Blue-grass blade., 1894-04-01
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and the sun tried to make him take it
OH.
fou don't often have all infidel to tell
you plainly OF the effect that a course
like yours has upon him.
1t makes me hate religion and drives
HE further from 1t.
The miraculous claims of Christianity
can not be sustained by cold logic and
demonstrations; and neither you nor
any preacher Ill Lexington will hazard
those claims. by an attempt to sustain
them, even with me unskilled i'll the
arts OF oratory, as an opponent before
a Lexington audience. There is then.
by the consensus OF the competent, left
for religion no support but sentiment
the conviction that. whether logically
tenable or not, 1t makes men and wo-
men purer and better, and more gentle
and patient and loving than others. But
to me You do not show these character
istics to anything like the extent that a
number OF lnhdel women have done.
With such men on my side, as Jefferson,
Franklin, Tyndail, Darwin, Herbert
Spencer, Huxley. Buckle and Draper,
and with such women as Madam de
Stael, Mrs. Ward of Robert Elsmere,"
and Helen NJ. Gardner, and with such
men on your side as Talmage, Sam
Jones, Drs. Ralnsford and Van de Water
and Billy breckenridge, YOU do not heSl-
tate SO to assume the infallibility OF
your position, and the fallability of
mine. that you cut me of from all dis
crustean trundle bed. stretch me, or saw
I Ott fhe demand tn SnIt
the standard that you can successfully
tage OF numbers OIL your side.
If might makes right You and should
alike most reverently retire from our
contest with the overwhelming numbers
that oppose our views OF Prohlbltion
and Equal Rights.
1 Al least nlne-terths OF the voters ol
Lexington are Christians, and yet the
strong tendency OF this city Is to throw
OIL the disguise by which the brothels
here are licensed uuder the name OF a
hne, and plainly and dehantly call this
alleged hne license as 1t really Is and
is intended to be.
Three Christian men here, one OF
hem being minister OF this town. and
he names OF all OF whom | am ready to
furnish you on demand, have argued
with me for the licensing of the bro
thels OF Lexington, Just as earnestly and
dogmatically as you defend your relig
lon
About the same time that ! got your
letter ordering discontinuance OF youi
paper, and adroitly stiking ME with an
IRON hand IN velvet glove, received
letter from man ordering discontin
uance OF his paper, the grievance against
me being, as III your case, the attitude
the Blue Grass Blade takes on religion:
questions. Like you he kindly and
Justly paid ne Tor the papers that went
to him and to his mother III a dIstan,
state That man has been my personal
friend, and ! have spoken kindly OF him
both when | was Democratic editor
and Prohlbltion editor. He Is a mem
Der OF the Short Street Baptist Church
III Lexington, and has recently become
the keeper OF a government whisk,
bonded warehouse, appointed by the
Presbyterian Internal and Internal Rev.
enue collector Shelby, who was ap
pointed by sweet William, my cousin
willie OF the silver tongue, and tn
Drazen cheek: ms same Shelby Is th'
son OF the noble grandsire who was thu
hrst Governor OF Kentucky, and he Il
also the daddy OF the feather-weigh
pugiiist That recently inquired IN that ca
Pacity as willie champion Ill TIT
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ms baptlst WHISKY storekeePer latei,
met me IN Lexington at tho corner
East Snort and North Limestone, and
IN language even more Jealous and en-
thuslastlc than that IN which You de
iend your rehgion, argued 70 me tina
f the orothels OF Lexington should be II
censed, and made tor the licensing o
the 6rotheis exactly the same argumen
that Is beinS made Tor the licensing o
the saloons; namely, that the saloon
; and the brothels are equally intended t
Sratify the appetites OF men that nave t
be grained either lawfully or unlawfully
, and that, OF course, II Is better that
should De done lawfully. A very veal
thy gentleman OF this city, who Is phy
!, sician and banker, and an active AM
prominent man III the Methodist church
made exactly the same argument 10 me
as we stood on the southeast corner Q
High and South Upper streets. A cler
gyman IN the Episcopal church III Lex
ington, with cross hanging around hi
neck, made exactly the same argumeI
r TO me IN the Jeweiry store OF Mr.. 4