Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12
Wants PrOhibitiOnisls 10 make
Converts Among the Sc.
grOes.

luS anu lSoNiiS thS IDiauS ioi
some time, and have not paid a
cent. l enclose the amount of one
years subscription, $500, and
with it | offer the following which
you are at liberty to use as you
please.
Most temperance advocates
seems to cohtine themselves to
the white population.
But before l go too far with you
l must say L am with you in any
kind of a fight against whisky.
But l do not believe there is a sa-
loon-keeper in the world who
would not abandon his business
at once if there was no demand for
his wares. Then how to decrease
the demands is the all important
question. Why not every preacher
proclaim the evils of strong drink
and the advantage of Prohibi-
tion-not temperepce-at every
"meeting."
Then let every good woman
who is interested in the welfare of
her family and the happiness of
mankind in general, reach out
from the narrow path in which
unfortunately, most of our women
walk-and gather into the fold Of
society any youths who are yet
pure who will come.
Most poor boys would gladly
accept complimentary tickets to
the theater of society; but although
they may have been better trained
than their rich neighbors sons,
they are, by reason Of their CON-
parative poverty, excluded from
the so called "best society"
Rich peoples children usually
enter society from standpoint OF
wealth. They need nothing else
to give them prestige.
But the poor intelligent father
cuItivates the manners and morals
cf his boys, and takes-like the
Republican voter in Kentucky
the "slim chance" of victory.
AS every person seeks compan-
ionship (even the animals seek it,
the "runner" for the saloon has
but little trouble in alluring these
poor young men into the den OF
damnation, the saloon.
Once in the saloon they are
made to feel that their company
is appreciated. They are com
plimented on their personal ap.
pearance, and the selection of their
clothes, and are fiattered by the
saloon-keeper until they think
him great fellow, and in a short
time their pocket books and lives
are both at the mercy of the sa-
loon-keeper.
Saloon. keepers as class are
CLUSTERS" and they all have
drummers. Many of these drum
mers are old sots without money
or friends, who were once drum
med themselves, by an older sol
when they were young. Now
they drum ANONYMOUSLY, and
without contract or compensation
save an occasional drink.
The saloon, unlike society, is
wide open to all comes, and
when one is denied admittance
to the social circle, he knows thai
no candidate is ever blackballed
at a saloon.
Teach the women to bring the
young people into some kind of q
fold where they will be sheltered
protected and armored against The
attacks of those treacherOus leecbes
the drummers for the saloons.
The population of Kentucky,
like the most southern states, il
composed largely of Negroes, and
they as class, drink, and if every
white man now living in the state
of Kentucky were void of any APP
petite for whisky the saloon
keepers could still do a lucrative
business selling to the blacks, and
their hustling ability would soon
enable them to do considerable
business among the whites.
Why not "gather from the hill
side and rally from the glen,' and
fight the terrible foe with any and
all the weapons at command!
The blacks We're used to fight
a foe far less dangerous than the
one against whom the Prohibition
party has declared war. Then
why not arm them with education
encouragement, advice, everything
but social and marital equality
and go among them with good
recruiting officers and enlist then
in the cause by comparing tho
one room hovel in which they live
surrounded by their ragged ill-fed
Children, to the mansion in which
the saloon-keeper lives, and the
extravaganza OF his family. Then
aid them in forming temperance
societies of their own, and when
once they are properly equipped
they will make good soldiers.
Let the Prohibitionists send Out
missionaries, as it We're, to con-
vert the heather. What is more
heathenish than to be a whisky
soaked debauchee, or a witness
to the awful wrong and not at
tempt its arrest.
Don't fight the saloon-keeper
He deserves some credit for being
brave enough 20 indulge in so haz
ardous business, and for being
business man enough to make it 4
success.
Make the fight after the plan
through which the Christian re-
ligion is disseminated. Take
something better to the poor de-
luded worshippers of Bacchus.