Blue-grass blade., 1895-08-04

the Chicago Champion, the largest liq-
uor paper in America, and the New
York Truth Seeker one of the largest
infidel papers in Americe, have all writ
ten things about me, and under these
circumstances will try to stand up un-
der the modification of the fact that
you have only recently heard about me.
reckon IL is safe calculation to say
that ten times as many people have
heard aboat Tine as have heard about
you, and that hundred times as many
people have said of me that was honest
and intelligent, just as you done, as have
said it Of you. But If having been heard
Of proves anything, the Devil has been
heard Of by a million times as many peo-
pie as you and together have been. So
what was the point of you saying that
you had never heard of me, until not
long ago, except to "belittle" me, as you
specially avow was not your purpose,
though you could see, just as anybody
else can see that that was your only pur-
pose.
never heard Of your paper until you,
or somebody, sent me a copy of it about
the time you mentioned, but I never
would have thought oe offering that fact
as any credit to me, or to allude to it ex-
cept for the purpose of "belittling" you.
But 1t does seem to me that if with your
magazine, that has been published three
or four times as long as mine, you had
been considered by the Christians suf-
ficiently formidable to have you put in
Jail twice, besides divers and sundry
damned outrages" that have been per-
petrated against me, resulting in divers
publications of these facts all over the
United States, that would have heard
of you before I did.
It is a saying that Eve have to go
away from home to hear the news How
did you, away off in Texas that we re-
gard as the jumping off place, and of
which Phil Sheridan said that if he
"owned hell and Texas he would rent
out Texas and live in hell"--how, I say,
did you in that far off land Of billiards
and cowboys, find out that people had
quit paying any attention to me-" and
how does this statement compare with
the facts that you publish connecting
me with having been the means of in
Producing to the world, Miss May L.
Collins, today the most remarkable inf.
del in America, nineteen year old girl
who, in debate in my paper, is defeat
ing one of the most cultured clergymer
in Kentucky; and how do you reconcile
this statement about my being ignored
with the fact that Mrs. Henry, Ken
lucky Prohibitionist that you say yo,
would vote for, is friend and CORES
pondent of my paper, and with the furth
err fact that the Chicago Freethough
Magazine which, with the Boston Inves
tigatcr, is one of the best two infde
publications in America, if not in tn
world, has lately published of ME one o
the most eulogistic articles ever pub
lished about any infdel?
You talk too much with your mouth
old gentleman; for want you to under
stand that AM talking all this time t.
the senior editor of the Pulpit.
I have made more sacrifices for Pro
hibition and infdelity than any othel
man that lives in the world.
That your boy inexperienced in life
should have thought me a proper sub
ject for his first effort in "polemics," i:
perhaps pardonable in him, or in any
one lacking in experience and maturity
but that vou should have endorsed hi:
style of personal abuse of me, for what
according to his own showing, sait
against class of editors, is unpardona
BILE in a man of your years.
A nian in barber shop called out t.
the head barber "Send some one her
that knows how to shave me; this bo,
don't know anything about it +" The heaC
barber answered: "That boy never shaw
ed anybody before, but he's got to leari
on somebody
think that both in barber shops ant
in newspaper shops some discretion
should be exercised in the selection o
the victims for the boys to learn on, an,
I think it exceedingly unbecoming il
you to have selected man of such mer
it as you attribute to me as the subjec
for your boys adverse criticism, that il
characterized by that diarrhea of word
and constipation of ideas that you woult
probably find in the backwoods of sucl
place as Texas.
don't much blame the boy. Like
another Phaeton inflated with the ide,
of having been entrusted with the reins
during his fathers illness-in which i'll
ness, by the way, he had my sympathie'
the boy has forgotten the maxim,
"Paree stimulus, eteye Ioris,
A stage direction of which the core 1.
Don't use the whip, they are tickleisf
things, but whatever you do hold on t.
the strings"
Or If your boy Is not so up on Latin
as he seems to be on English, l will ex-
plain to him that that means,
Don't be rash, but spare your lash,
Or some other fellow will settle your