Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-20
PATTERSON ON PROHIBITION.


 an editor of the Louisville Courier Journal, is not pleased about the wave of prohibition sentiment in Ken lucky, which has resulted in ninety counties in that state putting a stop to the liquor traffic. The colonel was invited to deliver the address at the Blue Grass fair which opened last week and took occasion to speak his mind concerning reforms which prom ised to dim the glory of Kentucky. Kentucky has been famous for the quality of its liquor, the speed of its horses and the beauty of its women and Uncle Henry is alarmed for the state because of the danger of Ken lucky being forced to rely on other things than have brought the glory of the past for future prominence. In his address at the fair Colonel Wat ter son said:
 T appeal from the partisans, who ever they be and whatever their aims, to the reason and justice of the whole people, and I declare that Louisville is neither the Sodom or Gomorrah so often pictured by these partisans, but a great and noble city. full of farm CTS boys who came to town from ev- cry part of the commonwealth to bet ter their fortunes, still clinging to the old rocftree; a city of homes and all tars, whose church bells echo vibrant to the church bells of Lexington, whose heart beats true to the heart of Lexington, whose interests are your interests and whose God is your i God, in religion and in morals some ! thing above rather than below the standard of other considerable centers of business and population
 T protest against that religion which sands the sugar and waters the milk before it goes to it's prayers. 1 protest against that morality which poses as a saint in public to do as it pleases in private. As the old woman said of the old mans swearing. If there's anything I do abOminate, it is hypocrisy In my opinion, that which threatens Kentucky are not the gentlemanly vices of the race course and the sideboard. but perfdy and phariseeism in public and private life.
 The men who made the Blue Grass ! state famous. who put the brand of glory upon it's women, its horses and ! it's vintage, were not ashamed to take drink nor to lay a 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 be. lieve, as I believe, that there is such thing as pretending to more virtue than honcst mortals can hope to at tain.
 T know very well how I shall be rated for saying this; how my words will be misrepresented and misquoted and misconstrued; told you not to ask me to come here, but being here, I am bound to speak as I am given the mind to think and the light to see, and to warn our people against the in trusion of certain 'isms, which de scribe themselves as progress and muster under the standards of what they call God and Morality but which fifty years ago went by a very different name; 'isms which take their spirit from Cotton Mather, not from Jesus Christ; 'isms which where they cannot rule would burn at the stake; 'isms which embrace the sum of 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 ia one word would blot Kentucky out of the galary of stars and recreate her in the dread image of Maine and Kansas.
 T refuse to yield to these. Holding the ministry in reverence as spiritual advisors, rejecting them as emissaries of temporal power, do not intend, if can help it, to be compelled to ac- cept 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. I do not care to live in a world that is