Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13

rlghC In the middle OF Cne Town q
! short time ago, indicated that the
! blind tigers were too well fed to
be driven out"
In allusion to the same matter
the Glasgow Times speaks as
follows:
GA mass,.meeting of the citizens
of Barren county will be held at
the court house, here, next Nom
day, to discuss the advisability of
calling an election for the purpose
of voting on the question of pro-
hibiting the manufacture an sale Of
ardent spirits in the county. The
question, we hear, is being freely |
and fully agitated in all parts of T
the county, and large crowd will
likely be on hand to give express
sion to their views concerning the
matter"
While of course all Prohibi- I
tionists know there never was a
"Prohibition law" in any part Of
Kentucky, and-> they all regard
"local option" as amounting to i
nothing, and are continually tell
ing the people so; and while it is
in the interest of Prohibition that
the people of Glasgow should see
that ''local option don't OPP" there
is every indication that the
Courier Journal is, in the interest |
of liquor and Democracy, the polit-
ical Siamese twins of Kentucky, /
distorting fact to make it operate /
against Prohibition. Is
Any man who would have the
cheek to select as his bosom
friend, champion, and adviser, al
man who is not only a distiller l
but the prince of distillers, to]
bring with him to Lexington on
an affair of the greatest Importance
to the state, about the time that
that distiller's peer and confrere in
business seemed liable to he put in
the penitentiary for an attempt, :
real or alleged, to blow up rival :
distillery with dynamite, is, in my :
humble judgment such a man ash
would be glad to have an oppor-
tunity to publish that item about s,
Glasgow, in the interest of the &
liquor business, without taking =
any pains to find out whether or &
not it was correct. z
1t is hardly possible that any
man of any practical sense who
knows Glasgow as well as Mr. i
Waterson must know it, and as
well as / know it, who live hun
dred miles further from it than
Mr.. Waterson does, could believ
it possible that there Was m g
the town short time ago.. -
Think l can produce from my el
old letters an article written for b
the Blue Grass Blade by popular tt
editor of the Blue 81
Grass Region, and which l only Il
declined to publish because it was te
too long for my paper, in which he
sets down Mr.. Waterson as gam m
bier and drunkard. b
Waterson is regarded by the m
Democrats of this state as a little re
tin God, and no small part of his nj
1 believe to be attribu- y
table to the fact that he is high
fellow well met, with whisky
soaks, and that his paper is for
sale to such a man as John Ather-
ton just as the Lexington Tran
script has editorially admitted, y y
under the duress of evidence, that y
It is for sale to such a man as Hull "
=
| do not believe that the real n
moral animus of the Courier
Journal is at all higher than that T
of the Lexington Transcript.
l believe its editorial columns4s{
are for sale to the liquor men just
as are those of the Transcript, and
the only difference is in the c
amount that has to be paid for
each. fC
This attack upon Prohibition, B
by the Courier-Journal is good to
sign. Its policy has been to ig- A
more the existence of any such y
thing as a Prohibition. party in the lie
State of Kentucky, and to kill it
by the contempt of silence.
But it does not seem to be with
ering like Jonah's gourd, or the ..]
cursed fig tree, under the frown of
this Olympic Jupiter of Louisville,
and he now proposes to open his
ink charged batteries upon it, and
like every other man does who as
sails any great truth, begins by
telling what has every appearance c
of being a round unvarnished lie.
| do not read Mr.. Waterson's m
paper, but if friends to good morals "
will send me such extracts from it, a.
as they may see bearing upon this n
point, l shall set up with him. r,