Blue-grass blade., 1890-11-15
Mrs. Josephine X. Henry IN the
Southern journal Of
Sept. IL.
THE SALOON1ST SINGING.
"Oh :, how ! love Jesus"

TIE sALOoNIsT SINGING.
"oh how love Jesus"
We attended church few days ago,
and saw a $50 pound saloon keeper
dressed in faultless store clothes, sport.
ing diamond pin which looked like
juvenile electric light, sitting in the
choir holding an open hymn book. To
our right sat a gray haired man, bowed
with age and grief, whose son had taken
his own life in a saloon. To our left sat
a sad faced woman who had had one son
killed in drunken brawl, another to
die of delirium tremens, and still has
one who Is the evil nemesis of her de-
clining days, for through the influence
of the saloon he racks her life with an.
guish and terror. All around Inc were
men whose lives and fortunes are
blighted by whisky, widows with father.
less children who are struggling with. this
unjust cold world for a support because
the saloon has robbed them and put
their natural protectors in drunkards
graves. And yet with these object les
sons in the sanctuary saloon keeper is
allowed to rise in the church and sing
Oh! how love Jesus.
, If the saloon keeper has to be called in
to help ''enlarge the borders of Zion" we
believe we will stay outside, and until
the Church can offer something that has
a semblance to the Christianity preached
by the lowly Nazarine we want none OF
it. Church people have no right to ask
where We get our theology from. We
have no doubt that the very churches
that tolerate whisky dealers and smile
on them, have their eyes fixed on some
poor heather in Africa, while
they meet on the way to church
twenty heather these men have
made. We suppose it is only the idea OF
a crank, but it does seem that duty
prompted by religion would tell us to
labor in our own vineyard to keep our
heather crop down to the lowest possible
state. What good sense is there going
off to foreign pastures to cut down the
thOrns and briars when our own woods
are full of them" Ii bramble bush is
set at the door of the temple to catch
the poor innocent lambs, how can they
reach the altar?
"All men are created free and equal"
There is not a shadow of a doubt about
that. No one questions in this day that
all men are free and some equal to most
anything, but where is the nice little
maxim in regard to the equality of wo-
nize them in the capacity OF subs, when
debt lifting, church cleaning, and tax
paying are on the tapis. Under our
present regime it rather looks like both
Christianity and Democracy are disma
failures, but We are not of that opinion
since neither one has been tried.
In the debate in the United States
Senate on the admission OF Wyoming,
Senator Morgan took the ground that the
ballot had an immoral influence, there.
for, it should not be granted to women.
Is that what is the matter with SO many
OF the masculine gender? Ii so let us
work and pray to have it taken away
from them speedily, that general re-
form will invade the masculine realm.
How this woman suffrage question is dis
tressing the moss backs. They are as
much behind the times as the man that
voted for Gen. Jackson in the last
election.
The above is from long article
of this gifted and enthusiastic
woman, all of which is just as
good as this.
This woman writes me letter
on a sheet, upon which is printed
a text from the New Testament
and tells me that the "Rational
View" lies as a hand. book upon
her reading table, and that she
wanted to lend her eighty.five
pounds to turn the grind-stone
for TIE BLADE.
You see, she has the same COM
plant to make of these religious
people that ] do:
l used to preach for the Church
at V ersailles and she was one of
nv paris hioners, and l could add a
touching story to the instances of
whisky ruin that she tells OF.
You Christian people can see
that in a case like this, where a
woman has brains and strong
moral convictions, your inconsis-
tencies are such that the cords
With which you would bind her
% the church are scarcely stronger
han cobwebs.
Think of compelling woman
ike that to stand beside a $50
pound demijohn, all but the will
ow, and Join with him in singing
ooh, how / love Jesus"
You keep that kind of people
n your churches because they
IL, 10 nav the preaChcr, and
eli you it will not be long before
sationalism will knock you out.
Let me show you Versailles ],
eople the difference between that =
,hristian Prohibition woman and Ii
on Christian Democrats. 81