Blue-grass blade., 1891-11-07

same fellows that go to church on
Sunday, and chew tobacco in
church and look straight at the
preacher and think about how the
big corn crop is going to affect
the price of hogs, march right up
to the polls. and with lot of old
whisky soaks with noses on them
like Rutabaga beets, vote for
whisky and hell and the devil.
And these men do this think
ing they are good Christians be-
cause they believe in Balaam's
jackass.
In their Judgment it does not
make any difference what Jesus
Christ said about doing good, but
anything that Balaam's jackass
said is all right, because they
have fellow feeling for the
jaskass that they do not have for
Jesus Christ.
But when Jesus talks about
Jonah going fishing and camp
ing out for three days inside OF a
whale then he is getting down to
a gospel that suits their compre-
hension, and they enjoy that; and
if Charley Moore and the Blue
Grass Blade do not believe that
fish story that's as good an argu
ment as they wan for voting for
whisky.
All of twenty out of twenty -one
so called Christians throughout
the United States are passing their
counterfeit religion on the world
as genuine Christianity, on no
other ground in the world than
that they beliece these cock-and-
bull stories. and the preachers are
encouraging them in it. because
that is the way to bring in. the
revenue.
1.-The New York Voice, the
national organ of the Prohibition
party, edited by two Christian
gentlemen, one of them a Metho-
dist minister, made me feel good
all over in spots as big as a circus
tent when it wrote that editorial
about the "Uugodly League be-
tween the Church and Saloon.
The Voice has got it just as bad
as | have, except that they "Polish
up the knocker of their big front
door, nicer than l do when they
go to tell about it.
1t is writing for a great big city
full of intelligent people who
know something about religion
and politics. / am writing fora
lot of backwoods roughs and
toughs who do not know any
thing except what they learn from
a lot of whisky soaked politicians
and little cross road Democratic
newspapers, whose editors do not
know anything on earth except to
whoop up Democracy.
There is not brains enough in
the whole editorial business in
Lexington to make one editor,
and they have not the moral cour-
age to use what little they have.
The man that does anything to
elevate these people around here
has got to talk to them in their
own language.
If [ were editing a paper in 40
enlightened Christianized country,
/ would never have any occasion
to descant on Balaam's jackass,
because the people would not be
lieve in him any more than / do.
l tell you Bro. Zachary. we
have got to broaden our religious
platform in this state before we do
any good with Prohibition here.
We are the most benighted re-
ligiously and consequently poIit-
icalIy, of any state in the union.
This, of all the states in the
union, is the one where Prohibi
ton has made the least progress.
Illinois, right adjoining us on
the North is forging ahead for
Prohibition and woman suffrage,
faster than almost any state in the
union.
Illinois produced Col. Ingersoll
and then it produced Helen M.
Gouger, one If our finest workers
for Prohibition and woman suf-
frage. l wrote my book, "The
Rational View" hoping that it
would be principally read by
Kentuckians, but a letter that |
have just received from Catlin &
Co., booksellers at jacksonville,
Illinois, informs me that there is
a demand for my book there, and
if ever l sent any notice of the
book to that city | do not know
it.
In Lexington however, the
only newspaper criticisms of my
book that have seen, were two.
one OF which was written by an
old bloated whisky soak and dirty
story teller. and blatant defender
of fish and jackass religion, and
the other one by young boy,
whose special genius as news
paper man is to tell the names OF
the dry goods in the ladies' ball
dresses.
Yet a few days ago, Kentucky
Mayor, who is a member in high
standing in the Christian church
aud whose pastor always votes for
whisky, sent "a man to Lexington
to hire buggy TO come out here
eight miles in the country and
beg me not to publish the fact
that he was drunk at a meeting OF
his city council lately. He sent a
Prohibitionist and paid his travel
ling expenses.
That Mayor has paid me ftr
the Blade, and | suppose thinks
that fact ought to protect him