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Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-09
A Gathering Of the Clans in
Chicago.

CHICAGO, Dec. 10 Editorial
Correspondence The most in
teresting feature of the gathering
of Prohibitionists here this week
has been the lively competition
between different cities for the
next National Prohibition Con-
vention. 1t was something more
this year, than rivalry
among the Prohibitionists them
selves. The contest became semi
official, in which Boards of Trade,
Chambere of Commerce, and
Mayors took a hand in the way of
resolutions, guarantees, and let
tiers of invitation. st. Louis Lin
coin and Hartman were urged
the most earnestly, though there
was no lack of zeal in behalf of
Cleveland, Indianapolis, Cincin.
natl and Atlanta. Chicago, New
York and Baltimore kept digni-
fiedly out of the scramble, but let
their desires be known none the
less. St. Lonis won, partly be-
cause of location, partly because
of the satisfactory nature of her
guarantee to take care of all the
local expenses of the convention,
and partly because of persistent
effort on her behalf, several of her
citizens being present to aid the
Missouri members of the commit
tee, and about half a hundred
postal cards and letters from diff
ferent parts of the States having
flooded the committee in advo-
cacy of her claims on the very
day of the meeting. There was
very general satisfaction with the
result of the contest over the place,
but the date selected June 29)
gave considerable dissatisfaction,
that was not slow in expressing
itself. The consideration that
prevailed in the choice of such a
late date, was the hope of securing
some tactical advantage by hold
ing the convention after the other
parties had made their 'denomina-
tions and adopted their plat
forms.-New York Voice.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-09

sr6hibition, in It's columns, backed by
politloa, un.v.. - their supporters, and
the New York Daily Voice" viii go
be an established fact, and a mignty
factor, in state and national elections.
IL is this union of prohibition ele-
ments that the liquor politicians most
fear, and have been most active to pre-
vent. The state of Ohio is a radical
prohibition state. Thrice in the last
forty-one years, when the issue of pro-
hibition or license of the liquor traf-
fic was submitted to the direct vote
of our people, they declared for prohi.
bition.
Fortunately at this time, most of the
heads of the farmer and labor organ
nations are pronounced prohibtionists,
and in favor of all the reforms now de-
manded by the people with united
voice, but with divided vote.
The farmers and workingmen should
carry into their public assem- blies, their
organic pledges of hostility to the min
ions of the rum oligarchy. When the
red-coat delegates rom Boston ap-
preached the farmers convention on
Bunker Hill, they were welcomed only
with bloody hand, to hospitable
graves" for the farmers well knew
them as deadly enemies So the farm
ers of this day should recognize as their
mortal foes the red-handed city dele.
gate who comes to represent the blood
traffic, and claim seats in their open
conventions. The signs of the times
indicate that the people are eager to
unite for radical reforms of the govern
ment Away then, with the blunders
Of the past and let them serve only as
warning teachers for the future.
Brothers of the farm, the workshop,
the currency, the civil service and the
prohibition reforms, let us cease the
mad policy of mutual suicide, and of
fighting our best friends in aid of our
worst foes The presidential year Of
1892 is approaching with great OPP
portunity In its hands. if we will accept
It Let us call in our single columns
and scattered. conflicting forces, from
all political battlefelds, and mass them
in one grand forward movement for
near and certain victory
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-09
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
DRINK AND MORALITY.

4 Habit That Never Adds Anything to
Character.
Or. T. l.. Wright, in considering the
influence of alcohol on the moral con-
stitution of man, remarks:
1.-THE influence of alcohol on morals
is immediate. 1t is perceptible to OBJ
servation quickly after alcohol is taken
into the system; but it varies greatly,
both in kind and intensity, with the
stage of drinking.
I'm general terms it may be said
that no instance has been recorded
where the influence of alcohol upon a
good man, when carried to its full ex-
tent, has failed to faint his moral ma
ture. Nor has any instance ever been
known of a character so base, SO
bestial and inhuman, that alcohol
could not sink it still lower. 1t seems,
in fact, true, as far as the worlds ex-
perience extends that the depth of de-
pravity into which alcohol may plunge
the human soul has never yet been
sounded. In its position as wrecker
of good morals, alcohol stands proud
ly eminent Few things are SO bad as
to have no good in them; but, aside
from certain properties available in
therapeutics, alcohol seems in it's i'm
pressions on the human organism to be
singularly bad. In all its long and
dreary history it has never been known
to add anything whatever to a mans
real character for piety, or sympathy,
or love to his family, or kindness to
his fellow-man.
"Alcohol deadens the conscience OF
anyone who partakes of it, let his mo,
tives in drinking be what they may.
The casual drInker often partakes OF
alcohol without any clearly defined
purpose, certainly without the slightest
intent Of committing an unlawful act
Yet the poison affects him as it does
others; it paralyzes his conscience, the
acuteness of his sensibilities is blunted,
and he is peculiarly liable to be led
into improper and unlawful conduct.
The drinker is deprived of intellectual
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-09
lSO. 900 ACRES OF LAND
WANTED.

An Eastern Steamship and Col
onization Company have written
to the General Passenger and
Ticket Agent of the Queen &
Crescent Route, to find for them
a tract of land in either Kentucky
or Tennessee of about 10000
acres. The land is to be suitable
for truck farming, also for raising
corn, wheat, trees and shrubs, and
near enough to railroad to make
shipping facilities handy. Any
one having body of land suitable
for this purpose, will please CON-
municate with the undersigned,
giving price, terms, location, and
all particulars.
DIG. EDWARDS
G.. p. & T. A.
Cincinnati, o.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-09
THE TRAFFIC IN DRINK.
1t Causes an Untold Amount of Sunerin
in the World.

1t Causes an Untold Amount of Suffering
in the World.
We are confident that an immense
gain would be made to the temperance
cause in the near future if the subject
of total abstinence were pushed to the
front once more and presented in its
most effective light The cause will
make true and real progress just in pro-
portion as the number of total abstain
ers are increased. No degree of per-
manent success can be expected from
any temperance movement that does
not move on a total abstinence basis.
1t will not do now, if at any time, to
countenance any form or phase of the
traffic in intoxicating drink. The sew
erance from the liquor traffic must be
distinct and complete. There must be
no recognition of it anywhere, not
even at the communion table. In no
other way can this warfare against the
drink curse be prosecuted with vigor
and success. While this implies the
abandonment of some habits and GUS
toms which may appear harmless in
themselves to some Christian men, Il
should be borne in mind that the
present is critical time in the strug
gle with the liquor power. and Chris
tian men cannot afford to occupy Q
position where their influence and
example tend in any slight do
gree to weaken and embarras,
the temperance forces. 1t will hardly
be maintained by any reasonable per
son that any positive and tangible ben
Gifts, other than financial, accrue to in
dividuals or to communities from the
presence of the liquor traffic; consid'
cred al it's best it does nothing more
than minister to the appetites and
sensual pleasures of men. No reason
able person will 'sil to acknowledge
that a vast and undesirable amount
of positive and tangible evil does CONF
directly from the Liquor traffic. For
person to deny this would be to deny
the evidence of his own senses. This
being the case, why should not al
men who have any'interest in the well
being of their fellows deny themselves
| that which does them no actual good, II
| it does them no harm, but which to
their certain knowledge is tie means
OF bringing uo"h uP~n INC "h
around them flood of misery and
crime? More especially should they
consider the need and Importance OF
self-denial in day like this, when ex.
ample and influence counts for so
much in the desperate and critical
struggle with the liquor power. The
great multitude of protesting Christian
men who indulge in drink in mod
crate degree are the hope and the
strength of the liquor traffic to-day
Their influence and example taken to
gether are enough to throw the bal
ance of power on the side of the traf
fic Would that Christian men every
! where could see and understand THAI
Christian at Work.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-09

AS soon as l get Neal hitched
in to attend to the business of the
Blade I will get out that buck
skin edition that l have promised.
The edition paper will be printed
on buck skin, without any extra
charge, tor use in cases where
whole neighborhoods reads one
copy of the paper.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-09
EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL.
First Comes Exultation Then Dullnssa
and Despair.

First Comes Exultation Then Dizziness
and Despair.
Although the effects of alcohol are
familiar, it is well to recall them when
we would me asure the strength of the
tendency of excessive indulgence to be-
come a habit. The action of this
stimulant on the average human being
is first to fill him with serene and de-
lightful self-colnplacency. His feelings
and his faculties are for the moment
exalted into state of great activity
and buoyancy, SO that his language be-
comes enthusiastic and his converse
ton vivacious if not brilliant Grad
ually, however, if the indulgence be
continued, the senses become dulled, a
soft humming seems to fill the pauses
of the conversation and TO modify the
tones of the speaker, filmy haze OBJ
scures the vision. the head seems
lighter than usual, and the equilibrium
is disturbed. BY and by objects ap-
pear double. or fit confusedly before
the eyes; the exercise of Judgment
is suspended. the power of reticence is
annihilated, and the victim of drink
throws forth all that is within him in
unrestrained communicativeness; he
lecomes boisterous, ridiculous. and
sinks at length into a mere animal.
Every person and everything around
him, the houses, trees, even the earth
itself. seem drunken and unstable,
while in his own eyes he alone seems
sober, till at last the final stage is
reached, and he falls on the ground in
sensible-dead drunk, as it is called
an apoplectic state from which, after
profound slumber, he at last energies
exhausted, feverish, sick and giddy,
with ringing ears and violent head
ache.
1t has been discovered that the toxic
action of alcohol in large doses primar-
lily affects the cerebro lobes, after
which the other parts of the cerebro-
spinal system are consecutively in
volved. till in the stage of dead drunk
enness the only parts not invaded by
the benumbing paralysis are those au-
tomato centers in the medulla oblon-
gaia, which regulate and maintain the
circulation and respiration. Even
theseicenters are not wholly unaffect-
ed; the paralysis of these, as of the
othert sections, of the cerebro-spinal
SYSTEM, varies in its incompleteness
and ft times becomes complete, the
coma tof drunkenness terminating in
death. More usually the intoxicant il
gradually eliminated and the individ-
ual is restored to consciousness = q
consciousness disturbed, however, by
the secondary results of the agent he
has abused. In every case the stomach
suffers directly or indirectly through
the nervous system. Nutrition, con-
sequcntly, is interfe red with by the de-
fective ingestion of food as well as by
the NAL of that which is
ingested. To this cause, as well as to
the peculiar local action of the poison,
are due the various organic degenera-
tions which, in most instances, shorten
the drunkard's days.-Once Week
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-09
SOUND COMMON SENSE.
A Bright kentucky Womsn's Views on II
Prohibition Question.

Bright kentucky Womsn's Views on the
Prohibition Question.
The Versailles Clarion publishes a
woman's speech lately delivered in Lex.
ington and makes the following intro
ductory remarks
1.-THE following speech on Woman's
Suffrage was made by one of our
brightest Kentucky women at teach.
er's session of the Lexington Normal
school There is more good sound COM
mon sense in it than in all the speeches
made in congress in the last ten years. ="
The conclusion of the lady's speech is
as follows:
"Lastly-I would touch on what we
want to ballot for We want it to Sc
cure prohibition; make the law and put
into power men who will make prohi-
bition prohibit" Nearly all of us
have suffered somewhat from the curse
of intemperance. Many of us have suf.
fered terribly in the past, and some of
US dread the future. Our only hope is
prohibition. Moral suasion has been
tried thousands of years, and while it
has saved some it has failed with thou
oduuS vi OlhCTS III tllS ScN"
enty thousand men die every year from
drunkenness-thati is the statement the
temperance people make. and the
whisky men do not deny it We want
to stop this wholesale slaughter.
Men are so wrapped up in their bust
ness affairs that they do not stop to
think. and are unconscious of the grief
that looks at them from the eyes of
women all over our land We know
our own sorroMs We know whist IVA
want better thai any creature, no mat
ter how near and ds.---can know for
US A girl has lost a brother who was
shot down by Rdrunken man. she has
two other brothers going to ruin under
the power of a hereditary craving for
liquor; she wants prohibition that she
may save her brothers Men generally
do not care which way the battle
goes but throwing around her,
looking into her eyes, their
hearts throbbing with her heart,
il an army of women with hands raised
to God for vengeance, but weaponless.
These seventy Thousand men leave
every year thousands of women alone
to battle with the world for themselves
and their fathers and mothers of their
children. Now, a child needs two
parents; a mother can not be father
and mother both to her children; and I
ask which is best, for q mother to
leave her home for quarter of a day
once . year in order to deposit her vote
for laws and men who will make ii
easy to do right and hard to do wrong"
or to be away from home every day
and all day to win bread for those she
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-09
rhs yyav Its Tboueht. Rum.

Referring to the million agreement"
pledge proposed for prohibition votes.
the New Haven palladium says: Just
why any one should agree in advance to
support the devil if nominated does not
appear" Judging from its political
affiliations, it is not surprising that
''The Palladium" is unable to have any
other candidate in Connections
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-09
Will soon get out q buck skin
Edition.

LANCASTER, KY, Dec. "a, 81.
Please send me five or ten
copies of the Blade of Dec. 10Th.
l will scatter them as samples, or
will send you money if you will
send me bill. My own copy Of
that date is about worn out.
JOSEPH G. FRANK.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-09
How They do i'm "GOd's
Country"

When 1 was "the great apostle
to the Gentiles" of Levering's
Roasted Coffee, that very rich and
aristocratic Baltimore house, now
great Prohibitionists, put money
in my purse, and store clothes on
my person, and said unto me get
We upon railroads and steamboats,,
and 90 We into all the world and
proclaim unto a hard hearted aud
gain-saying generation, "Ho, every
one that thirsteth come ye unto
the Coffee"
And l gat me on railroads and
steamboats, and got.
Dropping Captain brakes
Chronicle style because it is moi
terse enough; when l was down
among the Southern states, and
in answer to the people, would
tell them that l came from the
Blue Grass Region of Kentucky
they would SO often remark "Tha1
is Gods country" that it got t.
be phenomenal to me.
II in answer to the question
whence l came, if l had replied
"From Gods country" they
would not have supposed L came
from heaven, as you may imagine
but would have understood that
came from the Blue Grass region
of Kentucky.
The great majority of tn
people down there would rathe
90 to "The Blue Grass Region
when they die. than to 60 t.
heaven.
In the sense that "God mad
the country and nen made tn
town." as Cowper Jaid and Byron
quotes from him, the Southron
are right in their estimate of Blue
grassdom. But in some of tn,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-24
STEVENSON.

"Who is this Stevenson?" was per-
haps the commonest question asked in
the crowd surrounding the NEWS bulle-
tin board containing the news of the
nomination. Indeed, the Democracy
seems to have sought in obscurity for q
candidate to sleep in Growers fat
shadow. Gray was known East and
West as a. governor OF Indiana,
Boies as the man who had made Iowa
on local issues doubtful State, Dickin
son az cabinet officer under the stuffed
one, Villas as another cabinet man and
an orator of great ability. Stevenson
most people had forgotten.
BY this time the public has succeeded
in placing Stevenson. His rather
curious front name aids the process of
recollection. For the remainder of the
campaign he stands fully identified as
Grover Cleveland's junior partner in as
disgraceful a piece of hypocrisy rs the
annals of political history yield.
Mr.. Cleveland was elected President
as n civil service reforiner. Then he in
vented offensive partisanship."
Under that fine phrase thousands of
faithful federal Officials were dismissed
without shadow of excuse.
We have had experience Of the mean
ing of offensive partisanship' in
RHODE ISLAND, where one Postmaster Of
long service and proved popularity was
removed because Republican meeting
was held in hall over the Postofiice
but without connection with it aud not
under his control /! There were other
examples as curious.
The tool Of Cleveland in these remoy.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-24
THE CONVENTIONS MASTERPIECE.

Yesterday afternoon when the rain
came down SO hard on the wigwam roof
that it drowned out even the eloquence
Of Rhea of Kentucky, whose State
wanted "her Democracy straight like
her whiskey," the delegates who were
not singing the baby song from wang"
were crowding about Bourke Cochran to
congratulate him ON his speech in Hills
behalf, which was pronounced "the
masterpiece of the convention"
Cochran by general consent shares
with Whitney the honors OF the week,
and what an inspiration in the coming
contest, what n trumpet call TO victory
must his endorsement of the Democratic
ticket prove! Gentlemen" he said, "we
will he loyal, but our experiences in this
body are apt TO convincs us that there
may be such ting as too much loyalty
for our personal comfort. 1t seems 10
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-24
FRANK MIR. RHEA.

Rhea of Kentucky is plain-spoken
citizen. In seconding the nomination
of Adlai E. Stevenson for the vice presi-
dency yesterday afternoon he said 81
support Illinois candidate because /
understand he is Democrat who be-
lieves that to the victor belong the
spoils, and / warrant the assertion that
if he be placed in this high position,
Mugwumps and Republicans will stand
no quarter at his hands,"
The Vice President hasn't large
amount of patronage at his disposal, so
that the spoilsmen would seem to have
embarrassed Cleveland purposely by
giving him such running mate with
ont any direct outlook for material ad-
vantage. No wonder that good Mug
wump the Boston Herald thinks "Gray
would have given more strength to the
ticket"
But Cleveland himself developed be-
fore his term was up into a very efficient
spokesman.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-24
NEW YORK AND INDIANA.

Whitelaw Reid voiced the sentiments
of New York Republicans when he said
yesterday of Cleveland's nomination |:
Republicans believe that they can
carry New York against Mr.. Cleveland.
Four years ago he was beaten in this
State by $4,000 majority. AT the same
time Republicans do not underrate Mr..
Cleveland. They recognize in him an
antagonist who will force them to exert
their full power to elect their ticket"
: President Harrison is the only Repub-
lican who has carried New York in
State or national elections in eleven
years. He whipped Cleveland in 1883
when the great god of the Mugwumps
was stronger than he is now, and when
Harrison himself was less strong. Da-
vid Bennett Hill was, the country over,
the Democracy's weakest candidate,
but in New York he was its strongest.
He might possibly have carried the En-
pire State whatever others he lost, but
Cleveland cannot do so. New York will
not drop like ripe plum, but it can be
had by effort; it will be Republican.
The Democracy has thrown away its
chance of Indiana. Four years ago
Cleveland showed Gray off the ticket.
Gray was for time resentful but for
gave. Yesterday Gray was showed off
again by the Cleveland managers. The
Hoosiers believed themselves to have
been bought with bargain. Their
thirty votes were delivered solid but the
price was not forthcoming. Treachery
is not to be forgiven second time.
Harrison's own State will be conceded
to him from this time forward by the
opposition.
New York and Indiana have been
marked out as the battle grounds of the
campaign. The Republicans have OBJ
vious advantages on both fields.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-24
THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL

The proposition to establish an indus
trial school and permanent exhibition of
the mechanical arts of the State is now
definitely before the public. The value
of such an institution can not for
moment be questioned. 1t will central
ize not only the results of the inventive
genius of the State, but will place those
results so plainly before all that
renewed efforts will be encouraged
in all departments of manufacture
The committee call attention to the fact
that "the manufactures of cotton, wool,
worsteds and silks, or other various
fibrous materials the use of chemicals
necessary to the arts of bleaching, dye
ing, printing, and the humorous pro-
cesses required in the finishing of fabrics,
as also the miscellaneous industries en-
gagged in the working of wood, stone,
iron, brass, copper, gold, silver, and
other various metals, materials and sub
stances in combination, are all depen-
dent upon the skill of the artizan and
the superior knowledge Of those i'm
trusted with the management and direc-
tion of the most important industrial
enterprises"
IF wisely managed" says Mr..
Thompson, ''the school which shall
shall give thorough instruction in these
branches will be the first and most i'm