Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-21

es of Cincinnati against the sa-
looms, which | hope the churches
of Lexington will at once emulate.
OF about $50 churches in the |
city all but eleven are engaged in
the work. Two thousand con-
verts have been made and the
ministers say they will keep it up
for five years if paoeseary.
/ do not know tb : det'ils of
their plans. but ii LAY able
symptom that the sAi1 NJ keepers
are said to be organize ppose
the crusade.
/ do not know he tie 'aloon
men can oppose these hurches,
unless they get sono of those
PREF cheers whose sermons they
report in the "Champic ~ anu
"South West" and star coun-
t Sass' revival T. or Of Ii,
The liquor preachers might
take up the story of changing
water int ! ae at Cana ~ Cali
lee, ard makeitpretty in .eresting
for tho other side.
Then ~rder the head of ''per-
sonal liberty" they might take
such texts as "For wi is ny
liberty judged of another mans
conscience"
To this the Prohibitionists
might reply, "Take heed lest by
any means this liberty of yours
become a stumbling block to
those that are weak
Thon the liquor man light re-
spond, $50 speak and so dcas they
that shall Tic judged ~ the law OF
liberty" and the temperance
people might reply, "Not using
your liberty for a cloak of mali
ciousness.
1t would be quite interesting if
the saloon men of Cincinnati
should get that Chicago Baptist
minister who has recently been
preaching against Prohibition, to
start in the Queen City a relig.
ious revival from the saloon
standpoint; and if they could get
our Representative to run over
from Washington and'give them
his theological opinions of "orig-
NAL packages" and "original
SIM" it would be good card tor
the saloon men.
OF course all Prohibitionists
and moralists of every shade
ought to welcome a church DEM
onstration, or any other kind OF
one, against the saloons, but if
we judge of the future by the
past, we may reasonably suppose
of the $4,000 converts" that these
churches are making. about 1900
will vote with the Democrats and
the Republicans just like they did
before.
There may be some little diff
ference in their praying, but their
voting will be about the same
old way.
Isuppose it is in Cincinnati as
it is in Lexington. The people
who manage things in Lexington
are practically all converts" to
Christianity. l suppose there is
not an infdel in Lexington who
approves OF how things are done
here.
Of those $50 preachers who are
conducting this great revival" in
Cincinnati, probably less than 80
will vote for the next Presiden-
tial candidate of the Prohibition
party.
A significant and discouraging
statement about the Cincinnati
revival is that it's influence is es-
pecial against the Sunday sa-
LOOM"
Whisky drunk on Monday
makes man just as drunk and as
dangerous citizen as if he drank
it on Sunday. About the only
difference that any Sunday clos
ing of saloons can amount to is
the difference between buying
one gallon late Saturday night
and buying eight pints on Sun
day.
This emphasizing the closing
on Sunday looks like the preach
ers only want to keep up the
show Of religion, and force the
people opatronize their churches
because they can't 60 anywhere
else, and thus increase their pa
tronage and revenues.
1t is temporising and compro-
missing, and as means of putting
down the saloon, probably does
more harm than good. The sa-
loon keepers of Lexington were
interviewed not long since by
Leader reporter, and the very
biggest, and therefore the most
damaging ones among them. said
that they preferred to close up
on Sunday, but they did not do
it because others kept open. A
religious revival in Cincinnati
that is trying to do with the sa-
looms the very things that the