Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

sny neighbors. One of them only
two days ago, while he was SO
drunk he almost fell out of his
market wagon while talking to me,
insisted that he was going to
bring me a lot of fine vegetables
just for friendship. There are
among my Irish neighbors some
poor young men, who are indus
trious and honest, and who take
good care of their widowed
mothers. for whom / have the
highest regard. while l have very
little for many rich and aristo-
cratic dudes who would look
down upon these poor young fel-
lows.
In one of these families, the
father of which used to shoe my
horses, there is young priest
who has been educated in Ger
many, at splendid institution,
and knows more than all the dudes
in Lexington put together.
True religion, true intelligence
and true civilization will recog-
nize the superiority of that young
priest to these aristocratic sap
heads who know nothing but the
ways of fashionable life, and who
are not worth the salt they eat.
But your Catholic Irish saloon
keeper City Councilman is a bad
citizen, and if something is not
done to squelch him and the inf
del Dutch nihilist brewer, this
country is gone to the bow-wows.
The Democrats are afraid of the
Catholic Irish saloon keeper, and
the Republicans are afraid of the
infidel Dutch brewer, and the
Catholic Irish whisky singer and
the in6del Dutch beer jerker are
in cahoot, and are having a picnic
in running this country.
You can find plenty of preach
ers that will read the prophet
Daniel and the book of Revela-
tons about red billy goats with
brass horns, and Bessemer steel
hoofs and nickel plated tails on
them, and say that means the
Catholic church, but you can't
find preacher in Lexington, nor
an editor nor a. politician who
will dare denounce the fact that
Catholic Irish saloon keepers have
demanded and received from cow
ardly and contemplate Protestant
Christians, falsely 80 called, sep
arate part of the public
school fund for the edu-
cation of their Catholic children,
because they do not want their
children to be religiously contain
mated by hearing the same things
in school that the rest of our chill
dren hear.
At the rate things are going in
Lexington to-day, in twenty five
years from now there will not be
q man who will dare to defend the
Protestant faith on the streets of
Lexington.
Any of these newspapers will
skin Bob Ingersoll and me for be-
ing infidels, and they will poke
fun at any of the Protestant
churches or Protestant preachers,
but there is not one of them that
will dare to open his cowardly
head against anything that any
priest says or does in the holy
Catholic church.
When they get good chance
they can be just as jolly at the ex-
pense of Protestant churches and
preachers as I am, but they all
draw the line at Catholicism.
When these editors 60 to one of
these churches with a high steeple
and q cross on it, and a plaster Of
Paris Saint Peter with the smoke
house keys under his arm, inside
of it, or when they meet one of
these fat priests, with his head
shaved and his shirt collar on hind
part before, you see a religious
reverence on these Protestant ink
singers that you never see at any
other time.
Stick it to them old Catholic
saloon-keeper. l enjoy it as much
as you do. The hair of the dog is
good for the bite.