Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-09-26

Fair in Lexington in which he warned
the people of his State against the in
trusion of certain 'isms," and counseled
them to live without hypocrisy by ad-
herring to the standard of morals of Old
Kentucky.
WARNING AGAINST ''IsMs."
81 protest against that religion which
sands the sugar and waters the milk be-
fore it goes to it's prayers. | protest
against that morality which poses as
saint in public to do as it pleases in
private. As the old woman said ofthe
old mans swearing, ifthere's anything
l do hybominate it is hypocrisy. In
my opinion these things which threaten
Kentucky are not the gentlemanly vices
of the race course and the sideboard,
but perfidy and phariseeism in public
and in private life.
1.-THE men who made the Bluegrass
famous, who put the brand of glory
upon it's women, its horses and its
vintage, were not ashamed to take
drink nor to lay wager, though they
paid their losses and understood where
to draw the line. They marked the
distinction between moderation and
intemperance. They did not need to
be told what honor is. They believed,
as believe, that there is such thing
as pretending to more virtne than
honest mortals can hope to attain.
81 warn our people against the intru-
sion of certain ''isms' which describe
themselves as progress and muster
under the standard of what they call
God and Morality but which, fifty
years ago, went by very different
name; 'sms' which take their spirit
from Cotton Mather, not from Jesus
Christ; 'isms' which, where they can
not rule, would burn at the stake,
'isms' which embrace the sum Cf all
fanaticism and intolerance, proposing
that, instead of the rich, red blood of
Virginia, ice water shall flow through
the veins of the people; 'isms' which,
of the galaxy of stars and recreate her
in the dread image of Maine and
Kansas.
NO ANGELS BY LEGISLATION
81 refuse to yield to these. Holding
the ministry in reverence 40 spiritual
advisers, rejecting them, as emissaries
of temporal power, do not intend, if
l can help it, to be compelled to accept
a rule of modern clericalism, which, if
it could have it's bent and sway, would
revive for us the priest-ridden systems
of the Middle Ages. do not care to
live in world that is too good to be
genial; too ascetic to be honest; too
proscriptive to be happy. l do not be-
lieve that men can be legislated into
angels, even red-nosed angels.
"The blue laws of New England,
dead letters for the most part, did more
harm to the people, while they lasted,
than all agencies united. Iwould leave
them in the cold storage to which the
execration of some and the neglect of
all consigned them long ago, not en-
balm and import them to Kentucky to
poison the meat and drink and char
acter of the people. l shall leave my
home life, my professional career and
my familiar associates to say whether
do not place, and have not always
placed, the integrity of man, the purity
of woman and the sancity of religion
above all earthly things; but 1 hope
never to grow too old to make merry
with my friends and forget for little
that I am no longer one and twenty
When the time arrives for me to 60 to
my account, mean to go shouting; to
go with my flag flying, and as I never
have lied to the people of Kentucky
please God I never shall, 1 have told
them great many unpalatable things
FOR OLD KENTUCKY.
81 have met their disapproval full ir
the face. I have lived to see most o.
my admonitions against this, that anG
the other vain hope vindicated BY
events. want to live yet little long
, er still to tell the truth and shame the
devil, but if obscurity and adversity
and neglect shall overtake me will bs
comfort even in the valley Of the
shadow of death that from first to las
fought not for the speckled gospels
of the short-haired women and the
long haired men of Babylon, but fol
, the simple manhood and lovely woman
. hood of old ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS New
Kentucky, but always and forever, Ole
Kentucky-your birthright and mine.'