Blue-grass blade., 1891-11-07

At the ueNll urSt.
A Liquor Dealer that Likes the
Blade.
RICHMOND, KY, Sept. 2 1891.
Mr.. c. c. Moore, Lexington, Ky.
DEAR SIR:-Please find inclosed
one dollar in payment for subscrip-
ton for your valuable paper which
l have read and admire very
much.
Respectfully yours,
w. d. WEATHERFGRD.
The letter head upon which the
above is written says, "W. d.
Weatherford, Dealer in fine liquors
and cigars, First street, Rich
mond, KY"
That is a nice gentlemauly note,
and neatly written. Two saloon
keepers in Lexington have lately
paid for the Blade, and lady told
me the other day that a saloon
keeper borrowed her Blade every
week. and read everything in it.
l want to try to remember that
l have some people in tie liquor
business who are readers Of my
paper, and see if 1 can not say
something that will influence
them to quit their business and
join the Prohibition party and
help lis.
One of our fines; Prohibition
speakers now is 10 Hess. A few
years ago he was a New York sa-
loon-keeper and prize fighter, and
he was a terror. Nov there is
not a man among us that We all
love any more, and crowds of
people 90 to hear him. 1t seems
to me that anybody would think
that 10 Hess is a nicer man now
when he is a Prohibition worker,
and loved by thousands of good
men and women all over the
United States, than he used to be
when he made his living selling
liquor.
L wish some of these Kentucky
liquor dealers and on-keepers
who are kind enough to read my
paper, and to send me the money
for it, as some good christian
people do not do, would take a
whole day soon and devote it to
thinking about quitting the liquor
business. that makes so much
misery and unhappiness in this
state, and see if they can not de
termine to quit right square of
and help us in the Prohibition
work.
There is a grand opening fol
some Kentucky saloon-kefper to
make himself happy and dp good
to his country. by doing this.
If any man will think about il
while he will know thdJ ihes.
great Democratic aud Republican
orators who are unfolding the
liquor curse are not happt men
1 believe if we could SIC into
their hearts we would be surprised
to see how utterly miserable they
are.
No man can be happy who
lives daily in violation of his con-
science.
Tread lately, in the Christian
Standard, the life of Father
Matthew, the Irish Catholic priest
who, about fifty years ago, wen
through this country in the inter
est of the temperance cause. Il
was one Of the most marvellous
careers | ever read about. HI
was almost an angelic character
l do not call Catholic priest.
Father, like these other news
paper editors do, simply because
they are priests but it comes JUS
as natural to me to say Fathe1
Matthew as it does to any Catholic
in the world.
He was good man, and did &
great work and l revere him and
love him, and it does not make
any difference to me if he did be
lieve that st Patrick drove all the
snakes out Of Ireland.
In reading the account of Father
Matthew, l found that Jefferson
Davis, the great high priest of all
modern Democracy, was the only
man in the United States who
showed Father Matthew any dis
respect. l had once had a great
veneration for Mr.. Davis. but
when he wrote that letter to Texas,
that, with Roger @. Mills, beat
the Prohib ton move in Texas,
sold out all my stock in him, and
the other day when, for the first
time, | heard of his treatment OF
Father Matthew l said, for the first
time in my life, that l had found
out that l had been mistaken in
my estimate of Jefferson Davis.
l would not give one man like
Father Matthew for a regiment
like Mr.. Davis. And yet While l,
a Protestant hereto, am loving
and praising Father Matthew,
nearly every Irish Catholic IN the
country is identified with the
party whose greatest hero and
idol is Jefferson Davis, who dis
tinguished himself by his opposi
ton to this great and good Catho-
lie beneiactOr.
Truly politics makes strange
bed fellows. Judge JEWELS
famous apothegm is correct.
1t is not necessary that some
Kentucky saloon keeper should
be so talented in order that he
may do good by turning to the
Prohibition work. 1t requires
moral courage more than any