Blue-grass blade., 1891-06-06


kill my dogs sometimes" said the
hunter. "What do you do for rat.
tie snake bites here"Y "Why, VIC
use chloratc of potash, and wear
thick lcggins like these, said the
hunter.
Here in Kentucky we have q
way of saying that in the North
where the people are fish .bloodcd
and phlegmatic they do not incline
to stimulants, but that the warm,
generous, impulsive, whole -soulcd
nature of the true Southron makes
it just at natural for him to drink
liquor as it is for duck to GO
barefooted. But the fact is that
while Kentucky is only separated
by a river from these Northern
cold bloods, Florida is the ex.
tremc limit of the South.
The explanation is that it il
simply lack of brains sad proper
home trimming among our people,
that makes them want liquor.
The aristOcratic young sap
heads OF our cities drink whlsky y
because they think it is smart,
aud because they do not know
enough to entertain themselves
intellectually, and the country
boys do it because they think the
town boys know it all.
There's many a young man
about here who drinks whisky as
a cloak for his ignorance aud stu
pidity.
lie has found out his lack OF
brains and education and Uses
whisky simply to disguise the
fact, by trying to convey the i'm
preston that he would be genius
it he did not have the fashionable
failing of tony society.
1t is here just as it is elsewhere.
When a young man has been
properly reared, and has proper
appreciation Of what constitutes
the dignity of manhood, he is, in
the Bluegrass region of Kentucky,
just what such men are elsewhere,
and is living a moral life, and does
not regard the drinking of whisky
as the proper thing for him.
When the respectable and in
telligent country element of our
people who have no reason to fear
the saloon aud distillery boycott,
assert the dignity of their family
standing and self respect, and
crush out this whisky drinking
element that has charge of the
politics of this state, It will be
just like it is in Florida. If men
here retain their tear of snakes,
either of the literal or jim jam va
riety, they will find that chloratc
OF potash ia as effectual as whisky,
and the corruscating scintillatiag-
sky scraping flights of Kentucky
genius, it will be found, can slake
its thirst at the natural fountains
of the earth, as the greatest heroes
of antiquity have done, and the
greatest of modern thinkers are
doing, and it will not be found
necessary to fill up on Kentucky
bust head in order 10 show the
immense difference between the
A per cent high protective tariff of
the Republicans and the ~ per
cent of low tariff for revenue only,
OF the Democrats.
There is one advantage however
to the Democrats in having both
the Democratic orator and his
audience pretty well filled with
whisky, that even as u defendcnt
of Prohibition l am bound to ad-
nit; aud that is that no thoroughly
sober man can see any difference
between the Democrats and the
Republicans.
The greatest issue before the
people is the liquor question, in
vOlving more OF finance and po-
litical competency and integrity
than all other issues put together,
and the two old parties are per-
fectly agreed upon that, the only
difference being that the Demo
Gratis are honest enough to admit
their devotion to the liquor trat-
fc, while the Republicans deny it,
and lie about it.
The next in importance is the
tariff question. On this point
they are SO near together that the
difference is merely nominal. The
most advanced thought of the
country is against any tariff and
it is forcing the Republicans down
aud down, while the Democrats,
who really want free trade and
have not the courage to say 1t,
are simply heading otrth Repub,
licans by keeping just ~ tar be-
low them as will keep the Re-
publicans from cutting under
them, while the Democrats will
keep just little nearer to the
prople, as the last Congressional
election showed, by keeping just
u little closer to free trade.
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