Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-02-07
one of the inalienablc rights of
frecmen.
Railroads are the original crea

management that would be dele
terious to itself or to anybody
else, just as a man would have a
right to charge All inordinate rent
for his house or to destroy it ell
tirely if he preferred.
Some such minor objection
some of us may have tc swallow
in a coalition with the Alliance
men, but if they accept our view
of Prohibition without any COM
promise we may afford to make
some concession upon extraneous
issues on the broad principle that
we will secure the greatest good
to the greatest number by secur-
ing Prohibition.
The question naturally arises
with which side in the division
will the Kentucky Alliance peo-
pie go!
Itace prejudice does not exist
in politics in Kentucky, while
the interests of our people are
equally divided between the
North and the South and the
prejudices of our people arc for
the South.
There will therefore probably
be a division among the Alliance
people of Kentucky, aud part
OF them will coalesce with the
Prohibitionists upon the same
terms that the Western Alliance
people do.
In the coalition the Prohibition
party will take precedence upon
the ground OF its superior age and
of its thorough organization.
The rock upon which there is
the greatest danger that we will
bre ak will be the naming of the
coalesced party. The New York
Voice in alludlng to this says of
the name sit is easily changed"
b. 1 think it of the most radical
importance that we cling to the
lssa6i1gS =tfg1Sxn s1SS6 l0f
mise our fundamental principle
as long as we maintain that name,
and we may do it under any other
name.
In all the utterances of the New
York Voice that is the first SEN
timent in it to which l had to
dissent.
We must hold to the name
Prohibition until the thing that
we want to prohibit has been most
etfectually prohibited, and then
it will sweetly fall into innocuous
dcsuetude for want of oil to feed
the flame, just as the name Abo-
lition went out when the thing it
was abolished.
For myself, even after that, |
must admit a sort of sentimental
for the old name, but
after that, aud not before, l am
willing to hear argument on the
advisability of changing the name.
Two hundred thousand of the
finest women in America are
pledged to the support of PrOhi-
bition, and they are the "power
behind the throne in all cultured
society.
The Prohibition cause has al
ready existed twice as long as
any other third party ex-
cept Abolition ever did, and it
has done this with no more ap-
proach to schism or rupture than
the difference of opinion about
Woman Suffrage and that has
simply been the occasion of put
ting a pleasant seasoning of Attic
salt with onr discussions. With
the press of both the old parties
against it and with no political
machinery of its own, and with
out a single act inconsistent with
the character of the highest style
of Christian gentlemen, it has
grown from 9,678 in 1880, to
249, ,945 that were counted in for
Clinton b. Fisk in 1888, even
after the count was misrepre-
sented by Democrats and Repub,
licans all over the United States
as we know it to have been here
in Lexington.
We have simply to stand firm
on our position aud the Northern
wing of the Alliance will come to
us, and the Southern wing will
60 back to its allegiance to Dem,
Ocracy.
The Northern wing coming to
us will weaken Rcpublicanisnl,
while the Southern wing going
to Democracy will strengthen
Democracy; then reinforced Dem
ocracy win crush decimated Re
publicanism, and then crushed
Republicanism will come to Pro-
hibition; then the combine OF
Republicanism, Western Alliance