Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1890-10-25
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LEXINGTON, KY, Oct. 10, 1890
| Dear Bro. Moore:-Whcn you
paper came out | was actually 81
delighted, that / was afraid
couldn't sleep the first night fol
thinking about there being a
least one brave man coming to the
front to give his mite and might to
help put down dissipation; for
had been wondering for years why
it was that the good people of Lex.
ington seemed so passive and BLIND
to the terrible increase of saloons
drunkenness and degradation in
their beautiful city, and still KEEP,
licensing saloon keepers to sell liq-
uor to destroy their children
brothers and neighbors, physically,
mentally and morally, for this
world, and their everlasting dam
nation in the next. But they are
not blind; they see the danger,they
know the awful destruction that
has been done in the past, and get
ting more horrible and hopeless for
the future. Still, o, still they
fold their hands and do nothing.
Great God, are we not some
what responsible for the present
condition of affairs in not doing
what is necessary to put it down:
Some say, cam l my brothers
keeper" But l say we will know
some day, and that not far in the
/ future, what has been required of
us. Oh, how can men and women
be careless and Indifferent, when,
if they would think and look. they
would see the terrible breakers
ahead. Some are Mortified and
tremble, and would do something
in the sight of God and man to
put down the sale of liquor, and
thus save the souls of their chill
dren, brothers, neighbors, and stop
the heart rending cries of anguish
-u1rd despair aArt+s4lksafttl : wives;
but they have not the moral cour-
age to rise as one man, and take by
the horns that terrible monster, the
saloons. But if there is no begin
ming made to do it, how in the
name of God and man, can it ever
be accomplished? For the mon
ster is increasing in magnitude
day and night, and is getting more
and more dangerous. There is
murder lurking there, not far out
of sight, and all other vices the
Devil can conjure up, for the down.
fall of human beings who are fools
enough to be entrapped.
Why is it men are licensed and
allowed to ruin our children? Is
it for the want of courage to stop
it? And then the elections have
much to do with it. How can an
election be carried on without whis-
ky, and-how can whisky be gotten
without money, and where does the
money go? II goes to the saloon
kepe,s, the soul destroyers! Yes, l
say soul-destroyers. One who
would sell soul-destroying bev-
erage to man, would cut the
hearts blood out of that same man,
or any other, for money; and not
only that, would see their wives
and children wailing for the bread
the money in their pockets would
have fed and clothed; and not only
that, they would see their patrons
wives, after existing in a hell on
earth, berett of reason, screaming
in maniacal despair, tearing their
hair, going down to the grave, feel.
ing that all earth, and even heav-
en-, had deserted them in their un-
bcarable burden! 1t seems a won
der that all righteous men and
women don't rise up as one man
and curse the liquor sellers in their
righteous Indignation. But sven
geance is mine, saith the Lord, and
| will repay" q. men! do saloon
keepers believe there is Il God, and
do they believe that they have
souls to save? If they do, or not
they had better look to it, and that
speedily, before it is everlastingly
too late. In the name of God
good men, wake up to the situation
come to the front; rally as one man
and go to work, God helping you
to stop the terrible dissipation and
corruption in and around Lexing-
ton. DO you know how many sa'
looms there are in Lexington? JUS
count them. Oh, there are ST
many it makes you tremble I,
even think of putting down thu
monster; and then, too, you think
YOU have some goods friends in the
liquor business and saloon keepers
and do dislike so much to hur
their feelings. DO they dislike 81
much to hurt your feelings as to re
fuse to sell your son for you either
drink that would send your soul
/ A A Al l.. A. - 4,