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8001 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 85.4 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… . Mandeville’s argument is of any force at all, it is so only upon the claim of the establishment of a theocracy. With this idea the view of Dr. Crafts agrees precisely …
8002 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 99.4 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… same arguments and the same tactics against us. They must be counted together, which we very much regret, but which we cannot help. The first-named is the leader …
8003 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 106.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… the arguments which Dr. Crafts presents to these organizations to gain their support are entirely Socialistic. Nor are these confined to Dr. Crafts. Other …
8004 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 110.4 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… of argument as to why such a law should be put in force.”
8005 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 114.4 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
Senator Blair.—You cannot adduce a man’s practice as a reply to the argument on a question that touches the public good. It does not vitiate a man’s principle because he fails to live up to it himself.
8006 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 114.5 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… an argument for the Sunday law, these men assert that the great railroad corporations desecrate the Sabbath, and by persistently running Sunday trains …
8007 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 135.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… appellant’s argument, then, is reduced to this: That because he conscientiously believes he is permitted by the law of God to labor on Sunday, he may violate …
8008 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 137.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… theological arguments. It is very evident that the system now in force, savoring, as it does, very much of religious persecution, is a relic of the Middle Ages …
8009 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 140.5 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
This argument is identical with that by which the Pharisees in Christ’s day justified themselves in killing him. It was said:—
8010 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 155.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… my argument at first was not so unfounded nor so “wholly imaginary” as Dr. Lewis supposed, has been conclusively demonstrated, even to himself, since this hearing …
8011 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 160.8 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… my argument seems unsound, I would cite, entirely for their benefit, the words of the Supreme Court of Ohio, that the “protection” guaranteed in our Constitutional …
8012 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 161.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… my argument has shown, if anybody needs protection in this matter, assuredly it is ourselves),—suppose, then, we come to Congress asking for protection in the …
8013 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 164.5 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… the argument of the Seventh-day keeper is unanswerable. I am inclined to think that the Judge uses the word there in the sense of fairly, rightly, or feasibly …
8014 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 164.9 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
“This argument is founded on the assumption that mankind are in the habit of working too much, and thereby entailing evil upon society; and that, without compulsion …
8015 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 165.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… , the argument against the law which he may make who has already observed the seventh day of the week, is unanswerable.”
8016 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 165.6 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… unanswerable argument. But Judge Cooley employs here the only means by which an unanswerable argument can ever be answered: and that is, “on authority.” That …
8017 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 166.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… unanswerable arguments. So we refuse our assent to Mr. Cooley’s answer to that which he himself pronounces an unanswerable argument.
8018 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 166.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
Senator Blair.—It does not follow that there is no unanswerable argument in support of Sunday laws, I take it.
8019 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 166.4 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
Senator Blair.—There is authority for the Sunday laws. It does not follow because the Sunday laws are supported by authority that therefore there is no sufficient argument upon which to base them.
8020 The National Sunday Law [SL27], p. 166.6 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… only argument in favor of a bad law that there is authority for it. But there may be good authority for the Sunday law.