Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1897-10-03
ABOUT THE
LETTERS
OF MRS. HENRY, JUDGE FE-
LAND AND p. g.
MOSIER,
AND MY COMMENTS ON THEM.
That Appear In This Issue OF the
Blade.

This is Sunday, September 10,
and the letters OF Mrs. Henry aud
Judge Feland aud p. G. Mosier, and
my comments on them that appear
in this issue OF the BLADE, were
written, rs the dates OF two of them
indicate, more than two months
ago.
My publisher has withheld their
publication, II | understand him,
because he thought my comments
were not proper matter for publica-
ton aud because he thought they
would damage the BLADE financial
ly, and he only consents TO publish
them, because | insist that he shall
do so, and he has agreed TO publish
my paper until December 10, 1897.
Any fair woman or man will
therefore see that the entire re-
sponsibility OF the publication of
what ] here say, and may say, rests
solely upon me, aud that my pub
Usher cannot fairly do otherwise
than continue to publish what |
may write, unless he now ceases 10
publish the BLADE, as have noti-
fed him that he may do il he desires
so to do.
do not see that he is any more
responsible for what goes in this
paper than is the man who rents
me the Office in which to print IL,
or the one who does the presswork,
or the firm that sells the paper on
which IL is printed, or the man who
sells the ink with which it is printed,
or the drayman who delivers II 10
the post Office when it is printed.
\ ask, in the name OF simple JUS
tice, that the entire responsibility
for what appears in this paper shall
be laid upon me, and ! say all this
purely at my own suggestion and
not at all by that OF my publisher.
have never given as deep and
serious generalization to anything
that have written for my paper,
as l have to what am here saying
and going to say.
There are probably many editors
in the world. who are smarter and
better and more scholarly than ! am,
and they may be just as conscien-
tious in their ideas Of editing a pa
per as / am. But, to the best OF my
knowledge and belief, mine is the
only newspaper in the whole world
the editor OF which dares to say what
he believes and what he does not be-
lieve absolutely regardless OF the
impression it may make on others,
and absolutely regardless of its bear
ing upon the financial interests OF
the paper.
think there ought TO be one news
paper OF that kind, aud mine is GO
ing to be that kind or not be at all.
am an Infidel and Prohibition
list, but there is not an lnfdel pa
per, or a Prohibition paper in the
world that l would be willing to
edit as IL Is now edited.
The Boston Investigator is the
most prominent Infidel paper in the
world. 1t does not take me more
than ten minutes to read all in 1t
that care to read, and l generally
Law it down disguised with the nam
by-pamby editorials that are scarce
ly more pronounced than the utter
ances of many preachers now draw
ing fine salaries in their pulpits,
and in some instances, some time
since, / have been indignant at SEN
timents in that paper apologizing
for the liquor traffic.
Other matter In the inVes1'sa.or
consists in long-winded articles
about old Bible yarns that are moth
ING but threshing OF old straw, and
Bob Ingersoll's old chcstnuts about
the mistakes of Moses" revamped
and dished out to us under new
names, until it makes me tired to
look at them, and as between niger
soil and Talmage, both out "for rev.
euue only, and both keeping back
what they know because they have
not in them the man meat to say IT,
il is nip and tuck which is the bigger
bore.