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Saturday, August 10, 2019

Sunday Blue Law Contested in Wilson, August 1919

From The Review, High Point, N.C., Thursday, Aug. 7, 1919

Sunday Blue Law Being Contested. . . Violators Freely Confessing Guilt, Claim They Have Right of Opinion. . . Those Opposing Law Claim It Is Not Constitutional in That It Involves Private Rights

Wilson—As an aftermath of the violation of Wilson county’s “Sunday Blue Law,” several were before Mayor Hill and admitted their guilt, because that every voter has a right to express his opinion as to the passage of any proposed law, which privilege was not accorded them in the enactment of the so-called “Puritanical Sunday Blue Law” that makes Wilson county stick out as prominently on the map as a wart on a cucumber.

Only a small minority of the voters of Wilson county—nearly all from Taylor’s, the smallest township in the county, who were endeavoring to have cider joints in the neighborhood closed on the Sabbath, knew that a petition was being circulated.

Those who oppose the law claim that it is unconstitutional, in that their individual rights were not respected in the matter; that they were discriminated against, and that the constitution of the United States will not countenance class legislation.

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