THE SUNDAY LAW IN OMAHA

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 1, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 1

THE SUNDAY LAW IN OMAHA.

The Omaha Republican of Dec. 16, 1879, reports a lively time in that city, over the Sunday law. An attempt was made by the police authorities, Dec. 15, to enforce the statutes and ordinances known as the Sunday laws. The result was the arrest of seventeen saloon-keepers, four barbers, one laundryman, three butchers, two teamsters, one liveryman, eight milkmen, five merchants, one druggist, one confectioner, one broom-maker, one brewer, and two publishers, making in all forty-five complaints filed. Of course, this is carrying the war to an extreme, as was the intention.

This business, according to the Republican, was to be continued. The opponents of the law doubtless hope by the indiscriminate enforcement of its provisions to secure its repeal. Whether they will accomplish their object or not, time will reveal.