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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 387, 7 December 1889, Page 3

Straight talk I Mr M'Jntyre told the Government that he “ was prepared; if they would bring in a Bill for the purpose of dealing impartially with the Sabbath question to support them right through. It would embrace the propriety of using the railwaya on Sundays, suppressing Sunday cab running, suppressing Sunday steamboats, suppressing reporting sermons on Sunday, and suppressing transaction of business and receipt of advertisements by the daily papers on the Sabbath, In short, such a measure would suppress the Sunday preparation of Monday's newspapers altogether.’’ If all Sunday labour fit to be stopped, why not include the parsons, the vergers, and the organists 5 Are they not all paid labourers ? Then, what about the police! Why should Robert be deprived of the Gode given right of one day's rest out of seven ? Further, what about Robe it's favourites in the kitchen 5 Surely the beneficent Almighty did not decree that they should be treated differently from the rest of Hie creatures,—< Melbouroe Standard,