SUNDAY TRADING.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 156, 31 December 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

SUNDAY TRADING.

— — ¦" "? * .TO THE EDITOR. Sir — T trust, in tbo interest of those who are engagod in coastal ivork, you will insert thoso few lines in your paper. All Sing and his confreres may sell a few cigarettes on the .Sabbath Day, and they arc promptly hauled boforo a J.P., and linod for broaking tho law. A publican caugbt - //rtffrrt»/t i dtilicto Horving a thirsty soul with a long boer on Sunday is in danger of losing his liconso, which is his living. It is roserved for this favoured land to allow mon to be sent to sea lato on Saturday for the purposo of working hard to fill a small steamer with wool on Sunday. Doqh the necessity for this exist ? — that a tradesman may be fined for Sabbath work, and a wealthy shipowner, if ho can only got his ship away from port, can work his men 14 hours on tho Sabbath and Christmas Day, loading up with what arc not perishable goods. Last Saturday some email steamora wero discharged and loft port lato at night to commenco loading up on Sunday morning on the coast. It was not only a Sunday, when wo arc icld to rest from our labours, bnt it was also tho day of tho year in England when most traffic; or labour of any kind is suspended. It is one thing for tho small ateumor.s who havo casual hands employed, or those who arc each night at their homos, to run oxcuraiom on those holidays, but it is quite another thing for a scoamor with little opposition to hurry away on the oyo of Christmas to bring in that which will very well wait until Monday or Tuesday. Fancy the ownor of some of these steamers, if a Justice of tho Peace, being called upon to adjudicate in a case where a Chinaman or any other heavily taxed phopkeeper iR concerned for Sunday trading, when his own steamers are purposely sent to sea to obtain a cargo on the Sabbath Day. I am, iVc, Day of Rest.