Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-20

"Uncle Reu ben" had said that
as Prohibitio mist he belonged to
the only party tn 1t he could ask
Gods blessing upon.
This is literally true. There
are thousands of the best men,
woman and children in America,
who as earnestly ask God to bless
the Prohibition party as they ask
for any blessing on earth.
There are plenty of these in
Lexington and Fayette county.
But there is not a man or
woman in Fayette county who
would dare, in public, or at the
family altar, or in their private
devotions, to ask God to bless the
Democratic or Republican party.
They know that it will not do TO
take religion into that kind of
politics.
"Democrat" has not the cheek to
say that he would ask God to
bless the Democratic party, but,
as if it were a fitting answer to
"Uncle Reuben" he goes on to
show that the Bible teaching is in
favor of liquor. and in this he is
right. The Old Testament is
plain straight out for liquor on
the slow license" plan, and the
New Testament takes kind of a
''high license" view of it, and
never says a word for Prohibition.
"Democrat' like all other liquor
apologists emphasizes the
miracle" of the making of wine,
by Jesus, at Cana of Galilee.
That's square out in favor of the
brewers and distillers, and there
is no use kicking against it.
There's only one way to answer
that Cana story, and that is to say
lists a lie. The twisting and turn
ing, and squirming, and fidgeting,
and shenanegan, and lying, that
some Prohibitionists are doing to
get around that Cana racket, that
the liquor people are continually
throwing up to us, are precisely
the same that we accuse the
liquorites of when we get them
cornered; and, dog me if l am
going to take any part in that.
You have got to learn that the
fact that the Bible says that a
thing is so, does not make it SO.
The Bible all the way through,
Old and New Testaments, sane
tlons slavery, but slavery was just
as great an infamy, all the same,
as if the Bible had not sanctioned
it.
The Old Testament sanctioned
poligamy, and old Solomon. a
burned old billy goat, had a
thousand wives and 1 reckon at
least IA, 900 babies, and $50 acres
of catnip that he cut with "Buck-
eye" mower, and stacked up, to
make tea to keep them all quiet,
so he could sleep at night; and
yet these modern Christians
worried the life out of old Bro
Brigham Young-peace to his
ashes; for l recon he is burnt up
in hell by this time-because old
Bro, Young, Gf that is not a con-
tradiction in terms,) had only
two or three dozen wives, anu
may be $50 or 200 babies,
democrat" winds up as follows
81 concede the palm to no man
as being more in favor of true
temperance than l, and l am con
fident that the most radical in
temperate people are the Prohi-
bitionists. They are incorporate
in thought, in word and in ;tion
and frequently incorporate in the
use of alcoholic stimulants them.
selves. They are responsible fol-
making more liars, hypocrites
Pharisees and ratiOnalists than al
the rest of America combined"
Every word of that is a lie. 1,
is true that the work of the
christians" against Prohibition
is making many Rationalists. Al
L belong to that faith and order il
is not my funeral and don't cry
over it. Nary weep.
l will help out Prohibition just
so long as there is any show for it
But when Prohibitionists back the
infallibility of the Bible, and some
lying old Democrat gets away
with them, by showing the Bible
is for liquor, ] am not the kind Of
a doctor you want to send for, and
you need not send me any marked
copies to help you out; for the
thing cant be did, and there's nc
help for You.
The Democrat has got you
where the wool is short, and Pro.
hibitionists and Democrats may
have that picnic all to themselves
| aint in it.