Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-16
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The Blade wants $4,000. 90 to
Reduce its Subscription
Price 10 SlOO.

-an,, @.fsusreceived an elegant
lon article from H Augusta
HUa ofGeorgia. 1t discusses
the question of prostitutes, and
ought to appear at once. right on
the heels of the sickly stuff that
Prof. Nelson wrote in reply-or
quasi reply-to Rev. McGarvey;
but 80 many things are ahead Of
it. that it will appear only when
it is somewhat out of date.
IF the Prohibitionists and
Woman Suffragists and moralists
of this state will furnish the
money to run a first class paper
in size, and amount of matter in it,
can make paper that will beat
the New Yoru Voice, and 1 wont
do anything but write just enough
to keep them stirred up; and gen.
tlemen and ladies from all over
the United States will furnish me
the material for it. without charge,
because they want to help the
cause.
1 want but $5,OOO.OO and 1
want you to have your own treas
urer and keep your money in his
hands, and simply pay the actual
expenses of the paper. 1 would
like for you to pay me $4,000 a
month, now and $500 a month
which is the most l ever got for
newspaper writing when you
think you can afford it. Or 1
will do it without one single cent
of pay, if you say the proceeds of
the paper will not justify it.
1 have all the printing outfit
that / want except a mailing ma
chine that costs about $1,000, and
l will furnish this in addition to
my labor.
I have to watch my farm to
make a living for my family and
myself, and 1 can not do that and
attend to the business part of my
paper, and the literary part, and
the correspondence, that it ia-'
wolves, all at the same time.
I need somebody to attend to
the business and mechanical part
of it for me.
The price of my paper is the
draw back on it. It is the only
one in the United States that
charges more than a dollar.
1 can run it as l am now doing
and charge $500 for well-to-do
people and $100 for poor peo-
pie, and:get along with it, and ex-
pect to do so. Such gentlemen as
Prof. deRoode and DR.. Coleman
cay / ought to charge-the frt
says $4.00 and the latter $500 for
it. That's all nice and compli-
mentary, and gentlemen of their
means would pay that for it; but
there are the great masses of the
people who can not pay that
much.
Rev. Cutler, of Richmond, Va,
as you have seen, regrets that the
Blade has not ten thousand
readers; and yet you have lately
seen that a gentleman right here
in Kentucky took ten Prohibition
papers and had just for the first
time seen the Blade a few days
before, and was delighted with it,
and wrote me a complimentary
letter sending me the money for
it.
I can give you the names of
the decent Democrats who have
said they would rather have the
Blade than all the other papers in
Lexington put together.
One farmer who is a poor man,
and never has voted anything but
the Democratic ticket in his life
told me he would rather pay SIS.
a year for the Blade than to get
the Cincinnati Enquirer for 81 90.
That the Blade has made more
Prohibition voters you know be-
cause / have printed their names
in the Blade to that effect.
Lexington is the citadel of the
whisky influence of the world TO-
day. l do not say it as any boast
but l say it because the business
interest of the Prohibition party
make it advisable that 1 should
do, and / come as near thanking
God for it as / ever do for any
thing, but the Spartan handful O
Prohibitionists who have stood by
the Blade, have the liquor traffi'
in Lexington on the hip now
and are simply bound to doon it
if the Prohibition party from al
orer the United States but princi
pally from Kentucky, help m
through the Blade, to say wha
these Lexington Prohibitionist
want me to say.
It's a mighty good sign that W
are getting in our work when yo
see these old whisky voting poll
ticians wanting to kill me, an
the Lexington Press and the Lex
ington Transcript trying thei
level best to instigate them to d
80. Killing me would not Sc
Prohibition back any, but me