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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-10
ATwATER, June 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:

ATwATER, June 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
I will say that I like and respect
your paper for it's fearless attack on
humbug and falsehood, and as a re-
form paper 1 think it stands unequal
led in this state; it has taken up the
reform questions, and handled them
manfully and without gloves. But
there is one question of reform, it has
left pretty much in the cold accord
ing to my idea, and dare say thous-
ands and ten thousands with me,
this is the greatest reform question
OF the day. l mean the liquor traffic
question. 1t is true that the greedy
monopolies spoil many a happy
home, and that unjust burdens are
laid on the shoulders of the poor.
The men that are leading this reform
are worthy OF sympathy and the re-
gard OF the oppressed PEOPLE of this
nation. But, friend Of reform, am
much out of the way Of truth, when
say that the saloons and liquor traf-
fic, spoil more happy homes in one
year, than the money power spoils in
ten? Does not the $9OO,OOO,OOO,
yearly laid up on King Alcohol's
altar, weigh up with the sum the
plutes wrongfully press out of the
working classes pockets? If it does
not just add all the expenses, by
overflled prisons, reform schools,
asylums, not to mention 10000 that
yearly go to a drunkard grave, and
the many tears, and the poor inno-
cent children's cry for bread. Go to
the poor OF our great nation, the
poorest of them that have to be sup
ported by the community, to find
out the cause of their misfortune,
and surely it will be found, that in
temperance is at the bottom, in most
of the cases.
Some say this is free country, SO
if a man is foolish enough to ruin
himself, he ought to have right to
do so. But if he at the same time
ruins his family, and puts unneces-
sary expenses on his fellow citizens,
what is then to be done? looked to
the great Cincinnati Convention, in
hope, to see it take up this reform
question, with the other noble and
much needed reforms, but l looked in
vain. Are the great reformers of the
day bound hand and foot by the rum
power? Or is the whiskey monopoly
too great and powerful yet for them
to grapple with? The new party was
baptized in beer, and the saloon ele-
ments sing praises of the newborn
child. I hope it will live and grow
up, and be converted to real Peo-
pies Party, with all noble and need
ed reforms in its platform.
T. L. SANGMYHER,
Sec'y, No. 1884.
The Sec'y of 1884, our good friend
Sangmyhr, makes serious mistake
in stating that the brewers captured
the new party. There was a serious
blunder made by them-and the con-
vention threw it off in stentorian
tones. We have never seen so much
excitement in a convention. And out
of thousands of strangers in the city
less than 100 went to the "recep-
ton" at the brewery, or to the lay
out at the garden. The convention
made a mistake too-but every man
who was there can see how it hap
pened. 1t was too large a mass to
enter upon hot discussion.
The old parties never were so friend
~ to each other as now. They
shake hands-and the hands are
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-10
W. S. Day. of Inkster, N. D., writes:
"Best banking system in the

W. S. Day. of Inkster, N. D., writes:
"Best banking system in the
world "-Here it is:
About 25 years ago a certain set of
men invested SO heavily in q. S.
bonds, with greenbacks which for a
time had been purposely depreciated)
that they were financially ''busted. y
These gentlemen being too lazy to
work and too proud to beg, unblush-
ingly asked Uncle Sam to let them go
in debt to the tune of 10000 dollars
per every 100000 dollars of bonds
they owned-the debts to be issued
in $1.OO, $500, $500 or $1,000
notes, made to look as much like the
good old greenback as possible, SO as
to the more readily deceive and rob
the people by lending these same
notes to the people and calling it
national currency and thereby
getting interest on what they owed.
This is what they term financiering!
o Lord!
1t is most too late now to give
Bro. Hyne's account OF the great in
dustrial picnic held at Adrian on the
9th of last month. But it was a
very great success. It was addressed
by Tom Lucas, Co. Lecturer Renshaw
Gin the way of song) a Mr.. Gray,
formerly a democrat, S. Nelson,
formerly a republican, and two brass
bands!
Then, be it said to our sorrow,
some one put Wyoming MCGEE
on the stand, and he INDUCED his
hypocrisy for few moments. This
was anti-forfeiture-postmaster-Mc-
Gee). Tom Lucas addresses is spok-
en- of as powerful and convincing.
At 4 p. m. Mr.. Donnelly came. The
two bands struck up, Hail Column
bia." Mr.. D. stated that it was an
appropriate selection, for the old
parties had been giving him "Hail
Columbia for twenty-five years. His
address was received with great APP
plause.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-10

ST. CLOUD, Mimi, June 20, '91.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
Hurrah for the Peoples Party!
May Christ's kingdom predominant
at last. A. O. WHITING.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-10
Officers Wisconsin State Alliance

President.-Col. c. M. Butts, Viroqua.
Vice President-P. L. Scritsmer Cartwright
Secretary.-N E. Moody, Vroqua
Treasurer-W. F. Donohue Star Prairie
Lecturer.-Col R. May, Viroqua.
Next place of meeting, Eau Claire.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-10

The old parties never were so friend
~ to each other as now. They
shake hands the hands are
awful sticky.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-19

The Hon. Josiah Harris is a
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-19
s50-G00 ACRES OF LAND
WANTED.

An Eastern Steamship and Col
onization Company have written
to the General Passenger and
Ticket Agent of the Queen &
Crescent Route, to find for them
a tract of land in either Kentucky
or Tennessee of about 100000
acres. The land is to be suitable
for truck farming, also for raising
corn, wheat, trees and shrubs, and
near enough to railroad to make
shipping facilities handy. Any
one havinga body of land suitable
for this purpose, will please COM
municate with the undersigned,
giving price, terms, location, and
all particulars.
ID. G. EDWARDS
G. p. & Z. A.
Cincinnati, o.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-19
From the Lexington Press.

ktrOIl the leAllStOH fToSS.
Editor Press:
Thanking you for the eloquent
words of approval which you ap-
pended to the report of my address
of last Sunday afternoon, l ask
permission to publish in your col
umns a piece of information which
is more horrifying to me than any
thing of which l spoke in that
address. | hear it repeatedly
stated by men who have had bet
ter opportunities for information
than i have, that l don't know
the half OF the iniquity going on
in our city. If | continue to re-
ceive fresh information similar to
this which / give below, l shall
certainly have my eyeteeth cut
before long. On Tuesday last |
received letter through the post
office from which | make the fol-
lowing extract:
at Was with great deal of
pleasure that heard you last
Sunday evening on the morals of
this city. | am sorry to say that
/ am not a member of any church;
but | try to live a Christian life so
far as | can, and am always for
the good of the people. This
seems to me very important
question, and | admire your cour-
age in denouncing that which all
right-thinking people know is
wrong. And from the number of
people that | have heard speak in
such favorable terms of your lect-
ure, / am convinced that with the
assistance of the other ministers in
this city these evils can be broken
up. The better class ofthe people
are tired of the way things are be-
ing run.
"There is one thing that
should have liked for you to have
spoken of, one that | think is the
worst evil to-day existing here
aud that is, the forty or fifty pro,
curesses that are located on nearly
every street in Lexington. There
is not a day passes that they dc
not write notes TO young men (alsC
married mem that they have ;
nice girl, and TO come up thai
night. Another grave thing is
that a man can call at the houses
of these women and they will in
form him that they can get any
woman of his acquaintance, an,
often call the names of daughter
of the most respectable people il
the city.
Hoping that you may do untol'
good, and assuring you that yOl
have the sympathy of large ma
jority of the citizens,
Yours,
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-19
Something About IuserSOli's
jug Letter.

| have received letter from a
lady who is a friend and admirer
of Col. Ingersoll, relative to what
was said in the Blade about his
letter of thanks to Alfred Ham
mer for a jug of whisky.
1t is marked private" but an
extract from it which will not
identify the writer | do not believe
would be objected to.
1t is as follows:
81 never saw Ingersoll intoxi-
Gated. That was past when We
were in Peoria. 1t was generally
understood that his restoration
was due to his wife, and | thought
of her when read that jug let
ter" Of his.
Mr. thinks that "Bob'
wrote that letter thoughtlessly,
from an impulse of kindness,
without ever tasting himself of the
contents of the jug" and proba-
bly, never thinking of his letter
slipping into publicity.
This is what Mr. surmises
from what he knows of him.
l always considered his reform
as adding luster to his fame, and
am the last person who would
wish to rake upa past experience,
rejecting upon the "moral char
acter" of the great iconoclast.
will find out however, from Peori;
friends, just how far | am righr
about it, for my own private salts
faction.
In the present state of public
sentiment, would it injure hi
"moral character" much if it wer,
known?
Such conditions are so univesa
among our great men that the,
pass unnoticed.
Your article upon Georgetown
had a fitting climax in the new
from there this morning, of yes
terday's fish killing.
i Thanking you again for tn
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-19

l cannot describe my feelings
when | first read this letter. |
was dazed and choked and my
eyesight grew dim. felt as if my
blood was curdling and my face
grew hot Gentlemen of Licking
ton widows of Lexington, when
l think of the names of your
daughters and mine being banded
about in these vile dens, as this
gentleman says they are, it makes
me wild When l think of forty
or fifty she devils on our streets
watching for the innocent and I'M
suspecting girls of the city and
laying skillinlly-prepared nets for
their unwary feet, that they may
be drawn into the embrace of
lecherous men, | cannot sit still.
Were ] to give way to my i'm
pulses, | would he almost ready
to say, let me see those brutes,
that | may shoot them down like
mad dogs But | know this is
not right Not my arm, nor yours,
but the arm of the law. which has
been tramp!od undcrfoot, while the
law makers and the law enforcers
are standing with folded hands,
must be brought down with
crushing force upon these fiends
in human form. am glad that
our Prosecuting Attorney has loud,
ly called on the other arm of the
law to stand by him in ferreting
out and bringing to justice the
fiends who are making our city a
stencil in the nostrils of decent
men. Some of these PROGRESSES
| am glad to be informed, since
the receipt of this letter, are al
ready spotted. Let those who
have the clues to their identity
give them speedily TO the grand
Jury and let US see them sent to
he penitentiary, where they be-
ong. The gallows would be the
better place for them. And let
he men who pay for all this be
land- cuffed to these women and
ent along with them. Such men
ave no right to live outside of
Prison walls.
j. w. MoGARvEY.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-19

that is Ex-Governor John =. St
John OF kansas-who will get q
million votes for President of the
United States in '92, and who, or
somebody mighty like him, will
be President of the United States,
on the 18th of March Ammo DOM
I'M 1897.
Keep the ball rolling my
brethren.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-19
They BUlldOZed RrO. Briggs
until He made an ass Of
Himself.

In the list of the questions an
answers that the New York Pres
bytery put to Briggs is the fol
lowing.
"Do you believe that the miracle
recorded in Scripture are due to an
extraordinary exercise of divin
energy either directly or Indirect
through holy men?"
Ans. Eyes"
1t takes a preacher to under
stand that kind of lingo, just Xix,
it takes a doctor to understand
doctors talk, and l have been Gu
of the preaching trade so Ions
that | do not understand it. Blu
if, by this, DR.. Briggs means tc
say that he now believes thai
Balaam's ass talked Hebrew tn.
first time he ever tried it, and
without even having gone to
school and studied the Hebrew
grammar, then l say that DIR.
Briggs and Balaam's ass are full
brothers; for after a heap of going
to school and heap of studying
Hebrew, under one of the finest
linquists in America, it was
mighty little Hebrew that l could
talk.
Balaam's ass, on the other hand
is represented in the Bible, as
having struck out boldly and as
having delivered a lecture on
ethics in Hebrew the first time he
had ever tried to speak Hebrew,
though it was in his mature years,
and he had not been brought up
to speak the language in his colt
hood.
With all Difference to Bro.
Briggs theological attainments, l
am not going to acknowledge my
self that much the intellectual in
ferior of anybody's jackass.
The next time Bro. Briggs
starts out to make new depart
ure and to startle the world with
something fresh, he must not
cackle before he has laid his egg.
He must make up his mind as to
what he does believe before he
shoots off his mouth.
l have no doubt that he really
believes what he said in his college
address which raised the rumpus,
and that he meant his words to be
as everybody naturally
them, and as he al
lowed them to be understood, I'M
til it began to appear that it was
going to interfere with his bread
and butter; but his answering
Eyes" to that question about
miracles is simply a retraction- Of
everything he had said, and it is
now in order for him to subside
and talk like the conventional
Presbyterian preacher.
L have seen a very small boy
light fire cracker, lay it on the
floor and run off to see and hear
the effect. The cracker would
liz away until the fuse was burnt
put, and then it would 90 ont just
At the time he expected to hear the
report.
Rev. Prof. Briggs has "fzzed
put" just that way. He ought to
20 now and soak his head and
cool his massive brain; teach
what the Presbyterians pay him
% teach, and remember that a
fellow can't eat his cake and have
t too.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-19
1t Made the Tears Come When
He Spoke Of HaddOck and
Ganbrell.

GADUCAH, NY, Dec. 4, 1891.
Charles c. Moore, Esq.
My DEAR Shiny years SUBJ
scription to the Blade has expired
by limitation, and 1 am DESTROYS
that | miss no number, hence l
write to renew for another year.
Ihave been reading the Blade
for some time to my friend, and
brother lawyer and co-laborer for
Prohibition, E. w. Bagby, Esq,
of this city, and his enjoyment of
the Blade has induced him to be-
come a subscriber. You will
send it TO his address and he will
send you the subscription price.
/ hope you will pardon my in
truding. unbidden, upon you and
the readers of your paper, and the
Prohibitionists of the state, my
personal opinion as to the duty of
every Prohibitinoist in the state,
in particular, and the nation in
general, in regard to the Blade.
A newspaper than which no news
paper or periodical in this land, in
the year of grace 1S91-or at any
other time for that materials
with such manly courage, fearless
integrity, truthful accusation, and
mastery assault, charged the
licensed dens and pits of infamy,
over whose entrances is written
the crime and death stained legend
"Saloon;" which being interpreted
reads, "All who enter here lose
honor. virtue, reputation, physical,
mental and moral manhood, hope,
God and eternal life."
And not only these dens, pits
and centers of vice and shame,
and crime and death has the
Blade courageously and fearlessly
assaulted, but the powers, parties,
laws, legislation, platforms, news
papers, office holders, office seek
ers, Ministers and church mem
bers, and all other things and
creatures that have, and do now
stand behind the licensed sa-
looms" of the land, spreading the
virus that poisons everything that
they touch.
The Blade has warred upon and
made public, and laid open the
corruption of all these "whited
sepulchers,' in all their hideous
and disgusting deformity, to the
delight and joy of all men and
women of the land, who love
home, country, morality. good
government and better lives.
| feel that | am not plucking
from the chaplet that memory has
woven about the martyr Bames of
Haddock and Gambrell, when |
say they did no more, and no bet
ter than you are doing, and have
done, although the history OF
their fidelity to right and Prohibi-
ton has been written in their own
blood. That blood to-day cries
unto God for vengeance, and that
blood will some day fall on the
necks of the liquor traffic, as the
blow descends from the ballot
sledge of the Prohibition party
and a too long outraged and in
suited people.
l think no Prohibitionist has
the right to withdraw, or fail to
send forward his aid and support
of the Blade. Send it to me; my
wife would subscribe for it should
l fail to do SO, or should die.
JOSIAH HARRIS.
p. S. While / write, my frieno
George ID. Phelps. another
"wicked Prohibition outlaw an,
crank" of Paducah, says seno
him the Blade and he will pay yOr
soon for it. Yours,
HARRIS.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-19

man for whom the Prohibition
party of the State of Kentucky had
enough of love and admiration to
make him chairman of its State
Executive Committee, and make
him their candidate for Governor
of Kentucky. He is a gentleman,
scholar, moralist and Christian;
but he is an enthusiast, and offer
this fact to the public as an apol-
ogy for his exaggerated estimate
of my contribution to the Prohibi-
ton cause.
l got that letter just a little
while after a powerful man had
come to me on the street; told me
he was a member of the church,
called me a liar three times told
me three times that he would kill
me if / ever put his name in my
paper, shaking his hand in the
meantime in two inches of my
eyes and demanding that | should
wait there until he got witnesses
to attest that he had warned me OF
the conditions upon which he had
notified me that he would kill me.
| read that letter from Bro.
Harris until l came to the names
of HaddOck and Gambrill, and
the tears came so that | could not
read any longer without attract
ing the attention of strangers who
were near; and | folded the letter
up aud put it away in my pocket
and waited until l got home be
fore | finished it.
Few men have had more to
make them happy than l have,
and my happiness increases with
my years.
l have schooled myself to think
ing about death, until as l Or
dinarily contemplate it, there is
absolutely nothing distressing
about it. But l have, until the
last year, only contemplating my
Heath as resulting from natural
causes and as occurring with my
family around me. But death
rom violence at the hand of my
elbow man, is shocking idea to
ne, and this feeling has, in recent
Years, been intensified to me, by
he fearfully tragic deaths of my
Iriends Judge Richard Reid and
-ol. A. NJ. Swope.
l never saw very much of the
var.
l never saw the soldiers when
lnder the stimulus of excitement
nd the cheers of officers, the rat
lie of the drums, the shrill alarum
f the clarion, and the waving of
lags, they rushed upon each
'ther.
At the times when l saw them
here was nothing to cheer; the
attles were over; and the dead
nd bleeding and dying were left.
nd l learned to think with hor-
or of death from violence and
specially from wounds of
Weapons.
But if, some time, as the result
f my rebuke of this damnable in
amy, [ find that my time has
ONE, and 1 am going by violence
the hand of my fellow man, it
GEMS to me that if l have a mo-
lent to think, it would cheer me,
nd believe it would cheer those
hat love me, to know that my
anne, with those of Haddock and
iambrell, would make the third
nix in the Faith, hope and char
"" of the Prohibition cause.
1 want the letter OF the Hon.
osiah Harris to be an answer to
mother one that | received about
he same time, and which l here
i've.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-19

CINCINNATI, O., Dec. l, 1891.
C.. G. Moore. Esq, Lexington, Ky.
DEAR SIR-Enclosed find my
check for 81. 90 to pay for Blade
six months, or such time as it will
pay for, and then please discon-
tinue. l frankly confess l do not
enjoy your skeptical views of the
scriptures.
lam Methodist, and believe the
Methodist Interpretation of same.
Yours truly,
j. B. MARTIN
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-19
''SiraWs Show which way the
Wind Blows

A few months ago, Mr.. Curran,
a Presbyterian, who belonged to
the Board of Aldermen, or to the
council of this city, and voted for
licensing saloons, was President of
the Y. NJ. c. A.
The only copy of the Blue Grass
Blade that was sent gratuiousiy
to anybody was sent to that
Association. l received notice
from two members of that Asso-
citation that expressed their high
appreciation of my paper, but say
ing that they had been directed to
ask me to discontinue it to the
rooms or the association. About
the same time, Bro. William Van
Pelt, the oldest and most devoted
member of the Christian church
in this city, and whom l had met
at the rooms of the Y. NJ. c. A.,
told me that he had paid for and
regularly sent to the rooms of the
Y. M. &. A. several Prohibition
newspapers, and that he had looked
over the files Of the papers in the
rooms of the association and did
not find any of them.
| wrote in the Blade that Mr.
Curran ought to be put out of his
position in the Association, and
j. III. Bcauchamp, lawyer who
stands right at the head of this
bar, who is a Methodist, and who
is the man that | wanted to accept
the Prohibition nomination fol
Congress from this, the Ashland
district, is now the President O
the Y. M. c. A. and yesterday
Sunday preached in the Prsbyte-
rian church in Lexington, a ser.
mon that l went twenty-foul
miles to hear, from the Prohibi
ton gospel according to St. John
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-19
ANOTHER BLAST.
PROP. M'GARVEY EXPOSES
ANOTHER FRIGHTFUL
ISIQUfTY.

Fifty PROGRESSES i'm This City.
Who Make Their Living by
Luring Young trirls into the
Paths Of Vice-Let the Officers
of the Law Search Them Out
and let Them he Punished 10
the Fartliesf Limit.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-19

Please allow me to say to you
and through you to Others, in all
kindness, but meaning business,
for the manyeth time, that | do
not send any bills to anybody.
Guess at it, or let it alone, as
best suits you. We are running
this newspaper on the "Raven"
plan.
Yours fraternally,
THE EDITOR.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-19

courage, the strength, the blithe-
somencss (Me are always sure OF
one Poll good evening around our
little freside on Blade night
which your weekly message gives
lis. Truly Yours