Blue-grass blade., 1891-01-10
A Good Newspaper for Anti.
Prohibition Baptists.

Prohibition Baptists.
On the list of my exchanges i
a newspaper that 1 would recon
mend to those Baptists who ar
opposed to Prohibition, to b,
read in connection with tn,
"Baptist Recorder for instance
tits the "Champion," of Chi
cago.
tquotes scripture as it's author.
ity.
In the heading of the paper i,
claims to be the "National Rep
resentative Of the Beer, Wine and
Spirit trade" The word "Spir-
it" is easily adjustable to the
preferences of the people VINO
read the paper. Saloon keepers
and distillers can construe it to
allude to whisky, brandy and
rum, while Baptists who vote
against Prohibition, can, without
any violence to the tone of the
paper, construe it to mean the
Holy Spirit. 1t is filled with re.
ligious authorities and quotations
from the scriptures, and General
John AthertOn, all alumnus Of
the Georgetown Baptist College,
son-in-law Of a prominent Bnp-
fist authority, distiller, and
President of the Liquor Protect
i've Association of America, would
highly recommend the "Cham.
pion."
This valuable paper prints a
scriptural motto at it's head. 1t
is, swine that maketh glad the
heart of man. Psalms 1O4-15."
1t has lately published an ar
ticle as long as The Blades
BIRTHDAY" piece, to show that
all the good men of the earth
had been pretty free drinkers of
spirits. In this list it began with
Noah, included Jesus Christ, and
came on down as near to date as
Daniel Webster and Henry Clay,
but omitted our distinguished
contemporaries, probably fearing
that some of the boys might
"come around with a shot gun"
1 am pretty good Prohibition
list myself, and possibly have not
as much sympathy for drunkards
as l ought to have, but l am go
ing to be consistent and l am GO
ing to defend Noah just like l
did Col. Ingersoll, when l think
the people are getting to be too
hard on him.
Every time any little upstart
of a Kentucky editor wants to ap.
pear high moral, and is to big a
coward to say that nearly every
man that represents him at Wash
ington or Frankfort is a drunk
ard, he has to jump on Noah.
The man is dead and buried long
ago. He has relatives all over
The Bluegrass region of Kentucky.
He never was candidate for Of
ice. There is no record that he
ever was in a saloon or that he
ever drank a glass of beer or Ken
lucky whisky in his life.
While as an editor l do not
.hink it is morally wrong to go to
, circus when l have compli-
ticket, it is a fact that
many good people do object to the
circus, but l have never heard of
my sensible man that objected to
he menagerie.
The greatest sacrifice for his re-
igiOn that l have ever known any
modern Kentucky minister to
make, was made by my dear per
onal and literary friend, Rev. j.
B. MoGinn, of Versailles, upon
whom my mantle descended when
"went up"
saw him stand in the menag-
'rie part of a big show and look in
t the circus without going in. 1t
axes a thoroughbred Christian
With great deal Of spinality to do
hat.
Well, Noah did a great deal
more for the menageric business
han any body else ever did, Bar,
lum not excepted.
My dear old friend, Judge Stew
nson from Georgetown, has, for
Conscience sake. been on the weak |
ide gilmore political issues than
ny man in Kentucky, and | love
i'm for it. A man with that kind