Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-01-31

' tocratic families IN this city. wh'
took interest in the starting o
The Blade the last time, asked o
me that would not do anythin.
: calculated to disparage two partic
ular men that he mentioned, be.
cause be said these men had beer
friends to him. They were both
saloon Keepers of the lowest social
order, but one had a great deal OF
money and the other was an oracle
among his class in politics.
Captain Treacy does not affirm
that ! have intrudcd ON domestic
privacy in my criticisms Of men
and things about this town, but
like number of other gentlemen
Of this city, he has kindly advised
me to discriminate between the
public and private morals of men.
! must acknowledge that ] can't
sec it, and Captain Trcacy will not
insist upon the distinction ifhc will
reflect while.
City Attorney Wardcr, Of Chat.
tanooga, lately went to a saloon
properly licensed by the United
States Government and by the city
and got drunk and started home.
There was no evidence that he ere
atcd any disturbance upon the pub.
lie streets, but when he got home
he murdered his son-in. law and
shot his own daughter. What
right has any newspaper to intrudc
upon the privacy of Judge War
der's home, and array that tragedy
in dramatic detail, and haunt it be-
fore the world to the detriment of
Judge Warder as politician and
office holder?
But if we decide that a newspa-
per had the right to print all these
private household affairs after the
deed was committed, can we con-
sistently say that no newspaper
would have been justified in pub
fishing in advance of the commits
sion of the crime, the fact that
Judge Warder, city official was
known to be in the habit of get
ting drunk and going home and
abusing his wife:
Certainly man of that animus
and of such habits could not have i
been discharging his duties to the
city, and the newspaper reporter
or editor who would have had the
courage to expose all that thing be-
fore Judge Warder committed the
murder is in my judgement, the
kind of man who should have
received the thanks of the people
But Lexington, just like Chatta-
nooga, doesn't see it that way.
The very highest citizens in it, said
to me when | essayed that policy,
you may stand ready with your
"pound of cure to be applied as
soon as the poison is administered,
but you must not intrude upon
domestic privacy with your "ounce
of preventive
Such men would not have inter-
fered with the personal liberty Of
Lily White to put arsenic in coffee,
but would have gone to the drug
gist to get antidotes for arsenic.
The destinies of this city lie in
the hands of a few men like Cap
tain Treacy, more than any others,
aud upon such men more than on
others in the city, therefore rests !
the obligation to try to crush this
liquor intamy.
He is a Catholic Irishman, who
has made a large fortune in an
honest and legitimate way. The
papers report that he is going to
build $4,000 house.
He came to this city poor boy,
worked among horses until he
knew the business, and is now one
of the largest dealers in horses.
He sends a cablegram of SYM
pathy to his cOuntrymen beyond
the sea in the late Parnell distur-
bance, but right here in his own
city, saloon Catholic Irishmen are
so Systematically robbiug the hon
est, good hearted, generous impul-
sive Irish Catholic laborefs on
railroads and turnpikes, and pub
lie works that they constitute a
serfdom and vassalage to the liquor
barons whose condition is as hope
less as the negroes of America or
Africa, the seris of Russia, the In
dams ofthe "Bad Lands" and i'm
mensely below that ofthe Heather
Chinee," who he has been taught
to hate, rs part of the Demo-
cratic policy.
This fact is recognized by the
highest Catholic authorities in the
world, and from Pope Leo down
they are urging all good and faith
full Catholics to oppose the liquor
iniquity, and are generally adopt
ing the Prohibition plan AS the
means of doing this.
The Prohibition party is the
only political party in America
that has ever cordially taken
Catholics into its bosom with no