Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-05


knew no bounds, and snatching
the babe from its crib he placed
it on the red hot stove, at the
same time drawing a revolver and
threatening to kill the helpless
woman if she attempted to rescue
the child. The child is reported
roasted alive, but another report
says it is not dead. The man had
not been arrested at last accounts.
There is some talk of lynchiDg
him.-NdshciUe Issue.
We have a great deal of talk
about the extent to which men
are responsible for the crime oc-
casioned by the liquor traffic, and
the "Ungodly League" editorials
of the New York Voice have set
our Prohibition people all by the
ears as to the responsibility of the
church for this crime. "The
church" does not amount to a row
of pins to me; except that church
members who are not Prohibition
lists simply add the crime of ny
pocrisy to their completely with
the liquor traffic, because they
profess to be better than other
men.
Every man in the United States
who does not vote with the Prohi-
bition party is responsible for the
roasting upon a hot stove, of that
little baby, before the eyes of its
mother, unless the man is ignorant
of the fact that all political par
ties, except one, are unfolding
the liquor traffic and that the one
exceptional party is the Prohibi-
ton party, and that it is opposing
the liquor traffic. 1t is no answer
for these men to reply that there
.a.e otier things III political mat
tiers to be seen to, beside the Pro-
hlbition of the liquor trade.
If a man is a farmer and is
blowing in his own field, on the
side of a railroad, and he sees that
a switch has been improperly left
open, and he knows be can stop a
lightning express train simply by
stepping out on the track and
raising his hand in the manner of
warning, and he declines to do SO,
simply because it is more to his
business interest to keep on plow-
ing, that man is constructively a
murderer, if loss of life ensues and,
as such ought to be hanged. 1t
is no answer, from any Democrat
or Republican in Lexington. KY,
whom l arraign for completely in
the murder ofthe baby in Lex
ington, Va, for him to say that
he was financially interested in
the tariff, or that he hoped to get
an Office from one OF the old
parties. Ifhe is a man of as much
intelligence as he ought to be re-
auired to have in order to the ex-
ercise of the elective franchise,
and was a competent voter at the
last Presidential election, and did
not cast his vote for Fisk and
Brooks if he could have done so,
he is just as much pafticeps crim-
ms, in the murder of that Vir-
ginia baby, as if he had been at
Lexington, Va, and had declined
to stop Carl Cummings, when he
could have done so with perfect
IMMUNITY to himself, simply by
warning him not to do so.
"Quod facit per allan, facd per
Sc" is a recognized fundamental
principle in law; and the principle
is not destroyed by the fact that
serfrdl others may intervene be-
tween the principal and the agent
in the execution Of an act or deed.
Any man OF ordinary intelli-
gence then, who voted for any
other candidates than those of the
Prohibition party at the last Pres
idential election, voted fora party
who he knew would license sa-
looms, aud that the saloons would
sell whisky and that whisky would
make men drunk, and that
drunken men would roast babies
on red hot stoves, or commit any
other crime that they could con-
ceive of. And therefore when that
man roasted that baby on that red
hot stove, and kept its mother off
with a revolver he simply did
what hypocriticsl "Christians" all
over the United States voted that
he should do, and they would
have been surprised to the extent
of thinking a miracle had hap
pened, if in the whole of the
United States as the direct, natural
and legitimate result of their
votes, there had rot happened such
a case, or one as bad, or worse if