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

at great trouble and mortiflcatio
to his feelings, obtained convictin
evidence against nine saloons fo
having sold him liquor afte
warning given. This evidenc
was placed before the grand jur
and an indictment was found; bu
when it was brought before cour
now in session, somebody in draw
ing up the indictment had been S
careless as to leave out word o
two, and there the matter wa
dropped. What shall we say t
these things? Are we helpless
bound?
Have you any idea of the exten
of this vice in Lexington? Me-
who are supposed to know, hav
been called upon, and they vari
ously estimate the number o
public strumpets at from four t.
six hundred. besides large mum
ber of private sluts which are KEEP
by individuals. Suppose we pu
the number at five hundred; wha
does it cost to keep them all
Some of them have an income O
thousands; and | suppose that none
of them live on less than $500 &
year. At this lowest estimate
tor the average, our men pay moi
less than $25O,000 a year. Com
bine these figures with the 100000
spent for whisky and you have
largely over a half million which
we spend every year for strong
drink and lewd women. How
Can God look down upon us, and
spare us? How can we look one
in the face, while we
stand still and permit this rotten
ness to continue?
While we are timidly holding
our breath in the presence of this
Moloch, its audacity is increasing
day by day until it has reached a
climax. Last month, a young
man in good circumstances, and of
good family, was enticed into a
Mcgowan street house while drunk
whisky and lewdness ever 60 hand
in hand); when a relative who
heard of it went to the house and
demanded him, that he might take
lim home, he was insulted, re-
used admitance and ordered
away. Only three weeks ago, a
married man who has a store, and
had been on a spree from which
ne had not yet recovered, was met
1t the door as he closed it for the
hight by a strumpet from the
anne street, who had been wait
ng for him. She took him by
he arm and started with him
o her den. A relative OF his met
hem at the postoffce and began
% plead with the man to let him
cad, him home. The audacions
cursed him and threatened
lis life. and he was constrained to
urn away for fear of a street fight
With a whore. A married man,
Trunk, with $3.50 in his pocket,
vent to one of those houses to
lave a frolic, and in treating the
.rowd to wine, which is there
old to such as he at S. a bottle,
hough it is bought down in town
or 81, he spent all of his money.
ret the next morning a bill was
ent to him for $14O more, and he
,aid it to avoid exposure. A
modest youth, clerk in one Of
'ur Main street dry goods stores,
vas waiting on one of these
Jezebels, when she leaned
'ver' the counter and whispered
loneyed words to him, persuading
lin to visit her house. If l had
store l would not permit the
vretches to come into it. l would
eel bound to protect my clerks
rom their Vaccinations. There
re young widows on Mcgowan
treet, who, in order to 60 there
lnencumbered, abandoned their
'wn little children which are now
lnder the care and protection of
ONE Of our benevolent women.
state these facts as they have
,een stated to me by reliable per-
ons, the most of them having
,een collected by workers in the
Y. M. c. A. These, gentlemen,
ire the creatures on whom the men
# Lexington are expending
quarter of a million of dollars
,very year!
But these wretcbed women have
,Ot always been the vile sluts that
hey are now. All of them were
,nce innocent little girls. Every
me of them was somebody's little
laughter; somebody little sister.
}! what a transformation since
he days of their childhood! Our
:ity papers have recently given
Belle Breezing a handsome free
advertisement as an owner of dia-
Yes, of diamond earrings
worth $500. When she lost
hem, nice paragraphs were pub
ished about it as nice and cOuched
N as respectful terms as if she had
been the richest lady in Lexing-
ton. And when the diamonds
we're found, this furnished our
Dbsequious newspaper men Occa'
sion for some additional para
graphs, all paying due respect to
MADAM" Breezing. Eighteen
years ago this unfortunate woman
was bright little pupil in the
Broadway Sunday School. She
was the daughter of a poor, honest