Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-06-14
BLUE GRASS BLADE
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Religion and rum are capable of forming
close companionship. BY reason of their abil-
ity to ruin and wac eek they work well together.
Rum, Romanism and Rebellion caused James
q. Blaine to lose the Presidency and il
begins to look if Rum and Religion will
be the undoing of the orthodox parsons in
the newly made state of Oklahoma.
From the very moment that Congress de-
creed that the additional star should be placed
in the corner of the national emblem, the liq-
uor question bobbed sereney to the front in
the territory affected. 1t will be recalled that
prior to the statehood, while the country was
United States Territory and under exclusive
fede. al control the sale and barter of liquor
therein was prohibited under pains and penal
ties because of the Red Skins domiciled within
its borders. Once statehood in sight and
the control of the liquor traffic was to be
conferred upon the new state government,
the dinerent elements got to work in order to
prohibit or not to prohibit. The entis won In
a measure for compromise was affected
whereby the sale of liquor TO be tolerated
similar to that which prevailed in South Car
DINA. This settled state dispensers of the
liquor were required and as fair salary was
connected with the job, under the guise OF
dispensing through Christian charity and
simplicity, innumerable parsons became appli-
cahts lor the JoD. some got appointed and
some didn't. The lucky preachers who man
aged to get position began to dispense
the "fre-water" in manner ordered by the
state and draw his pay. Now numerous pro-
tests are being heard at the farce-comedy Of
a parson, who advocates prohibition, either
through fear of the Lord or for love of the
job, selling rum and other brands Of liquor
for the sake of salary attachment and the
glory he obtain from his position.
IL whiskey is curse, as these parsons claim
how can they possibly reconcile their present
position of being willing TO sell that which
they know to be destructive of human
virtue and sobriety and then appear in a
pulpit each week to preach the gospel of Jesus
and him crucifed? Does it look like of a case
of Willingness to do anything to get the
cash and to enjoy little brief authority? No
wonder the sensible people of the state are up
in arms and loud in protest. No wonder the
newspapers condemn the system and the men
engaged in it, especially the whiskey selling
parsons.
The folly of fanaticism. tinctured with Chris
tian stupidity was never better exemplified
than In the of Mrs. Carpenter of Ash
vile, N. c. who, 1t Is said, being a devout
believer in Christian Science, positively re-
fused to allow the undertaken, or any of the
city authorities, to touch the body of her de-
ceased husband, Edward Carpenter, for one
entire week, she watching beside the bier in
the full expectation that I'm response to her
prayers and faith life would return to the
corpse. But 1t didn't. Christian science or no
Christian science, the husband was just as
dead as though he or she were unbeievers
Neither the prayer nor the faith, though great
and powerful, as alleged restorative agencies