SUNDAY CONTRACTS.

Press, Volume XXII, Issue 2680, 10 March 1874, Page 5 (Supplement)

SUNDAY CONTRACTS.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE PBEBS.

Sib, —In your paper of to-day there is a somewhat unusual advertisement with refer ence to, apparently, a recent decision in the Resident Magistrate's Court. There are some people who can't bear to be beaten in a rubber of whist, a game of cricket, &c , and in the present case it looks very like as if the advertiser had had judgment given against him in some contract dispute, and instead of taking the usual course of appealing against the decision of the Resident Magistrate, he takes his licking very badlj, ; and comes out with a boldlooking advertisement to expose what, in his opinion, is an absurd decision of the Court. I admit I know nothing about the matter, saving what is inferred by the advertisement, that the contractor performed some work on a Sunday, and the advertiser did not want to pay him for such work. Sunday trading has been a vexed question as long as I can recollect, but I do not remember that any Legislature ever attempted to shelter purchasers from payment of debts contracted on Sundays. It is a matter of conscience. If you interfere with one kind of .business, you niust with another, and stop the railways charging on Sunday's ; also steam boats, innkeepers, milkmen, and others. If a Hebrew; were disposed to go on with a contract on Sunday, why should the law prevent him from recovering his debt for such work ? I may go further than this, and point out what to mc appears to be an unfortunate circumstance, that our, law-makers are doing their best to withhold from the rising generation the importance of Sundays. They are to have any amount of secular education, and let them acquire the virtue of morality and good behavior in the best way they can. Yours, kc, Commercial.