Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-21

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going to see these whisky voting
Christians weaken, and as soon
as they begin to do that the edi-
tors and bar-rOOm statesmen will
begin to tumble to the racket.
l have just been talking to one
of the pillars of the church as
good a man as 1 ever knew, except
that he is possessed of the devil
of the liquor traffic; does not use
it himself, but somehow or other
he does not want to throw away
his vote," and he votes with the
Democrats like so many other peo-
pie do-just going it blind be-
cause that's the way he has been
doing for years, and he has been
in habit of answering my argu-
ments for Prohibition by express
ing his great regret about my re-
ligious views, as if my believing
wrong justified him in doing
wrong.
But he and his family have been
reading the Blade, and his wife
and daughters are Prohibition
lists, and hts youngest son cast his
first vote last August, and it was
for Prohibition.
The father is beginning to
weaken and feel sorter lonely in
his own family, and looks kinder
like he was out in the cold.
He found out that he could not
fool ME nor his cwn wife and
daughters and sons, with his old
whisky sinking Democratic clap
trap, and now he seems to be
having hard work to fool himself,
and keep himself fooled.
He's awfully interested in my
spiritual welfare, and he reads the
Blade to see how l am going to
come out on it, and every time he
sees one of these letters from a
good earnest honest Christian,
like Bro. Ralph, he sorter weak
ems in the knees, and the Prohi-
bition argument soaks into him,
and he thinks about old Growers
bull neck and hog jowPs and
little Ben Harrison's hat and
Carnegie whisky barrel and then
he thinks about our dead standard
bearer, Fisk a Christian philan-
thropist, and Brooks a Christian
preacher, and he remembers that
I voted for these two men for
President and Vice President of
the United States, while he voted
for a man whose friends did not
deny the charge that he was a
libertine; and it looks to him some
how that things are kinder mixed,
and I think his conscience and his
politics are not getting along very
we'll together, and he is not get
ting much consolation out of his
family, and 1 think he will
manage to get along the best he
can until on toward the time for
the Presidential election next year,
and he will make the good con-
fession and vote for the Prohibi-
ton candidate for President, who
will probably be Ex-Governor
John P. St. John, a Christian and
a gentleman without q blemish.
The way to treat these men is
Ito beat them at their own game.
Charge right home On them that
with all their sancti6ed talk,
every man is an infdel of the
most damnable dye and an open
and avowed enemy of all true re-
ligion, who at this day does not
come out boldly and like a man
to help the little Prohibition band,
who like Leonidas and the Spar
tans at Thermopylae, are stand
ing against the liquor voting
hosts, whose darts darken the sun
above them.
eve are coming Father Abra-
ham five hundred thousand
strong"
"And whosoever shall fall on
this stone shall be broken, but on
whomsoever it sh all fall it will
grind him to pc wder."