Blue-grass blade., 1894-04-01

Very respectfully yours,
LAURA CLAY.
Dear Miss Clav
| deter to no man in the world i'll my
gallantry to women. and bow NV 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
Won have been willing so to compliment
in letter which brings to me, mingled
with its roses, thorns that pierce me to
the heart.
II, 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. l may
not look to Won for sympathy and sup
port. NAV I not like the dazed Peter. ask
ITO whom shall go'"
To dismiss the business feature of
your letter will say that Won 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 l only ask your in
dulgence to read this my defense in the
marked copy" send you.
THE dated tag on the papers" or its
equivalent will appear as soon as ! can
get my mailing list into type.
The columns of a newspaper like the
Blade do not afford scope for the dis
cussion of SO broad subject as our diff
erence of opinion about religion, even
were l assured that it would be the
most acceptable reading to my friends
and patrons.
The fact that YOUR father was, as the
opponent of slavery, the greatest hero
that Kentucky ever produced, and that
he has lately written a most radically
infidel article for the Illustrated Ken-
tuckian, il seems to me should some
what soften your feeling toward me;
though you and must alike regret that
he has never had any sympathy either
for Prohibition or Woman Suffrage.
NY only answer to You will be state
ment of some practical facts, which, in
my hum e Judgment, show your atti-
tude toWa. me to be wrong, and dam
aging to the causes that YOU and have
made ourselves equally conspicuous by
defending against the immense odds of
popular sentiment.
The last issue of my paper was COM
posed almost entirely of letters from
persons of various shades of religious
and political faiths. written me all about
the same time, some time since. and by
persons in various parts of the United
States. i'll answer to nv "Encyclical
Letter" One of these letters was writ
ten by Mr. l.. H. Grober, Of CovingtOn,
Nv. He knows nothing of ME except
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, 9,.
Charles c. Moore, Esq
Dear Sir-I am in receipt of your favor
of the 22nd instant In reply to your
query, how like your paper, desire to
say that like it very much, and admire
your style. although | am not i'll SYM
pathy with some of your doctrines; par
ticularly Woman Suffrage and Prohibi-
ton.
In my humble opion, if the cause OF
Prohibition ever triumphs, il will be
through Woman Suffrage. OF course
this is what you are trying to bring
about
But suppose you establish Woman
Suffrage; you will find that the only
women who will take any active inter
est in politics are those simple-minded,
deluded creatures Of the church-going,
psalm-singing kind, who will, after they
succeed in crushing the liquor traffic,
and with determined preachers to lead
them on, next turn their attention to
Freethinkers, Infdels and Atheists, and
| venture to predict that the Editor OF
the blue Grass Blade" would find the
B. G.. region so uncomfortable that he
would be. glad to find refuge in some
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 become
politicians. This business would be left
to their more fortunate sisters; those
whose circumstances enable them to live
without toll or drudgery; the latter class,
you know, are the main support of
churches and preachers meaning the
Protestant denominations.
By advocating Prohibition and Woman
Suffrage think you are furnishing your
enemies with weapons for your own
destruction"
While we of Kentucky know YOU as
an orator and writer to be a woman of
exceptional intellect, this gentleman
who perhaps does not know you would
indiscrininately blend you with 'those
simple-minded. deluded creatures of the
church-going, psalm singing kind. who
with determined preachers to lead them
on. will next turn their attention to
thinkers, Infidels and Atheists"
Know as well as |, that of the wO
10 went to church last Sunday,
en- who went to show their East
IS to one who went to learn
18th which to bless human
w, and everybody knows,
4ple-minded, deluded Great
-church-going, psalm-singing
those who have succeeded to
Aaron and Hur to hold up
Ate hands Of the soldiers Of
OF. srn church militant.
Wa woman like you, to oppose me
in my work as Woman Suffragist, | am
bound to see the force i'll Mr. Grober's
reasoning that am furnishing the stick
To break my own head.
Assuming, for the sake of argument,
that in cur differing religious opinions
xou are right and that / am wrong, YOU