Blue-grass blade., 1891-11-07
Bro. Sawyer Of ''The Southern
Journal Is Advised by the
Brethren.

official organ OF the Prohibition
party in Kentucky, in the issue of
October 3rd, there are printed two
letters that show why an editor
can not always take advice from
good men.
One of the letters is from Bro.
S. B. Jones. In his letter he
says; "Keep. on telling the preach
ers and church members who vote
for whisky that they are on the
wrong road to- reach heaven.
Immediately below that letter
is one from Bro. j. j. Rucker.
In it he says to Bro. Editor Saw
yer, Il think it would be a good
thing to let the preachers, elders
and deacOns and church members
generally alone for awhile, and
go straight at the citizens.
Now, without stopping to in
quire who are "citizens" as OPP
posed to these other church par
ties, it is evident that to satisfy
them both, Bro. Sawyer will have
to do two horse act, that would
beat old john Robinson in the
palmiest days of his circus.
Some people are constitution
ally incapable of taking a hint,
and can't understand the Ameri-
can language unless you talk it
right straight at them, and 1 am
going to do that for Bro. Rucker.
He has written me two letters
lately about my religion, and he
just went through me like a buzz
saw through punkin
No man who would take a
thousand dollars from a distiller
to build a church is as good a
Prohibitionist or as good a Chris
tian as | am.
| don't think there is any OBJ
security about that sentence, and /
think Bro. Rucker can take it all
in
] think that nine tenths of the
ProhibitiOnists to whom the
Southern Journal and the Blade
go, will say l am solid in my po-
sitiOn.
Bro. Rucker will have to 90
therefore. like Judas IscariOt and
cast that thousand dollars down al
the feet of John Anterior, the
great high priest of the American
whisky traffic, before he is in any
kind OF shape to reason with me
on Prohibition or religion.
Bro. Rucker is good man and
1 am for him, but he is one Of
these old Jonah the-whalt
religionists, and it's awful hard fol
him to understand that because hi
is religiously on the side of the
majority, the fellow in the minor.
ity doesn't have to think like he
does.
If being with the crowd proves
that a man is right, what about
Prohibition, that out of his owl
Baptist church brethren there art
twenty against to each one that i.
for?
The man who has made up hi
mind that he knows it all is in {
bad fix.
The chances are that Brother
Rucker is a little off his base.
The New York Voice has lately
opened its batteries against "tht
preachers, elders, deacons anC
church members generally, anC
has declared the church the bull
wark of the liquor traffic. 1t has
advised Prohibitionists to get our
of the churches that are for the
liquor traffic, and forty-five o.
Bro. Fuckers Baptist brethren
have left the Baptist church in
Newberg, New York. and gone
off and established Prohibition
church You couldn't get those
fellows to take any distiller's
money to build their church.
Prohibition papers and Prohibi
tionists all over the United State.
have, about four out of FIVE, en-
dorsed what the Voice said, and
the Voice is just as hard on the
churches as ] am.
According to the highest author,
tiles in the party Bro. Jones j:
right when he tells the Southern
Journal to "Keep on telling the
preachers and the church members
who vote fer whisky that they
are wrong, and Bro. Rucker is
wrong when he tells the Southern
Journal not to do this.