SUNDAY CLOSING IN WALES

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1880

SUNDAY CLOSING IN WALES.

The Montreal Witness observes that all who have ever been engaged in temperance work will be surprised at the remarkable unanimity in Wales in favor of the bill closing the public houses on Sunday, which has just passed the House of Commons. Of 78,000 householders more than 75,000 signed in favor of the bill and less than 1000 against it. Among those in favor were most of the public house keepers, which leads the Witness to remark that "These men evidently do not anticipate that the law will make much difference in their profits. They expect that the customers will merely buy the liquor on Saturday and drink it at home on Sunday, and thus the same amount of business will be done and the keepers will have a holiday."