The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-13
FREAKS OF FAITH.

How the Imagination May BIO Deceived
Mosgers of the Morbid-"No fopery",
New England witohoraff, the Bloody
shirt, Whitaker and Lady Dixie Cases
an Point.
The case Of Lady Florence Dixie, is inte
resting as fresh illustration of the Ger
tainty with which strong popular hostility
ossuspcion Of a class produces trumped.up
charges charges against it. The law OF de-
mand and supply seem TO work in this field
almost as effectively as m the market for
commodities. As soon as the popular read
ness to believe discreditable stories about
somebody shows itself Enthusiastically, men
and women step forward with the stories
all ready.made and adapted to every taste
When titus Oates, who has now become
the very typical iniormer OF history, began
his career IN the seyenlet nth century, ii was
suggested to him by the popular distrust OF
the Catholics, and the popular fear that the
court was going over 10 Rome" His iirsi
tale that the Jesutswere going TO kill the
king and abolish the protestant church did
not take, but he was rot discouraged. He
knew that the demand existed, and that he
had TO do was to try new styles in his goods
till he hit the popular taste. So he enlarged
and improved his story, and when the mag
nitrate who issued warrants on IL was found
dead one morning, Oates fortune was
male. The whole kingdom was in blaze,
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