ead. Railroads carried the
products of these establishments to the limits of our own and to foreign
countries, and brought to the busy city from the East and from the West
all the necessaries and all the luxuries of life. Can it be that the
dead of past generations, who sleep on the hillside which overlooks the
valley, have seen this transformation, and if so, will they behold all
the changes of the future? Then may this and the coming generations
prove themselves worthy of those who, during the years that have passed,
have been its bone and sinew and life blood.

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SUNDAY TRAVEL AND THE LAW.

By CHESTER F. SANGER.

The Legislature of 1884 has placed an act upon our statute book which
rounds out and completes an act looking in the same direction passed by
the Legislature of 1877. Chapter 37 of the Acts of 1884 provides that
"The provisions of chapter ninety-eight of the Public Statutes relating
to the observance of the Lord's day shall not constitute a defence to an
action for a tort or injury suffered by a person on that day."

Chapter 232 of the Acts of 1877 provided that common carriers of
passengers should no longer escape liability for their negligence in
case of accidents to passengers, by reason of the injury being received
on Sunday. This act marked a long step forward in the policy of this
Commonwealth, and made it no longer possible for a corporation openly
violating the law to escape the consequences of its illegal acts by
saying to the injured passenger, "You were breaking the law yourself,
and therefore you have no redress against us."

This was a condition of things which worked a confusion of relations,
and lent "doubtful aid to morality;" resting on "no principle of
justice" or law, and creating a "species of judicial outlawry which
ignored alike the principles of humanity and the analogies of the law."

The provisions more particularly referred to in these Acts are those
relating to travelling on the Lord's day, found in the Statutes as
follows:--

"Whoever travels on the Lord's day, except from necessity or charity,
shall be punished by fine not exceeding ten dollars for each
offence."--Pub. Stat., Chap. 98, sect. 2. It is an interesting and
curious study to follow the changes made in the Sunday law, so called,
with the accompanying judicial decisions, as one by one the hindrances
to the attainment of simple justice by travellers injured on the Lord's