Blue-grass blade., 1895-08-04

call those who, in obedience to hon.
est convictions, differ with him,
"liars, hypocrites,' etc in fact, if he
could restrain his temper, The Pull.
pit might, without danger of tarn.
ishing and embittering its pure
pages with the spleen which is eject.
ed with his thought and spread
with his pen throughout his effus.
ions, invite him to a candid discus.
sion of the subject so dear to his
heart, of which he holds himself
armed with the above mentioned
Blade, as champion, ready to dc
battle even, as the cherubims OF
yore waved their flaming swords in
defense of Eden.
"Men who talk and write agains,
Prohibition are exactly like the
preachers in one respect. They
know they have the great majority
of the people on their side anyway
aNd that therefore they don't have
q talk good sense: so that they
Just bang away, and say anything
that will suit the great unwashed
hoodlum masses, and the infidel ed
itors, just like the Christian preach
ers, don't care damn whether or
rot there is any sense in what they
say, just SO it goes"
What kind of talk is it that
pleases the "unwashed hoodlum
masses?' 1t is exactly the kind of
talk that Mr.. Moore "bangs away
with in this very article, one liber-
ally bestowed with the language
and expressions common to the
hoodlum, plenty of the "damns,"
"durns," etc, interspersed with
metaphors and figures drawn in
characters common to hoodlum-
dom. An unchecked, unrestrain-
ed, bubbling, boiling, steaming and
| might say singing overflow of
the passions, the meaner passions,
those of anger, spite, revenge, NAL
ice and intolerance. For such does
the hoodlum and the tough long.
Most ably, whether intentionally or
not, does Mr.. Moore satisfy that
longing.
Here is what my critic seems to
regard as the most offensive portion
of my article:
"EducatiOn we NAV need. but il
is an education that will lead to
temperance. We can not legislate
morals. We cannot make men
good. We can not make them
temperate. We can only show
them the superiority of morality
over vice. We can distinguish for
them good and evil. showing the
superiority of one over the other
We can point out the benefits of
temperance and show them how to
avoid excesses and thus aid them
in making themselves moral, good
and temperate, this being the only
method by which these results are
satisfactorily and permanently OBJ
tanned. To prohibit is to create an
appetite for, an itch for, that prohi-
bited. To say thou shalt not is
to provoke the Il will Morals
may be evoked by persuation and
but by force never"
After quoting this, Mr.. Moore
asks: ''If this is a sample of the
talk we are to get from free think
er, what are we to expect from the
slave thinker|
This is queer question. 1t is
by the very article of
which is is a competent part. We
might search long and diligently
through all the bulls and encycli-
Gals issued by Catholicism since the
day of its inception; we might ex-
anime all the literature of Protes-
tantism from the days of Luther
down to the indictment, which is
suing from religious intolerance
and spite, placed Mr.. Moore behind
the bars OF Kentucky Jail, and we
could not find better example or
\ better production of mind en-
'laved to prejudiced than his own
md this, an article, the production
If it.
"The very same Protestant gospel
'lingers that at the next election
will walk up and vote arm in arm
With the Catholic gin singer, is
ust rascal and liar and hypocrite
enough to use this editorial from
his infidel magazine to show that
nfidels are friends to the liquor
BUSINESS" says Mr.. Moore.
AS to how the gospel slingers'
nay vote in Kentucky, / know lit
lie and care less; but this do know,
hat the man who "twists
his editorial from this infidel edi-
or" into anything similar to an
.pology for the liquor traffic or into
tending to draw Intidelity
nto sympathy with the liquor bus
ness is, to reverse his own battery,
s big and bold a "rascal and liar
nd hypOcrite" as ever penned a