Blue-grass blade., 1899-02-19

$ hardly be lair TO call IL writing.
AS for books and lectures common
ly imputed to Ingcrsoll, Hall say
they are all plsgiarisms.
Bot Hall patropizingly says TO In
gcrsoll I'VE are told that you are
graduate of Yale University" IT,
, the first time in all my life that
had ever heard that Ingersoll ha,
ever gotten the wbitewash Of an,
college wall on his back.
Another one Of the men that Bot
has been afraid to meet is CDR. " u
T. Sweeney. This "Doctor" Sween
ey Is Campbellite 80. D. I" who I,
the brother OF the Jack Sweeney
whom Che lash Of Nemesis has latcl,
thrasbed out OF the Campbellitt
church at Paris, disgraced by hi.
daughter, and damned by every
honest man in Kentucky for his
alliance with "Old Bourbon whisky
distil!ers TO imprison me.
When my grand father Stone fouu.
ded the Christian church they were
all Brethren the Brethren en-.
braclng the Sistren.
When | was ordained, though, by
rank outsiders, I was called Rever-
end, " was considered wrong to call
even an old preacher any more than
Elder" Finally they took on
Reverend" pretending to do IL un-
der protest, then they took on doc.
tor" and finally Reverend Doc
tor, and now Zack Sweeney, the
brother Of Jack Sweeney-their
name being horse disease "Dr. +"
Sweeney.
But ! am still ahead of any OF the
garv get many letters addressed
to the Right Reverend Charles @.
Moore and sometimes "Ex Rev..
contraction for Exceedingly Rever
end. Where does this Campbellite
preacher get that high sounding
title? Call him horse doctor"
Of the sweeney kind OF Hicken-
louper as 1t were--and / have no
kick to make, but Doctor OF Divin-
ity named zack Sweency--ye gods
where is your lightning that such
sacilegs can 70 unrebuked?.
This fellow Hall--this Decatur
link Of dog sausage that will squirm
when you whistle to 1t, an author
lied and ordained minister of the
gospel in a church in which such
gentleihen as Robert Graham and
Cha'le.l l.. Loos and John Augustus
WiIis'{ls are ministers, and in .aiHi1rSl
tie pc 5srt milhTan, Tor whom j
namd }pne of-my sons was a preach
er, glv&s as his literary opinion that
Ingeistbll's famous temperance
speech was purloined from. old DR..
Gum Family Physician. With
the sarhe ignorance or mendacity, or
both, Rthis Decatur theological
syringe could have said that Inger-
soils answer to Gladstone, or his
lecture on ''The Gods, OF his nomi
nation of Blaine, or his funeral ora.
tion over the death of his brother, or
his sermon in Chicago pulpit were
stolen out OF "Poor Richards Alma
nae, "or the back part of the blue
Back Spelling Book ("
Hall actually states that Ingersoll
gets $40, 900 a year for his law prac-
tice, and, in dead earnest, offers
that fact as evidence that Ingersoll
does not know anything about law.
Hall reasons that the fact that
man makes money out law is an ev.
idence that.he does not know any
thing about law, because he thinks
it is just as II is with preachers, aud
be has seen as the greatest of Amer
ican pulpit successes, Sam Jones,
who according to his own statement
was Topped right out of the gutter
into the pulpit with no chance to
know anything about theology even
II he had had the capacity aud, incli-
nation TO learn. ~
Christian people argue that their
religion Is true because it was
started by gang of ignorant fisher
man, when they get off Of religion |
and ooto business they never pick a
lawyer because be is ignorant.
The words that this turn-the. other
check follower Of the "meek aud /
lowly" applies to Ipgersoll to de-
scribe what Ingersoll does and Is,
taking them in order of their oc-
are as follows; arrogant, in
furious, evil, inflated, cock. OF the
walk, ipiidel iackdaw, stealing, ig-
aorant, cowardly, weak, not we'll