Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-01-31

side money that was worth living
for and working for.
When the treasury of the
United States was bursting with
q plethora of money, robbed
from the people by system of
excessive taxation as iniquitous as
our iathc 5 resisted from Great
Britain. Senator Blair, like a
great AMI generous soul, said we
people of the North have enjoyed
great prosperity ever since the
war, and our brethren of the
South have been correspondingly
depressed. Let us distribute this
money among the States for
school purposes, on the basis of
illiteracy, and the South, having
the negro population, will get
the lions share of it.
But such men as Quay and
Blaine and ingalls, and Chandler
were not struck on this olive
branch business, and Blaine got
out his old bloody shirt and
hoisted it on hop pcle--not a
hoop pole. mind you--aud they
rallied round that flag.
Those fellows wanted to pay
the boys that helped to bloody
that shirt, and that being the APP
peal to the low and mean and
brutal instinct in men, was the
popular one.
Then, when it came South,
such men as Billy Breckenridge
and Joe Blackburn said No! no
it will never do. For us to accept
this money from the government
would be to give up our glorious
doctrine of States rights.
| And so these chivalrous South.
ern knights joined in the clamol
with Blaine and Quay to cruelty
Blair, and wherever these gallant
Kentuckians, who had fought fol
Dixie, without getting a scratch
could find a Yankee. Irishman
Dutchman, or niger that hat
sprained his big toe in giving
J them a kick during the war, they
wanted to show their apprecia
ton OF the justice that had beer
done them by bestowing pension
on them, and they clamored fo
pensions for Yankee soldiers be.
cause that looked like it wa.
going to be the popular thing
and the loyalty of the South
! would be so demonstrated tina,
after while the Northern Dem
ocrats would be fooled into let.
| ting them have a President from
the South, and our Billy and oul
10 would get into the Cabinet
and the ballot-boX would do for
Billy what the cartridge box had
failed to do for Cousin John c.
and everybody would say that
cheese was mitier than a sword,
and little slice of heaven was
going to be right here on earth.
They haven't fooled the Yam
kee yet, but the money is all
gone, and Mckinley Bill and
Original Package Bill and "Sil-
vertongue" Bill are all conspiring
to rob the people again, and de
clare another dividend among
themselves
Blair is grand and elegant
and broad minded gentleman,
and when the finest women in
America went to Washington
with a petition he was the man
that they naturally went to, and
he was the champion of our cause;
but every man from Kentucky
sneered at him, and called him a
squaw man, like the backwoods
man at our Con. Con. did the
half dozen men who had the JUS
tice and decency and gallantry
to hear the petition of the small
delegation of women who had
more sense than the whole OF
that whisky fuddled Con. Con.
put together.
All roads lead to Rome; and
this reputation of Blair by the
Republican party is bound to
help the Prohibition cause by
showing to some honestly deluded
Republicans that Republication
is no more the party of good
morals and advanced thought
than Democracy is.
The Republicanism that defeats
Blair is cheek by jowl with
Breckenridge, Blackburn and
Carlisle in a PLATE and llerOd
congruviality to defeat all right
eousness, and they all alike crook
the suppliant hinges of the knee
before the Kentucky dstiller and
say, with all thy faults ! love the
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