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Digital page images are linked to the text file. 41 n wnrarwaaie3t att r rII Jt BLUEGRAS jif f1 n tW J BLADEc J I Vol L1Yo 8 Lexington K ntCkllrSthii lct jtli llo Subscription 21 Year I ALONE In my bosom 8orrowreigneth enre8jBitterlvAt tho load it needs must bear When our dearest worldly treasures Bring us sorrowing no relief pleasnre8HOlIrs pladncssOnLeave Oil hearts these rolms of sadness Hope for peace beyond the grave A Ilomcmiulc Sumliij Nolioul Story Two or three years before the war I was younger than I am now I rvns better looking fairly glibon the tongue had lots of fine clothed 2plenty of money and no poor kin younnladiesto be the guest fa house in a county of this State that was not Faycttc In those days when the aristocracy wont calling they took along their great big leather trunks daysTheythe stomachs of which hung down with a storage capacity that beat anything since thin days of the Tro were ostensibly intended for only four inside passengers but they were always jollier when there verc two girls anti a boy on each seat and the boy was sand witched be girlsSome boy was troubled to know what to do with his arms as to keep his elbows from both cring the girls Some times he wasnt The most intimate male acquaint anco I ever had was one ofthe latter kind Tho motor that propelled one of those big carriages was among the very acme dc la crane two bigE mulesA negro man on the box outside held the reins and beside him sat a colored woman to wait on the girls These carriages left home aHelI an elaborate injunction front paterfamilias to the driver which John G Saxe has travestied ftOIllt Horace Parcq slimulis Mere Loris A stage direction of which the cOIetis Dont use the whip theyre ticklish But whatever things you do hold on toI stringsThe was always obscrv cd until the driver got out ofsight of Ole Marstcr The house and grounds that we visited in the instance referred to was like Washington a place of magnificent distances The farm and the yard und tho house were all oir a big scale The dominant Jdayshada porch as high as the house and about half as big that was ingc niously constructed with reference to keeping neither sun or rain oil of jBudtect built a house for a rich Ken tucky farmer like a Lexington ar chitect would now build one of these Queer Anne choplogic tablishments the farmer would have thought it fine for thcInig gersIn such u house as the first we have described large and spacious and filled with elegant furniture books music family portraitsa with negro slaves male and female Ikoldand young ad libitum we were orynllIl set in the most elegant of china was a Icluj dotuore of the cuixinc andj nuts and raisins and fruits domes trtic and tropical sat around in the most inviting Cltge In silver ser vices to be sampled between l iiImeals But this merely material feature t was the smallest part of the enter tainmcnt The host and hostess ikisac were must elegant people and dressed elegantly neat and not t gaudy as the monkey said when 1 he hud painted the cat There were some ImmUomo an d childrensof these good people They wore isu earnestly religious people The 1 lather was a reading and a think f man and was one of the first iJjIIIcn that I over heard maintain metaphysical views that 1 neither thou accepted nor now ac but which have now become it 1milch inoG common Hero tho novels place a string of stars or astericks as the print ors call them and begin tho sequel i with tho words Years have hewn i by I wont infringe on their patent The other day a man stopped me on the Court Houseconcrete Me and thindirty so filillt hocpplIrcd not to have had enough to cat Ho said Mr tI t t t Moore I heard some men talking against you yesterday and I took your part 1 have drunk whisky until I have been in the lunatic asylum Please give me ten cents to something to eat This man was one of the boys whose father entertained me as I have told you The day before I wrote this Iheard for the first time about ano ther one of those boys He is the proprietor of a gambling house uJ is just coining money Front it Grand Daughter of W Stone JlThowife ofa prominent banker of Kansas City i Mr Oharles C Moore Many pardons please cousin dear for my long silence Have wanted to write often more especially since the reception of your esting papers I wanted you to know how heartily I endorsed your sentiments in regard to that greatest of all evils whisky- I too regarded fanatic in that channel but I can sur vivo the odium attached to it May God give you strength to live down your assailants and cause thorn to see tho error of Mil way and tho justice of yStfrs 1 dont refer to any little personalities for those I qf course know nothing of them but of the cause You may expect severe oritcism and re proaches from a bum element but dont let them discourage you Keep on the even tenor of your way and your ellbrta will surely be rewarded with success I have often wished I was a thousand strongminded men would hurl thunderbolts of reaI and logic into the whisky cliques cause them to see the wrecked homes blasted likes bleeding and broken hearts siii aides clouded intellects etc they have caused and surely the hor rible aspect would forever dotorI tho from their diabolical wqrks Iris a great mid mighty quest n uddl4 tymara totGd cate it but I firmly believe tho time will come when whisky fungus growth on humanity will bo a thing of tho past My husband is anxious to know you and wishes toibe re membered LovinglyMOLLIB The Prohibition Meeting it- IonlsllIeOctubcl3 Tho Prohibition meetingat Louisville was a regular old time Methodist love feast It was simply grand but I dont want to say anything about it until I can sits whole side of a paper in the next issue lion Samuel Dickey is simply royaland lion Josiah Chairman of tho State board is just too ineffably lovely and too todforanythiug less than a column in Brevier And thou the money and the schemes we have got to make things go you better bet Thorcsonly one trouble I1boutI it I had started out to run this paper the balance of my life and intend to live until I am seventy five years old but in ten years- niore the whole whisky business- will bo swiped out of Kentucky and there wont be any use for a Prohibition paper and I dont know what I can do tho remain fifteen years Looks like theres always something to trouble a body IV C T A word front tho Womans Christian Temperance Union to the readers of Tin BiADH and Temperance people everywhere greeting Temperance sentiment is growing as shown by fjgurcs and filets at tho last State Convention held in Kich mond Ky on the 1st 2d and 8d of this month Unions were represented and 47 delegates presort as against 19 Unions at the last session Good work was done at the Convention mad good reports from every Department of work till over tho State especial ly prison jail cud railroad work It is not usual to think of Tern poninco work in these Depart ments so it is very gratifying to know that good wqrk done along these lines Althiougl the men of Richmond did not take tho interest in the work they usually do at State Conventions the women are wile awake and alert for God and Ionic and as the women usually rule wo hope much for Richmond mud if tjiey t should over get as warm intho orenco cause as they njro iii hospitality they will become a power in the land Kelltuckychivn1ry and Ken tacky How I would ko to add to this Kentucky temperance and thou old Commonwealth would stand sec ond to none in morality IIopingfoh the spread of tent perance the success of The Wade ONE THE DELEGATES CuliirinniiIInrri 4Eu larHC4Tlic Ulndc I PADUCAH KA dct IS 1800 Mr GO1 Moore Ltxingron Ky MY DEAR stnBy reitson of your kindness and the fcqllnt I am one of those Fanatics who believe it is and arewilling to help to cyclone the liquor Lexingtoubuttion I have received your Blue Grass Blade and read endorsed and enjoyed itwhen on Its first its second and now on its third legs I send yon 2 to pay for my subscription to The Blade if it only appears one week or fiftytwo it is all sumo to inc I love the truth and find it so seldom in public journals on the liquor question and its methods Icannot let it sip from me You tine aware that the South ern Journal has assigned und sus pended I want you to put in The Blade this week a notice that Hon Samuel Dickie Chairman of the Prohibition National Convention HqtclLOllisiIIeoll Prohibitionists are earnestly invited to meet him there Mutters of great importance bring him to Kentucky Cant you bo there I hope yoiiwlllJosiui lIA n HIS KEY IIIK ill W FOUl Ol Georgetown Prohibition Candidate for Congress from the Ashland 1I4slet Alov Hi ram VFolllis tho Prohibition candidate for Con gress from this district the great est whisky producing region on earthCol Breckinridgc his Demo crane opponent has latelas a pure gratuity and when there was no apparent reason for it in the world declared himself tho friend ally and champion of whisky by voting in a minority of 16 to 95 or the enforcement of the Original Package Bill the purpose of which was to force the liquor traffic back upon the States from which Prohibition in answer to the prayers of wo men and the tears of children had driven this the most ac cursed of all trallics tho African slave trade not excepted that ever disgraced Christianity and civilizationIn to this distin guished and brilliant but misguided man the Prohibition party offers Rev Ford and asks of the public the minutest inquiry not only into his public record as a loved minister and a successful farmer but ask an in quirt into the most private de tails of his domestic life and his private reputation among the large body of people who know him anythinginphilosopher preacher farmer business milan neigh bor or citizen all ho has to do is to got his proof and send it to TUB BiADE and I will promise to blast him to the extent of my ability for the Prohibition party can not ailbrd to have for its standardbearer any man who is not as good as tho best of men- The Prohibition party be lieves that the private morals und business success und integrity of its candidates is fully as important as their intellect learning or genius This party puts its candidates upon their record aunt it makes their record begin the hour they wore horn if not a generation or two before they were born and that record is never ended until the men are dead Tho election of Hiram Ford over Col Brockinridgo would be worth millions of dollars to the State of Kentucky in business and billions of dollars in murals cud the highest human happi ness It would bo sayinuf to the world that the Great azurone had ai ain stretched his hand over our sleeping beautyIuad said thiillnleat L l1l r rT IIman js jcj arisen tO a l801lRO of her giI1W and Wp shaking frown r skirtft Itma cTeTvicliory tliM i making her a afd ljword anrocg t nations um rellokol1t y slr iiisefrClit litwcmhoryour itY lf n f Flljctte rise Jllqp1lio l WncT In Aim gust tron ho gneat BIuegrass Kogiil and of till theboatedbands fathers brothers and tovotepray until you t tie 1hglf nuS your ott c ayOIif tlro ballot r IfjjKctcrrinili Colon IY UllQjPii- 1l rsJudge I for Iroh hr h i Local Opli niflciory1 DANVILLE KYI 7 o PIlastrand victory fo ProhbitioH asstlninetypijtiOlltOWll Intiulifested fPmaltytI license as there were whites for Thef preachers bankftra amt beat Ci of th doweHP t s pollbtilthimm eofIirohibitionSmith put in some r his csiJ Speeches with flue lctliJcfh inn up Friday niglitlmfhe net siltiuGreen Clay Smith ici chose Wt1i1 laitlffTHon Uobt J Brccke t laIlIlveiPcelltho J iiIILEXINUTON Oct 13 1890 Mr C C Moore Will yon permit me to write to you I have been reading your ha r tend would like to Join you I may Choose ever to do and try what is the most just and the most direct The world Vas not made in a day neither can any one hope to gain what they desire in a day He who is right and can wait never fails And I believe vouto be All men need thoWtrllthas they needwa ter Truth the open bold hon est truth is always the wisest always the safest for every one in any and all cir lImstanccs Truth is the outward garment of good will in which a man thinks he can guide others with out using it himself I know of such a case A truly good man is more than half way to beinga Christian by whatever name he is called publishedoeryZ Front u Good old Fuyetlc Farmer FAYKTTK Co KY Oct 17 90 Eilllor C C Jfoore Dear Sir1 enjoy reading your little Grass Blade very much oat cannot subscribe fey it as I take more pajHrs than IccJn r I1PUl ing lost the sight of olicTof my eyes recently I will he pjtnpclled tQ discontinue other papers my time expires You have my Very best wishes for your success the success of the cause you are nobly advocating God bleyou Kcspcctfully Ivonr M CLANAIIA s A Sod letterThmtt tells its Oun Tale- Lexington Oct 10 1890 Mr Moore DKAiiSiK I wish I poll of a ready writ mthlat I mightI toll you what nu woman thinks of your paper had one yesterday aonio one gave mo cud when I hud read it all GOtllble8wlmt he thinks and not afraid to say so I wish I could depict to you my once happy homo where love joy and comfort wore thorp anti tell you the hell of a home I have now All because whisky got into it sold tto tho 5nmatea s of my houso by respectable gro cbTB No YoU dont have togo tOBlfo nB 0gfttftli JUt some of- the ttio8b respectable bRst patron ised grocers of our 0rj aloud Spare not You will got crown yol Lnm a pour fallen icroattjrej with nothing 16 look forward to iii th s life Bo etroug inypur con viotionsi inyour pcnyand tho womoil ofour town the wives of the worthiest will reap the hne1I Sincerely Tun itliie mill time Gray meet r 1t1b adet hit tiltAtn ifHJ vomi qm edseetg f seeiasliciwanted ott t9 aye epuragciient tthatcqe front ing r Rubeland ii young jltmjonsti hand yi han d p jFqrrhe Blue Grass Bladei But wjoi the we capweli- iaveour9gt wy f faff E a 1Y j 1 Color0tl Boy boU ti7 years oldstout andtwillingstowvpr m cc i Apply tiJ3tlFIItSilottStrretaa Jf tf VICE r rREufDE r jdRT WS HOTEL OlitlitilLe4rviagItelaiiu pfj the Order- licohlbitln plo sale of Liquor uipcjibnaWt tlnYti Gpseiisiiflcif canmess His jIJf 1 Which si eourcocifj gr l ehdinrttSVhHljrliMllQra at pre It 9vlng o n prgrpwlug ldhgoufitDlrrdw mlverolyiby pnljlic opinion hat denyesponpibilityfprmf yfqjiljngto nrcsfuro Issuen an order nc s iir litr his sbonliloo ro ifllif ktierliht lTliiawrileptattedifl great rouimotibn l t8mwhl fqnUl get little sutisfaetlgnpv iig t9tho ru that there ntHolJmI Qry1 ttllo estallisliuIgnL cdnrsqshoull1 be Mlli vecJiOiiq ijan 11nr r ttf cafe lmmttc ttrrlGtri Uruttwwg l rooinsi nUll is a membwof tho real estate finn in which SOl lIon A Brown chief clerk of the state department a part ner This in where the political feature of the controversy comes in Mr Morton is constantly being called upon to arbitrate between the warring factions and finds the link of landlord a morn difficult one to fill than that of presiding officer of the senate Ho has not yet decided whether to uphold the cafe man ager or the apartment agent The order cutting tho sale of liquor is said to been bronght about by the political real estate firm What caused Mr Morton tho greatest annoyance is this fact that allover the house there tiro removals of people who signed leases for n year among tho number being Senator Stowart of Nevada who declares that ho will not be longer bothered by the internecino warfare which is daily enacted under his very eyes Representative Cannon of Illi nois is another of the disgruntled board ers and ho says ho will not renew his lease under any circumstances Mean while tho vicepresident has his rooms daily invaded by irato guests who wish to pour out their grievances to him The SIns or the Fathers Tho Sunday School Chronicle tells the following somewhat startling but doubt less true story A temperance lecturer was preaching on his favorite theme Now boys when I ask you n question you must not bo afraid to speak up and answer me When you look around and see nil theso fine houses farms and cat tle do you ever think who owns them all now Your fathers own them do they not Yes sir shouted u hundred voices Wlioro will your fathers be in twenty years Dead shouted the boys Thats right dud who will own this property urchinsIRighiLgoing along the street notice the drunk nrds lounging around the public house door waiting for sonic ono to treat them Yes sir lots of them Yell where will they bi in twenty years from now Dead exec ineil boys And who will be drunkards then Us boys Everybody was thunderstruck It sound ed awfully It was awful but it was The Great Tux Maher There isu complaint about taxes rim great taxes local tuxes which are wholly under your control Those taxes lire largely imposed to support poorhouses mill thoso poorhouses would not have so many inmates lint for the liquor traffic It is tho liquor dealer who raises your taxesExSenator Warner Miller in address Defers Agricultural Society of Delaware county at Delhi N Y Muliio W T Ilhutalk about tho W C T U should read the report of the gains made in Maine tho past two years In there was a total gain of 033 and in 1800 again of total t329 Pretty good for a so ciety that going to pieces There are now between three and four thousand members in tho state- Tohtois Latest Tolstois latest crusade is said to against tobacco und alcohol It is stilted that he has n work nearly ready for this press in which ho strongly inveighs against gluttony and shows in n vivid manner the effect of narcotics and toxicating drinks on the huuuui system c YOU to know that nil HAWLINSJ KTo T West Main Stis the best place to buy Fancy Dry Goods and Notions Read the fallowing gruotatiojas Fall Wraps Perfect fitting Jackets Styles from 350 to nhfs Black Embroidered F from 350 to 1000 Cashmere Shawls in Black lWhite and Colors Illnklqd omOrtly the best stock wo have over shown antlat Pricerthat will surprise you Ribboni Dlliqd Embrafdinfci the most com r pleto and carefully selected stock llthe city lildlP1llflll a large stock of medium and heavyweights in Iudies gents and GhildfenB aizea1 EirI consideringitiB We 8 spoqls 1rkff N T Cotton for lOcents TapeJor5ci 1 TAYLOR HAWKINS THOMPSON BOYD- FINE MniiuFttotuieis of SADDLES a HARNESS RACE AND mm EQUIPMENTS A SPECIALTY E 1 53 EAST MAIN STREET f rLEXINGTON KY COMING THROUGH THE KY1CI This is a living illustration of the advisability when on cant do any better of coming through the r o fora suit to replace tho ono stolen while are bathing It is a postivie blessing to lose asuit when you can substitute fort a much better one for 1500 at the One Price Clothing House M KAUFMAN fc CO 11 East Mats Street LEXINGTON KY CIA JOHNS New Post Office Drug Store COR MAIN and WALNUT STS LEX KY ESTABLISHED 1820 K SAYItE J W SAY1IE E D SAYRE D A SAYRE Co BANKERS LEXINGTON KENTUCKY lollecnons yti A COMPARISON Of Prohibition and the Tariff Question ns Political Issues As opposed to tho Prohibition issue fraught with every 0101l10ntj of public morals and terest could enter into the composition of any political sue we have offered us by the Democratic and Republican par tics the dispute about the questionThe experience of years of wrangling between these two dominant has shown that this question is impossible of adjustment as between them and the intelligence upon the subject shows that to the public it would be a matter of supremest indifference whether the question were settled according to the most extreme views of one or of the other party To Democratic and Republican politicians however it is a mater of greatest importance as fra vlng for eemy years locked horns on this issue tho one that first backs down will appear to have been vanquished while his opponent is left As regards the tariff question for years as a matter of convenience to avoid the necessity of explanation I have said I was an absolute free trader Having the same political poli cy and desiring and anticipating the same results to eVe erybody except professional poli ticians and editors I am an absolute Tarift Protectionist The results of these extremes are precisely the same The only position on the subject that necessarily has in it any element ot political evil is the present Democratic dogma of tarifi for revenue only The first political idea that I can remember ever to have upI preciated was when my father in talking about the Missouri Compromise friend and admirer of Mr Clay though he was said the very word compromixe shows that we are allowing something proposition is so axiomatic in its essence that I will pass it without elaboration Mr David C Vance my neigh bor is a man who like myself has made his living as a farmer He has been a Democrat all his life is not educated in politics any more or less than Iurn butt lie dlsthtgti oledFridoiroE session of a plain hard commonsense that arrives at just and ac curate conclusions upon political subjects without going through the technical processes of the lo gician In talking to me a few day since he said It is plain to my mind that we ought to have complete free trade or complete pro tccjcion to our one or the other and I dont care Vance is one of the heavi est hemp raisers in the State and couldnot see that it was justice to him to put hemp that he had to sell on the free list and make him pay duty on woolen goods sugar and the cutlery that as a farmer he had to buy A just political principle will always admit of general applica tion without injustice to any lastly Tho application of the idea of tariff for revenue only is front the very beginning arbitrary and ex parle The tariff tink ers who are intrusted with the making of tariff schedules have first to determine whether it is right to discriminate between luxuries and necessaries and then they have to determine which are luxuries and which are necessaries They begin this discussion with coflee and tea and the combined wisdom of the worldcould not settle whether those two things are luxuries or necessaries Then comes sugar then tobacco and then liquors Theta comes up the question whether or not a silk own is not as much of a necessity for a rich woman as a woolen or cotton one is for a poor woman But more important than all this it is to manage this adjust ment of tariff rates so as to make tho most friends for the res- pectlive parties in whose interest the are working Evidently a question of justice Mr and his few neighbors that raise hemp around the Blue region are just as much entitled to protection in their business as are all sugar growers in the South but while Mr Vance ard his few friends can be sacrificed with but little damage to the party anything that would be liable to disaffect the Solid South would be too hazardous to the Democratic parI ty and hence the discrimination must be made against tho hand full of hempgrowers to placate the Northern Democracy bashow of protective tariff and Mr Vance and his friends have to foot the bills because somebody has to the Government debts on tho principle of tariff for revenue only iLm If we are to obey the scriptura injunctions of judging trees by their fruit puddings by chewing the bag taro tor revonuoI has been weighed in tho balancoI and found wanting IMler this system of arranging the payment of the Govern ments current expenses it has been but a year or so since the treasury was so overfilled with mo ney that ajl the politicians were racking their massive brains to know what to do with it Senator Blair the national champion of Woman Suffrage said distribute the surplus for educational purposes among the States of the- Union on the basis of illiteracy in which case the South would have the lions part But Southern Democratic politicians ami editors said that would be an interference with State rights I heard Editor John O Hodges now candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction of this State oppose the Blair bill on that ground ut the excess of money had tc be gotten rid of and the powers that be arranged to scatter it out among the Union soldiers- A negro man hired to me soon after the war and was by me em ployed for several years getting firstclass wages He did pot intimate to me that he had any bodily disability and I never discovered any About a year ago he came- to me to certify that I knew him to have been wounded and disabled in the Federal army Of course I could not give him the certificate that he asked for but as there an always plenty of people to be generous with somebody elses money and there were pension agepts who got paid for finding all such cases there is little doubt that he got hit moneySenator Blackburn and Colonel Brcckinridge were both in the Confederate army The former hada fearful quarrel with some little Northern Yankee Senator because the Yankee claimed to as devoted to the gridiron flag as Senator Blackburn was and Col Breckinridge seems never so hap liyas when he can wrap himself in its folds and apostrophise that piece of buntin When these gentlemen hadso helped to manage matters as thai in two years alT this surplus was squandered on these old niggers that helped the Yankees and Dutchniad Irish to whip them and had helped McKinley and lliG tariff 30 cent ouwodicus aliil otf weiro- il cutlery in order to raise more money theycomae back to their constituency and with the blandest smiles ask for an endorsement bj returning them to their seats at Washington If I were going to get up a try vestyupon government finance I can not imagine anything that couldexcel what the Government has done and what both of the old parties propose still to do Let me illustrate The Constitutional Convention of Kentucky is now in session in Frankfort Suppose in tlie revision thev should decide that hereafter tile State of Kentucky should raise the money to pay its debts by the riff principle and should order to be built custom houses at Louis ville and Covington and Mays ville and other places around the States boundary and should getup the necessary officials to prevent smuggling into the State and shouldadopt Mr McKinleys sche dule as a basis upon which to collect a tariff for revenue only upon dutyable goods imported into the State for the purpose of raising the money to pay the State debts What would be thought of it Why certainly that they were demented or more than ordinarily bibulous AmIet should Kentucky do that she would do no more than the General Government is now doing and there is just as much show of reason in one case asin the other If we all personally know that Kentucky can most successfully and easily und naturally pay her debts so that all of her citizens can see what is being done by direct taxation whcan this not be done by the General Government Then every business man who paid his taxes could see what he was doing Each citizen would pay to his State officers as he is now doing and the General Government could require of each State upon the basis of its wealth as de roamed by the census With that kind of an arrangement the General Government could call each fiscal year upon the States for just as much as it wanted to its debts and the overfilled coflers of the Government one year would not be followed bya depletion the next year that required a fifty per cent advance in the price of a staple of life It is said that when a tariff on imports was suggested as a means of paying the Governments curt expenses the proposers of the scheme said the beauty of it was that the revenue could thus becol ccted without the people knowing that they were paying it all the timeAs a business scheme that is about on a par with the reasoning ofa gentlemans servants that they would be doing no wrong to pilfer from him so long as the master was kept ignorant of the larcenyas they assume that no- man in any proper sense of the- word can be said to have been robbed if he never knows about the robbery- I want to show that absolute free trade and absolute protection would have precisely the same effect upon- the people Suppose this country to be put under a tariff that would be absolutely prohibitory of foreign competition what be the result Would everything furnished the consumer be in price Not one cent because the competition in our own country would make producers sell just ascheap as they could to do Suppose for instance nobody outside of the city of Lexington was allowed to sell shoes in the SUth Kentucky Would n painoi slaves that could have been bough for a dollar the day before the law was passed sell for two dollars the day after it was passed Certainly not for if that were to be the case there would be forty farmers ir Fayette County wh would go into the shoe business the next week because that business would bent forty additional shoe merchants in Lexington allselling a pair of shoes for two dollars upon which there would be a good liv ing profit at one dollar how long- would it be before some fellow wouldconclude that he would make more money by selling those shoes at a dollar and threequar tens by the increased patronage he would et And when all come Town to a dollar and three quarters how long would it be be fore some one of them from the very love of gain would drop his price to a dollar and a half ands on the competition would force them just low as they could afford to go Even if no additional shoe dealers were allowed to come to compete with the present Lexington shoe dealers the effect would be just the same for the shoe dealers there now from the very hope of increased profits by increased patronage would reduce these shoes to the very same percentage of profit that theynaal today In the Government of the United- States i tltsisdiiiupt7t ciple Ifa prohibitory tariff shouldcut off from foreign countries so that any given article of our commerce here would greatly appreciate in value the make article cheaper in foreign countries would come here to manufacture it Oi if the Government should limit the making of shoes to the shoe makers now in the United States from the very day the law passed shoes would not sell at all higher from the principle that we have seen in the case of Lexington shoe is the case under an absolute protective tariff and we have seen thaUhere would be no clang in the practical result to the con suppose we try the experiment of absolute free trade What would be the result Cutlery for instance would flow in here from Englacduntil Henry Diston of Philadelphia for instance would have to sell his saws cheaper or shut up his shop If it proved that Sheffield or Birmingham could make saws for the American peo ple for two millions of dollars a year less than Philedelphia could do it would it not be wise finance to retire Mr Diston and his men on a million of dollars a year as a pension and let them live idle in Drown stone fronts if by the trans action the American people would save a million of dollars annually by buying Englishsaws If such procedure as this would not be doing the greatest good to the greatest number one of the al principles of good law what would it be I Thus we have seen that the only appreciable effect that any tariff or free trade regulation could have would he in the instance in which absolute free trade would produce the greatest good to the greatest in advantage to absolute free trad is a tariff that would be absolutely prohibitory and any termediate ground the two as tariff for revenue only for stance must all the diffi culties to which we have referred The view of the most extreme Democrat and that of the most extreme would be so JJraeticulworkiugs worth the labor one square to the polls to vote on the question if a man were certain that his vote would settle it for ever Tariff for revenue only is arbi irary ex parte and ad captandum und a thing to be eschewed byall sound thinkers dill see and understand this plain unvarnishedand corn 1 talon sense view of the matter The other dayas I was going into Lexington I picked up a foot nan a stranger gave him a sent in my I soon found him to bean exceedinglyunsophis ticated man one of good sense and vhocam deda pretty English voca11lrry He asked me if I had heard Col Breckinridgeslate tariff speech in our Court House I said no He said he had I asked him what Colonel Brockinridgesaid about it He answerer I would be a bad judge sir to tell you I could not comprehend t The re was evidently not intendedas sarcasm against Col BreckinridjVibut the man simply meant to e ess his derogation of himselfIn iftttcr flr the Scripture is reversed tiff tariff is revealed to the wise aijfi prudent but hidden from the es Colonel Ieckinridges mysticisn is only eXl Fable upon the supposition that he can not understand as plain J illustration as I have given otHitumlersloliding it himself he Rv not want the masses to understand it and thus gain for t lt admirhtion that tin masses ahjays have for that which they can comprehend in then fellow rnaji The cO fusion of the whole mat ter is thlt there is absolutely business merest for the people ill the whol tariff question except the fact tl at both of the domino parties opose to rob the people bya compromise tariff and neither of these arties even claims that there is jjnything in the tariff question bearing upon morals While this is true of the tariff question it is equally true of the Prohibition question that as a com binationof morals finance it is thelrandest political question ever presenteJ to the +Why I nm u Wouinii HuflrajflNt I aim atisfied that the average woman has more sense than the average man and everybody is satisfied t 1t she has better morals and thats the reason I am a Woniai Suffragist The other day my sister and I were having a Beatty wireami picket fence made between us One corner stone on the line between us had been covered ovei with soil By finding the range of two lines we succeeded with hut iVf04NHonlryii finding the stojK by removing little soil from the surface The fence builders hat dug a posthole right by the side- of it and the stone proved to be two feet deep in the ground It was a very dry time and the ground was very hard- concludedI to dig up that stone andraise it so that the top of it would appear above the ground Byaccident there was lying within two feet the hole a stone that was the very shape for a corner stone In trying to get up the original stone I had dug a hole right by tin side of it abundantly deep to put in a corner stone but was still digging away to get up that last foot of dit around the old tin last loot of course being four times as hard as the first one Two white men fence builders both Prohibitionists had taken the situation and had not suggested to me that I was making a fool of myself One of the most practical farmers in the country a Democrat had looked at me digging away and seemed to think that Iwas showing about us much sense men Generally do Then my wife and sister walked up and my wife said Why dont you put tha stone lying on top of the ground down in hole that you have ugand my sister said Tin Bible sayou ought not to move the ancient landmarks anyhow AJPthen I got mad because my come sooner and save me some of the unnccesary digging that I had done I stuck the loose stone down in the hole and the jot was done Plainly the woman had more sense than the four men nnd thats the reason I want the women tc vote More Sympathy ttEWCASTE Ky Oct 15 90- Edtiori of BlueGrass Blade DEn SlIt Enclosed finds check for 2 subscription for one year I have fought all along the line of Prohibition since 1848 and somewhat like yourself have sufler ed persecution arson and curses Hence I con sympathise with you and all others who are laboring for in the fifties it was my pleasure to attend the Grand Lodge of the Song of Temperance at Lexington you live to see our proud Commonwealth freed from the lursc of corrupt politicians and rum Yours J N CAILINOKR CINCINNATI SUNDAY th Commercial Onset to Uoicrlbe the Way Ohio Worships A brief description of the state of af fairs In lower Cincinnati on Sunday nighta when the beer gardens and su loons are In full running order wiw re cently given as follows in The Cincin anti Commercial Gazette The theatres were all open last even tug and this had much to do with the gayety of tho crowds and the fullness thereof Vino street was a blaze of light from Fourth to Fifteenth Tho side walks were so crowded that slow walk fag was impossible One had to keep pace of the crowd or bo jostled out into the street where every cable car that passed was as full of people as a cane- seat chair is full of holes All the theatres were crowded and the brilliant beer balls over the Rhine swarmed with young men and women There was no disorder The men and women who make up Sunday night crowds in the town are rarely disorderly Occasional a young man who has overestimated hi capacity for beer may try to start a row but he is quickly squelched and the half pint young woman who fancies her pacity is half a gallon and wants to sing aloud is readily quieted by the police It is a curious crowd this Sunday nigh over theRluino ono and it is typical of Cincinnati for there is no other city in America where it is to bo seen or heard l It should bo remembered that all this was made legal by a Republican legislature Kllllnc Kaniai Yes Prohibition is killing Kansas The increase of wealth per capita pot last reports is only 40 per cent Mass chusetts increase is only 0 per cent Ohio and Illinois have decreased in wealth by per cent The distillery business and Prohibition are each having its influence and here they are Down in Kansas they have one school house for every population Ohio has only one for every 890 Illinois the state of distilleries one for every while pious old Massachusetts has one for every 600 population Yes Prohibition is building school houses all over Kansas killing the state by educating the children instead of clothing them in rags through the saloon process Down in Kansas they have a penitentiary which used to manufacture large amounts of goods The convicts are fall ing off until they have only five for every 10000 population Illinois eleven and Massachusetts twenty for every 10000 is killing Kansas and Nebraska wants to be killed by tho same hasIus lots of ProhibitionLincoln Neb Call r A What Ii ItT By the way wo dont believe there can be any such combination as the so called Republican Prohibitionist A Republican is one who believes in and votes for the principles of that party A Republican cannot be at the same time- a Prohibitionist because the Republican position on temperance is high license and high license runs in n diverging line 1t9m prohibition and can n r meet Bo when a Kepubliuaii leiupofiuioo man says Heres a RepublicanProuibition 1st its the best of evidence he is a good Republican because of his straddling tendencies Hint to Nebraska No matter how many men it takes no matter how much it will cost if it costs the liquor trade one hundred thousand nay two hundred thousand dollars to fight this battle successfully the victory will be worth to Nebraska it will be worth to tho whole United States ten times moro than it will cost and the National Protective association should come forward liberally and magnani mously Chicago Champion Liquor gan to Lose INothlnlr any trade in Kan package decis- Ion was made and then we had a Kan sas loom It would not be proper to say that the Wilson bill hurts the brewers or liquor men as I said before they never did have any Kansas business and so lost nothing Joseph Heim President of Heim Browing Company in St Louis Republic Sept for the Porolgner ILiterature Grubb of Lawrence national W C T U su work among foreigners published during the past year forty eight different temperance tracts in ten different languages No more effective work can bo done than to get a supply of this literature And distribute it among our foreign voters Take Prohibition Papers Temperance people would do great service for the cause if they persisted in favoring newspapers that are friendly to the reform Particularly in country towns we find a carelessness in this regard Tho liquor men miss no such op portunity They willingly stick to the paper that smiles on them and their business and always make it a point to slight the paper that does the opposite a Kanaaa Paper No state in the Union has made no proud a record as Kansas since 1880 We have deliberately driven out of busi ness hundreds of men and made enemies of them and their friends and yet have gained as no other state except New York Pennsylvania and Illinois Lies cant hurt Kansas now that the census iu made up Topeku Capital Show Their Color Sailors and marines in the United States navy are not allowed to wear jmperanco badges Secretary Tracy been interviewed by the W C T jpresentativea and has promised to theif regulation cannot be amended so as to allow them to wear the button badge adopted by the military branch jf the WC T Fmnato Candidate Three women have been nominated for office in New York state Miss Cora 0 lussell was first nominated by Prohibl ionista and was then put on the Demo ratio ticket for school commissioner in iteuben county Miss C E Rogers of Virt was nominated for a like office by the Democrats of Allegany county and now Miss Mary Mitchell comes up for a like position on the Democratic ticket in bo First district of Jeffanon oouatarj RACKET STOPEi 11 13 W MainSt The cool weather will soon bo here We are fixed for it witn largest stock of FILL aud WINTER GOODS We have ever shown Underwear for Mon at to 124 each Ladies Vests at 202535 45 50 up to 125 eachIChildrens Vests and Pants at oil prices farm 8 eta to 8100 each gradesWhite S125 to S1000 a pair pricesHavaPlush and Cloth Cloaks Infants and Childrens Cloaks Nellie Blv Caps at 50 05 05 to SI 50 Belts Girdles kid Gloves Cashmere Gloves c spoolNeedles j D PURCELL IF YOU WANT THE BEST FLOUR USE Cream Extract 7BE SURE TO ORDER THAT BRAND MADE BY Lexington Roller Mills Co JOS Le COMPTE Secc Manager Heating Stoves Furnaces 1 Ann Hard Goal Base Heaters AlB Always West CARBON FAVORITE a new soft coal BASE HEATER is a fine stove Our stock must be seen to be appreciated Economy annTrODic IIWarm Air Furnaces ARE THE BEST M ll- And K sell rapidly If on want a Warm Air Furnace get the BEST of ns Xo charge for estimates Our stock is complete in nil departments nntlisell as cheap as the cheapest Give ns a call Kespectfnlly VANCE FEfiWEYR t 20 WEST MAIN STREET I POPULAR RESTAURANT FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN NOW BEING REFURNISHED The Phoenix Hotel Restaurant Shell Oysters Gauge and Eue2ipjifg in Season STRICTLY FIRSTCLASS Best in Lexington J H DAVIDSON Propr IK JJDa FIAV SDKAIKHS IN Ornament Bronze and Plain Haruware CUTLERY GUNS AMUNITIO- NMANTELS AND GRATES TILING Carpenters and Itlaclisinitlis Tools Rope Chula Belting FiiuipH Scales Coal Vases mad II nls Fire Irons Bird CagCM stud Mouse Furnishing Goods Barbed stud and Smooth IVirr and ltia lyillitd Paint 56 58 E Main St TelephBel84 ro VolE AND SEE OVERSTREET WILSONS idL1GANL New DrugStore 9 i No 15 NORTHERN BANK BLOCK SHORT ST rWhere Only FirbtClass Goods will be Sold in Every Department at LOWEST PRICES IF R TJ 3D E IsPS Marble and Granite Works 44 W Main St near Broadway LEXINGTON KENTUOKY CEMETERY WORK OF ALL KIND Neatly 1xoenic i ALL Oar7I 1 j I a p How I wrote when things were jollier Hum now A young lady of this city line brought mo a lent from her book containing tho subjoi11- estory that I wrote for the Press some years ago and asked me to republish IfimdiiK tier the Keys wife looked worried and whispered to me that supper was ready but she couldnt find the pantry key that she know tho company was hungry for it was hUe that the sugar was in tho pantry and she couldnt have sup per without the sugar and she couldnt find that key wouldnt I please find it Certainly I said bless her heart dont be troubled Ill find it and started out quito cheerfully I looked the man tIe and the table and the side board it was very evident that it was not in there so I said quite gayly it must be in another room I went in the spare room mid looked on the bed and the wash stand the bureau till the window seiil went in the parlor looked on the piano and tho bookcase up stairs und on all the mantles and beds and chairs I came back and asked if die was sure she had hud it lately She said she was certain that she had it fifteen minutes ago i3o I loked wider the sideboard und under tho rug and under the door mat and the fender I went in tho spare room and looked in the grate and in this water pitcher under the pillows and behind the clock I ex cused myself for interrupting the but I went in tho par fVcalnptuly in the coal scuttle piano and in the gui tar case and shook tho guitar old looked behind tho pictures in the books and in the flow eraces11111shook all the shells then run up to our room and in my boots and in the IeI of Sunday coat and all my clothes und then all wifes pockets I came back into the dining room and found my wife and tho cook and tho house girland two tHtll 10KiwJful h I asked my wife if she was right certain that she had had that key today but she looked so hurt at me that asked her to forgive me kissed her vowed I never would doubt her again and went up stairs declainng I would find that keyr die I got a step ladder ami looked on top the ward robe in a hatbox and a batch of raw cotton und sixteen paper col lar boxes Thou I went in our room ami took everything out of my wifes trunk and shook thorn all carefully and in tho soiled clothes basket and laid each piece in a scperate place on the floor I looker up tho chimney I wont back in tho diningroom and stired in the gravy and run fork through tho butter and looked in the match safe un der all tho plates and under the beefsteak I went in tho kitchen mid looked in tho cupboard the cooking stove the refrigerator the ruttrap the coal pile the der barrel told rat hole I came back to tho parlor and moved the piano and the bookcase and the Vpier table turned the chairs upside down and looked under their bottoms apoliged to the com puny and said we had onlymis placed a key u little They hooked very hungry and seemed tru ly to simpathixe with us I heard my wife and the cook mind the house girl and the two children in the cellar moving cord wood sheet iron empty barrels and llower pots I a ladder and wont up into the attic looked wilder the onions and dii all tho of red and then justclectedllll place 1tllechimneynlul upon the light Ulng rod Coming down stairs I met my wife and like telling ijhel tho key could not possibly bo r the huusc but she looked so troubled and worried that my heart wins touched and couldn t itfjU it but I determined that I would have that key if I had to j 1tu10 the carpets anil all the plastering So I got tho step huhlelulltilookC1OVOl every I window and door in the house feltlin tho mouth and down hllpWthing I shook the broom and looked in tho clock poured out the ink and looked in the cam phor bottle then I como to tho dininirroom and felt inside u LV cold turkey with a spoon looked in my pocket book blew through my flute looked up at the cell ings felt in myhair and down tho back of my neck looked under the cat and opened a can of oysters had to bo opened any lightbrendurned thing might have got in the dough I hated to say so but I told my wife that I would just have to govo it up but Itold openifglycerine I got a hatchet and a anddneighbors and borrowed all their keys I picked out one and when I went to stick it in that stICkingin Needs No Comment LEXINGTON KY Oct 15 1890 Dear Bro Moore When your paper came out I was actually so delighted that I was afraid I couldnt sleep the first night for thinking about there being at least one brave man coming to the front to give his mite and might to help put down dissipation for I had been wondering for years why- it was that the good people of Lex ington seemed so passive and blind to the terrible increase of saloons drunkenness and degredation in their beautiful city and still kept licensing saloon keepers to sell liq uor to destroy their children brothers and neighbors physically mentally and morally for this worldand their everlasting dam nation in the next But they are blind they see the dangerthey know the awful destruction that has been done in the past and get ting more horrible and hopeless for the future Still Ostill they fold their hands rind do nothing Great Godare we not sonic what responsible for the present condition of affairs in not doing what is necessary to put it down Sonic say Am Imy brothers keeper Rut I say we will know some day and that not far in the future what has been required of us Oh how can men and women he careless and indifferent when if they would think and look would see the terrible breakers- ahead Some are horrifiedand tremble and would do something in the sight of God old man to put down the sale of liquor and thus save the souls of their chil dren brothers neighbors andstop the heartrending cries of anguish mnhl CSlair bf4PttilkW = wives but they have not the moralcour age to rise as one man and take by the horns that terrible monster the saloons But if there is no beginning made to do it how in the name of God and non can it ever be accomplished For the monster is increasing in magnitude dayand night and is getting more and more dangerous There is murder lurking there not far outI of sight and allother vices the Devil can conjure up for the down fall of human beings who are fools enough to be entrapped Why is it men are licensedand allowed to ruin our children Is it for the want of courage to stop it And then the elections have much to do with it How can anI election be carried on without whis ky andhow can whisky be gotten without money and where does the money go It goes to the saloon Impel the souldestroyers Yes I say souldeFtroyers One who would sell a fiouldcstroying beverage to man would cut the hearts blood out of that same man or any other for money and not only that would see their wives children wailing for the bread the mone in their pockets would have fed audclothedand not only that they would see Their patrons wives alter existing inn hellon earth bereft of reason screaming in maniacal despair tearing their hair going down to the grave feel ing that all earth and even heav en had deserted them in their un bearable burden It seems a won der that ell righteous men und women dont rise ups one man and curse the liquor sellers in their righteous indignation But ven geance is mine saiththe Lordand I will repay O men do saloon keepers believe there is a God and do they believe that thin have souls to save If they door not they had better look to it and that speedily before it is everlastingly too late In the name of God good men wake up to the situation come to the front rally as one man and go to work God helping to stop the terrible dissipation and corruption in and around Lexington Do you know how miuanysi loons there are in Lexington Just count them Oh there are so unary it makes you tremble to even think of putting down the monster and then too you think on have some goods friends in the liquor business old saloon keepers and do dislike so much to hurt their feelings Do they dislike so much to hurt your feelings as to re fuse to sell your sin or you either drink that would send your souls to hell and then kick you out oft their grogshops if you become troublesome It would be a good thing if all men who make beasts of themselves enough to become drunk could be kicked out if it would learn thorn salutary lesson but the saloon keeper smiles so sweetly how can they refrain to yield him up both sou and body and are line hogs that return to their wallow and belong as much to the saloon keeper as if he had them chained Iant oldand could tell of many saloon keepers becoming rich and their wives Haunting their rustling silks seal skins and diamonds in the faces of the poor brokenhearted wives of the drunkards who had paid for their finery with robberyof his wife and children and his own souls salvalionl I could tell ofmany men accumulating riches for their sons and the saloon keepers rising on the downfall of those sons with the very money their fathers had made by toil and economy Oh good mcnJTrc you willing to make money to support saloon keepers There is not one man who would refuse to help save a cityon fire flyingfromto destroy the whole and leave many poor and destitute But the sale of liquor is worse than a city on fire for the fire only stroys property tho intoxicating liquor destroys property makes a brute of a man ruins his family and destroys his soul I will close as this is an almost inexhaustible subject and my poor feeble pen justiceMay and your ef TenperauuecisAN Orn WOMAN ItcspoiiHihlllt of Stoelihohlors of The plain On October 10 I heard of till first instance of any stockholder who hesitated to pay his stoclrsub scriptiou He said ho was afraid it would lay him liable for debts of the BLADE In answer to this I Will state tin following The articles of incorporation upon which the stock was subscribed stated that no stockholder would be liable to any extent more than the amount of his stock In the second place the articles of incorporation have never been recorded and never will be and will bereturncd to any committee of three gentlemen who mayask for them In the third place if anyre s ittltltlftthteh te any stockholder it would attach at the signing of the stock list whether he ever paid for his stock or not In the fourth lace I have al ready published that any subscri ber Who did not want to pay his stock would be released I simply ask that every one who wants to be released may so inform me at once and I will publish his release ornot at his option rFor The Blade Tile Cranks Catechism Ques What is a crank AnsA crank is a man with a new idea QWill you give a moro accurate and extended definition of wordAA crank is an individual who vigorously pushes an idea generationQ term for crank ALunatictMention names of some cranks or lunatics of ancient timesAChristopher Columbus Gallileo Bruno Joan of Arc Oliver Cromwell Saul of Tarsus and J H Craddock- Q Repeat tho names of cranks of a more recent period A Ericsson Ellison Eadcs Fulton Morse Parnell John henry1stSpencer J G Chinn Andrew Jackson Davis Speaker Keid and Dr Mary Walke- rQAre cranks cowards ARarely if over Q What is a distinguishing characteristic of cranks AThey wear their clothes and their opinions to suit themselves QWhat did the little boy call another little boy on the street yesterday because ho would not smoke a cigarette AIle called him a crank QAre you afraid to bo called a crank ANoQRepeat a verse from the Bible concerning persons who would have peen called cranks in 0 ir day A They wore tempted they wore sawn asunder they wandered in dens and caves of the earth of whom the world was not worthy QWhllt is the mechanical position in tho universe which cranks occupy AThey turn tho wheels of agesKATIIEIUNE CLARK rWORK WELL STARTED CHAIRMAN DICKIE COMMENCES OP ERATIONS THE SOUTH Long Multireel Iliintt Carried Out Dela ware The Virginian Cnrorlnns Geor Sin anti Other Stales Wheeling Intu Line Perfect Orciinlzittlon Jhirv Tho organization fund still grows mid tho Prohibition party may well be gratulated on this evidence of tho strong faith and loyal cooperation of its mem Every day adds to tho total and if contributions are continued it will be short time till organizers are in every state of tho pinion The following shows the condition of tho fund as repotted by the national secretary Oct 111 TIlE Per per Month Grlcr3 James 8plr7 Sr Burger RaoklLJ Libyan 125 EJ nt Jr 100 J She true John 100 Tagland Filler TU 100 J a 100 Mrs 8 Johns to J II Others reportedimriSUlsoi rlteaE1 Payee rowIII SfJ- JWCmf rJ Orrln EVAKIst It a Jmp Sacry 000 ton 900 Active operations have bell coin menced Valuable help has ben sent to struggling states and now minium Dickie has met with the state Commit tees and leading Prohibitionist of soy eral of the states and instituted tontinu operations In Delaware Maryland West Virginia North Carolina Kentucky audennes see well attended and earnest conferences were heM There was much entlinsinsm hut the thought was protninentthrouglr- out that tho meetings were lnsness objective point is organization Contracts will bo mado with go id men ooperationtees and on tho part of the organizer To secure the organizatior of the in every county in the stale so far possible by tho holding of county conventions and the appointujent of county committees To secure thorough precinct ganization on tho plan indicate by the blanks prepared by tho said national committee and todhw utmost to secure prohIeda To make reports as required to both the national committee and stitto mittee awl to nso his best efforts to cure prompt reports from precinct and county committees To urge und as far as cure tho complete organization of the state by tho holding of necessary con ventions the selection of congressional senatorial legislative county mul pre cinct committees To enlist all possible aid from vol tmteer workers giving them needed sug gestions instructions remembering that own work will be imperfect and limited unless ho can obtain active as m and heart cooperation f cm the runic iiini file 01 t party rTo make semimonthly reports to both the national and state committees upon blanks furnished by the national committee To urge till Prohibitionists to sub scribe for read our party papers To solicit and receive fund4n the name and on behalf of state committee and to fully report all moneys received together with the names and addresses of contributors to both committees been prepared for of Prohibition and hopeful voters reports of club work and for quarterly reports of party committees The last irovides for detailed quarterly reports of precinct and county work and it is hoped that this system will be adopted uniformly all states It is not the intention of the manumit teo to limit operations to unoVinized states but to cooperate so far ts possi ble with all states to strengthen und por fect the organization of the party at every point where it is weak Tho work now bosun will tot cease until every county has a strong and working organization SIIII Progress The Now York Standard tho tingle tax organ said recently la it a sign of bet ter days ahead that so much is said and written concerning temperanc Time was when a paragraph on tetaperance problems in the more important dailies looked lonesome when temperance Will touched most gingerly Ikeavole tem perance vocabulary is now in constant use in till papers which mold public opinion Small Proportion most recent statistics 0f arrests for drunkenness in Mtiino in one year show but four arreststo every fVIttbM in Maine they arrest drunkards ivpo would be permitted to jitroll in liberty in other- ta l H Invviitlcatluii askel lioiiuwnit day Pray cubic nn jnii for anjlm t or 7 For tile sir uviry 101lt nilliU tl hlIra li tb4i rituu rs tin ur IhiNihl 5W iwaihily IlIr lkae Iiyiuur odor aiwwiiil Jlut ivrtuiiil usurer away aid tliu alit oer iy 11IlolIIIIII tIIISi hot uityM AIIIIlcIontIIL trade Ju uihat utntl tno Neu4 Ioit ISlvctlnii Convrrloii When urging tho repeal of Prohibition in Rhode Island Thu Provi Journal assured tho voters that license would regulate nil tho disturbing elements Uut now this same Journal says of citrRowdyism prevail to a shocking extent and half a dozen unlicensed places sell liquor with hardly pretense at concealment while vice of every kind is flaunted in the face of tho respectable residents and visitors 1 LITTLE CATECHISM Specimen of The New Eras Orlliodot Teaching QWhnt will have to be dono before the political condition of this country can bo improved AA now political party will have to be built founded on the general princi pIes of good government and not on sec tional strife Q How is a party built ADy votes There is no other way of building n party but by voting for its ticket Qls there any party in the field which represents this general principle of good government tho greatest good to tho greatest number AThero is Tho Prohibition party represents just that idea It favors the prohibition of all forms of wrong and oppression the protection of the people in their right restraint of the strong who would take advantage of the weak tho union of all friends of good govern went regardless of section or one party for that purpose QIiow can the Prohibition party be mado to win ABy voting its ticket and keeping on voting it till it wins MOST IMPORTANT REMINDER Tho Irohlhltlon Reform Long War Need Large laoourae The newspapers almost daily report be quests of large sums of money to differ ent institutions all more or less beneficial and all helping in one way or the other to make the world better or to leviate suffering We have not yet seen however any record of a bequest to help on the work of tho Prohibition party Nearly every week we read of the death of some earn est loyal Prohibitionist who during life gave of his substance to carry on the Prohibition reform No doubt many who have gone to their long rest would gladly have bequeathed some of their theybeenThe Prohibition Trust Fund associa tion was incorporated for the simple pur pose of affording a legal receptacle for such bequests Those who desire to leave money or property for the benefit of advancing the cause of Prohibition can here find a safe trustee Write to Secretary John Lloyd Thomas East Fourteenth street New Yorkcity for full particulars llls tVlllurds CanlllIln Miss Frances E Willards Nebraska campaign was a series of ovations from first to last In Lincoln the opera house was so densely crowded that more than a thousand people were unable to gain admission In n single sentence Miss upfiguresgard to the arrests for drunkenness in Maine and Nebraska In Maine they arrest the drunken man in Nebraska he is so common that he is not arrested ex cept on special occasions Theso may not be the exact words but the substance is here given and tho facts therein stated are literally tru- eJlllslppi Shame The saloon element won in tho Mis sissippi constitutional convention Af l ter by a vote of to iii orePort of IHb temperance committee was adopted which declared agitation of the liquor question at MississippiProhibitionists the M E Church South responsible for the failure to secure aProhibition clause in tho proposed new constitution His pleas for delay wait for public senti ment fro eagerly made an excuse An awful responsibility to rest on a preacher of Christs gospel Sweet Ileaionublenesi They say that Prohibitionists are too much given to tho use of harsh lane guage How is tho following as a saw plo of sweetness from the enemy It Prohibition is a base conspiracy of raving cranks frothing fanatics gibbering lunatics frenzied bigots design ing knaves rotten demagogues and un principled politicians who would apply tho torch of conflagration to the glorious temple of liberty bequeathed us by our fathers and dunce in fiendish revelry around the smoking ruinTroth Seeker Farm Finance Every time the farmer pockets JCO for grain sold to the distiller or brewer he may have the sweet consolation of knowing that tho grain he has just sold will cut oil iis market for of other crops The liquor truffle pays the farmer dont you see He gets a mar ket for 300 of products by sacrificing a market for Great financiering thutlNew Era The People Party The Prohibition party is the natural ally and friend of the wage earner It no leaning toward capitalistic pression While the Prohibition party will probably conservative in its legis lation in roeurd to labor its work will be in tho lino of justice The Prohibi tion party is founded on the principle of equal righto equal opportunities and equal power for all Good Mixture They say said u reclaimed drinker wo make teetotalism our religion wo dont I mix them together and theI ugrco very well know if lose my grace I shall take to drinking and if take to drinking shall lose my grace so keep them together Worker Get Ready Workers get tickets ready and plenty of them and that they are in the handy of true men at every voting pro chit in your county Dont delay this important matter Father Mutliew Fund So far 1701005 hits been raised for tho endowment of the Father Mathew chair in Catholic university at Wash ington Market for Labor When a sober workman spends flOO for furniture ho employs twelve moo at ja a day for ono day to replace on the market tho furniture he takes to his homo When a drunken workman spends for liquor ho gives employ ment to ono man for one day He gets drunk several times on that hundred dollars is arrested by policemen hired by tho tax payers to take care of such cases loses several days work his faun fly is neglected his homo is bare and nil the result of the legalized liquor traffic KAUFMAN STRAUS ft CD Ij t 12 East M aln Street BESTPLACE IN THE CITE ON Dress Goods Dry Goods Domestics Notions =FINE WOOLENS and SILKS A SPECIALTY PRICES WAY DOWN A grand stock of cheap and fine Notions always on Land Give us a oil secure pricesKAUFMAN STRAUS CO andISuccessors to ED S IS RIGGSINEW FALL GOODS CASSEIX PRICEAre Mend Quarters for Everything New and Stylish in t e Dry Goods and Notion Line ELEGANT DRESS GOODS NEW STYLE CLOAKS Underwear and Hosiery Blankets etc All of which can he had at the very lowest prices as they never a1l0Jfan1 one to undersell the- mLOCATION 16 18 WEST MAIN STREETIt JOHN T MILLER WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN HARDWARE IRON STEEL NAILS Belting Packing Lace Leather CUTLERY GRATES c SS WT ST MAIN STREET LEXINGTON KENTUCKY ROBERT KENNEDY I SUCCESSOR TO KNOXVILLE FURNITIMGH Wholesale and Retail Dealer in all Kinds of FURNITURE CLOCKS PIGTURBS CARPETS ic Goods Sold on Weekly or Monthly Payments 51 E Main St Lexington 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Chaa specmlSpecial Course In TypeWriting Arithme tic Penmanship per month If taken nloncrr to those lltulucss Course Illustrated Circulars of tills College contain graduateV Subscibe For Tha Blad l ftppProf of tHi and lead a talk as we leaked agaiiisi an 31cctrTerfl5dpb6t7liSteJ3V Ho isaJjnigbt muof rOPdvhmJ lt N ea ako waB l honu- nee of the Democratic party and is still tlibTolignly Idontificftwitlu the partytf v sa s iiotlonbt that thoProhibitlou question will soon be the great national political is sue lie think thatjProhibttion ought to carry but says that Pro ti itanistsOught 11t to get tp a third parry but accomplish their mllrn SWtthin one of the old J9 thinks that third 11y1R 11tins i11not pro libit Takiug m Usneample pi our most ihtelVigent Deinocrats tVmub tqanatverhis objections to Of course Prohibitionists are cncrnll familiar with the ob notamade to it but we must have t UnSupdnQuioyand precept up on precept 4 I o heard people who said that not did Prohibition not- Iprohi1iith Uktlatanctiort control the personal libertyo men l yTlieTrbhibitioii sumptu ary law actually made the peo pIe drink more than they would otherwise dp Liquor dealers distillers and brewers would have seeing11Qaw were a that Prohibition increased the consumption of liquor then of course these distillers and brew ers ttolcl nil be Prohibitionists as the best means of stimulating their business If distillers and brewers ha found but that the existence of nProhibition law in a State did not effect the consumption of liq uor sSFn that State they would be indjiTeront to any Prohibition contest that might be going on in any State tioncithcr of these ses are some singular filet Iii th e business management o liquor men For instance they nave a great organization called the Liquor Protective Al liance People dont get up pro alliances except to guard Jwtheru selves and their business against their enemies and they dcfflf go into such alliances until t getingjsooflitheir business demands this to eCouhequentluicnhu rf Lrcapl con sid er that it is necessary to defend themselves against its natural en x 0 capitalTemperance in va rious forms have been going on ycarsTheymankind converting individ Gal driiukars by moral suasion and religious appeals Their plans were so ineffectual that brewersand distillers paid no at tention to them further than au occasional smile of contempt for a lot of fanatics But when Pro hibition laid the ax at the root of the tree and proposed to sto bylawtheir milkand when two or three States had forced the whom- liquor business out of their bor ders they did not know where the evil would stop and they be gan to organize and put up their money to stop the encroachment that Prohibition was making up on their trade Now in Nebraska a State where Prohibition has been in force for years the vote on Pro hibitionis to be resubmitted and this Liquor Alliance has set aside 50000to be used in the election to defeat Prohibition Of course these people are not spending this amount of their money for the tification of a mere senti petItya on liquor they would sell in Nebraska if they could get rid of the Prohibition law there would be so much more than 50000that they are willing to spend that much even for a chance to begin their business there With facts like these before him a man can not do full justice to his firstclass broad intelligence by the statement that prohibitIftion does not absolutely and ef fectually prohibit the liquor traflic his be admitted but it is equally true that no Jaw agalnot any crime can effectually suppre S that crime and that tlieftvinurdfer arson robbery counterfeiting forgery perjury carrying weapons and buyingj votes are in daily occurrence in Kentucky in spite of our stages against them If therefore a man objects to Prohibition on the ground that cbu t pel 11BiBtentsame l 1fground argttment that nothingWhcri objection to Prohibition the filet that in his opinion it win never carry it is an admission thatit ought to carry and any man who is a thinker Plight to Uy to nuke it go Non11tl who thoroughly un derstands the of the American government and the design of the elective franchise can decline to vote for anything because he does not think that thingwill win The right to vote is not given to a man as a means of expressing his opinion itS to which side of an issue will win but to ex press his opinion as to which side 1gthe popular side when his con victions are for the other side is not a whit better than the man who sells his vote The two men are equally influenced by merce nary considerations to go against their convictions The purpose of civil government in giving the right of suffrage to its zens is to have these citizens sny to the government what orderfcounted the preferences ol its citizens may proceed to make laws which will do the greatest good to the greatest one of the fundamental principles of good law- When therefore a man votes to be on the popular side and ac tually prefers something diflerent that he could support by his vote he misleads the governmental authority that it is his duty to assist ofdnished English the man who votes to sustain the Democratic party when he really wishes the Prohibition party to succeed wilfully deceives his fellowcitizens It is a fact that you can hardly find a respectable farmer in Dog Fennel will not toll seessucceedf From the Oldest Jllvmlier anil Sunday School Teacher of 1the Christian Church in this Cily Dear CharlieIcall you by this familiar appellation because I have known you from boyhood Yes I knew our father and andcraudfatlmGrknow Qame from gctiuilho highhloodedstock and have good reason to that the true blood of your ancestry runs through your veins so till as honesty and integrity are concerned I knew Charles Chilton Moore your father only to love and honor him as a Christian gentleman and your grandfather Barton W Stone needs no com mendation from me for his char acter as a noble hearted Christian gentleman and preacher are known and of all men About the first vote I ever cast was for that noble old genuine ChiltonpMoore for a seat in Legislature His opponent was James G McKinney who was andevisiting saloons I only call your attention to this incident which took place when you were a boy to show time manners in politics away back ollderThen the hour to close the polls drew near it appeared that Chilton Moore was smartly in the lead of McKinney Now was the time for McKinney and his party led on by some whiskyloving Demo crats to lay their schemes to de feat Moore They put up the plea that they had the right to keep the polls open until twelve oclock at night Moore objected at first but such a finall1consented dark came on Yes they chose darkness rather than light bo cause they had dirty deeds to perform I was told on pretty goodauthority that they caught ip n dirty old fellow from the country and voted him three times by changing his clothes and the judges did not have light like we have nowtallow- dips were our principal lights thou They were so hard run ward the last that they dressed up one of our fancy women in mens clothing and voted her for Mo Kinney Well when the town clockstruck twelve McKinney Theyplaedfliesare game on played on us at our lust Railroad election but they did their dirty work ji the broadopen daylight without the least compunction of cOlleC enCfIAnd is it not horrible to think that gentlemen socalled filling responsible in our dear old tOjswork under the guise of that t sacred word called I sometimes DemocracI possible for the President Thomas very father of Democracy could raise his old gray head from the sleeping tomb where it has lain some hundred years could look out and sec that venerated old flag containg the stars and stripes the ensign ofall pure Democracy floating over this corrupt whisk cursed Democratic oily socalled we might well suppose that the poor old President would sink back to his retirement with disgust told 8ayHOh how has the mighty old flag fallen Now in conclusion I will say that 1 have read the last two gum hers of The Blade especially the last one with much pleasure and I do feel so much more encouraged to think and realize that the Prohibitionists here in this community have a mouthpiece through which we can nature the grand principles we advocate known and be rend every week by every one and from my very heart of hearts I say go on and the very God of Peace will be with us for we know assuredly that we have the truth Gods truth and if we have the truth i is mighty and will prevail and we should never go hack against the truthas some have done but stand steadfastly andjinmovably and we willconquer for it is Gods work You have what little influence have and also the little pittance gave towards this work are welcome to it and as mucimorc ifnecessary to occomplish this grand reformatory work- WILLIAM YAK PErT To the CoviiiRtoii Common wealth DEAR SIR I said some things in the BLADE lately that made all the editors in Lexington cry and say I was naughty and that they were going to take all their doll rags and not play with me any more I was just as sorryas could be because I felt so and out in the cold and I told everybody so I was like a country dog to town and when all the town dogs jumped on me and wipe up the street with me until t looked like a pocket edition- of a Louisville cyclone ha been around there all the pa peril in the State exceptyou it was not their funeral that i was a little family racket among Lexington editors and with e editor but you there was sonic fitflesympalny ftTrVtio dog under the bottom Your big neighbor across the river the Cincinnati Commercial gave away to its jot lity in a column or so all in my favor The Courier Journal spoke in very complimentary terms of me and the Frankfort Argus came out like a little man and said there ought to be some more Moores to clean out the po liticalrottenness of Lexington I quote from memory Some papers outside of Lexington saw cause to read me a lecture but everybody except you put a little cream in the mustard plaster that he stuck o me just to up the appearance of scorcillugme as thought party fealty demande- that the should do really fix hug things so that it would no burn so after all They went through the per formance of martyrizing me and when they had me tie to the stake they put a lot of bugs all over me and in the dar played tend like it was sure enough fire But you joined in with the Lexington brethren of the quill as if you felt yourself personally offended at the crusade I was making on Lexington whisky and the role of a rank outsider as one of my correspondents expressed it Now I am not objecting to to the fact that you went for me but I am only complaining that you did not do it in better style while you were about it I want to elevate the standard of Kentucky journalism und if you had only dropped me a postal that you were goingto blast me I might you by giv ing ou some pointers that would hive made your article so much stronger In all the racket that the little tiling raised the only literature worth putting in a scrap book that anybody wrote were some verses written for the Lexington Press by Judge Mulliguu I speak thus positively because I know he is the only man in the town that has the genius to do it But it miscarried andno body paid any attention to it because the times were too hot to be tooling with poetry when everybody wanted the straightest ar ticle of the Kings English aliithename my paper it in good style and I believe- th tt since things have cooled BEST CO NEW T STORE AcnuoRrrteTnCOY 111IIe 1 CHOICEST Teas Coffees Baking Powder China Glassware tumid QiieeitHware Given ns Premiums to PUHCIIASJDHS Goods Delivered Free of Charge Great Atlantic Pacific Tea Co 137 East Maui St Next to Post Oflico Lexington C S BRENT Gr ain Seeds Hemp and Wool23 A 21 SOUTH BKOAJMVAY KENTUCKYtdown some the Judges poetry would be appreciated if the Press would publish it again But what I was going to say damageIwhole State by failing to make good points I dont know you personally do not even know the name of the editor of the Com monwealth but from tie tone of the article1 think I maysafely assume tTlut 1 am writs to some one who is quite a youth and I hope that the frost on my head will pardon my presumption in thus addrcssiugou said Know your opportunity If you had only stopped after you had made your first point that the gentle ardorIof political discussion were those who had been honored by the people of this the finest country in the world with the usual tribute to bluegrass suchthavedOr if you did not happen to otf quotation would have done fo there is nothing that so excites t r ti ItLQf the average relyapapcr reader as for an edi tor to write something that the reader aforesaid cant under J have done this with great efloct for years and if the BLADE- d 1s make a journalistic success thistTurn over in the back part of Vjbsters dictionary and you can finu plenty of these expressions can attribute them to anryou Horace Virgil Latin author that yoi may happen to have heard ah nit Jut must learn to ounbe an to spoil the effect of what thedpoortCc vington perhaps but it sounded awful up suppose anyone of the gen tle men I was criticizing could asktate for your without nny- spDcialfiuanciallllconvenience to himOne of them is the only heir to a Lundsome estate and owns the whole town of Qranard all to Another one lives in elegant style huts a good fortune now a better one coming und bus a suJurj has one of the the country finest cbuntry and a fine office What you said is calculated to injure their financial standing Then you went on to say that f persecuted some gntlemcn be cause of their rrligion or their wiiirofreligion Now perhecutmg eee time idea of my a man for his religion aiuliis want of religion at one an he same time is so incomprehensible to the average under standing that your readers cannot clearly appreciate what it is unit you mean to say I did JrVou had stated that I per their religion or thmirhpersecuted them for their wfort of religion Either one would have been accepted as true by the presd and politicians of the Stair but you fixed it so that eucty clause of your sentancc nell tralised the other Jjyou will observe these sug gestions you maysucceed in journalism when you arrivo utI yeacs of greater discretion Subscribe for Time Blade t t PY AVAILAB THE MILIARD CO S Mini 1O AV Sin in Ht Lexington Ky MUSIC and AR- TDEALERS Pianos Organs Etchings and Artistic Framing rrHE- PtRFECTION SURREY Carriages Pluutons Buggies Road Carts Wagons ofall kinds 1IUCES De LONG ft GO i1rRE GUNS lUANTLESII ESS And the Largest Improved Agricultural Inii 1eiiieiita HAY PRESS- ESDeLONGCo INow AllSteel Frame McCormick Hinder The Unequaled Standard Mower Vnmiiver Corn Planter CultiatorsI TIB1 WO- ODDRUGGIST 43 E Main C LEXINGTON KY HE3srVOGTD1DArI IC IN Staple and FancyGroceries FRUITS POULTRY AND VEGETABLES Special attention paid to Country Produce Telephone call 177 TERMS 30 DAYS CoreBroadway and Short Sts D aJ L mADrDJh1lf111t IJU ARE RECEIVING DAILY All the STew and Tobby Styles IN t 1It e fi e CHINN ROSS TODD H SaOES stir A FEW S ECTAIjTIESOUR CELEBRATED ENGLISH tRAIN WAIKENPHAST dryOUR are forheavyOur stock of Moils Shoes is complete from the highest to heaviest conE AXI SEE OOS ASSOItTMEVF AM PRICES S BASSSTT r SONSo jAs T MAIN 8TH 1i The Cheapest place in the City to Purchase DRUGS TOIL T ARTICLES Pens Papre and Stationery of All Kinds Jr EDGARS PHARMACY 70 AND 72 EAST MAIN STREET Alt Electric Car l ns S Ilie Door T G CALVERT 23 EAST MAINE 4v dtl1eI1rgeian mosv Soirtjileti Stick 4verj Fbrought to Lexington WATCHES 6 DIAMONDS Solid Silver Plated Ware FrellCl Aulcrcall ClocksBronzes Fancy Goods Sole Agent for the celebrated Agasiz Timing Watch Diamond betting specialty Fine Timing Watchoa repaired and warranted FINE TAILORING FALL 189O We have opened and are now displaying the handsomest lino of Foreign Piece Goods wo have over shown Wo have increased our facilities for tint work and can slow yon ns handsome al1l1stylish garments us any made in this country Look through our stock and platy your orders early before the full rush comes All work turned out promptly Wilson Hunt and Co WHITE I3ALLuL BAKER BROS No 12 NORTH LIMESTONE ST Manufacturers and Dealers in Carriages Buggies Phaetons etc ItcimiriiiK promptly done anti on Uhuiiuhlc terms They are also agents for FRAIZER CELEBRATED CARTS Wo also have a stock of PONY CARTS on hand COME AND SEE U- SBAKER and BROS r n DIV q fCtEGIQ Prosthetic dentistry separated from operative dentistry They do not belong to each other and should trot keep com paiyA Prosthetic Dentist is one who gives his whole time to arti ficial teeth lottti ins the filling to be done by operative dentistssI take all impressions und do all work myself thus avoiding all risk My charges will he as light as lean afford to make them Youths differ more thus do Iacesuo two being alike therefore no fixed price can be given until alter an examination Teeth made on material which patients may prefer 1 did all the platework for the Into Dr S Drigga during a period of tW lye years all of Dr H 1 PIIICS work whilst ho was in Lexington und have made tliousandri of sets of teeth for other dentists Confining myself excliibively to the prosthetic branch of den tist ry I will of course do superior work Cleansing extracting and straightening teeth are included in my specialty No llillg for misfits Oflico and laboratory ill Johns Building directly over Mrs SOMKHIB Parlors JntraiicpQn Street opposite Government Building iu tlrIiIII F B BOSWORTH Iii it

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