Blue-grass blade., 1894-04-01
Dear Miss Claw.

Dear Miss Clay.
deter to no man in the world i'll my
gallantry to women, and bow my head
respectfully and reverently to your fiat;
hut do not believe that woman, who,
like YOU, has defied the criticism of
your own sex as we'll as mine, for the
sake of truth and justice and morals
and human happiness. as you and mu-
tually understand these, will cut off,
from the right of self defense, me whom
YOU have been willing so to compliment
in letter which brings to me, mingled
with its roses, thorns that pierce me to
the heart
IT, after all the contumely. derision,
abuse and persecution that ! have un-
dergone. as the almost lone masculine
champion of the Causes that you have
so ably propagated and defended. may
not look to You for sympathy and sup
port, NAV not. like the dazed Peter. ask
ITO whom shall go?"
To dismiss the business feature OF
your letter will say that YOU have paid
for the Blade in advance, and that there
is, on my books, a balance subject to
YOUR order. Your name has been taken
from my list, and only ask your in
diligence to read this my defense in the
marked copy" send you.
THE dated tag on the papers, or It's
equivalent will appear as soon as ] can
get my mailing list into type.
The columns of newspaper like the
Blade do not afford scope for the dis
cussion of SO broad subject as our diff
erence of opinion about religion, ever
were l assured that it would be the
most acceptable reading to my friend:
and patrons.
The fact that your father was, as the
opponent of slavery, the greatest here
that Kentucky ever produced, and thai
he has lately written most radically
infidel article for the Illustrated Ken
tuckian, it seems to me should some
what soften your feeling toward me
though you and must alike regret tha
he has never had any sympathy eithe
for Prohibition or Woman Suffrage.
NY only answer to you will be state
ment of some practical facts, which, il
my hum e judgment, show your atti
tude tow wa! me to be wrong, and dam
aging to the causes that YOU and hav,
made ourselves equally conspicuous b,
defending against the immense odds o
popular sentiment.
The last issue of my paper was com
posed almost entirely of letters from
persons of various shades of religion
and political faiths. written me all abou
the same time, some time since. and b,
persons in various parts of the United
States. in answer to my "Encyclica
Letter" One of these letters was writ
ten by Mr.. l.. H. Grober, of CovingtOr
Nv. He knows nothing of ME eXcep
through my paper, and know nothing
of him except through his letter l re
publish the first part of his letter be
cause think it is specially relevant.
COvINGTON, KY, July 20, 9S.
Charles c. Moore, Esq.
Dear Sir-I am in receipt of your favo
of the 22nd instant In reply to you
query, how like your paper, desire t
say that like it very much, and admir-
your style, although am not i'll sym
pathy with some of your doctrines; par
iicularly Woman Suffrage and Prohibi
ton
In my humble opion, if the cause O
Prohibition ever triumphs, it will b
through Woman Suffrage. OF cours
this is what you are trying to brinl
about.
But suppose you establish Woman
Suffrage; you will find that the onl
women who will take any active inter
est in politics are those simple-Ininded
deluded creatures Of the church-going
psalm-singing kind, who will, after the,
succeed in crushing the liquor traffic
and with determined preachers to Leaf
them on, next turn their attention t
Freethinkers, Infdels and Atheists, an,
| venture to predict that the Editor o
the blue Grass Blade" would find tn
B. G. region so uncomfortable that In
would be. glad to find refuge in SOM
wicked beer drinking city, like Cincin
natl, for instance.
! don't think the wives of mechanics
laborers and working men generally
would have time, or inclination to neg
lect their household duties and becom,
politicians This business would be lief
to their more fortunate sisters; thOs,
whose circumstances enable them to liv,
without toll or drudgery; the latter class
you know, are the main support o
churches and preachers meaning tn,
Protestant denominations.
BY advocating Prohibition and Woman
Suffrage think YOU are furnishing you
enemies with weapons for your owl
destruction"
While we of Kentucky know you a.
am orator and writer to he a woman o
exceptional intellect, this gentleman
who perhaps does not know you woule
indiscriminately blend you with "thOst
simple minded, deluded creatures of the
church going, psalm singing kind. who
with determined preachers to lead then
on. will next turn their attention tt
thinkers, Infdels and Atheists
;nOw AS well as l, that of the wO
10 went to church last Sunday
Ell who went to show their East
IS to one who went to Learn
nth which to bless human
w, and everybody knows
4ple-minded, deluded Great
church-going, psalm -singini
those who have succeeded tt
Aaron and Hur to hold W
k.te hands of the soldiers o
rn church militant.
Ots woman like you, to oppose MI
Wf4york as Woman Suffragist, ! an
in myx see the force i'll Mr.. Grober
bound tg that am furnishing the stic'
reasonis my own head.
TO Dreaming, for the sake OF argument
Assurur differing religious opinions
that in ight and that l am wrong, yo'
Won are have not forgotten the fable o