Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-21

" nv VI " ASoNJ W. oesAAS
guns to defend the cause you are
advocating"
1 among others, abused Sam
Jones for saying he was ready to
take up his rifle, if it was the only
way to put down the whisky
traffic.
A bright little woman and her
husband, both of them Prohibi-
tionists, were talking to me on
the streets of Lexington the other
day. The lady said, "Brother
Moore, l have a boy just fifteen
years old, and so great is my
dread of these saloons, that 1 am
afraid any night if he stays out a
few minutes too late.
If any ealoon-keeper were to
sell liquor to my son. l believe l
would kill him."
Two of the most influential and
popular Lexington Democrats
have lately been indicted for SELL
ing liquor to minors, and not
very long since a Democrat who
drinks whisky and knows the sa-
looms told me ola saloon-keeper
in this town, who had deliberately
set about to ruin the young son of
a lady, by inviting the boy in and
giving him liquor, in order to
avenge himself on the lady who
was very abusive of all saloon
keepers.
It's coming as sure as you are
a foot high, and the woman are
going to bring it, because the men
are too cowardly.
Good women in Missouri have
twice recently marched ON saloons
with axes and implements and
destroyed them.
A few days since the women of
a town took rakes and hoes and
went around the town and tore
down the large advertising bill of
one of these "leg shows" that are
pasted all over Lexington, and pa
tronized by what is called our
"best society"
There is not a man in Ken
lucky with moral instincts any
higher than hog who does not
look at the saloon-keeper and his
business as Infamous.
Lately a drunken negro on a
train coming into Lexington,
pulled out his pistol in the ladies
car and fired at the conductor.
The ball struck a young lady from
our good society under the eye
and come out behind at the base
of the skull.
Comon sense would say that we
should not hold that liquor crazed
negro alone responsible for the
shooting of that young lady.
Of course he is no account and
ought to be kept at labor in the
penitentiary for the rest of his life.
But why excuse the saloon keeper
who sold that negro the whisky
that made him drunk? He ought
to be put in the penitentiary with
the negro; and the distiller who
made the whisky that'the saloon
keeper sold that negro ought to
be put in the penitentiary with
both of them.
That distiller and the saloon
keeper, knew even better than
that negro who drank the whisky,
that what they furnished was a
vile poison that was causing men
to commit all kinds of crimes
every day.
The law of this state requires
that a 'skull and bones" label
shall be put upon all poisons sold.
That distiller and saloon-keeper
both knew that they were selling
a poison thousand times more
fatal than all others combined,
and when crimes like this result
from it they ought to be punished
for it.
To avoid the difficulty of hav-
ing our ladies shot by drunken
negroes in the ladies cars, it is pro-
posed 10 have cars for the whites
and others for negroes.
1t is an unjust discrimination.
Drunken and indecent people,
white and black ought to be put
in a car by themselves, and
decent people regardless of any
other distinction, ought to ride
together in other cars.
Half the time that 1 ride on
trains 1 have to hunt for a seat,
even in the ladies car, where
some rufiian has not been splitting
tobacco juice on the floor. No
man who would spit tobacco juice
on a car floor, should be allowed
to ride on railroad except in a
hog car.
Lately 1 travelled in a car in
which there were ladies, when 1
was going to Niagara. There
were drunken white men who
talked indecently and smoked in
the car.
Had Hecter the "Black Knight"
a real negro, and a fine orator in
the Prohibition party been pres
ent, 1 should have enjoyed his
He is as black a man
as you often see, and used to be a
slave in Kentuckv.