
bility on the part of the Deminion, itt
respect' to the said fund, the principal of
a certain funcl held by the Deminion in
enetrust for the said .Provinces, and known
.(1
11,`the corn.mon school fund,' and that
• mai payment shall divest the Dominion
of the said trust, and of any further lia-
bility or obligation in any way connected
therewith or relating th.eroto."
Dr. Lauderhill, on motion to go into
supply, took (=mien to protest against
the appointment of Mr- H. B. Henderson
as poettnaeter of Gest'getown, He said
that the late pestintester, Mr. Goodenow,
had been &el -raised svelte 111 to make a
• 'place for the son of ac1r. Hendereon, M.P,
He thought that Mr, Gt)41017.0W had been
most cruelly treated. He movea; "That
lin th.e opinion of thie Holm air. Goode-
• now's dismissal was unjustifiable, tnajast
-and omen"
Sir Adolphe Caton said that he was
wary to say that beettuse of the continu-
ed Ulnae ot the late postmaster he found
11 necessary to fill the offiee with a cap-
able men. Re felt a cleeP drajattISY 'for
• _Mr. Goodenow, and would not have clis-
)issed him had he nee been confined*,
tunable asylum. The GOT:mature Well
nitocl twelve months to see if hewould re-
een and thenlearaing thathisrecoVery
was not looked for warn to with hope, a
new aPPOintnlent WaS made. There wae
no heste, Miss Geodetic/1v had been re-
tainel in the same position she held be-
fore her father's ill-heeath. The reas
GoJdonOW was nob superannuated
was beeause he was not a civil servant
and he had not contribated to the cavil
service saperannuation Nucl.
Sir Richard Cartwright asked if Xise
Goocienow held her positiou by authority
of the Gaveimment or at the pleasure of
Mr. Henderson.
Sir Adolphe Caron said that she was
emp leyed by Mr, Heneerson.
The motion Was lost by eighty-eight to
thirty-six.
Oa metion of Hon. Mr. Foster, the
House went into committee of supply.
On the ite n of meteorological service,
Sir Charles H. Tupper paid a high tribute
to the Toronto station. He said that
Aeneriean sailors entering 'Baffalo, for
instance, would. invariably enquire for
the Toronto reports in preference to those
of Washington,
After rants, the House in cons mitte of
supply dm:sussed the estimates for the
inland. revenue service. In the course of
the discussion,Mr. Elgar enquired the
mi
meaning of an tem of $4,552 which tip. -
peered la the auditor's report as paid to
H. Corby for methylatea spirits.
The Controller promised to look the
matter up, as he could not off -hand ac-
count for th.e charge.
Mr. Edgar remarked that if the pay-
ment was made be Mr. Corby, M.P., it
would seem that there had. been a viola-
tion of the Independence of Parliament
Act.
Mr. Corby arose immediately after
prayers and made the following state-
ment: Mr. Speaker'not having been in
good healeh for the last two weeks I de-
cided to go to liontreal to consult Dr.
Broderick. I -le advised me to go into the
hospital there for a short time. I aoi to
go back this afternoon. I received my
first intimation regarding a matter of
interest to you, and about which I desire
to speak, on reading The Montreal Herald
this morning. I at once took the train
and came here as soon as I possibly could
to make an explanation to this House,
a,nd as soon as I have done so I propose
to hand to you, honorable sir, my resig-
nation. I saw by The Montreal Herald
that attention had beeu drawn to the fact
that the Government had purchased spi-
rits from me. I exceedingly regret that
I ani the person referred to. I may say
that previous to the Government taking
over the methylated spirits business, the
vinegar works in Montreal and other
places were itt the habit of making
methylated spirits, and I had beeu in the
habit of furnishing these concerns with
coarse spirits. When the Government
for some cause best known to themselves,
passed a law that methylated spirits
should not be manufactarecl except by
themselves, I received an order itt the
usual way from the Inland Revenue De-
partment for their warehouse, which I
understood had been established in this
city. The order was filled in the regular
001.1r$0 of business. I had not the slight-
est idea that I was violating the Indepen
deuce of Parliament Act until I saw this
article in the paper this morning. I as
sure you I haven't the slightest feeling
against the hon. member who brought
the matter up in this House last night. I
think he was doing nothing more than
his duty. I am very sorry, sitting here
and holding the position I do as the mem-
ber for West Hastings, that this (infer
bunate circumstance occurred. Whatever
has been done 1 have done it not know-
ing that I was violating the rules of this
House. With this Mr. Corbay handed
his n rmal resignation to the Speak -et
and left the Chamber, where he was sur-
rounded by a host of warm friends in thr
lobby
Mr. Edgar—The hon. gentleman has, I
am glad to say, taken a manly, and
straightforward course. (Cheers.) I ani
glai also to hear him' say that he had
not considered that because I had brought
the matter to the attention of the House
yosterd.ay it was any evidence of illefeel-
ing towards him.. In Tact, the matter
was accidental. I am sure the example
he has set to the members of this Hons'e
in at once resignine° his seat if one we
et111 all admire, andone that, under the
same circumstances, we•might aU follow.
Mx. McCarthy—I rise, Mr. Speaker, to
suggest that we relieve Mr. Corby of the
liebilities and penalties he has incurred
by sitting here. That has been.clone be-
fore in a very prominent case, and, if
ever the circumstances warranted inter-
ference ill El question like this, I think
Mr. Corby's case is one, I would suggest
that the First Minister introduce a bill to
relieve Mr. Corby.
Sir John Thompson—No one regrets
more than I do the cireu.mstances nisich
have compelled 141r. Corby to resign his
seat in this House, and the explanations
which I have received from the depart-
ment corroborate to the fullest extent
what the hon. gentleman has said with
regard to the 'unwitting manner in which
the Indepondeace of Parliament Aot was
violated.
Mr. Laurier—It is perhaps useless that
I should add anything to what has al-
ready been said, but I am very glad to be
able to say that the Opposition will be
only too happy to aid in the passage of a
bill to exempt Mr. Corby from any
penalties.
Sir John Thompson gave notice that
he would move that for the remainder of
the session Government orders ShOrad
have precedence, after questions by mem-
bers and private bills.
Hon. Mr. Laurier said that there were
several. important bills on the order paper
including Mr. Mulock's Cattle Bill. He
asked that the motion should not be
pressed until after next Monday.
Mr, Bryson concurred with the remerks
of the leerier of the Opposition. He had
a bill which had not been reached.
Mr. MeCarehy—I have a hill On the
paper also. (Loud laughter.)
Sir John Thompson said 'thee although
many days had already been grantecl for
the consideration of these bills, but two
had been disposed. of, ancl ono of these,
Mr. Cherlton''s Sauciest Observance 13i11,
had beeu thrown out by- the Senate.
Sir Soho. Thompson moved a resolution
authorizing the Governruent to pay over
to the Governments of Ontario and Que.
bee the sum of $2,582,878, the amount
hota in trust end known as the common,
school fend. as soon as the arbitrators
atiTee tmoti the amonnts dcle each prov-
ince. The :resolution was adopted.
The Hotise in supply the items of In-
aian affairs being under consideration,
The bommittee afterward took up the
rniletia itetes the hearts of the Opposi-
tion.being ,e0•1; cldened wibh the announce -
meet by Hon. Mr; Pattersott that the
itemi of $T79';600 for pi•ovisionsy supplies
anclartemdttilte was redueed to 050,000,
end kolit*feirLtrAaisport.and freight to $42,-
000y both °eying to the abandonment of
the annixal eamps,
Sir Riehard Cartwright askedathat cart-
ridges be supplied at redeeed rates, if not
free, to rifle aesoeintione.
lien, Kr, Patterson repliea that he had
made eoncessions in this direetion last
year, and woald eontieue the polioy, act-
ing upon the suggestion.
In the diseussion on the item. of $2,00
for -monuments for the battlefields of
Canada, the Minister sea. he had ascer-
tained that no monument worthy of the
name could be had for the rarmey, and he
intended to aek for a further Sum and
would proceed -this year with the erection
of at least two of these monuments.
On this items of $12,000 for gratuities
to retired officers.
Sir Richard Cartwright expressed the
hope that future cases would be more lib-
erally clealt with. However, he under-
stood the stipplernentary estimates would
provide for this.
Hon. Mt. Patterson said that there was
imo sach provision in the supplementaries,
but by order in council the allowance to
Col. Villiers and Col. Straubenzie had
been increased.
Sir John Thompson moved the House
into committee on his resolution respect-
ing the Supreme Court judges of Canada.
The object of the resolution was to per-
mit any Supreme Court jadge who has
attained the ago of 70 years, and has
served 15 years, or wise has been on the
Supreme Court bench for a period of at
least five years to retire on. full salary.
Hon. Mr. Laurier dissented from the
principle of placing the Supreme Court
judges in any other position than the
other judges of the country.
Hon. Mx. Davies claimed that the
judges were not under paid. To -day
there were great inducements offered. to
leading ccsan.sel to accept the position of
judges;
Ron. Mr. lees said this was not a ques-
tion of politics. It was a practical ques-
tion. • This court should at all times be
maintained in a state of the highest effi-
ciency. It was difficult under the pres-
ent arrangement to get the best men if a
judge was compelled to retire -without
full salary. The leaders of the bar were
making much larger salaries than the
judges of the Supreme Court.
Sir John Thompson said that leaving
the Countyj
Court udges out of the ques-
tion, the salaries of ehe Superior Court
judges were below what they ought to lae.
In the great centres they fou.nd hard
worked judges asked to accept a salary of
$5,000 a year, and they asked a chief
justice, like in the province of Quebee,
to accept a salary of $6,000 a year. No
bank manager received leas than this.
No one could say that any of the Superior
Court judges of Ontario eats idle breacl to-
day. The present resolution, he thought,
would make the Supreme Court of Canada
a strong one.
The debate was continued by Messrs.
Macdonald, Gillies and Mulock.
The committee then rose and reported,
and to the motion of the Premier that
the report be received, Hon. Mr. Laurier
moved in amendment the six month'
hOist. The amendment was lost by 51 to
42 and the Agent was received.
The House then went into committee
of supply.
Mr. Mulock objected to the item of
$1,000 necessary to pay the expenses of
the Board of Examiners of Dominion
land Surveyors. He said that there was
no necessity for the examinations, since
every surveyor had already passed his
provincial examination.
Hon. Mr. Ives said that the reason for
Dominion examinations was that the
starting point in the territories was dif-
ferent irom that of the provinces. Itt
the territories the surveyor was required
to take his starting point from tbe paral-
lels of longitude and latitude, taking
Greenwich as his basis for time. The
provincial surveyor had an entirely dif-
ferent system. He started from a river
or other landmark. The item passed.
unlearne° LIGHTING.
The bill respeeting the units of elec-
trical measure having gone through com-
mittee, the House went into committee
on the bill " respecting the inspection of
electric lights." Mr. Dickey, Mr. Mu -
lock and Mr. Speaker criticized the sec-
tion exempting companies from liability
eaused by accident or atmospheric con-
ditions. Mr. Dickey's objection was that
it would imply liability in other cases.
The clause was allowed. to stand.
The next clause was an ameijment to
limit the responsibility of comninies kr
the " proper," not the "safe," condition
of lines and apparatus. Clause 6, pro-
viding for the inspection of purchasers'
premises by employes of the company,
occasioned protracted opposition to the
priuciple of Government interference ia
a private contract. The clause finally
passed.
• Hon. Mr. Wooll psinted out that all
large electric light companies were in fa-
vor of the provisions of the bill.
Mr. Martin protested against the act
being enforced in small towns, where the
contracts were entered into at the rate ot
so much per light per night.
The Controller explained that the in-
spection would not be made in places
where there was no competition with gas
or no Government inspector. The donee
making wilful waste or diversion of elec-
tricity equivalent to theft, and punish-
able accordingly, was struck out.
After considerable discussion, the
clause was allowed to stand. It provided
that the motor should be certified. Tho
committee reported progress.
THE IRRIGATION BILL.
Hon. Mr. Daly moved the House into
committee on his billerespecting the 'util-
ization of the waters of the Northwest
territories for irrigation purposes. He
said he wished the clause relating to sub-
terranean waters struck out.
The committee reported progress.
Mr. Sutherland moved the second read-
ing of a bill which had passed ate Senate
Deeriannon.tnig a divorce to Samee Sr, George
Sir Hector Langevin objeeted to any
action being taken with referessee to
the matter until printed copies of the
evidence were placed in the bands of the
members.
The bill was allowed to stand arid the
House went into committee of supply.
On the item of travelling expenses in the
Customs Department, Dr. Lanclorkin
asked whether this included the Control-
ler's expenses while he was engaged as
the champion of Protestantism in de-
nouncina ecclesiasticism.
IVIr. Alla,co---Whon I go out election-
eering I pay my own expenses,
Mr. Devlin entered on a long diseassion
shone the wotk of the Board of Customs,
which Mt. Wallace said met occasionelly,
as was required,. Mr. Wallace) answered
not far from 100 questions iu the course
of an hour.
The customs estimates wereacarried.
a-tetaln mus 1 go away from ourseIVes to
And the Mein.. eiense
THY WOULD ROB GOD,
WHO WQUI-D. ABROGATE THE, SIXTH
COMMANDMENT,
And Torn His Doty senbath into II Day of
Pieesure and roasting—The Foolishness
eirighting Against the Almighty—Dr
Walmage"s Sermon on Sunday',
BROOKLYN, June 24. ---For toalay Rev,
Dr. Tahnage has chosen a subjeet of world-
wide interest as the theme of his sermon
throggh the press, viz., the necessity of
guarding the Christian Sabbath, against
invasions that aim at its destreetion. The
text eeleoted, was Ex. 31:13: "(Verily, my
Sabbaths ye shall keep."
The wisdom of cessation from hard la-
bor oue day out of the screen is almost uni-
versally acknowledged. The world has
found out that it can do less work in seven
days than in six, and that the fifty-two.
days of the year devoted to re. t are an ad-
dition rather than a subtraction. Experi-
ments have been made in all departments.
The great Lord Castlereagh thought he
could work his brain 365 days in the year,
but after awhile broke down and isommit-
ted suicide,' and Wilberforce said of aim,
"Poor Castlereagh! This is the result of
the non -observance of tbe Sabbath I"
A celebrated merchant declared: "I
should have beea a maniac long ago but
for .he Sabbath." The nerves, the brains,
the muscles, the bones, the entire physi-
cal, intellectual and moral nature cry out
for the Sabbath rest. What is true of man
is fur the most part, true of the brute.
Travelers have found out that they come
to thsir places of destination sooner when
they let their horses rest by the way on the
Sabbath. What le the metter with those
forlorn creatures harnessed to some of the
city ears? Why do they stumble and stag-
ger and fall? It is for the lack of the
Sabbath: rest.
In other days, when the herdsmen drove
their sbeep and cattle from the fit West
dawn to the seaboard, it was found out by•
exeerimeet that those herdsmen and
drovers who halted over the seventh day
got down sooner to the seaboard than
those who passed on without the observ-
ance of the holy Sabbath. The fishermen
off the cast of Newfamndland declare that
those men during tbe year catch the most
fish who stop during the Lord's Day.
When I asked the Rocky Mountain loco-
motive engineer why he changed locomo-
tives when it seemed to be a straight
route, he said, "We have to let the loco-
motiye stop and cool off or the machinery
would soon break down." Men who made
large quantities of salt were told that if
they allowed their kettles to cool over
Sunday they would submit themselves to
to a great deal of damage. The experi-
ment was made, some observing the Sab-
bath and some not observing the Sabbath.
Those who allowed tans fires to go down
and the kettles to cool once a week were
compelled to spend only a few pennies in
the way of repairing while in the cases
where no Sabbath was observed many dol-
lars were demanded for repairs.
In other words, intelligent man, dumb
beast and dead machinery cry out for the
Lord's Day. But while the attempt to
kill the Sabbath by the stroke of axe and
flail and yardstick' has beautifully failed,
it is proposecl in our day to drown the Sab-
bath by flooding it with secular amuse-
ments. They would bury it very decently
ander the wreath of the target company
and to the =nate of all brazen instru-
ments.
There are today, in the different cities,
ten thousand hands and ten thousand pens
busy in attempting to cut out the heart of
our Christian Sabbath, and leave it a bleed-
ing skeleton of what it once was. The en
fairt Is organized and tremendous, and un-
less the friends of Christ and the lovers of
good order shall rouse up right speedily,
their sermons and protests will be uttered
after the castle is taken. There are cities
in the land where the sabbath has almost
perished, and it is becoming a practical
question whether we who received a pure
Sabbath from tbe bands of our fathers
shall have piety and pluck enough to give
to our children the same blessed inherit-
ance. The eternal God helping us, we
willl
I protest against the invasion of the
Holy Sabbath, in the first place, because it
is a war on Divine enactment. God says,
in Isaiah: "If thou turn away thy foot
from doing thy pleasure on My holy day,
thou shall walk upon the high places."
What did he mean by "doing thy plea-
sure?" He referred to secular and world-
ly amusements. A man told Me he was
never so much frightened as in the midst
of an earthquake, when the beasts of the
field bellowed in fear, and even the barn-
yard fowls screamed in terror. Well, it
was when the earth was shaking and the
sky was all full of fire that God made the
great announcement, "Remember the Sab-
bath day to keep it holy."
Go through the streets where tb.e thea-
tres are open On a Sabbath night; go upon
the steps; enter the boxes of those places
of entertainment, and tell me if that is
keeping the Sabbath holy? "Oh," says
some one, 'God won't be displeased with
a grand sacred concert" A gentleman
who was present at a grand sacred concert
ono Sabbatn night in one of the threatres
of our great cities, said that during the
exercises there were comic and sentimental
songs, interspersed with coarse jokes; and
there were dances, and a farce, and tight
rope walking, and a trapeze performance.
I suppose it was a holy dance and a con-
secrated tight rope. This is what they
oall a "grand sacred concert." •
We hear a great deal of talk about "the
rights of the people" to have just such
amusements on Sunday as they watt to
have, I wonder if the Lord has any
rights. Yon rule your family, the Gover-
nor rules the State, the President rules the
whole land; I wonder if the Lord has the
right to rule the nations and make the
enactment, "Remember the Sabbath day
to keep it holy," and if there is any appeal
to a high court from that deoision, and if
the men who are warring against that en-
actment are not guilty of high treason
against tlae Maker of heaven and earth.
They have in our cities put God on. trial.
It has been the theatres and the epera
houses, plaintiffs, versus the Lord Al-
mighty, defendant; the suit has been be-
guu and who shall come ont Ahead you
know. Whether it be popular or unpopu-
lar, I now annotince it as my opinion that
the people have no rights save those whiell
the groat Jehovah gives them. Be has
neeer given the right to man to break His
holy Sabbath, 'and its long as His throne
stands He never will give that right.
The prophet asks a qtiestion which I can
easily answer, "Will a man rob God?"
•Yee. They robbed him last Sunday
night at the theatres and the opens houses,
and I charge upon them the infamous and
high-handed larceny. I hold the same
opinion as a sailer I have heard of. The
&ow had been disellarged from the vessel
because they would not work while they
were in port on the Lord a Day. The oap.
tain went out beget sailors, Lie found One
;nail Amid be eaid to him, "Will you serve
me en the Sabbath?" `'No." "Way not?"
"Well," replied the man, "a man who
willwolrbrobC4p.mcleAelPiluglyItYwa()i;e5Rilof .a
11ebnbaattial
• alfea'ul7p.o"se you were poor, and you came
to 110 dry goods merchant and asked for
some cloth for garments, and be should
aaYo "I'll give you aix yards;" and, while
he was off from the counter binaing ep the
six yards, yen should go behind the eoun-
ter and steal one additional send. That in
Nvhal, every man does when be breaks the
tipord's Sabbath. Ged gives us six days
out of seven, reserving one for Himself,
and if you will not let him have it, it is
mean beyond all computation.
Again—I am opposed to this desecration
of the Sabbath by smiler entertaininents
because it is a war on the statutes of must
soaftsh:e_States. The law in NeW York State
y
• "It shall not be lawful to exbibia on the
first day of the Week, ceramonly called
Sunday, to the public, in any building,
garden, grounds, concert 7:00111 or other
room or place within the city and county
of New York, any interlude, tragedy,
comedy, opera, ballet, play, fame, negro
minstrelsy, nage° or other dancing, or any
other entertaiument of the stage, or any
part or parts therein, or any equestrian,
circus, or dramatic performance, or any
performance of jugglers, acrobats, or rope -
dancing."
Was there ever a plainer enactment than
that? Who made tile law? You, who at
the ballox boxes (landed who should go to
Albany and sit in the Legislature. You
who in au". region exercise the right of suf-
frage. They made the law for you and
for your families, and now I say that any
man who attempts to over -ride that law
• insults you end me and every man who
has the right of suffrage.
Still further, I protest against the inva-
sion of the Sabbath, because it is a foreiel
war. Now, if you heard at this moment
the booming ot a gun in the harbor, or if
a shell from Some foreign frigate should
• drop into your street, would you keep your
seats in church? You would want to face
the foe, and every gun that could be
managed would be brought into use, and
every ship that could be brought out of
the navy yard would swing froin her an-
chorage, and the question would be de-
cided. You do not want a foreign war,
and yet I have to tell you that this in-
vasion of God's holy day is a foreign war.
• . As among our own native-born popula-
tion there are two classes—the good and
the bad; so it is with the people who 00M8
from other shores—there are the law-abid-
ing and. the lawless. The fernier are wel-
come here. The more of them the better
we like it. But let not the lawless come
from other shores expecting to break down
our Sabbath, and institute in the place of
it a foreign Sabbath.
How do you feel, ye who have been
brought tip amid the hills of New Eng-
land, about giving up the American Sab-
asash? Ye who spent your ohildinsod under
the shadow of the Adirondaoks or the
Catskills; ye who were born on the banka
of the Savannah, or, Ohio, or Oregon, how
de you feel about giving up the American
Sabbath? You say, "We shall not give it
up. We mean to defend it as long as
there is left any strength in our arm, or
blood in our heart! Do not bring your
Spanish Sabbath here. Do not bring your
Italian Sabbath here. Do not bring your
French Sabbath here. De not bring your
foreigu Sabbath here. It !shall be for us
and our children forever a pure, consecra-
tediw9uhrraistaiklaoo
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American Sabbath, as setae • of yon have
known it, and the Parisian Sabbath. II
speak from observation. On a Sabbath
morning I was aroused in Paris by a great
sound in the street. I said: "What is
this?" "0," they said, "this is Sunday."
An usual rattle of 'vehicles of all
sorts. The voices seemed More boister-
ous than on other days. People running
to and fro, with baskets or bundles, to
get to the rail trains or gardens. • It seem-
ed as if all the vehicles in Paris, of what-
ever sort, had ttirned out for the holiday.
The "Champs Elysees" one great mob of
pleasure -seeking people. Balloons flying.
Parrots chattering. Footballs rolling.
Peddlers hawking their knickknacks
through the streets. Punch and Judy
shows ba a score of places, each one with a
shouting audience. Hand organs, cymbals,
and every kind of racket, musical and un-
musical. When the evening came down,
all the theatres were in full blaze of musics,
and full blaze of light. The wine stores
and saloons were thronged with an un -
wet number of customers. At even -tide
I stood and watched the excursionists
coming home, fagged -out men, women and
children, a gulf-streani of fatigue, irritabin
ity, and wretchedness; for I should think
it would take three or four days to get
over that miserable way of Sundaying. It
seemed more like an American . Fourth of
July than a Christian Sabbath.
Now, in contrast, I present one of the
Sabbaths in one of our best American
cities, Holy silence coming down
with the day dawn. Business Men More
deliberately looking into the faces of their
ehildren, and talking to them about their
present and future welfare. Men sit long-
er at the table in the morning, because the
stores are not to be opened, and the me.
chanical tools are not to be taken up. A
hymn is sting. There are congratulations
and good cheer all through the house. The
street silent until ten o'clock, when there
is a regular, orderly tramp ehurchward.
Houses of God, vocal with thanksgiving
for mercies received, with prayers for
comfort, with charities for tbe poor. Rest
for the body. Rest foe the soul. The
nerves quieted, the tensples cooled, the
mind cleared, the soul strengthened, and
our entire population turned out on Mon-
day morning ten yeatayoenger, better -pre-
pared for the duties of this life, better pre-
pared for the life that is to come.
Which do you like best, the American
Sabbath or the Parisian Sabbath?Do you
know in what boat the Sabbath came
across the sea and landed on our shores?
It was in the "Mayflower." Do you know
in what boat the Sabbath will leave us, if
it over goes? It will be in the ark that
floats over a deluge of national destrue-
ti°ilt.
Sill further: 1 protest against the inva-
sion of the Lord's den because it wrongs a
vast raultitade of employes of their rest.
The play actors and actresses oan have
their rest between their engagements; but
how about the sceee-shifters, the ballet-
danciers, the call -boys, the innumerable at-
tendents and supernumeraries of the Am-
erican theatre/ Where is theiuraai
Sundaysaritie
some from/ They are paid si
at the best. Alas for them! They appeer
on the stage in tinsel and tassel with hal-
berds, or in gauze whirling ia toe tortures,
and they might be mietakee for 'fairies or
queens; but after 12 onlock at night you
may see them trudging throbith the streets
in faded dresses, shivering mid tired, a
bundle under their arms, Seeking their
homes in the garrets and cellars of the
city.' Now, you propose to Oka frotn
thousands of these employee throeghout
Olds country, not only all opportunity of
moral culture, bot ail opportunity of Op
ideal rest. Fpr 'leaven's sake let the eruSIP
JUggernant stop at leaet ono day is
seven I
• Again.; I opeose this modern iuvaeton
of the Christian Sabbath because it is a
nvar on the spiritual welfare of the people.
You have a body? Yes. Yen have a
mind? Yea. You aeve a setae Yes.
Which of the segular halls on the nebbetlt
day will give thst soul any culture? Now,
admitting that a man has a epiritual and
immortal nature, waiola one of the places
0 amusement Will culture it? Whieh one
of tbe Sabbath performances will remind
men of the fact that unless they are 'torn
again they cannot see the kingalom of Goat
Will the znusio of the "Grand Daohees"
help people at last to sing the song of the
one hundred and forty and four thousand/
Besides, if you gentlemen of the sandal
entertainment have six days in the week
in which to exercise your alleged beaenoial
influence, ought you not to allow Christian
institutions to have twenty -your hours? It
is unreasonable to demand that if you have
six days for the body and intellect. we
should have one day at least for our im-
mortal soul? Or, to put it in another
shape, do you not really think tbat our
imperishable soul is worth at least one-
seventh as much as our perishable body/.
An artist has three gems --a carnelian,
an amethyst and a diamond. He has to
out them and to set them. Which one is
he most particular Omit? Now, the corp
• nelian is the body, the amethyst is the in.
tailed, the diamond is the soul. For the
two former you propose six days of oppor-
tunity, while you offer no opportunity at
all for the last, which is in value as eorn-
pared with the others like one hundred
thousand million dollars to one farthing,
Besides, you must not forget that nine -
tenths, , a.ye, ninety- nine one hundredths,
of all the Christian efforts of this country
are put forth on the Lord's Day. Sunday
is the day on which the asylums and hos-
pitals and the prisons are visited by
Christian men. That is the day when the
youth of our country get their chief re-
ligions information in Sunday Schools,
That is the day when the most of the
charities are collected. Tnat is the day
when, under the blast of sixty thousand
American pulpits, the sin of the land is
assaulted, and men are summoned to re-
pent. When you make war upon any
part of God's day, you make war upon the
asylums, and the penitentiariee, and tns
hospitals, and. the reform associations,
and the homes of the destitute, and the
Church of the living God, which is the
pillar and the ground of the truth.
I am opposed to the invasion of the Sale.
bath because it is a war on our political
institutions. When the Sabbath goes
down the Republic goes down. Men who
are not willing to obey God's law in regard
to Sebbath observance are not fit to govern
themselves. Sabbath breaking means
dissoluteness, and dissoluteness is Mem-
patible with self-government. They want-
ed a republic in • France. After awhile
they got a republic. But one day Na-
poleon 111., with his cavalry, rode through
the streets, and down went the republics
under the clattering hoofs. They have a
republic there again, but France never will
have a permanent republic until she quits
her roystering Sabbaths, and devotes one
day in every week to the recognition of
God. and sacred institutions. Abolish the
Sabbath and you abolish your religious
privileges. Let the bad work go on, and
you have "the Commune," and you •havn
the Revolution," and you have the sna of
national prosperity going down in dartraata
and blood. Fromthat eeign of terrormay
the God a petice deliver ue.
Still further, I am opposed to this inva-
sion of the Sabbath because it is unfair,
and it is partial. While secalar amuse-
ments in different cities are allowed to be
open on the Sabbath day, dry goods es.
tablishments must be closed, and plumb-
ing establishments, and the butoher's and
the baker's, and tato sheenseker'e and the
hardware stores. Now, tell me 1y what
law of justice you compel a man to shut
the door of his store while you keep open
the door of your worldly establishmeet.
May it please your honors, Judges of the
Supreme Court, if you give to secular
places the right to be open on the Sabbath
day, you have to give, at the same time,
the right to all commercial establishments
to be open, and to all mechanical establish -
bp be open. If it is right in the oue case it
Ai right in all the cases.
But We are told that they must get money
on Sabbath nights in order to pay the de-
ficits of the other nights of the week. Now,
in answer to that I say, that if men cannot
rnanage their amusements without break-
ing the Lord's day, they had better all go
into bankruptcy together. We will never
surrender our Christian Sabbath for the
purpose of helping these Violaters to pay
their expenses. Above all, my confidence
is in the good hand of God that has been
over our cities since their foundation. But
I call this day upon all those vsho befriend
Christian principle, and those who love
our political freedom, who stand in • solid
phalanx in this Thermopylae of our Amer-
ican history; for I believe as certainly as I
stand here that the triumph or overthrow
of American inetitutions depends upon
this Sabbatio contest.
Bring your voices, your pens, your •
printing presses and your pulpits into the
Lord's artillery corps for the defence of
our holy day. To -day, in your families
and your Sabbath schools, recite: "Re-
meinber the Sabbath day to keep it holy."
Decree before high heaven that this war on
your religious rights and the cradles of
your children shall bring ignominious de-
feat to the enemies of God and the public
weal. For those who clie in the contest
battling for the right we shall chisel the
epitaph: "These are they who came out
of great tribulation, and had their robes
washed and made white in the blood of
the Lamb." But for that one who shall
prove its this moral crises recreant to God
and the Church there shall be no honor-
able epitaph. He shall not be worthy even
of a burial -place in all this free land; but
the appropriate interment for such an one
would be to carry out his reaming and
drop them into the sea, where the lawless
Winds thdszhgircallyekoefetintno
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a traitor to God, the Church, and the free
institutions of America. Lone live the
Median Sabbath. Perish forever all at-
tempts to oveithrow it,
Missing Links,
A Paris newspaper is organizing a cora-
petition of self -moving wagons.
Natives of Ceylon believe the ocamatnit
tree will nob grow out of the sound of the
human Voice,
Balata, the prodoct of a tree in Suma-
tra, threatens to become a rival of indie
rubber and gutta percale.
One of the pioneers of California it
WongIip Kong, who came from Hong
Ki
ong n a sailing vessel in 1844,
Sugar cello ie mentioned by Strabo as
knewn in India as early cis 825 B.C. It
was then used in its raw state.
A species of ape, elosely resembling ths
African gorilla, has been disbovered on the
Mosquito ceast, Inioaraguse