The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-29
THE IMPORTANCE OF RADIcALIsM.

against any political party or in favor OF
any. The tendency Of the times seems to be
to push everything to extremes. We see II
manifest in speculation. The dealers in
stocks and futures il Wal! street and the
mere speculatbrs in all commodities, appear
to have reached the acme of madness. ii no,
mad, at least a delirium 10 upon them, and
some of them would buy and sell crowns in
heaven, vera such thing possible
rha consequence is that in financial
matters where there should DO q
stsadness and regularity. feverishness ex-
ISIS that forbodes no good to the country
Every year the mania for dealing in cotton
futures IL on tho lacrosse, AMI thousands
upon thousands more bales than arc made,
are bought and sold, the gamblers lose OF
win as the bears or the bulls may succeed in
controlling the market. SO is the matter in
the case of railroad enterprise. Combina-
tions of capital are made, syDdicates formed
and mile after mile of railroads are pur
chased and others put in course Of conslrrc.
ton, the railroad SPECTATORS hoping and
aiming to form systems whereby
they Can control the carrying
trade, il no. Of the whole
country. why of immense sections of it
Even religion has not escaped from tho gem
oral tendency TO radicalism or fanS,icsm,
perhaps. In the train Of Moody and San
key have followed host of evangelsis,
santicationists, sol .ioFs of tho army Of s.l-
walton, preaching on the streets corners, in
saloons, in huge tents, in cspaoious halls, eli
doing thor best to swell tue tide OF excite
ment, and to storm the hearts and convic-
tions of men and women. No servant of the
Most High preaching His word, ard striving
to spread His gospel, can DO too much in
earnest, can be too faithful to the trust he
has taken upon himself, but he
may DO oveizealous. and cause
moro harm than good by exciting
the minds of his hearers to frenzy, and thus
rendering them unable to receive tho seeds OF
truth he Is striving to SOW. Hundreds and
hundreds Of victims have been crazad by the
radcalism of our latter day Esangelists, and
were sent TO the Warehouses;, and other hum
dreds and hundreds who thought they had
found salvation, have found out since tho
fever Of oxceme loft them, that they were
mistaken and have relapsed into their old
ways, moro hardened than tboy were before.
For jears the temperance cause has had its
earnest, laborious advocates all over
tho country, and steadily the bat
tle WAS being waged aesinst
alcohol, with yearly increasing success,
but whom Francis Murphy, reformed
drunkard, foresworo his dram drinking, and
selling, and became a fanatic, assumed the
role Of IN apostle of temperance and went
about from city to city, wsging fierce war
against whisky and whisky sellers, with lis
baltalions OF women, sincere and terribly IN
earnest 10 behalf of the cause they had es-
poused--a blaze Of temperance fervor
SCENE I TO burst out all over tho land until
the very escenco OF radicalism has been
reached. Speaking on this subject Of tenn.
persnce and the efforts being made in its be-
half the New York Herald says: "The
campaign against ntemperancs in so,no of
tho western states Is being waged with an
esrnetness and vigor such as its eastern
champions never vontured upon. In Wiz
consin, for instance, the an,i-liQuor party is
endeavoriug' to secure tho passage Of
law imposing fine Of ten dollars upon any
one who invites another "to take drink"
But II is 10 Kansas that tho acme of prohibit
ton has BEEN reached. la .ha. state a statute
will 90 iato effect on the LIST Of May next,
under which tho use of vino will not DO
allowed, even in the communion service A
Lawrence clergyman, referring TO tho law
recently, in an address to his congregation,
said 'rbe law absolutely forbi6s tho uso
of wine in tho sacrament, Furnishing tho min
istsr who so administers IL with two years
imprisonment in tho penitenGary, and
shutting up tho church itself as y public
nuisance Legislation OF this character is OF
course absurd, and IN tho end defeats itself"
As tho HERALD says, "such legislation Is
absurd" 1t Is the extreme of extremes to
say by legislation that tho Christian, serving
his God, shall not use vino at tho commun.
ion table, M commanded 10 tho scripture,
and that the minister Of God, His servan, at
the altar, shall not take wine, mathematical
of tho blood of tho Savior, and bread
mathematical Of His body, and blessing it.
sivo unto those who come to receive IL in
rem, mbrance OF tho Savior ss commanded
by Him. 1t would be Just as wise, Just as
reasonable, just as practicable, for q state
legislature to issue its odlct in the
shape of statute and command all
men and women 10 join tho Baptist
church, or tho Episcopal, or Catholic or
Methodist church; or TO say that all men
shall become Mormons. Such things csnno,
DO dono in this FREQ land OF ours. and whom
ever extreme legislation Is resorlcd to in be-
half of any thing |. defeats tho end aimed at
No ono can respect tho cause of Temperance
moro than wo do; no ono could bchappicr to
SEQ II sway the en,irc country, but tho CON
sciences, the judgments, the morals of men