The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-20
Sinking Sun Of Old Kentucky
OUIsVILLE.-George Young Washington, field
secretary Of the Anti. Saloon league. was poring


secretary Of the Anti.saoon league was porting
- over temperance map Of Kentucky in his room
at the Galt house, when there rap at his door
Come IN, Washington called with Kentucky
cheeriness g,
Colonel Beauregard Mason responded with -four
s1My deah Washington he exclaimed with a ca
valierly wave Of his broad brmmed stetson, Ah find
it hahd to say how vehy glad All to yuh, suh "
Presently the colonel was sunk in the capacious
depths OF an armchair in genuine enjoyment his legs
headed cane cutting fourishes in the atmosphere as
he handled it thoughtfully
ashington," he said earnestly after while.
All doan't wan to appeal impertinent, sub, but Ali
would like to inquah how it ali came about sub, that
you all evan hooked up with this hyah Anti-Saloon
leagues"
and lank, what in the Kentucky mountains is termed
'rangy, and IN his makeup he has all the gracious.
ness OF the soil and much of its good natured humor.
well, eolonel," he replied, the merest twinkle in
his eye, lit was really fohced upon Ovah in my
taown a man wanted to staht saloon neah my resi-
dence Being gentleman, sub, All couldn fight with
a saloonkeepah. All told him All would put him out
of business. All did it, subj
"Then the saloon element began vilifying me- Still
An couldn aft ohd to fohget that All gentleman
Soon, sub, ev'ry saloon keepah in my county wah
blackguahdlng me. All was just simply fohced to de-
fend myself. .-:~-c Is.
'About that time man from Ohio dropped into
town: He heard of what All had done, sub, and he
asked me to become managah Of the movement in my
All confess All didn It gave the mattah much consid-
GRAFTON befoh accepting '@41 va:. - =:
The colonel nodded appreciatively. "Ah see, sub,
All see, he said, and Of cohse you wiped them out
of youah county, and the. angah of the Ickah men
increased and they vilfed yuh all the moh and then
the man from Ohio came along again. -~.-
For several moments the colonel silent, nodding
in the same slow appreciative way. ,'s ~~...
And yuh really air beginning to become thoroly
in earnest and to believe yuh air doing the state
service?' -.
reply "Ah have been studying the statistics Of tho
whisky traffic, sub, he said half apologeticay Gun
til yuh have done that, suh yuh will nevah appreciate
what cuhse it is to the rising generation.''
The colonel settled more deeply into his chair
"My deah Washin 'tun - he asked commiseratingly,
"wheah have yuh all discovahed, sub, that Kahn
tuckian,s head isn't capable Of controlling his stom-
ach7 Why, sub, look at mel Take yohself! WHY
the protest ended in plutter Of disgust.
'It is not you, subj nor I, sub, replied Washing
ton, gravely, "who air menaced It is the rising
generation which must be protected; which we air
protecting. It is the young man who to wed youah
daughtah, or my daughtah, whom we must safe
For moment the colonel Strengthened In his chair
Then he sank back again Imply. tBoshl'' he de-
cared shortly, the sentimental rot Of the dominic!
All haven yet come to believe, sub, that the race is
inbred fab that it has lost it's backbone But what
sub, air yuh doing9' r - d.
Washington handed him the map for answer. "This
will show you bettah than All could evan tell yuh
suh,'' he said
The colonel took it gingerly, adjusted his glasses
and glared At it bulldog does at an enemy His
brows Wrinkled in. an expression of doubt, and he
turned to the field secretary with look Of
question. What sub, air all these hyah polka dot
splotches?'' he asked. ''Youah victoriesq''
Those, suh,'' Washington responded with trife
Of asperity, lair the few remaining footprints of the
commonwealth
Again the colonel Strengthened himself, his teeth
clicked spitefuly and muscles about his Jaws stoo,
cut tense and hard, and his face purped and paet
alternately He shook his head like an enraged lor
and his fingers rppled thru his long hair twtchingly
What, sub 80 he beloved. $50 yuh mean to tel
me- suh that theah air only fob wet counties in al
Kentucky?" and he jerked off his glasses thru force
Of long habit and shot boring glance of wrathfu
challenge at Washington -. z.:-.., E.
.|By the grace of Gawd and my own humble eff
fohts yes, sub, Washington admitted mildly. -:
'And that in Cahlisle, Mahshal Breckenridge Clay
Lee Jackson, johnson, Butah, Oldham, Bulitt Grant
Monroe, Owen Michigan, Cahtah and Gawd knows haov
many othah counties yuh KANT buy drink9''
Again he held the map at arm s length and glaret
at it furiously. "And little Larue, sub! By al