The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-05-25

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md nnpnfdobable shining u TO south u 3
4 doubtful II In any section the country
a fail could have been eel sctsd where 100
sttempi 10 enforce q stri' 4 orthodox o ,sery
anoe Of Sunday woulI have met Y ia, Bit
teror opposition tan In that great aud .
good commonwe AHh, Ohio U such con.
nIot there briggs into oppV i'ion the two |
extremist clements In the United States, the
oiIshoot 81 the Purtans and the foreigners.
I've consequences We are seeing daily. not
o day but our Ohio ey. changes come freighted
win facts and figures aud itncies; WITH
elimination Dad reCriminatloni Vito
| finaticisrl snd free.thinking-all with rel
erencc to The wisdom or right or policy Of
tho Sunday law lately passed by tho legs
iature ei the Buckeye state The especial
DEFENDER of the law is the gentleman known
through The pleasantly Of the press as
"DTACoN" RICHARD SMITH, who manipu-
ntss the helm of the Cincinnati Gazette,
The deacon Is not trimming or minclng
matters. He seems to have accepted the
wager of battle, let the consequences be
what they may. The question OF the pro
t priety or legality under the law OF the de
: livery of milk has assumed proportions
. il is almost inconceivable that i
should, however, and this plou
defender of the Sunday law has had SOME
= I thing to say about it. In a recent issue o
- his paper he has the following remarkable
paragraph; 1.-THE need Of the babies i
ueaded as 4 reason for Sunday milk deliy
y cries; but the babies got along all the SAM
\ before Sunday milk-wagons were invented
" The well-to-do have means for saving mill
d over Sunday. The poor can DO withou
5. many things. And il the stoppage OF sun
day millz shall diminish the rising genera
e lion, Il will be only another ofthe mean
y which nature fetches in to restrict the in
4 creasing pressure Of population OF
lc the means of subsistence, and t
e. raise the quality of the race. by tn
process of the survival of the httest
The COWS can be relieved on Sunday, an'
10 the milk profitably converted, without th
u Sunday sale and delivery" We have
IL been puzzled to tell, notwithstanding thu
It serious character OF the statement, Whethe
IL the deacon really meant what the Word
purport. If so, it displays ccld-b'oodet
n fanaticism, which ought to sink the write
a aud his cause in one common ruin. IL II
ID an insult to humanity in this day and TINT
=, to saw that the ANIMALS shall res
"a and the Sabbath assume an unbrokei
ofI calm, even if the poor do starv'
"a and then proceed thereupon to phiiosc
phise with Machiavellian heartless
ness by exclaiming "that it will be only an
lg other of the means which nature fetches II
ne to restrict the increasing pressure OF popu
he lation!' The same gentleman is CREDITED
10 with saying that the best code OF laws eVel
rs in operation in America was the old Con
~ necticut Blue Book. This age is distinct
t. lively humanitarian-the poor and helpless
d are now more its paintings than ever before
h in the history of the world. If the OK couc
be taken out of the pit and the corn coulc
be plucked in the days of the deacon
n master, the poor, and particularly the ID
e fants, may be cared for now on the
J. Sabbath. The proposition is not worthy o
e argument. What we desire to call atten
t. ton especially to is the length to Whlcf
is relig ious fanatlcism will 20 when olc'
IL started. If liberality and common sens'
l. are not to shape and control these mora
a. movements good men who would desire tt
k see unbridled license checked, but who are
is free from hypocrisy and cant and fan
aticism will be found arrayed II
the ranks of the opposition. IL
e the interests of humanity and rea
8 reform, such miserable leather heads
II as SMITH and those who applaud his utter
u ances ought to be slenced. His cold
u blooded contemplation and advocacy OF thu
D. destruction of the children Of the poor as
y means OF depressing the increase of popula
r ton, is as dastardly as it is devili3h. AnC
D. yet the Gazette is the secular organ OF thu
+ Christian element in Cincinnati. In al
+ such movements there is one encouraging
feeling, however-the more intolerant anc
:. absurd the regulations, the sooner and
broader the reaction.