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Digital page images are linked to the text file. r TtTTTTfifTRAJL 1S BLADE I Vol1No r 41 Lexington Kcntucliy atc Yearrd The Slat of the Alliance Peo pleMore Favorable to Pro hlbllloii As might reasonably have been expected from the beginning the split1heronow that onehalt of it will go to the Prohibitionists and the other will simply be an annex to Democracy or a subdivision of speciallelfislution dorse the resolutions lately passed at Ocala Florida form one sec tion and those who combined with the Prohibitionists to elect Kern and Helvorson to Congress from the West lately form the other party The cause of the rupture was the decision of the Ocala party that no negro could be a member of the Alliance The call of the other party for a meeting at Chi cago on the other hand invited the Colored Farmers Alliance to meet with them Of course the discrimination against the negro as a raco was unjust To discriminate against the uneducated regardless of 3 race is right anda charity to the negro to induce him to edu cato himself platformcation for female votes It should have demanded it for both sexes Prohibitionists could not sym pathizo with any organization that would refuse fellowship to sucha man as our Black HectorJGeorge Clark a fentidays since the e liars Su1fJ Mr re nIsf jitPltmwl a man wHo told the story r cle Tom to Mrs Stowe Ho is a good Prohibitionist I talked a few days since withI a mulatto reputed to be of one of the most prominent Presbyterian clergymen of this State lie was a Prohibitionist and his tongue indicated the probable correctness of his distinguished clerical descent 1 could not consent to endorse anyorganization that would do bar such men because they are not white The Western body of the Na tional Farmers Alliance has en dorsed Prohibition and the indi cations are that theywill fuse with thiQ Prohibitionists Such labor leaders as Powder ly Beaumont and Travelliek are pronounced for Prohibition and are in sympathy with the Western body of tine Alliance men It seems to me tint a fusion of thisIVUstern division amTPow derlys people and the Prohibi is almost u foregone con clusion The fusion will not re quire the Prohibitionists to modIcrate in the least their on the liquor traffic but may de mand of them some sympathy with some of the more conserva tivo principles of the Alliance peopleIwe never any of these our National plat form will allow this I have always doubted the ex of but two planks in our platform one is prohibition of the liquor traflic and the other is woman suffrage I object to nay class legislation for farmers or else I am opposed to dictating rates to railroads because it is unjust The railroads are the private propertyof those who own them they have the right Yorktoto Chicago from 13 to 1 as New York Voice complains that they have done and on the same principle they have the right to 100 for that faro or to take people for nothing Over the turnpikes of our country the law should watch with a jealous eye and dictate the terms noon they shall conduct their business because the turn piko companies take the roads that originally belonged to the nblic crud the people to ray for traveling over them in their improved condition while the right of locomotion was ono of the inalienable rights of freemen Railroads are the original creation of those who build them No reasonable man would deny the right of a railroad company to tear up its road or to cease to operate it all if it thought best t do so without any apology to anybody for its course It it would have the right to do this it would of course have a right to adopt any policy in its own management that would be dole terious to itself or to anybody else just as a man would have a right to charge an inordinate rent for his house or to destroy it en tirely if he preferred Sonic such minor objection sonic of us may have tc swallow in a coalition with the Alliance men but if they accept our view of Prohibition without any com promise wo may afford to make some concession upon extraneous issues on the broad principle that we will secure the greatest good to the greatest number by securing Prohibition The question naturally arises with which side in the division will the Kentucky Alliance peo ple go Kace prejudice does not exist in while the interests of our people are equally divided between the North and the South and the prejudices of our people are for the South probublbepeople of Kentucky anda part ot them will coalesce with the Prohibitionists upon tho same terms that the Western Alliance people do In the coalition the Prohibition party will take precedence upon the ground of its superior age and of its thorough organization The rock which there is the greatest danger that we willi brtaK will bo the naming of the coalesced party The New York Voice in alluding to this says ofI changedIimportance that weeding to the tmrl e iij PIinciVle11itS name In all the utterances of the New York Voice that is the first sen timent in it to which I had to dissent Wo must hold to the name Prohibition until the thing that we want to prohibit has been most effectually prohibited and then it will sweetly fall into innocuous desuetude for want of oil to feed the flame just as the name Abo lition wont out when the thing it opposed was abolished For myself even after that II must admit a sort of sentimental preference for tho old name butI after that andnot before I am willing to hear argument on the advisability of changing the name Two hundred thousand of the finest women in1 America are pledged to the support of Prohibition and they are tho power behind thxrthronoMn cultured Prohibition cause has ready existed twice as longas any other third PllltJex cept Abolition ever did and it has done this with no more ap proach to schism or rupture than the difference of opinion about Woman Suffrage and that has simply been the occasion of put ting a pleasant seasoning of Attic salt with our discussions With the press of both the old parties it and with no political machineryof its own and without a single act inconsistent with the character of the highest stylo of Christian gentlemen it has grown from 9678 1880 toI 249945 that were counted in for ovenIlicans all over tho United States as we know it to have been here in Lexington Wo have simply to stand firm on our position und tho Northern wing of the Alliance will cone to us und tho Southern wing will go back to its allegiance to Dem ocracy The Northern wing coming to us will weaken Republicanism while the Southern wing going to Democracy will strengthen Democracy then reinforced Dent ocracy will crush decimated Re ublicauism and then crushed Republicanism will come to Pro hibition then the combine of Republicanism Western Alliance Powdorly people and Prohibi tionists with Prohibition in th oj lead will crush Democracy und then the angels will string up their harps and learn sonic now songs for tho Millennium Political Heresy Jit TlicjYcw oYork Voice In time Now York Voice of January 22 is an editorial under the heading Shall wo have a Union of Forces that has in it the first inkling of political heresy that I have ever seen in that paper thoughtinis most likely to get stranded I think tho Voice is without exception the grandest neVspii per in tho worldand I thinjk that this is the sentiment t every Prohibitionist Itsafter incca have been so universally trustworthy that too that having gotten in a habit o accepting its views withoijt crit examination we are to swallow any error that it almost certainly must make sometime just like a trout takes down a piece of red flannel because ho does not stop to examine The Northern Alliance people arc makingsumoQ temptinfbaits for us at an anxious to get in with them and so am I They have gotten just as close up to us as they can get without coming into the true faith and they have drawn a lino on the ground and said Now we like you mid we want j to help you and we want you to help us timid if you will just step across togetherThats said to Jesus in the temptation scripture alike and the Devil quoted it just as accurately as Jesus alai and then said we are so nearly together in our understanding ot these things thatin asmuch as I am on th P side and you are under a loudI and you dont seem to have very ntauy frfiuslsament hjliijifueu ttrnsttu e the least concession we will have togetherBut fool hut and nearly two thousand years afterward we are glad that he didnt I am satisfied that Prohibition will come and lam not so anxious to rush it through by a compromise as Itun to have it so complete and uncompromised- that when we do got it there will be people who in two thousand years from now will be glad that we stuck it out Mahomet is my model Prohi bitionist Twelve hundred years ago he instituted Prohibition among his people They may have faults but to out hog meat or drink liquor are two things that you cannot get them to do to this day tail in the wars of the Crusades his followers were just as tin above time aye browing wine bibbing European Christians as the Greeks at Platrca Salamis and Thermopylae or the followers of William Pell or Kos ciusko or of Washington at Valley Forge and Yorktown were grander than the Yankees that murdered tho Indian women the other day ProhiIbitionistsProhibition party tryingtothat there could not be a Prohi bitionlpartybe a Democrat out of tho Demo cratic party or a Republican out of tho Republican party It we could not finda Democrat in the Republican party I cant understand how we could finda Republican in the Prohibition party or a Prohibitionist in the Republican party or tho partyThis some good and intelligent pe plo who vote with other parties to flatter themselves that theyarc good Prohibitionists because they do not drink and hope the saloons will be down is tho hardest withshorein that he was just as good a Prohi bitionist as I was I was somewhat surprised to hen that ho was a Prohibitionist as I thought I know pretty near all of thom personally or by reputation and 1 expressed my sir prise and congratulation JIo then explained that ho never drank a hug and used his influence agpWitit but voted with time beingProhibltionist a of Prohibition saloon keeper in tho without the support of tl ofmen I could destroy thlan saloon business of myself milo this p highly creditable to hearts of time Editors of as political policy it tjIlnot do Just as certain as any moral demonstration cftrf be made wo are absolutely ri in our propo sition to annihlUe the liquor completelytand tho least con 3ion or com promise of that position will bo exaggerated by our ol and construed into aul abandonment of our purpose porntaf ondary and subsid of any other pblitibaLnartv If therefore wo pooU jtorces with them there is or ecesslt some deterioration of the importance of our issue and wo will just about as soon putt own the liquor traffic as the Missouri Compro mise would put rlovn the slave traflb All the people ii America who really and conscientiously want to put down this t affic will nat urally gravitate us and we must stand still ltP let them gravitate Stan still andsee tho salvationjOf jio Lord and cold er wm tvn our enemies as it did in the d iys of Moses In the same split ofconcilia tion tho Voice ls to a maui who objects to tho m fi9 Prohibition I chanqGdTo and allow that a man can bjn ntemberf our party while t with sotciek other party sim itmneans annt1 ProhtpiyBlade ounce and that the e1eIItfackfor 011007 auL believe the Kentucky Prohibitionists willal most ton man see it the same wayIf I am wrong in my understanding of this editorial I want the Voice to say so and if I am right in interpretation of it I want the Voice to reconsider its position and abandon it if it conscientiously can If it was any other Prohibition paper in world we would not regard it as so important but the Voice is the National organ and it must voice the sentiments of our people If I know the mind of Kentucky Prohibitionists we want to be designate Ias Prohibitionists We expect others to object to our name just as they do to our prima ciples but we do not care We do not know anything of any such thing as a ProhibitIon- ist out of the party We have no test of fellowship except that a man votes with the party and thatmiake him in tI101 lie may get druuij irtJand twice on for the Democrats hut if ho always voles for Prohibition he is a true blue Prohibi tionist v t Suits Him ton 401 January 28 1S91 C C Moore Lexington Ivy DeAn BUOTHER The Blade has regularIfelate it is the Blade I read time Voice and Southern Journal but tho way the Blade emits suits mo to a T Give it to them Brother Charley and if they do not like the way you talk let thom some out and bo men Am not prepared to send you my subscription now but will do so in the near future Send sum plo of time Blade to time lollowmngmanes Le Grand HlwkinsE GillgBrown Salviea Ky Respectfully ROIIKKT PiiEsrox Sulvisa Ky lima Article About Rev Sweeney My remarks in mv last issue about Rev Sweeney have caused considerable sensation As to their justice and propriety I must leave my readers to decide though I have reason to bplieve that in t- many instances it will be objected l The enormity that the Prohibition opposing is sttpendousand- is pervading everything from the capitol at Washington down to the- magistrates office I stand almost alone in this State in my efforts in journalism to oppose it I am limited in my means of publication and have not at my command long daily columns with which to meet the apologies for the liquor crime that come froui every quarter of the State- I am driven in defense of my cause to put into tin most con densed form my rejoinders to these apologists Many of them far more trenchant in the handling of their pens in the discussion of theories and political abstractions than I am Hut when we come to hard facts about tho horrors of the liquor iniquity I have the advan tage of them These are all the more striking andstartling when they invade the of those we know mydesireknow that every intelligent man is wrong who fails to proclaim in un OPPOsitiontowhich is just and right though I may be honestly miHtaken in m view it seems to mo that all orI tributarytoThis is written after the article headed The Outlook for a State Organ is partly in type and it may be that the whole matter has occurred opportunely for the good of the Prohibition It may bymnnv partIan instance of would unfit me for the editorship of a State organ This is an im pprtant thing to be considered if my name is to he used in that connection Probably I might bo more conservative as an employededitor of a stockcompany not a thing about which Ican speak with assurance I have been raisedon a far- mfandiammihlrwfth the peculiari- nif i look at a thing that presents to me spadeINo personal friendship or sym pathy for me must be allowed to handicap the cause Journalistic Courtesy generositythat Transcript and Leader after the passedbetweenilv willing to publish my column mcation to assist me when I had fallen into an error about the Green and Lone affair- I cant say that I hope they may helpthenconservative policies they should Mopethey Daughters College New Term Tem lrrrl3thnt Avere eonTpelledtb ask for a term of rest last full have returned and resumed their old places at the college A faculty eight teachers now present ofI busy at work all ofwhom were MayPotcetMusic class and is perfec- tsatisfitctionIlarrodshurg DemoI crat rThe Queen City Likes The Blade CixcrxxATi January 27 1891 G C Moore Esq 1111checkscription to the Blade So fur 1 like the cut of your jib There is nothing like being loyal to the truthand it must sooner or later win the day Yours for cause sink or swim J It MARTIN cauu and mtrcei In Lynn Ins tho city authorities hiivo granted eight additional licenses becnnsc tho increase of population per it tell it At too meeting tho overseers of too poor reported their ex pauses for iho quarter to have beennear ly No one soeinn to have seen tho relation between the two transac tion but ncvio are so blind as those who will not pea Alcohol anil Dr Andrew Clark UIluIing statement that in which ho connected per cent of patient aro sick from this tuo of alcohol alone und Dr Start in tells us that he has observed that over threequarters of nil skin diseases are caused by intoxiet hug drinks TAYlOR HAWKINS Show below a few specials which merit your attention and which it will pay you to read and remember This is our Specialty Good values ou J rlWKKnillKJ the Cheap lab e We carry the Large l stock in Lexington LA t Hi LaceyE f rf5 fi f patterns this season are W UliL I STime and w think we have I i 21111111 prettiest in the market Some things at 710 16c Ucd1I1d Gray Flannel FLANNELSAll at Prime Cost We have Bargains on every counter Come and too Dont forget the place is 3XTO 7 West tintTHOMPSON BOYD llnunrnchL1c lS 01 FINE SADDLES HARNESS RACE AND RING EQUIPMENTS A SPECIALTY No 53 EAST MAIN STREET liEINTON KYu SSOESA FEW SPECIALTIESOUR CELEBRATED ENGLISH RAIN WALKENPHAST 2M250 wear like iron keep the feet perfectly dry lift gAimAiS yO CAL FgND HEAVY CAP SHOES ar 1ii calf lined have extra Tap Soles 54 00 make elegant shoes for heavy wear Our stock of Menu Shoes is complete from the highest to heaviest COME AXI SEE OUR ASSO1CT3IEXT AND PRICES S BASSETT c SONS an EAST MAIN STREET nrEMIirrr Da mADD ARE RECEIVING DAILY All the New and Nobby styles IN q e ti3 i3 1t1 OD8 OHINN ROSS TODD X3ENRY VOGTDEALI a IN Staple and FancyGroceries FRUITS POULTRY AND VEGETABLES Special attention paid to Country Produce Telephone call 177 TERMS 30 DAYS Cor Broadway and Short Sts DI T4RCED Prosthetic dentistry separated from operative dentistry They do not belon to each other and should not keep com pany artificialI take all impressions and do all work myself thus avoiding themMouthsfixed price can begiven until muter an examination Teeth made on any material which patients may prefer I did all the platework for tho late Dr S Driggs during a periodof otherdentists twelve years I did all of Dr 11 J Porros work whilst he was dentistryCleansing extracting andstraightening teeth aro included in illJohnslluildingon AValnut Street opposite Government Building F B BOSWORTH r 7JI I l- oJj j ti Our Jos Indian Whisky Story It is a little interesting that the second issue of the Clarion publishedtown should have had in full the Senators famous Indian whisky storyUnder the most favorable cir cumstances when the story was freshand new it was bad enough but since the poor Indians have inIcomand from the whisky that Government has allowed to bo taken among them this story seems to be peculiarly inappro priateThe story is not merely lackin in any moral peculiarity but as a joke could never elicit applause from anybody higher than saloon people and ward politicians An end man at a negro minstrels that would get oft such a gag would be hissed by the peanut galleryI laugh at Col Stoddard Johnstons Texas badger story or Proctor Knotts story of the Htog that learned to talk as Col Swope used to tell it Though neither of them were exactly the right thing for print I would rather print them than Senator Blackburns story be cause they are funny to any man who has any fun in him I do not fancy Senator Jos style but I have nothing peraona againt him and I hate to see th man continually persecuted by storyItgotten into newspaper stereotype and from present ape pearances is liable to be stuck into the newspapers of the future a long time after people have for gotten who Jo Blackburn was If the story had been told by Blackburn about somebody else it might have had an element o fun that was adapted to some low comprehensions But for a United States Senator to mak- hinselfthe hero of a story the only point of which is that he and an untutoredsavage were equally ardent in their devotion to whis as a style of wit I think i KentuckyOfnally printed to advertise the Senator among the whisky peo ple slit I ilea t think the Senator needs any advertisement in that department and I think th Democratic party could do some thing for the reputation of the State by paying the stereotypors to suppress that story It is possible though that both the Republicans and the Prohibi tionists would take up the publi cation of the Senators story if they saw the Democrats were neglecting it A Grand Success The entertainment given b the Loyal Temperance Legio- last n Friday night was a gran success They had a delightful program and it was fully carried out and every one was pleased The names of those who took part in it are as follows Misses Sallie Hamilton Florence Skin ner Maggie Hostetter Whitney Hostetter Katie Lemon Grace Hamilton Bessie Sandusky Lula Rollins Rosa March Marie Lizzie Brooks Cal AlIArnctt George Wilson David L Zimmerman This band is do- ingIn good work and their number Is rapidly and it is hoped they may do much good in this city Issue Bun Out The orders for the issue of the Blade of last week were not filled in some instances because the edition was all sold out Please do not write any more for itEDITOR NUGGETS OF NEWS Good and Had from All Part of the Prohibition Iluttleground On Sept 29 tho order of Sons of Temperance will bo fifty years old According to Tho Chicago Tribune Chicago has 5400 licensed saloons In France the proportion of public houses is one for every eightyeight of tho inhabitants In San Francisco 7000 voters have itioned for the closing of liquor saloons Canada government has appointed a prison commission to make inquiry regarding tho causes of crime Dr Butcher n South Pierre Dak druggist convicted of liquor selling was sentenced to sixty days in u jail and a fine of 13000 Saturday Sept 20 was observed aa temperanco day at the Edinburgh Scot land exhibition nnd attracted 41033 penitentiary at Joliet tains 1331 convicts only twentyfour of whom are women Within tho police district of London England there are over 14000 saloons The American breweries sold to glish syndicates are reported as having paid upward of per cent dividends the past two years During the last eighteen months Bos ton has sent 1250000 gallons of ram to j r OUR WHITE RIBBONERS WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO MAKE THE WORLD BETTER AND HAPPIER- tlgwk Amou the CldldrrnScIenoe Tract lag Tenperaneeclionls rr Ttncbr Flower and Picture to lunch the Sick and lrtonerwta Won the lliumer Tho reports of the different depart ments of the W 0 T U work are cheer- Ing enough to convince tin gloonil at pessimist that the future grows brighter They furnish a most complete refutation of tho statement made by Its nonpartisan defamers to the effect that W 0 T U usefulness is a tiling of the past Tho last years work proves that tho W T U can afford to be consistent with Its principles and stand loyally by tho Prohibition party that stands by It It proves too that tile cause of human congThe secretary report shows a gain of inoinlcrshlp of however by a loss of 7261 tliroiiKli secession In Iowa and Pennsylvania u n t gala of lC2ij work has received healthy stimulus and Mrs Barnes tho chief of this work soL We have larger loyal paid up membership than ever before most notably In Oilo Pi nimylviiula and Vermont I went titan to say this last year wo have gained more young men as honorary member tliiin ever befoie lost year we luul nail this year 8000 Olryomitf vomen are gaining an experience In flimiclnl matters that tho mothers dldntharr Thoyounjr women have raised for all uul poses SHKW THE nisixa So far as now reportol thcr ore 3892 companies of Loyal Temperance Lglons now organized with an enrollment of 240000 children pledged against liquor profanity and tobacco Donbtlo s there tonpmnnceeing Forty eompinles of the Loyal Temperance Legion hove lmiJ1 formed In Pennsylvania one hundred ami four In Now York sixty In Illinois The western states and territories deserve great credit for grand ndvuneiH In spite of obstacles The states of Massachusetts and Illinois lava giver he best financial support to this department New York has the largos number of graduates on the diploma plan seventeen Wisconsin planftions of Loyal Temperance Legions have been very hcpful Indiana leads In Inea fountain as a memorial to our Presi dents birthday This state utilized Miss Wllhirdb birthday this year September In raising money for tho onsment fund TEJIPEItANCE Mrs Hunt speaking of this important work said In trembling at my own temerity backed by tho noblest constituency the world ever produ Jed pleaded forepassage a law requiring touching physiology with special rofereno to oifects of alco holics and by guise Michigan and New Hampshire folowed the sane year The Legislature New York in enacted such a law and the next year nine states including the great State of Pennsylva nia and tho smaler though perhaps M Influential State of Massachusetts en acted similar laws Then wo wont to the Congress of the Unite States The bill passed the Senate unanimously and there were only eigLt voted agnliut it In the Houi We bad no hooks of the kind desired floodyyearsddlstiugilalie iiun nod women was sent topullaltersusklurthenitobringtheirboons abstinence nnd tint publishers surren dered on ton ton tout would revise those hooks Lmi year I reported to you wo bad four separate series well graded In which the nature of alcohol hygleno too Incluulngphyslcal culture In all Its departments were lucor the work of legislation has been going steadily on Virginia has recently enacted a law and the only states now having no law providing for scientific temperance Instruction In pub lie schools are Texas Mississippi CIIullnaJKeutllek Mary Allen West reported that due ing the year there hud been held twenty six state Schools of Methods or In con nectlon with Cliautauquns county or lutercounty schools with an aggre gate attendance of over fifteen thousand These schools have been generally con ducted by presidents of states or Na tional superintendents with National and state superintendents as teachers In their especial departments These schools occupy from one or two days for the county schools to two weeks in the Chautauquas Tho number of de partments discussed of course varies with the lengh of session the com blued curriculum of those schools swoops the wl ole circle of the W 0 T U work Must Inttivyt had been aroused In evangelistic Jtiveulo Sum day sclloul eduuu ional and foreign work and parliamentary usage This last department Is In special charge of Mrs S Henjuniln associate superin tendent who has done griind work par ticutary In a sI Ins of juirllniiieuUtiy institutes Mr Ferdinand Schumacher of Akron Ohio having offered to the National end as much more tint organization will cover fill the purpis of establish ing a WC T Tialiilng School the offer wits gratefully accepted by the Executive Committee anti a committee appointed to prepare plans for commenc ing th work This committee reported In favor of holding an experimental Sure the Hoy Educational laws says George Will lam Curtis in the November Harper take no account of the tough veterans of illiteracy they contemplate the fants the youngling illiterates whoso minds are not stiffened into immobility against the alphabet Restrictive liquor laws likewise leavo the old topers to their probable fate and address them selves to those who be saved from acquiring the habit THE RUM REVENUE SECRETARY WINDOM SHOWS THE GROWTH OF THE LIQUOR TRADE How DUtlUerlr Multiply Under Cordial Sympathy Tho Nation Prinking Itscll to DRthA Few Srrloiu Question tc Christians and Patriotic Cltlcens With no desire to twit those temper ance men who express the bona that tho liquor traffic can bo prohibited through tho republican party but with a fervent hope that thoy will take the lesson of this report to heart we submit the following extract from Secretary Wlndoms last report and urgo the fol lowing inquiries If one year of Cordial sympathy In creases the production of distilled liquors by 19568188 gallons and of fer mented liquors by 2412011 barrels how many years of republican government will It take to cut this whisky busl ness off at tho tap stop tho manufact uro If one years administration govern meut by litho party of moral Ideas re sults in adding 1802 distilleries to the 4319 previously operating how many years will It take tho aforesaid party to Insure the virtue and sobriety of the people and the purity or tho homo If It Is true that God sends rain rain makes corn corn makes whisky and whisky makes democrats why doesnt the republican party stop the manufacture of whisky so as to prevent the making of Its democratic foes With these conundrums submit the following from the Secretary of tho Treasurys last report These are of fiolnl figures for which thank God the IVoblbltlonlsts are not In any way ponsible The total production of distilled spirits for the fiscal year ended Juno was 111101738 gallons the total production for the fUculyenrend d June was 91ia gnlons making an Increase In the pro luul Ion of dIe tilled spirits fdr the ilsnul year just ended of 19903188 gallons The number of barrels of beer pro duced oaring the fiscal year ended June was ifffifllOU Ti e numher of barrels produced during tint fiscal yanr ended June was 25119853 mak lug an Increased production for the fiscal year just ended of 24420 barrels Tho total receipts from tho taxes on tobacco clpas otgnroltes snuff etc were 3395899100 The receipts from tho same source for the tlserly eronded Juno 30 were S318C06C042 making an Increase fortlm fiscal yeurjuut ended of 2092130W During the flscil year ended June 6211 distilleries of all kinds wore in operation while for the fiscal year ended June 4319 dUtlllorlcs of all kinds were operated making nu Increase In the number of distilleries operated for the fiscal year just ended at 1802 The quantity of spit Its 10 IIJNI for the fiscal year ended June was 4176208gailons Tuequautlty gauged for the fiscal year ended Juno 301889 was 288917407 gallons making an Increase of the quantity of sprits gauged for the fiscal year just ended of a 257741 gal lone The estimated receipts from all sources of internal revenue for the current fiscal year will aggregate This estimate lute carefully kept in view the reduction made n the tax on tobacco and tho rope il of the law Impos- Ing special taxis on dealers lu tobacco manufacturers of tobacco and cigars nnd peddlers of tobacco Upon the basis of the receipts for tho lls al year ended June from tho various sources of internal revenue affected by the act of October tho following table has been prepared which presents In detail the estimated decrease to bn expected in receipts PROBABLE IN Estimated reduction in re colpl s from tobuecuf229865Estimated reiluellnu In ceipts from snuff 92210 Estimated ntiluuilun In re ceipts front special taxes 154f114 Total estimated redu tlon in recoil is trout tobacco etc fur lliilyer ending June 18912830382The further reduction of 450000 may be expected under the opera loa of those provisions of the net of October which authorize the fortification of wines with grape brandy roe of tax It estimated that about gallons of wine will be ortlfled and ttmt about onefifth of their hulk will be quired In grape lisuitly say gal Ions will bn used In the process tax on which This would make the total estimated rldliCUOuTriiecoTJlts for tho HsiMlyearendtugJunoUt aggre gate 436439273- Front tifb estimates It appears that the S cre nry of the Teo Bury after de ducting iivin tt current years receipts J43W3S2 nvei toeless expects that the total it lornil revenue will grow from 142nUi j last yeir o 145000000 That Is he ohtiniiit s Unit te receipts from lux s on IntosicHt tig liquor will be greater by S0741C77 finu It was last your Herr a in EgrodaOnslt to the bo tie seems xc r lriio1 with rCi nmill Chill his riot aiil risis finki Fwrr rrbbllnltrrba ca TIIC e iof Ito or nll r ii inlrleralat nxn lii ruil nl iinil jiiiirw bids rlii tvtrent ytml piitiritca nlld itiniiinil Ihr iiHtnicH ic wullow il she God vt tie people rind our country td 5rkaiie Unlou Diiriii the It year the union at Eur Spring Ark hits become Incor Plinted under the lows of the state hit hn icen puruhasnil In the most de Inibli it of tin town upon which It Is piu ue lo erect a birldlng for head qu rind lo g you the union J Fiv will bs II to pruv IH fur the erection if the building fine nuilnl conttS been giver ail hf d wiri Is progressing In his tie town liimoni fir IN lint as well cold in iltgi Gruwliii Downwara The Prohibition party is growing downward these days down for a goodI hold in tho rocky of publio opinion so tout when it grows upward tho storms of tariff and other issues will not blow it down The Republican party grew downward for forty years before it made much of showing on top but when the storm of 00 and the following years came its hold below enabled it to weather them all Parties of sudden growth kayo sudden ending for they are without rootPeople TALET TWO RULERS Queer suit 1r Idrul at the I1uritI n i Itev nn In QueiliVi trio olEogiund said In her speech UJyriJlirllnuHiit After a succession seasons In tuoRrrntor iio of the United K dom tho eot the has during the present yeirjfcron for tho most part abundant i moderately active The growthof revenue however Is sensibly retnriilot by causo wblcb must by ltselft contemplated with satisfaction I to the diinliuitlon In tho rccelptsHftbo exchequer from tho duties ou rlntlUJ liquors In 1resi Harrison of the United tes Jfi Anipriu elected to ofiiso the rt eiilntivo of n party styled the ni of great moral Ickns null on u phi rrlll whlili expressed cordial svniiiitfiy with wlpo and wo directed effoitilo thin promotion ol temperance tia his meHsagotoCon press i I WirU ItKAHtllli the sUitonieiito Hit poprotary that the receipt from tinal levenuo hove In crease during lust fiscal year uonrly l2000a nnl hit tbofo4t of collecting this larger rev tee was less by than for the en le purpose In tin pro coding year Cum Yorkers The W T of London Onto dls trlbuto seven h fIIIIIIHIOiI of temper literature IU wc that city among the bnrbi bliopslire halls t u THEMrlWARD CO S mid lOAV lentil SSi Lexington Ky MUSm and ART DEALERS Pianos Organs Etchings and Artistic Framing T 8 WOOD RUaQIT 43 E Main St LEADftIYCommercial Cheapest Best Business College in the World nighrat Honor and Gold Medal over all other Collects at HerUi ortttontorayelemOt llnokKrtrtna and General Jluttnett Mutation Nearly attendance the past n States and Foreign Countries Ieea in Bul nell Teachers employed sItnlness coupe consllts Arltbmetlc commercial MercbandUlne JlanklncJoIntStockMan tortures Practice tile 4o rCOtofFUllDuiIncluding Tnltlon8tatlonerv and =frnuIJ family about atTa ort hand Type nTltlog and a lllonaNporlalllmii have teachersalone or with the Iluilnen CourseOTN1rclaIDepartrttenttbeLadlesLady curing situations o For Circular address WUBUB nunitu rre 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li + i13z MnrtIII 3i3 Incrllon IiiiiS8888 X8358383335I- 8In crtlonr S g TwoMonll8S8t 81it5383m- Iglninertlonr Iit3iIf 3IlltnIo yr4 = H 8 asa3838Thren8 Igirelr 88lnrertlona rwm ral 8888S8888Slngl The Louisville Conference The conference of the Slate Executive Committee and members of the party hold in this cityThursdslmade etviTiil rc coming State Convention and decided upon an organixcrto work in the State The members nroeunt wen Mnj Jo sink Harris Chairman J Mucker Di Txmis IJ Ferrell Jr and H Winslow 08 Overstreet D inn merman Dr J C IlovLc W Sawyer Dr G W Honald Goo M Handy Dr L 0Dctlinan W Voiers M Fort Col J holies Rev II W Ford Alex Iusk las T Hnrboe F T Fox E1 Polk C 0 Moore and F Mayer The following was njirerd upon as re commendation to the coming Slate Convention We the ProhihitionihtH of Kentucky in conference assembleil believing it to be necessary to the future micccfK of lour party that who favor the dominant Issue of Prohibition be united and lIar monioua in tl o work of the next State recommend the following basis of operations 1st A our state Executive Committee for n State Convention to be held at tome convenient phice the State each county to have a vote in convention for every twenty votes cast by said for li k and Brooks and for every fractional vote of ten or more and no county to have less than one vote Said Convention to bo duly and properly organized by appointment of a temporary ment shall be made by State Execu tive Committee v chairman shall appoint n committee on credentials have all contracts and report to con vention when it will bo in order to choose the permanent curs of the convention lu order to further strengthen our litical influence in State and com wand the united strength nod support of our best thinking citizens wo recom mend to the consideration of said con vention in substance the following platform policy Believing there can be no true genuine and permanent reforms pub lic affairs so long as present license policy of Government state Na tional towards the alcoholic liquor trailiu lllesltlonable settlement of evils growing out of said trallic a d Hither believing and charging that the failure that Democratic and Republican parties in Kentucky to a and whole some laws in interest of the common people has been an obstruction to good government and believing that con tinuance of present policy of said parties in Stain means a surren der of public true liberty and the pursuits of happiness therefore JJo it Vo favor the legal prohibition of alcoholic liquor trallic 2 Wo unconditionally opposed to 1h0JicelmesyxtainmJ1iglrorloiv The prohibition of legis lation in interest of private hull victuals as specilitd classes to the sion of general masses 4 We favor Australian ballot sys tem 5 The prohibition of nil trusts and combines 0 Theprohibitlon of nil laws that will permit public to discriminate against the farming and laboring classes in establishment of freight rates 7 Wo are in favor of what is generally known nsWomans Property Uighte 8 With reference to all national ques tions we declare our undivided allegi ance to National Prohibition Party in its non sectional efforts to unite people of country against com mon enemy of God homo and country Wo further recommend establish ment of n Slate organ based upon of dignified journalism free from pcrsollalnliu801with a olll fur common enemy and an olinurimch- for nil sympnthiers Fountain lox opposed resolu tion 7 These resolutions Were in no sense adopted as views but are merely recommendations- The State Executive Committee was reorganized us follows Josiah Harris Chairman L II Farrell Jr Treasurer G W Roland K J Polk and G MathowH of Louisville J P lirudon ilopkinsville and Itobt L Cooper Xicliolasville This puts n majority of members in Louisville so that business can easily be transacted District Chairmen were appointed as follows 1st Dr J Lackey Canton Ihid Col J M Holmes Itiea U G Hughes Bowling Green 4thr J Bean Hartford fith J W Sawyer Dili G B Winslow Carrollton 7th 00Moore Lexington 8th 1r1 O Dod man Oth Evans 10th It S Friend llth J B tucker State Chairman was recommended to secure National Chairaun Dicldo and SuqConvention u J Sawyer reported l shires of stock taken in Prohibition News Co Nothing definite was donu concerning it for thu present Tho Executive Committee decided to rrrrrrrrrr rorrrr in the field for tin roaontprof of Ghent is engaged for six monthsat S100 per expellsesAtIllgaged for sixty days at f7j per month expensesThey tho Mil about The Committee also NomnimmatingConvention The Farmers Alliance Busted Agin The harmers Alliance is ripped tip the back again Brother Er win did it with his little hatchet Bally for Irwin They fell out over tho tobacco barn that some of them built theylaidwatermelon Erwin was the editor of the State Union the party organ ol this State They bounced him and he rim oil and carried tho paper with him and now the journalistic representation of the party in this State has simmered down to a corner in the Farmers Home Journal in Louisville about as big as the nigger column in John paperThe Journal used to be run here The editors name maid the name of Cassidy paper are time only two things in journalism that I cant recollect The Journal is ono of these papers that tell about eggs with two yellows in them und three legged chickens and when to sOw wheat und corn and puukins and low to lied water with a peach tree switch and whether red cubs or white ones are the best to smoke meat Ever since that Nebraskabusi nets it does me good to see time Farmers Alliance fellows conic to griefThey went in with time Prohi bitionists and elected Koiu and llflvorson both Prohibitionists to Congress and then they were full of themselves that they shook the Prohibs Thou they theJIIIein less than three months since they came out as world beaters They quarrelled about the most effective way to get more tobacco into the world while the balance of Christianized civilization is trying to get the nasty dirty stinking stuff out of the world Coming up from Louisville on the Louisville Southern the other day theywere smoking in all the cars but the ladies car I sat in the ladies car and a dirty fftllawcjune in with a whis ky bottlo sticking out of his pocket and a cigar in his mouth I got the conductor to put him out A tobacco drummer sat behind me and four men talked tobacco near me and a dirty biped dog in human shape chawod long green tobacco put the floor around him in andI a shape that I had to go platformThis of cattle tho Kentucky Farmers Allianco is breedingIf of euconragium r that beelllsOlliehave chucked him of I the bridge godownsell jumped oil it would be good countryIt of traveling over the Louisville Southern The GUIIO Hank Itacket SOIteBramitick maid V B Ciano whose father was a General in the Confederate army and would therefore have a protty good right to be a Dem ocrat is one of the brightest and best posted Prohibitionists that I ever heard talk and stumped the State to offset tho ovil ctlect of that unfortunate letter against Prohibition that Bro Jolt Davis wrote to Texas and made tho ugliest blotch upon the heroic retirement of his old days Gen Gano went through this and raised money for time stockof an immense bank in DallasA was raised as to wheth er Gano or a man named Ilansl should manage the bank or some part or parts of it Ilansl 1 suppose from his nine was a lager beer Dutch manEach party tried to get to vote tho stock of sonic parties living in Winchester amounting to Dutchman beat Gano and got tlfero first and glade his state ment about tho rumpus mull tho Winchester Sun dynamited the whole Gano family higher than kitoGildoroys It looked to me that he had got the whole manly down I knew the stuck mull thought it wasnt like them to got in that fix Now Gun Gano replies to the Sun man and ho doesnt leave enough of him to grease a wheel barrow It was a regular John L Sullivan knock out Gano makes six counts and the Sun undertakes to answer then and concludes by saying Vith these two exceptions we do not see that the purport of our article is materially impaired by Gen Ganos letter In plain English thats what I mean by somewhat damaged but still in tho ring The facts are all against you my blooming Aurora and you ought to have given it up like n little man and tackled sonic easier job Thats the way I do Time contest was between Gen Gano and Ilansl and tho General closes his argument by saying Time election is over and Mr Ilansl is out of the bank and harmony prevails 3110 votes were cast against Mr Hansland only 376 cast for him Out of 120000 of the stock held hero in Dallas only 15000 voted for Ilansl and that in time hands of partiesThat it and theres no possible show for tho Sun man except to prove that Gen Ganos statement is not true Give it up for a bad job Brother Self Explanatory The suhjoincdcommunication appeared in the Transcript of last Tuesday morning Feb 3 The headlines are by the editor of the TranscriptA Mil CIIARLK8 MOORE CORRECTS firs STATEMENT CONCERNING TIlE OREENIONO MATTER Editor of the Transcript DIMS SmPlcase allow mo to corect through your columns a mistake I made in lasc Saturdays issue of my paper regarding the Green and Long mutter account that I got was ITho Middlesborough Demo crat which had been taken from the Lexington Loader I take tho Leader in the list of my ex changes but had never seen the article as originally published in the Leader and never saw or heard of tho Leaders subsequent explanation of its mistake nor did I know from any source that there was any doubt about the statement that Isaw in printI until after it appeared in my pa per I regret to be the occasion of pain to anybody even under circumstances where it is evident that I have been thus most natu rally Ill stake nxurdt Write thfe correction which will also appear in my paper in a short time after having heard for the first time that the account that I saw was inaccurate Time editor of the Leader has also kindly promised to publish it Almost daily horrible things occurring as the result of the traffic in our State They lure dreadful timings to publish I think is no justifica in publishing them except the purpose to arouse all proper thinkiug people against the enor mity It seems to me that abstract reasoning and glittering general ities are having no effect upon our people and that I am justified in showing the horror of the in dividual instances that occur in countryI tho responsibility of time legalized liquor crime lies upon the highest class of society and in many instances upon the most popular ircuuiiuru ant such is the testimony of Prohibition workers everywhere As a political bodywe have reasoned with ministers and appealed to their religion to influ ence them Our appeals are often received with great indittercnco and in some instances with bitter opposition to that when a case of this kind occurs I confess an inclina tion to show to the people that tho things against which we are warning them are of actual oc currence in real life more dread ful than we would paint thom in theoryI there are instances in which limyzeal gets the better of my judgment and this may be a case of that kind but no man has over yet aroused his fellowmen to oppose so stupendous an error as the liquor traffic and in fluence in this State bymoderate means or conservative utterances Though tho remedy may have seemed severe there was no fool big of personal unkindness lay heart and my purpose was time ultimate goollof my country I am sir respectfully CHARLES C MOOKE LEXINGTON Kv Feb21891- 11len of The national View Wo have read with pleasure and profit Time Rational View by 0 0 Moore Lexington The booksold for 150 The author has reduced the price for the boundvolumes to halfprice 75 A onlyflattenhuman understanding but will set people to hatching out a few thoughts on their own account It is rt book badly needed ball generallyIttissimo scientifico as it were It is less harmless than a Rich mond burglar Nicholasville Democrat IiCxiiiRtou Councilman Indict od for Selling Whisky on Sunday T I Danahy anti Dennis Mulligan City Councilmen of this city have been indicted by the lust court for selling liquor on Sunday Danahy was fined 25 and Mulligan was fined 10 in two cases and 5 for violating the cigarette law These two men arc among the most prominent politicians in the exsaloon keeper in this town who has reformed und now takes the Blade and is now en gaged in a laudable business told me a few days since that he took a Cincinnati man into a Lexington saloon here a few Sundays o just to show him the sights lie said some of time prominent citizens of the city were drinking whisky and playing cards up stairs and down The Cincinnati fellow said it beat his town- I am not a Sunday law man I am opposed totthe Prohibition platform I want every saloon keeper in town to violate it its mixing up religion and politics and you know I cant stand that I will send my paper free to all saloon keepers in the city who will promise to keep open on Sunday as long as I send it I will give each one of them a chromo for each man that they will report killed in his saloon and in fights where death does not ensue I will pay by the pint fiJall in stances of salpon bloodshed op SundayIf mall Mulligan will bring in his account for that fellow outIloon I will audit it und place it to his running credit Cases of knocking in the headand Utur and feathers as Councilman lau uhy threatened me will not count There must be blood There is a lot of darned old hypocritical Presbyterians around this town who dont have any re ligion but to and they arebackiiig thesesaloon omen They dont care a what these saloon fellows do so they dont do it on Sunday and Ive got more respect for the saloon fellows than I hove for those Presbyterians The saloon fellows dont make my pretensions to being Christians md the others do and as between the Pharisee and the Publican who IIumity Go it my jollyold ginslingers Im on your side and would rather take my chances with you than with the others You can just bet that I know the Bible and Ill give it to you straight It says The Publicans and harlots will enter the Kingdom of Heaven before these sanctimo nious whisky voting Presbyterians luiniand Jordons Row and Silk Stock lug ace HowIstand a better showZior our white allywhen old Brother Peter gets down his books than any of these fellows do and that poor woman that wrote me that letter from Me gowan street thanking me tor my work against whisky that she said had put her in a hellon earth stands a better chance than one of your diamond dedizencd silk rustling seal skinned darlings that goes into one of these daisy church es and kneels upon one of ChurlieI Brewers Antique Prayer Mary Magdalene was n Mcgowan street woman and she got there all the sane lust One Straw Too Many In the matter of Rev Sweeney am willing to stand every bit of blame that anybody wants to put on me as a matter of sentiment or opinionbut I must ask a rigid adherence to facts Col Craddock has just told mo that there was some intimation that my article had been prompt SweeneyItiulIn answer to this I have simply to say that I never sent him a paper in my life and that he never owed me a cent for anything on earth On the other hand certainly am on record as talked very plainly agaimtstsource people who had paid among whom there was recently a minister who had not only paid me for my pa but for stock in While we are on itI = 1 would like to suggest that there are two other newspapers and an respousiblofor comes I am the only man in the whol lot who hits ever publicly an nounced that was neither quarreling not a fighting man findIf anybody wants to do either of it seems to me that it would be in order to dispose of the other threo first Go for me without mercy if you want to but let me have justice and toat fair Umdnc SoUt I have bought out nil interests in the Farmers Friend Wire and Picket Fence and desire to close the business of the old firm by the first of March at which time the books must be closedup From that time I will run a strictly cash business D II BEATTV Hon Eugene Viulcrwooil the Probable Caiulidatcofthe Prohibition Party for Governor Time recent Conference of the Prohibition party at Louisville contained the finest representative men from all parts of the State It was decided to have a State Convention about first of May to make nominations for Govcr nor and Lieutenant Governor For the latter place I heard no name suggested nor was there any official suggestion for Governor but an official expression seemed to point to lion Eugene Underwood of Bowling Green as the man Mr Underwoods father was a Judge of the Kentucky Court ol Appeals cud the brother of the possible nominee was once Lieutenant Governor of this State It is claimed bv lIIun of those who known all three that Eugene Underwood is the flower of the is an intensely enthusiastic party Prohibitionist and has a port that is invulnerable lie is worth seventyfive thou sand dollars and is willing to use his niency in all proper demands of a campaign that would consist with the principles of the Prohibition party He is seventy years old but his moderate and philisophic life has preserved his great physicial and itltellectvalvigor On tie Woman Suffrage ques tion he is all right in his private preferences but thinks it is policy not to emphasize that feature positionIOU that subject but claim we do Ion make it any test of party and I hope that our earnest support of Mr Underwood in the event of his nomination willshow the sincerity of our claims- I believe tluit any dispassionate judgment will rank him higher than any other nomination that the other parties have made for GovernorI the women of Equal Rights Association should under the circumstances use their influence for Mr Underwood should he be the nominee and believe they will do it III Presbyterlmism Coming Around All Right DALE KY Feb 2 91 IHOCK my knocking once more to your esteemed paper but I have been reading some of late und thinking too I was rending an article in the Western Recorder on Qualifications For the Ministry by VrGardner D D which by the way is a most excellent article and ought to be read by every minister of the Gospel When Icame across the following language Lay hands suddenly on no man neither be partaker ot other mens sins Tim 522 That is if we hastily induct unsuitable men into the ministry we thereby become partakers of all the evil that may result to the cause of Christ ant the souls of Wren and this ap plies alike to churches and Presby do not intend by any means to try and twist this to mean but what the good thatIto any thing outside of the question spoken of above But permit me to draw front it another idea That is docs not the placing of ones vote in the bal lot box for a person Known to be directly or indirectly connected with the liquor traffic make said one partaker of the evil following the legalization of said traffic Is it not so fa as the vote goes countenancing it Ought not churches und Presbyteries as citi zeus watch over themselvesat nil times that they make not them selves partakers of all the evil fol lowing the licensing of the liquor traffic 4 IOllght they not to keep them pure and in no wise Im accessary to the most gigantic o f evils Give your vote no roan known to be a friend of the liquor traffic neither speak in its favoi or you may be mado to fed like good Bro Minister of Quern County who had marla speech against National Prohibition and stepping down afterward into the congregation was met by a half drunken man who tapped him on the shoulder said That is my doctrine exactly That brother was stumped to think that the very men he was instrumental in saving were agreeing with him on the supposed fallacy of Prohi bition is totlava- ound National Prohibitionist So Brothcrn let us not lay tIlt hand of unction on the liquor traffic neither use rash judgment but let our voting be such as becnmcth Christiunsapainst not for the coun tenancing of an evil and then we may expect God to approve of it Otherwise Hn will not as he can not look upon sin with the least degree of allowanao RevM F BOYLE Death of UnlUiUIIU King Kalikaua is dead If you think time announcement is a little tardy for news you may regard it as history I am trot a kicker on a small matter of that kind SharkeyWithers the Sandwich Islands to look at our Bluegrass horses that we called him Calico tor short He was the cleverest King I niggerhutas the Lexington niggers are 1 believe he has gone to heaven that is time kitchen part of it so to speak The reason he didnt put on airs was because he wasnt a niggerI old country King once who lived where Africas sunny fountain rolls down the sandand IIthat11Hegetting their hash at the Tuil leries and that nigger wouldnt any more speak to a white man that didnt take off his hat to him than anything Old Pole was pretty stiff then himself for it was before he found out that he wits not longI enough to knock the persimmon at Sedan but that dm key got awaywith him on style- I dont recollect exactly where he came from but I think maybe it was up about Kartoum somewhere where Gordon got knockedout But he had too much style for me and I didnt like usI well as I did poor old Calico If Napoleon was not dead I would write to him and get him to send me that African Kings address if he isnt dead too timid I would send him the Blade Congo is solid for Prohibition and against Harrison and the Blade might make a nucleus for the party up the Nile- I never could get along very wellwith royalty but the Duke of Sutherland and I wore old chumswell that is not exactly the Duke himself but his head steward It was about the same or better for the Duke was not at home and the steward was a jolly fellow and was just dead gone on me und we had a whole palace to ourselves with three thousandacres in the yard and deer and lakes and boats und fruits and flowers and books and paintings null statuary until you couldnt rest I wasnt much struck on tho Prince of Wales The first time I ever met him as an American citizen I looked down on him Ho was in a 50 opera box and I was in a 50 cent one seven stories above him on the opposite sideIt was at Convent Garden und pretty little Adalina Patti was on the stage just a going itin Ita lian of course But she could not get there like our poor dead Emma Abbott used to dound is doingnow if thut is true about singingIf known then that his sister was going to marry my cousin tho Marquis of Lome I reckon he might have looked up at me and I would have shown my proud American hauteur by shooting a peanut at him But neither of us know any thing about what was coming and his habits at that time were rather too loose for my Prohi- bitIon ideas and that very night larkthoughGladstQne him and he had loft Alexandra at home nursing her first baby and making catnip teat always liked Victoria very well until her daughter married my cousin Lome and she cut up- about it and would not go to the wedding because she said Jr u Cousin Marcus didnt have roya blood in him Then ray family cut u and said the Argyles were better blood than any Dutch Guelphs over dared to be and from that day to this theres been a coolness between the two families und none of us like any of the Victoria family except Alexandra Wales wife I hate family quarrels but my folks say they mire not going to let their kin folks be snubbed by Queen Victoria nor any body goesBut Kalikaua is dead I dont know of any King that did more to advance his race He came up here to Lexington to see our people and when our people went down there like a Christian he took them to his bosom three generations ago his old cannibal grated daddy would have taken them to his stomach Iogged if I Know What to Do While the whole of Paris and the half of Lexington and a big slice of llarrodsburg are going for me without gloves about that Sweeney bad breaka gentle man from Augusta Ky who I think is a minister writes me February 2nd how he is working for the Blade and winds up 1 think the Blade is calculated to make Prohibition votes where the Voice would not be Ever yours for the reaclrbitter end II B And then a gentleman whose religion I do not know came in and talked about the Sweeney and on Bro Mat preachinbnProlmibition me 8 just to help the BladeIThen there comes the letter from Mrs Clark which I publish und then heros a letter trom a lady in South Elkhorn that gives me taffy until I blush to read it but shes for Prohibition until the last gun tires and a whole lot of other things from other people but my durned little old paper is l not big enough to hold theta and time world is losing one of the most delightful rackets you ever did go a fishing It somebody will just furnish me time money to print everything that everybody writes me from allover this State with the women that aro backing me I can make it so hot that a Salamander couldnt live in this town unless he voted for Prohibition Great Gathering of Young Men The Tenth Annual Convention- of the Young Mens Christian Association will be held in Lex ID and 22 This will without question be the largest by far of such gatherings ever held in the State and its influ ence upon the future work for young men will be great Time attendance last veur at Paris was 150 and we oxpect it will reach twice that number this year The coming Convention is looked forward to with great interest by Christian young men and Chris tian business men of the State Already those who are interested in the work of reaching young men are considering the question of attending Time following persons of pro minence will be present to assist in the exercises Rt Rev T U Dudley D D Bishop of Ken C J Hicks Secretary In ternational Committee Mr II F Williams Editor Young Mens Era Chicago Mr I E Brown State Secretary Illinois Mr II 0 Williams State Secretary Virginia and Mr L L Doggett Secretary State Committee Ohio With these gentlemen on the ground the success of the Convention as far as tho presentation of the best methods of work andIthe latest plates of operation are concerned is assured All the Associations will be represented Christian mon and pastors in towns there aro no whoroIcordially invited There reduced railroad rates and the Association will entertain all delegations Persons thinking offattending the Convention write to Henry A HoseveurIState Secretary Y Louisville for and full informationlt How it Struck llariodshnrg llARRODSBURa KY Jan 11191 Dear llrolhe Blade of to day has raised Ballyhoo and wakedsnakes here If you have any and will send hero tor distributionIIMonday they will be of much good I think BlOICOpleS run EDI l 7 y Pr ITho Outlook Torn State Organ I One purpose of the Kentucky Prohibition State Conference at Louisville on January 29th was f to perfect some plan for tho estab- lishmentt ofa newspaper which should be the organ of this State The effort seemed to come to a theyJt was gOng to edit it and Chairman Harris said they could not tell who was I going to edit it until the money was raised and a board appointed wbo should determine who the editor should be In the Conference no mention was made of any man that would be a proper one to edit it Privately I was talked to about my undertaking its editorship never had thought there was enough probability of my being made itc editor to give the matte- much thought until since it was suggested to me and having care fully gone over the whole grouni in my mind I have concluded tha- I would be exceedingly glad to have the position if the party it this State wants me but shall mos cheerfully decline in favor of any other man that the party rattysc lect I was asked by Chairman liar ris if I would be willing to go to Louisville to live if it were deter mined to edit the paper there an I answered that I would Different persons have occasion ally expressed their preference that I should be the editor of the State organ I have taken no pains to remember them but as far as I can recall and to the best i my knowledge they arc Chairman Hon Josiah Harris of Paducah James T Barbee of Glasgow District Chairman Winslow ot HandyHarrodsburg Georgetown Moses Fort of isville possibly and G 1 1Brooks and A P Morton of Lex These expressions hay been made when as the party wi 1readilysee there has been little no r occasion to call them forth As far as I can learn it seems to be the preference of tho leaders ot the party that we should have a daily paper and this is my own opinionAs any influence that Itun personally exert it would make n difference whether I were statione- at Lexington or Louisville expresseddecided organbutwhere and without having hear anything from W W Goddard or Judge O S Poston of Harrods burg I can safely assume that they thingI lose anysupport from tho Bluegrass Region by moving to Louisville but think that the enlarged pr portions of the State organ and the still further evidence that I was o a substantal basis would at once increase my support not only the Bluegrass Region but in part of the State other than such as are under the special influence of Lex ington and Louisville andocourse I would hope that the presence of the paper in Louisville would make it more friends there Even outside of Prohibition cir cles I would not be without influ ential acquaintances in Louisville Gen John B Castleman and Jud g GeorgeEastinthem my playmates in sight of my home where I now write Mrs Postmistress Virginia Thompson and I used to go gunning when we CollegeIlance of Douglas Shirley whose mother was reared as my neighbor personally puthimno little of the romance of my clerical days is connected with his estimable and distinguished rela tives and immediate family in the mountains of this State Hopper of the editorial staff ol the CourierJournal and Iare alumniof the same college class andwith Hon Charles D Jacobs I have a short but very pleasant acquaintanceCol Johnston is my friend and I am slightly acquaint ed with Gen Basil Duke In the event my plans should materialize of course I would try to combine the patronage of the Blue grass Blade and the Southern Journal My desire would be to indulge as far as could be made consistent with the business interests of the new paper a sentiment in favor of Editor J W Sacr a pioneer in Kentucky Prohibition journalism that would purchase the whole or such part of Journal plant as would be available for the new paper Allsubscriptions andcontracts made with the Blade I would com paperAs paper I followinglie e grass Blade tho Southern Blade IetheAs to the place at which tho paper should be published as be tween Louisville and Lexington I should advise that that be decided by n stool vote of the stockholders I think that I could individually raise half the money that would be necessary to runt it and would be willing to undertake to raise it all ifmy actual traveling expenses were paid I think 1 could raise it inside of two months with a traveling expense of two or three hundred dollars Though 1 have been fairlysuc cessful in any business matters that I have undertaken I have never in advance been so sanguine of the success of any effort of my life as I now fuel that I would be were 1 entrusted with this enterprise- I believe that I could make it a and a financial success varrieties of political complexion and indtban the spirit in which essays in Prohibition mjournalismm have been received no adverse criticism ever having been suppressedand yet I would not admit byany moans that the Blade has been the measure ofm capability except as to means and its patronage has thcdr its columns been continually in creasing at n reasonably fur rate And yet the greater part 6f my time I have spent on my farm and the larger part of my time in th occupied with fbookkeeping and correspondence of the paper its advertising and mechanical getup My idea would be to have daily that we could sell f0 weekhf setIAs a paper that would be valua studentIIwe could get up anything that wouldequal the New York Voice because we probably would not have the means to send agents to get the very valuable information that it does But I could utilize the information that it gets so a dardBut if my readers will pardon me- a because business seems to IIthe statement I will say that I b lieve I can make a more seasde n among those who are not commit ted to Prohibition but who fort that class of intelligent audmornl society outside of the pale from whom we may most re onabl to paperethink there would be a difference preseunt as r I shouldremove the stamp ofm bigspronoun s box in the upper case or assume metropolI chop logic of the rural rooster Either of the above mentions- styles are equally easy to me nn any plan or policy that word bJfeasily follow without feeling the temptation to individual sentiment that would be stronger of course in paperMy has beet on a daily paper and the knowl edge that what I write is going to appear right away in print is an incentive to journalistic energy knotttmy appear until sonic days after they are writtenI I am probably the only Prohibitionist in the State who has journnlislI1Such be my ideal of the only journal that would give free scope to the impress I have for years longed to try to make upon my State and would be to me the consummation- of my highest ambition so that I am very free to say that I covet the position of its editor if the party think I am competent to fill the positionI be glad to have free and unbiasedexpressions from my readers on the subject irrespective of their political afliliution A Churchman Against the ChtuchcjiiJII MT CAKMEL Fleming County Ky Mr Charles C Moore DEAR SIR Many thanks for the copies of the Elude you sent me put each one where I think it will do the most good Have been working for the cause for six years and expect to continue until victory or death Iwill His Iibute as many sample copie as I you will send me while your Blade continues to strike sharp and cut bras regardless of profession or station Truth must win Your Blade is none too sharp It must be sharp to cut the damnable liquor traffic loose from the Chris tian churches It must be pointed to reach the sleeping Disciples of ChristHaving nailed the black flag of no compromise with whisky and no compromise or fusion with whisky parties to the mast head continue to sound the alarm as loud as you can The Christian churches of this land are responsible for all the drunkenness and most of the crime for they support whisky parties and thus make it almost impossi ble to carry on a warfare against whisky by refusing to allow Pro hibition meetings to be held in the churches and failing to help make those meetings a success Icant see for my life how the Great Judge at the last daycan send the saloon keeper down und send the voters who give him license up I hope some brother who reads this will explain- I send you fifty cents Send me the made until that gives out soil I tray be able to do bettor Yours truly E C Ill A La lj Writes About My Paper amlMy Book und Emma Ab bott antI IiiBcrsoll LEXINOTOX ICY Feb 191 378 East Maxwell St C C JOJIcJCDEAR SmI have been intend iug fora long time to write and tell you that I should he glad to mail back copies of the Blade as pioneers belseen I have made a practice of send ing somewhere two or three copies each week Imother who I always thought was born a rabid Prohibitionist up in old Bladetsays to be a little more careful in his language1 I replied Dont worry mother by the time you and Dr Chinn had sandpapered Mr Moore down to your notions there would not be Bluegrassy s Prohibition weapon and think it keeps fully up to its high ideal and we do all have lots of fun out healthye yourIby side on the bookshelves with Ingcrsolls Gods which was its inscrilIIpilen of wickedness that is somehow pleasant to my sinful eyes though neither of you it seems to youeI am impatient for Volume 2 Do hurry it on We are all get ting along in years you know 1 send you some cuttings about the dear little dead singer of whom you wrote so well and truly I dont know where she was born earlyIsingers Abbott and Ingersoll who logdg anisds you some quaint story of these tar thde IIc1tAbbott on that occasion when you were mashing diamonds in herI trunk I thought of a start a told me of a time when Emma Abbott had no diamonds She said her father was a music teacher and very poor The father and daughter used to go to school houses in adjoining towns through the dreadful Illinois prairie mud to give their concerts On one occasion poor little Emma hadno dress at all suitable for u public appearance even in a rough country schoolhouse So said the JudyhI took my best bomba zine and made her two out of it and the ladwas not a very big woman either Another lady who went to school with her saidhShe was always singing and was rather a subject of ridicule to some ofus One day overhearing some remarks uponheryou girls are all making fun of me but I dont care some day Ill singI heard her in Faust in Peoria in 77 when she returned to her triumphI she sing better and perhaps not half so well She had a lover too this poor little singer in the old days so the Peoria legendrues and she vored him and his folks were well to do and thought the match une goal as to wealth- I used often to meet the disappointed youthand a glamour of mYtlleycs EENIPtTcI CHAUTAUQUA ASSEaIIE3L WOODLAND PARK LEXINGTON KY June 30 to July 10 Inclusive eSTln making your arrangements for a SUMMER OUTING dont forget the above Write to- OL AUDIO BUCKLEY Business Manager BAKER BROS No 12 NORTH LIMESTONE ST Manufacturers and Dealers in Carriages Buggies Ph tons etc Repairing promptly done stud on reasonable terms They are also agents for FRAIZER CELEBRATED CARTS We also have a stock of PONY CARTS on hand P COME AND SEE U- SBAKER and BROS I concluded theHoh folks were as much disaj pointed as he was the night of that concert when those diamonds were all was a musician and an artist of extraordinary talent but considerably glum and misanthropic in his appearance at the time I thought was beautiful in him considering what he hadmissed Emma Abbott wits a magnificent specimen of the I women who dare Ionce told her in spaking of her Nashville experience with that preacher with a whole full of people at his heels that I hada fancy that in the next stage of our beingn little further on some people call it heaven the t the drama supersede the pul as a instructor nldmoral theiawfully hc mmense ly And thynot The portrayal is so much stronger and more vivid than the preach Nobodyexpects an editor to swer or even all his letters and getting behind that fact I for give myself for inflicting this long on a busy Bladeswinger like yourscffand hasten to sign myself instanter Your appreciative reader KATHARINE CLARK 1 Talt aiyaicdfoiuc MUe U Little nUll C C Moore Esq Editor Blade DEAR SrnI have been an in terested reader of your p per since its first issue and have in the main been pleased with your outspoken condemnation of wrong doing in public men and in public places but I have never read in your pa urnokind and uncalled for an article as that in your last issue headed Whisky Playing Hell in a Preach ers Family Wjiofffl read that article I won dervgirl evil sprit had taken possessionof you I had known you from early boyhood and had the conviction that gentleness and kindness with a strong sense of justice were predominating clements in your nature as result of inheritance from a most estimable father and mother and that you were one of the last men in the world from whom such utter ances would come Of all you have written and oth ers have written in regard to the misfortune which has occurred in the family of Rev J S Sweeney he is still entitled to and will re ceive the hearty sympathyof all right thinking people- It has been my pleasure to know Mr Sweeney for many years and I have always foundhim the warm hearted Christian gentleman es teemed and beloved by who have had the pleasure of his uaintance He is u popular man but his popularity does not depend as you very plainly intimate upon the toleration of the rich whisky men in his congregation His congrega tion is a very large one number ing a membership of probably one thousandA of this congregation and a ver large majority are in whiskybusinlsi are when measured under other than your Prohibition standard would be considered gentlemen and good citizens To show the appreciation in which he is held his people he has held the pas torate of his church without oppc sition for twenty yeas It will be a consolation for Mr Sweeney to know that he has the good will and sympathy of thousands of- friend in some measure compensate him in the time of his deep sorrow I hope and believe you will make ample amends to Mr Sweeney for the way you have done him Yours trulyD KELLER The Blade Wanted in Florida MADISON FLA Jan 3091 Mr Editor A copy of your valuable paper GeorgeMcCormick I think it the very thing needed to EnIGrass Blade for three months to the following addresses who I be lieve are doing and will continue to do all in their power for the cause of Prohibition lion H J McCall Madison Fin Rev Jas Watts Hamburg Fla R L Williams Superintendent of Publc Instruction Madison Fla Vm McDaniel Headquarters for Alliance Madison Flit Would like to have made myself one of the subscribers but preferred to use money in the way it would do most good Would be glad to hear from you occasionally and anything I can do to help the cause of Prohi bition I am at your service Respectfully MRS 11 1 PEEK DEAR MADAMIcredit you with the 81 and will send the Blade to the others hoping that they will pay me or let me know if they do not want it EDITOR Oiio or the Other Tho dollar or tho nuts saloon or plutocracyMoneyTuxes nnojiml or taxc equal Rail roads to n Ij m or railroads for us to nse Katmvs bounties tuoio clized for the benefit of the few or natures boun ties oconotuizal for benefit of 1m Labor for upecnlation unrequited or labor pall for all that is earned The grading up of labor or its grading down into still baser slavery Answer theso voteProgresslvcAge Inivcrbt of Today An old dram drinkerx the devils do coy Berkley Tho wise drunci rd ia u sober fool German The drnnlen maul joy is often tho amber tiianii sorrowDanishD- runceaieam is till egg from which nil vices iiro hatched There h n devil in every berry of the grape Arabian What It cotp do pay for Jones What toy for drink every Dollar thInk JOUMJTrotiscri am pawned Slilrt prrtty fair store JouesWhatthis tho man Turned Ii dlssraco Tufltrt nearly tho Jones wot raid them for tho tat thcros heavier Jones GreaUr than what brings wealth ownsDrink JonwTell IWontJODCIICCltnlnly 0D8Drink IDJPrink lit fnMng for beat o NEW T STOREGIIAICET Teas Coffees Bakig Powder China Glassware and QiiceiiHwnrc Given Premiums t- oPUUCIIASERS Goods Delivered Tree of Charge Great Atlantic S Pacific Tea Co 137 fast Main St Next to Post Office Lexington commercial Shorthand and Telegraph STATE A vi DepartmentJ i7iG R 137 E NnL 5 C C CAIiIIOUKT Principal VICTOR BOGAERT IE En F A I R I NGAS- D Manufacturer of Jewelry 15 Eost Short Street LEXINGTON KENTUCKY ROBERT KENNEDY ISUCCESSOR TO KNOXVILLE FURNITURECO Wholesale and Retail Dealer in all Kinds of FURNI rURRICLOCKS POTIIRUQ CAPE lIS Etc Goods Sold on Weekly or Monthly Payments 51 E Main St Lexington Ky J3eatty FenceI have as a farmer used the following varieties of fencing stone post and rail plunk and post barbed wire linked wire Virginia worm picket and runner and three kinds of wire und picket fence including the Ueatty fence made by D II Ueatty Prohibitionist and cruel of this city I hereby testify that in a half dozen of the most import ant elements it is the best fence ever say Sworn to on the Dictionary bytime this October 1arof our Lord 1890 CIIAIUJS C MOOK- EProhibitionist and Crank JOHN T MILLER WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN HARDWARE IRON STEEL NAILS Belting Packing Lace Leather CUTLERY GRATES c w WIST M A TN STRICICT LEXINGTON KENTUCKY NEW FALL GOODS CASSELL PRICE Are Head Quarters for ErcryUiiui New and Stylish In limo Dry GondH mind Notion Line ELEGANT DRESS GOODS NEW STYLE CLOAKS Underwear and Hosiery Blankets etc All of which can be had at the very lowest IrIcrJ w they never allow any ono to undersell the- mLOCATION 16 18 WEST MAIN TBEET

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