The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-18
RAMPANT FArArIcIsM.

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; attempt to enforce strict orthodox observ
ance of Sunday would have met with bit
/ terer opposition than in that great anC
good commonwealth, Ohio O Such con
ilct there brings into opposition fhe twc
extremist elements in the United s'ates'th'
offshoot of the Puritans and the foreigners
The consequences we are seeing uaily. No'
a day but our Ohio exchanges come ireighteo
with facts and figures and iancies; with
elimination and recrimination; with
} fanaticism and frerthinking-all with ref
erence to the wisdom or right or policy OF
the Sunday lon lately passed by the legis'
lature of tho Buckeye state. The especial
defender Of the law is the gentleman known
} through the pleasantly of the press as
"DE.coN" RICHARD SMITH, who manipu-
stes the helm of the Cincinnati Gazette.
The deacon Is not trimming or mincing
matters. He seems to have accepted the
wager of battle, let the consequences be
what they may. The question of the pro-
priety or legality under the law of the de-
livery Of milk has assumed proportions,
| it is almost inconccivable that it
should however, and this pious
defender of the Sunday law has had some
thing to say about it.. In n recent issue Of
his paper he has the following remarkable
paragraph "The need of the babies is
pleaded as reason for Sunday milk deliv-
cries; but the babies got along all the sane
before Sunday milk-wagons were invented.
The well-to-do have means for saving milk
over Sunday. The poor can do without
many things. And il the stoppage of Sun
day milk shall diminish the rising genera
ton, it will be only another of the means
which nature fetches in to restrict the in
creasing pressure of population on
the means of subsistence, and to
raise the quality of the race by the
process of the survival of the littest.
The cows can be relieved on Sunday, and
the milk profitably converted, without the
Sunday sale and delivery" We have
been puzzled to tell, notwithstanding the
serious character of the statement, whether
the deacon really meant what the words
purport. If so, it displays a ccld-blooded
hnaticism, which ought to sink the writer
and his cause in one common ruin. 1t is
an insult to humanity in this day and time
to say that the ANIMALS shall rest
aud the Sabbath assume an unbroken
calm, even if the poor do starvc
and then proceed thereupon to philoso-
phise with Machiavelian heartless-
ness by exclaiming THAT it will be only an
other of the means which nature fetches in
to restrict the increasing pressure of popu-
lation!" The same gentleman is credited
with saying that the best code of laws ever
in operation in America was the old Con-
necticut Blue Book. This age is distinct
lively humanitarian-the poor and helpless
ATE now more its paintings than ever before
in the history of the world. Ifthe OK could
be taken out of the pit and the corn could
he plucked in the days of the deacon's
master, the poor, and particularly the in
iants, may be cared for now on the
Sabbath. The proposition is not worthy of
argument. What we desire to call atten.
ton especially to is the length to which
religious iauaticism will 10 when once
started. If libcrality and common sense
are not to shape and control these moral
movements, good men who would desire to
see unhridlcd license checked, but who are
free from hypocrisy and cant and fan.
atheism will be found arrayed in
the ranks of the opposition. In
the interests of humanity and real
reform, such miserable leather heads
as SMITH and those who applaud his utter.
ances ought to be sileuced. His cold.
FLOODED contemplation and advocacy of the
destruction of the children of the poor as a
means OF REFRESHING the increase of popua-
ton, is as dastardly as il is devili,h. And
yet the Gazette is the secular organ of the
Christian element in Cincinnati. In all |
such movements there is one encouraging
feeling, however-the more intoerant and |
absurd the regulations, the sooner and
broader the reaction.