Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-09

vase all tHc worse IOr AoXlnXtOu
Democracy, and therefore better
for Prohibition.
In Georgetown we presented
the same pledge to Reverends
Dudle,, Cody, Moore, and Wal
ton, the first three being Baptists
and the last a Presbyterian. The
first is the President of the COL
lege here, and the second pastor
Of the Baptist church.
None of them would sign it, and
none of them were at the Prohi-
bition address made in the court
house here few evenings since,
by Prof. Rucker, the leading
Baptist of the Bluegrass region.
These gentleman have personally
shown me every civilty, and since
my coming here have called at
my house to gee me. But these
are the men, that Prohibition and
civilization, and enlightenment,
and morals and Christianity have
to fight, and John Yellman is
going to help US to fight them;
and, by the gods, we will do it. If
we don't beat them civilization is
a failure. .
There is not a saloon-keeper in
Georgetown that will not read
what l am now writing, and
smile approvingly when they see
what these Reverend gentlemen
have done, and these gentlemen
know they will do so. These sa-
loon-keepers are too smart to 60
to professed followers of the meek
and lowly Nazarene, and applaud
them for what they have done
That would be making he "Un.
godly league between the church
and saloon" entirely too plain.
Probably ABOUT: the time this
appears in the Blade there will also
appear an article written by 6
Lexington infdel whose identity
is unknown to me, and which
cut out of "The Truth Seeker" {
paper run in the interest, no
merely of scientific Rationalism
but of such repulsively gross op
position the|Christianity that ever
l have lately had to express my
reputation of it. And yet, 70
all these good Christian people
say to the contrary, I am an in
} fidel.
This infidel article defend
Woman Suffrage, and shows tina
Ingersoll does the same thing
All those four Reverend gentle
men put together have not tn
; genius to write that Lexington
mans article; and can it be pos
sible that they think that tina
Lexington man and l. can no
see through their gauzy disguise
Why, such a religion as tina
would be joke to us, if it were no
: tor the direful consequences of j
to humanity. They are the me
: that run the distilleries and tn
saloons. and the blossom-nOse
devils that stand behind the bar
are simply their agents.
When those gentleman go
! vote for President of the Unite
States in '92, they will stand sid
by side-heart to heart and shob VI
der to shoulder-in full felloF
ship and political sympathy, wit
!, every saloon keeper in this towr
, and with every old whisky wrec
/. that stands around these street
waiting for somebody to tire,
him.
One of these preachers told m
that he would not vote for Prob
. bition because we are for Woma
Suffrage. Another one told nj
|; that when he was fourteen veal
!. old leading temperance ma
! had stolen a hundred bushels {
wheat from his (the preacher
father, and on that account he ha
: said he would never vote tor Pr
. hibition. A member of his churc
here is frequently put in tn
watch house for being drunl
Q --Just where you see tn,
long black mark my son hande
me letter. 1t had $500 in
and was from Mrs. Nield, a Chri
3 tan woman whose speeches on Il
. on the stump elected Mr.. Curry ,
: a PrOhibitionist to the Kentuck
' Legislature. Mr.. Curry is Pre-
t byterian and has lately sent m
his second $500. If I had
S choose between old John Calvi
a and the devil 1 would pitch u
heads and tails for it; and yet
: kitten that is not nine days oil
2 can see that in my wrestle wit
: the religion of these four Georg
L town Reverends. this Prohibitic
a Christian lady and gentleman al
. giving me "both under hollis
u Ladies may not understand VIII
o that means, but anybody who ev'
: was a strong and vigorous be
s knows it.
Il Under those circumstances
= am simply certain to do,0n the
:. Georgetown preachers.
!. know enough of men to kno
r that they will reflect upon Il
spectacle of the only man in Kel
lucky who has ever written {
> infdel book, working against Il
7 liquor traffic that is supported b
the very lowest class Of CathOl
!, Irish, infdel Dutch, Baptist an
Presbyterian paeachers and Bal
fist College President.
o And the best class of Cathol
Q Irish are going to help me figl
these Baptist and Presbyteris
a preachers, for only a day or tw
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