Blue-grass blade., 1894-04-01

and Balm, and see what you Christians
and infdels are going to do about it.
occupy a sort of middle position in this
country between Christians and inidels,
and can talk to one side Just as we'll as
the other. was born that way, and will
never get over it.
When was a college boy not only
stole chickens, but great big fat turkey
gobblers, and had young preachers to
help me eat them, and many time
have been tempted to ask one Of them to
"say grace" before eating them. Twas
forcibly struck by Horace's line, and
Saxe's travesty; I'm medic fntissimUs
ibis, As the Judge remarked to a rowdy
Scotchman who went to quod between
two watchmen."
Ikuow that Mr.. Ingalls, has said that
in American politics the decalogue and
the golden rule" are an "irridescent
dream"-not Gin it." SO to speak. While
for part of the decalogue l have no re-
gard. the other part pertains to the fun
damental principles of our civil law, and
in this special Congressional contest the
words Thou shalt not commit adultery"
good, sound Prohibition doctrine
obtain peculiar importance.
AS for the golden rule" it is the
basal principle of my religion and my
politics.
Wipe from Billy Breckinridge's record
his whole Pollard hyphenation, and
some other similar hyphenations in his
career that have not been so prominently
ventilated, and can any modern Ration
alist vote for such a man? do not care
if politician is Christian. My own
man, George w. Balm, is Methodist
against whose thorough orthodoxy
have never heard an insinuation. But
Billy Breckenridge, born and reared in a
religious sect, the tenets of which have
more than any others, offended the sense
of justice and reason of all Rationalists
volunteers to step to the front to oppose
his religious brother, DIR. Briggs, who
made heroic effort to rid his sect OF
such imputations as the roasting of bs bies
in hell, and other Presbyterian concep.
tions that they dug up some where with
fossils of the protozoic period.
While Billy was fighting Briggs in the
East, he found time to take from his
duties as Congressman to fly off to the
West, with Lyman Abbott the infidel
successor to the infidel Beecher's pulpit
and make speeches to defeat Prohibition
in some Western Stases, by defending
the ''orginal package" scheme of the gin.
singers, which scheme was in direct
violation of the principle of States
rights, and for the defense of which prin.
ciple Breckinridge had gotten glory as a
Confederate soldier. In this matter the
Supreme Court decided against Billy
but the newspapers published in the in
terest of the liquor traffic eulogised him
| to the skies for his efforts in their behalf
10 Blackburn, also a Presbyterian, and
until his recent conversion, by Moody
to temperance, the most distinguished
whisky guzzler of any man in America
would no more have made those speeche.
against Briggs in the East, and for whis
ky i'll the West, than he would have got
ten himself mixed up in the Pollard mas
tiness.
If Rationalism means anything worthy
of our regard it means good morals, ant
there is no good reason for any organ
lied effort in that line, other than a pur
pose to put public and private moral:
on plane higher than anything thai
orthodox Christianity has done, or pro
poses to do. Without fattery to my
self think may safely say that an
the recognized high priest of Rational
/ ioiu III lhO uioNCSC VI hCutuShy, dhu
am not willing to pose in the attitude
of one who simply cOmbats the vagarie:
of Moses and the prophets of the Old ant
New Testaments
AS have repetedly told you, honol
Ingersoll for what he has done thinl
he has been hero, and that the worlt
is wiser and better that he has lived
Though he is not at all in touch with IN,
in my Prohibition and Woman Suffrag,
work, the fact that he has encouraged
men to do their own thinking has large
ly accounted for the existence of tn,
Prohibition party. The letters that pub
lished in the last issue of the BLADE, from
people from all over the United States
the majority of them being Prohibition
lists, by their disposition to put the goot
deeds and good life of the Christian
ethics above the mere dogmatic faith O
Christianity, show in these people a ten
dency to RatiOnalism, and the fact is tha
the disciples of Ingersoll, have in prac
tice gone further than he would dare go
because he has had an eye single to fam
and ducats.
No thoroughly orthodox" Christian
can be a Prohibitionist. According t
the New Testament Jesus made wine an,
drank wine, and told other people t
drink it; and "the disciple is not abov
his master"
Then, as have said, if We wipe fror
the record of Billy Breckinridge hi
whole personal impurity, no Rationalis
can be true to his principles and vote fo
that man; not that he has been a be
lever in the dognas and superstition