Propagandists have begun anew the fight to enact Sunday blue laws.
Ever since the present session of Congress began petitions have been pouring in from various points scattered through the country demanding passage of what is known as the Jones bill to clamp down a lid on the District of Columbia that would forbid all business and entertainment, including golf and motion pictures, on Sunday.
The propaganda bears the mark of one guiding influence, for petitions from Oregon and Washington have the same telltale phraseology as one from Maine or Florida. Every mail brings fresh batches to the offices of Senators and Representatives. Back of them all appears to be the Lord’s Day Alliance, chief agitator for the blue law blanket.
Experienced legislators have been watching the progress of the propaganda with unusual interest, remarking on the similarity between the present sporadic agitation stirred up in small communities in remote sections and that which was the unsuspected forerunner of Prohibition.
They forsee a continuing pressure upon Congress until the Jones bill is put across. The next move would be a bill to force strict Sunday regulations and blue laws on the army and navy, and thereafter the island possessions as Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines.
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