Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-02-07
Political l1ercsy In The ycw
York Voice.

In the New York Voice o
January 22 is an editorial undel
the heading "Shall we have g
Union of Forces" that has in il
the first inklipg of political heresy
that | have ever seen in that
paper.
1t is right in the line of though,
in which the Prohibition party
is most likely to get stranded.
l think the Voice is, withou,
exception, the grandest ncwspa-
per in the world, and | thin! that
this is the sentiment of lmos,
every Prohibitionist Its utter
anccs have been so universally Y
Trustworthy that the danger is
that having gotten in q habit OF
accepting its views without crit
ical examination we are liable to
swallow any error that it almost
certainly must make sometime,
just like a trout takes down a
piece of red flannel because he
does not stop to examine.
The Northern Alliance people
are making some tempting bats
for us to bite at, and the Voice is
anxious to get in with them, and
80 am |. They have gotten lust
as close up to US as they can get
without coming into the true
faith, and they have drawn line
on the ground and said, "Now we
like you and we want to help
you, and we want you to help us,
aud if you will just step across
that line We will all be together
That's exactly what the Devil
said to Jesus in the "temptation. +"
They were both quoting scrip
ture. and they understood it just
alike, and the Devil quoted it
just as accurately as Jesus did,
and then the Devil said 1--WE are
SO nearly together in cur under
standing OF these things, that in
asmuch as l am on the popular
side, and you are under a cloud,
and you don't seem to have very
many friends amonY thsjaAuen,,
i1lii51Ep ps5Pss;,l you *m3dst make
the least concession we will have
fine sailing together
But the Devil didn't fool Him,
and nearly two thousand years
atterward we are glad that he
didn't. l am satisfied that Pro-
hibition will come, and l am not
so anxious to rush it through by
a compromise as | am to have it
so complete and uncompromised
that when we do get it, there will
be people who, in two thousand
years from now, will be glad that
we stuck it out.
Mahomet is my model Prohi-
bitionist. Twelve hundred years
ago he instituted Prohibition
among his people. They may
have faults, but to eat hog meat
or drink liquor are two things
that you cannot get them to do to
this day; and in the wars of the
Crusades his followers were Just
as far above the ale brewing,
wine bibbing European Chris
tians as the Greeks at Platea,
Salamis and Thermopyla, or the
followers of William Tell or Kos.
ciusko or of Washington at Val
ley Forge and Yorktown, We're
grander than the Yankees that
murdered the Indian women the
other day.
The Voice alludes to "Prohi-
bitionists both in and ont OF the
Prohibition party"
thought We had been trying
to teach the people all the time
that there could not be a Prohi-
bitionist om of the Prohibition
party any more than there could
be a Democrat out of the Demo-
cratic party or a Republican out
of the Republican party.
If we could not find a Demo
crat in the Republican party, |
can't understand how we could
find Il Republican in the Prohi-
bition party, or a Prohibitionist
in the Republican party or the
Alliance party.
This very thing of allowing
some good and intelligent people
who vote with other parties to
, tlatter themselves that they are
| good Prohibitionists because they
do not drink, and hope the saloons
will be put down is the hardest
thing we have to contend with
here in Lexington.
A few days since valuable
citizen here in Lexington told m'
that he was just as good a Prohi
bitionist as was.
| was somewhat surprised t.
hear that he was II Prohibitionist
'as | thought knew pretty neaJ
all of them, personally or by rep
utation, and | expressed my sur
prise and congratulation.
lie then explained that h'