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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