Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1897-10-03

the Sermon on the Mount is the
prattle OF child. Epictetus says
that no man should boast Of his
morals, and he is right. But am
compelled, in order to defence Of
myself and OF my position, TO allude
to ny record. to rebut any insinua-
tiop or suspicion that in what say,
under this head, the wish is father
to the thought.
No man Of any good standing, In
the community where am best
known, will tell you that he has any
reason TO suspect that my morals
arefuot as good as those OF any
woThn or man in America, and I
am Mc only man In Lexington, OF
whNnI know, that has ever made
any effort to save the prostitutes Of
t,a. town.
! was good looking, healthy,
popular, wealthy society man, and
while was all OF these / became a
preacher, and | have resisted temp
tations with women compared with
when the little episode between
Jesus and the Devil on the noun
tain didn : amount to q row OF pins.
/ married woman not knowing
whether she owned dollar in the
world, and for the thirty years OF
our married life no man has ever
lived more faithful to his marriage
VOWS, and, today, when years are
coming upon both OF us, the burrows
whiFh care and years have put in
her face are even more beautiful to
me lhan the dimples and smiles of
her youth.
The man who says that now /
write and think as do, for any i'm
moral purpose, is an idiot or a
damned liar.
My paper says, at its head, ed
tied by a Heather in the Interest OF
Good Morals.
| Que Of the most important ques-
tions In the domain OF morals is a
ma, er that comes in DR.. Wilson s
der rtment, and | believe be knows
aooss IL, and that he has strong
convictions about II. and when be
touched on the subject l hoped we
were going to hear something hon
est and plain about IL, but every
thing he said had a string TO II, and
when be had finished his display OF
verbal pyrotschnics we did not
know any more .han when he began.
/ do not know about 1t. II l did
! would tell you so quick and so plain
that 1t would make your head swim.
know that there is lot of rot
tenness in matrimony, and that in
what Is called high life, the rule
is almost without exception that
women sell their bodies, at the
church affairs, for money, or for the
titles OF no account Counts, with no
higher motives than actuate the
professional women OF the bagnios,
aud know that as a result, "soci-
ETY." is largely nothing but gilded
hell.
Just as started to write this l
picked up the last issue of the Cou-
rier-Journal. The first thing that
attracted my attention was the
picture OF a man. His name was
Augustus Cook. He had been ar
rested for attempting to kill his
wife and baby and its nurse. The
explanation was jealousy"
That is very common occurrence
and getting to be more so. Under
the present arrangemet man owns
his wife just as he may own a COW,
and he may kill her, with impunity
for doing just what he does with
impunity.
This all might be even worse I'M
der any kind OF free love arrange
ment, but l want to get all the infor-
nation that | can, on the subject,
and | want US to proceed intelligent
ly just as we try to do in other mat
tiers.
We are simply acting like a lot OF
towards and fools in doing as we are
now doinp-each man and woman
waiting with sham mock modesty
to see what some body else will say.
want women and men to write
me plainly about this matter. i
would prefer that they should sign
their names, but ! will publish any
communication, even without any
name. II the communication has any
merit. | would prefer when no name
is given that the writer should say
whether it is woman or man.