Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1890-11-22

the hrst time, ,Dy "a reply That he mac
to an assault thu I had made q
Sam Jones; a Prohibitionist, but
unmitigated ''lathcrskitc as cv,
stood in a pulpit. The Methods
were then dead gone on him; but
half the Nichslasvillc Dcmocr;
and the Jesssmine journal 81,
every year about that IIig
Bridge Camp Meeting and Sal
Jones carrying. on, is true, tbs
Camp Meeting ,ut to he -puclchc
as nuisance.
When / fiatttncd out Sam tina
time the orders TO "stop my paper
rolled in on me until I felt 50 ba
that I stopped every body's paper
and went home and went to worl
on the farm. And yet in thi
whole State th"te's not a man tha
viii 10, fool A,Hrgh now to stop hi
paper becau- ~ what say abou
Sam Jones.
Since that tine have said thing
immensely more ultra in the line o
my religious cor victions than ! hat
ever said then.
The I.exingtdn Press made ar
abOrtive effect b. knock out Prohi.
bition by ATTACKING my religious
views as q Prohibition champion,
when I stated tls last time, but I
do not suppose that anybody in Lex.
ington, except The brother that
wrote it, and thc,type settlers who
set it up, can nov recall that such
an editorial wa, last September,
written in the Lexington Press.
The fact is that the "world do
move," Notwithstanding Rever-
end Jasper's theology and astron.
Omy to the contrary.
Whenever ybu gentlemen of
the clerical cloth 80 read and
understand the ,spistle of James,
as to realize and preach that the
butt end of Christianity is some-
thing we have 70 do; not 80 much
what we have Il. believe; not only
will Prohibi7ioE sweep this coun
try, but the party and the people
who will have accomplished Pro-
hibition will have a whole lot of
other good things to 60 for, and
we PrOhibition}sts, and Cranks, J
and simon pure Christians and
Rationalists will have a young
millennium herr the first thing
you know. /
II Billy Brefkinridge, for in
stance, were either a Crank, Pro-
hibitionist, epis'ie OF James kind
of a .ChriGtia,,, II q Rst;oralist
he would to-day be using his
brilliant intellectual endowments !
to get up al International Peace
Congress, which even l could
almost do if somebody would pay
my travelling expenses aud run
The BLADE while 1 would be
gone. And you would not have
that man from Millersburg writ
ing up here to know what good
Billy had ever done, and all our
folks saying, "Give it up; ask US
something easy" Instead of that
he worships John Calvin and
whisky and Democracy, and
breaches the gospel of "tariff' for
revenue only as the glad tidings
't great joy which should be unto
all men.
l was talking to one of these
Farmers Alliance fellows here
he other night, and trying to
get into his skull that if he
would come in and help US in
he Prohibition work be would
nave sober men to make the laws
or his people and all of us far
ners, and justice would be done
he farmer. He came from the
back woods, talked bad gram
mar, had on a dirty shirt, and
wore nose like one of these old
ashioned red "pinies," that re-
,alled what old Jack Falstatf
aid of old Bardolph's nose.
That Alliance fellow thought he
,it Prohibition regular socdola-
,er when he said 81 wouldn't care
o have Prohibition if | thought
he Prohibitionists would stop
when they got rid of liquor. but
he next thing would be some
hing else
"Out of the mouth of babes and
Thou has perfected
praise y
Right you are, old "piney'
lose; you sized up the most ad-
,anced thinkers among our peo.
pie. We only want to get rid of
liquor rs Il hindrance in the way
If the positive things we want to
effect.
Then The next thing will be
else and the "somc-
hing elses' will be tobacco and
gambling and lotteries and race
horses, and immoral books and
immoral newspapers and immoral
drama. And then well have
institutions and educa-