Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-01-31
I Can't Tell How They Arc Go.
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1Can't Tell How They Arc Ga
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With all my experience il
writing newspapers | can neve
: tell how my readers are going Il
, take what I say.
No newspaper that | have
written gave more uneasiness tc
my home than the one of week
before last, and 1 came into thu
: city pretty blue in anticipation Of
its effect, and | believe it has been
endorsed by more people than
any that / have ever written.
The whole tenor of the paper
was that religion and politics
should be blended, and it seems
to me that nearly all good people
are beginning to see It that way.
Old politicians that have been
talking politics from the business
point of view merely, have begun
to see that there's business in
good morals, and that this State
and this city are suffering
financial damage from the repu-
tation that has gone abroad that
is traceable to the whisky infu-
ence that is being exerted here.
There is almost a universal de-
mand here among all the moral
and religious people that our city
government should all be remod.
eled. The day has been when
such men as M. G. johnson and
James o. Harrison filled the
offices of this city-men who
could have commanded admira-
ton upon the floor of the Senate
Chamber of the United States.
The relatives and friends of
such gentlemen as these are here
now, and it is CALLING to them to
see what kind of people are over
us now.
Nobody blames these inferior
people for accepting the offices
that they see they have the power
to gain simply by demanding
them. 1t is only what people Of
their class and of higher classes
do everywhere and always. The
responsibility of this Justly rests
upon some gentlemen of high
standing, who connive at this, or
encourage it under false notions
about keeping their old party
politics in city affairs. There is
general feeling here that when
the last finishing touch is put to
the material advantages of the
city by completing the very
handsome and expensive streets
made of flint brick, the next thing
to be done will be to overhaul
and remodel the city government.
The idea of trying to make
this a manufacturing city is all
wrong. We do not want to offer
any special inducements for other
manufactures to come here.
The Deuber watch factory that
we tried to get, has collapsed at
Covington, and would probably
have been a source of loss to our
people.
The demand for manufacturing
towns is abundantly supplied else
where, but there is a demand for
a city in the West that shall be a
place of residence and education
al institutions.
The city now enjoys just such
a reputation as would make it, by
good management, a place for
wealthy and cultivated people to
come and live and educate their
children.
The literary and oratorical rep
utation of our city has gone every
where over America, and the nat.
ural advantages of the country
surrounding the city are such as
that it is known to thousands Of
people who never saw it, as
Goods country"
When our fine streets now in
process of construction are COM
pleted more natural advantages
will have been secured than at
tach to any city in America per-
haps, as a place OF residence.
But what can we do while
these uneducated people are in
the Council and offices of our city?
You moral and cultivated gen
tlemen who are the peers of any
people on earth, go and enquire
who these men are who are con-
trolling the destinies of this city,
and conceive to yourself how you
would feel to have some of them