Blue-grass blade., 1890-11-01
How Prcsby tcrians Defended
Centre College against
tn Liquor Evil

At q recent election, the Pro-
hibitionists of Boyle county, vot-
ed liqnor out OF the county, in
Guiding the beautiful town of
Danvillc;
The newspapers report as one
of the most Jealous workers
among the Prohihtionists, Judge
Robert j.. Breckenridge. brother
of our "silver tongued' Colonel
Billy, who lately voted to force
liquor back into the Prohibition
states.
Danville is the seat of Centre
College, a Presbyterian institu-
ton, the alma mater of these two
distinguished gentlemen. They
are both Presbyterians and it is
doubtless largely owing to the
Presbyterian influence that want
ed to advance the interests of
that institution that induced them
to vote liquor out of that county
and town.
| was born and reared side by
side, on farms, with the Breckin-
ridge boys, and know that they
got precisely the same kind OF
instruction from their father
Rev. DR.. Robert j. Breckinrid ge,
and that if he were living now
when the Prohibition issue is up,
he would lampoon the liquor
traffic with a vigor and mercy
lessness that would scarcely be
equalled by any man in the State
of Kentucky.
How then does it happen that
these two gentlemen, his sous
could lately have voted so direct.
ly opposite to each other, in q
case where the moral propriety
was perfectly evident, but int,
which voting there enters large
element of political expediency'
Does anybody doubt that Col
William Breckenridge would
have voted with his brother
against whisky, had the Colone
lived in Danville a private citi
zen? Certainly not. The phe
nomenon is only explicable Oh
the supposition that Col. Breck
inridge voted III Congress to rep
resent the interest of his larg,
whisky producing and whisk.
drinking constituency, upo'
whose support he relied to be re
turned to Congress; though in st
doing he disregarded the mucl
larger part of his constituenc,
who are farmers and opposed t.
his vote on the package ques
ton because the farmers are no
the people who nominate candi
dates, but simply those who dc
the voting under the party lead
ers who live about towns.
The people of Danville were
intelligent enough to know tina
they could attract the attention
of fathers, who had boys Ole
enough to go to college, by re
moving from the county anC
town, the liquor temptation tina
ruins so many young men at col
lege, that many father has beef
willing to withhold from his boys
collegiate advantages, rather thar
subject them to the temptation o
the great evil.
For many years Boyle count.
has striven against the influence
of the liquor traffic, and as evi
dence of the effect of this effort
would like for the people OF Blu
grassdom especially, who ar
best acquainted with the facts, t
run over in their own memorie
the record of crime in Danville
as compared with Lexington
Georgetown, Versailles, Win
chester, Paris, Nicholasville
Harrodsburg and Richmond.
1t is fact so tar as my per
sonal memery goes, that Frank
fort seems to have been compare
lively exempt from crime, eXcep
among the eX-convicts in "Cray
Town. but while | can REGAL
numbers of horrible things tina
have occurred in all these Others
it is a fact that | cannot REGAL
one in Danville.
Contrast the reputation oftha
town then with that OF George
town where whisky and bloot
have flowed together, and crime
run riot, until there are many
people who are friends OF George
town who are compelled to say
that it is not a fit place to bring
up boys III.
With these respective reputa'
tons, can Georgetown Coileg,
reasonably expect to compete
with Danville among people
who are unbiased as to churcl
management!
l asked the President o
Georgetown College not long age
why he was not II Prohlbit!onlst
and lie told me it was because h,
was opposed to woman suffrage
| Will submit il the answer. Ii