Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-02

saying "but there u no rights n
aw or society for the license m an
If he is a native to the man ner
born.
We hope in a few more yea RS to
be able truthfully to say There are
no rights in law or society for the
license man, but I think it would
be a "little previous" to make that
remark around Lexington yet
while, as we have a Mayor, Leg
Lieutenant Governor and
five Councilmen and Aldermen all
running saloons in full blast, as
''license men,"
Col. Miller's depreciation of
"Christian hypocrisy"-some of
which 1 am bound to admit I
have noticed, and perhaps alluded
to myself would indicate the
Colonel to be a man of deep re-
ligious convictions. If this be
the case, it is unfortunate that he
had not been informed of this dis
tinguished recognition of the
"rights in law and society, for
the license man" in Lexington, as
gainsayers are thereby led to i'm
pugn the Colonel's candor.
The Colonel puts the climactic
touch on a wild burst of law-lov.
ing enthusiasm by deposing
thusly. e
"And yet, in this day of refine
ment, and in the midst of the
civilized people in the world we
are confronted with a class OF
people who are not only encourag-
ing outlawry, but are actually de-
Tending it through the columns
of your paper, and say that they
prefer to have the sale of spirits
in the hands of the illegal, rather
than the legal vender. This is, !
am happy to say, not the feeling
Of the whole community, but only
a few people who are not in a fair
position to really know what is
best for the community"
Whatever may be true of his
rhetoric, the department of logic
seems to have been neglected in
the Colonel's education, unless,
under the guise of being a saloon
keeper, he is really a blatant
Prohibitionist. The Colonel has
failed to see the oft printed &C
counts of the reacting Of a boomer
dng, in the hands of an unskillful
manipulation.
Supposing the "class Of people,
to whom he refers to be Prohibi-
tlonists, he has given the readers
of the Record, a perfectly fair
statement of the position of the
Prohibitionists-a thing that they
do not often get from anything but
Prohibition papers.
The Colonel, in speaking OF
Prohibitionists says "that they
prefer to have the sale of spirits
in the hands of the illegal, rather
than the legal venders."
If he had done it with kodak
he could not have made a better
picture of an intelligent Prohibi-
ZIONIST.
If the "sale of spirits has to be
sin the hands, of any kind of a
"vender," we say by all means let
it be an "illegal vender;" for then
we stand a good show to snatch
him up and send him to the peni-
tentiary for vending it, just as we
now do a "moonshiner" for distil-
ling it. I am sorry to have to ad-
NIT there is great truth in the
Colonel's statement that noao "only
few people" concur withe us in
this eminently rational and moral
view of the liquor business, but
think that by voting time in '9s
there will be more of us; in '9e
there will be enough of us to lei
the Colonel see we are going to
get it in for him, and when the
new century opens, eight years
from now, if God allows him and
me to cumber the earth until that
time, I am pretty certain that
unless he quits his present calling,
there will be enough of US to put
him in the penitentiary, put
striped clothes on him, and put
him to make his living in a more
decent way than he is:.now doing
And in the language of "Old
Hickory" "By the eternal" We
will do it.
But now a word to the Prohi-
bitionists around Lancaster anC
Stanford.
It's a disgrace thet some one o.
you has to write me an anonymous
letter asking me to write a reply
to the nonsense of that ignorant
man.
You ought to have your owr
paper 80 that you could put youl
heel on the head of thai
which is "more subtil thar
any beast of the field" and crusf
it, when in any public journal, il
dares thus to rear it's horrid front
to offend every sense of decency
an d good order.
There is not a saloon-keepel
nor distiller in Lexington wht
would dare to write an article il
any paper in this town, in defense
of his business house; and to show
you that what l say is true, | dar'
any one of them to try to defen(
it and will promise to publish il
in the Blade if he wants me.
They know it's an infamy, and
neither the Mayor, Lieutenant
Governor of the state, nor Stat,
Legislator, all actively engaged il
soII;po damnotiOn hv tho dram