Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31
Another Dislressing Instance
0f the Work Of Kentucky
Whisky.

vNOiiu 10 Ia tCiSeiNC anu hiCh0,
and his sweet wife and sweet and
bright and beautiful boy and girl
are dear to the hearts of my family
and myself.
would never mention it ex-
cept that l want to do good to
others by 80 doing, and make this
case strike home to his rela-
tives and friends and mine, who
are Christian people who vote for
the liquor traffic by voting for the
Democratic party in this state,
and at whose door lies the respon-
sibility of the ruin of this man.
Before the election last August
/ personally begged some of the
relatives of this fallen man, to
vote with the Prohibition party.
They are the most punctilious
observers of the forms of the con-
ventional religion, and are good
citizens, except that by their votes
for the Democratic party in this
state, they uphold and encourage
this atrocious, infamous, damna-
BILE, damned and damning liquor
infamy.
Their main reply to me was to
laugh, and tell me that l was an
-infdel, and one of them said he
thought he would vote with the
Prohibition party when. it looked
like it was "strong enough to do
anything" but for the present he
did not want to "throw his vote
away, by voting for party that
stood no show to be elected"
They are not laughing to-day
like they were.
The man who has fallen victim
to this national sin, was the
cashier of q beautiful bank that
had been organized and built es-
pecially for him, and which for
ten years he has managed with
signal success and competency.
He is the son of man who was
one of the leaders in the Christian
church, who died in old age, and
who has been instanced thousands
of times as a model for young
men. The son is an exceedingly
handsome man, has received a
college education, was the pride of
the patrons of his bank; and when
I took a dinner with him in his
beautiful rooms in the bank build
ing not long since, in the most
reverential manner he bowed his
head and thanked God for his
daily bread.
The directors of the bank have
been il the habit of having occa-
sionally, different intoxicating
drinks in the bank, at their meet
ings.
The cashier did not drink with
them, but it now develops that for
the last two-years he has been
drinking, and it is understood
that repeated absences from his
bank while he was in other cities,
was for the purpose of drinking
whisky.
Now he has gone: abandoned
a wife and children that were de-
vStsd-t to him, nobody among his
friends know where he is, and
these directors who voted for
whisky and set it before him, have
elected another cashier.
1 am sorry for that man and
pity him. The appetite that
would make him throw away all
that he has and become an out
cast must be fearful.
But the people who excite my
contempt and arouse my indigna-
ton, until what I feel would not
be proper to put in print, are the
near friends and relatives of that
man who are also my friends and
relatives, who not having this ac-
cursed thirst for liquor them
selves, and claiming to be Chris
tians will, from year, to year march
up to the polls and perpetuate this
liquor infamy by voting with the
Democratic party in this state
for nc reason in the world except
that a lot of old political whisky
bloats and rakes, and another lot
of hireling editors want them tc
do 80, to give Offices to those old
sots and libertines, and put
money, more unhallowed than thai
that was paid to Judas, into the
pockets of set of editors who
know how to do nothing on tn,
devils earth but to howl for De.
mocracy, and occasionally prin,
little lying sneers against decen
people who are working for Pro
hibition.
1 suppose / come nearer being
a simon-pure heather that is al
wool and a yard wide, than an,
man in the state of Kentucky.
am the only man in the state tina
know of who brags on being |
heather in public print, and dom
care q durn who knows it.
To me, Jesus Christ and Zoroas
ter, Confucius and Buddha, Soc.
rates. Gautama, Sachi Ammoun
and Appolonius of Tyana, are al
great and good alike except tina
the first stands at the head, ant
has, more than all the others
blessed the age and country il
which | live; but, if to keep vi
the liquor traffic be a part o
Christianity, and these men WIN
vote to ruin and crush and breal
the hearts of that dear swee
woman and her children who hav'
been heard to pray for the return
of their fatber-I say if such a
these be Christians, I don't wan
any Christianity in mine, and tn
Buddists in India are right VIII,
to-day are translating the writing
of Ingersoll into their languag
to beat this introduction of Chris
tianity and rum into their country