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TI q F i i ti i k BLUE GRAS BLADEt 1 THE ONLY PROHIBITION PAPER PUBLISHED BY A HEATHEN TERMS PER YEAR 200 100 for Poor People J Vol IV No 23 LEXINGTON ET SUNDAY NOV 11 1894 J AUTHOR OF JHE RATIONAL VIEW A book o73 pages 5x7 neatly sacPostageview THE BLADE ADVERTISING RATES YPrISix II hsI MonthsiTwo MonthsI Month I lose Three ITwoInsertions ejEntered at Post Office at Lexington Ky as second class matter Lexington Ky C C Moore Dear SirI have been asked to con tribute money for building a House of Mercy forpoor fallen women them and then ask the ladies to build Houses of Mercyto reform them Now I believe to the root of the matter put a javelme through the heart of every man thatseduces a woman e Then there will be no need to build Houses of Mercy for the man that se duces a woman knows full well that he is taking from her what is to her dearer than life her virtue and honor Now I am not willing to help build IIIHouses of Mercy but I will for to punish the offenders Sharp sins demand sharp punishment You know Col Breckinridge that this crime does not hurt a saysj much but it ruins a woman A Put this in if you think best as the sentimcntsof one woman in the blue grass country Brooksville Ky Nov 5 cEsqDear find filty cents in stamps for which please send with my one copy of Ra x WmRileyIfsqMilfonlKy copies of the BruK for distribution he will I think get you some subscribers I am anxious for a copy ofyour Behind the Bars and hope may soon have it ou sale Can you give me any idea as to when I can get it Please put m name down for the first copy or taken get me as near the Respectfully publishBehindcopy of the Rational View is I will have to write an additional chap hringittrial for blasphemy and my last little round injajl for blasphemy n C EsqDear glad to read the letter from your India correspondent Mr W whyIer twelve years Its editor Mr Foote some eleven years ago suffered one years hard labor in Holloway jail Lon don England for impossible crim blaspheming God in the Freethinker Last April I saw an item in the New York Press that the editor of the Blue- Grass Blade was indicted for blasphe my That was the first time I ever knew paperIyearMr reads the Freethinker saw a notice ofyou and is now your subscriber I distribute Blade where I think it will be appreciated and subscribed for I trust you will soon get off an edition of 100000 to people who pay for it Fraternally STIUHEN HATTFR Brooklyn N Y Oct I COME WHILE WE SING A Great Victory for the Vanquished and Disgrace for the Victor The People Express Unipliotlcnllv Their Disapproval of iultdox InK tIet11ods In Politicians THERE IS A BOX WITH BALLOTS GOOD DRAWN FROM THE VOTERS BRAINS AND OWENS PLUNGED BENEATH THAT FLOOD COMES OUT ALL FULL OF STAINS THE DYING GAMBLER WISHED TO SEE THOSE BALLOTS IN HIS DAY BUT NEVER WILL DEMOCRACY WASH ALL HIS SINS AWAY ITHIS IS WHAT BEAT FINNELL Before I speak my piece on Pill Owens I want to a word or two about my self bearing upon own competency as a witness in this case these days when any man in any public life in the Ashland district of Kentucky is bound to be excited- I rode five miles out and five miles back to my voting place near my home in the country and voted for only one man and that was Judge James Fin CongressJudeDuring war was a I am still son that the government was not split right wide open like a water melon ocean to ocean I am a the Republican candidate is not my personal friend in any sense other than almost any fair man Lexington is It is now claimed for Owens that he is districtswhichRepublicanlleadquartersthe THK mtEKI moo IIATSI politicalheadquarterswhen coming in Everything went for Denny horse foot and dragoon as long as the returns came in and as long as anything wa1Dennynothing could be heard from some back Owen dayOwens county precincts and nothing was his disposal and Denny has practically hall putithadeAs soon as the thing was reduced to a fine point and the Owens men could see just what needed doctoring there is every probability that the medicine was freelyadministerel1 Denny claims that he can show fraud in the Owens men that will more than overbalance the majority against him Dennyvt ill contest the election and it go the House that will be over whelmingly Republican and Bill Owens and his cold decks will stand no more show than a snow ball in hell If Clif Breckinridge in Arkansas with a majority of 3000 could be thrown out of course Owens stands no chance- I have witnessed some political demon strations in this town but no President ial election that I have ever seen here created such an interest as the late Con gressional election I never in all my life before saw Dem ocrats and Republicans and Prohibition ists and P As all wild with enthusiasm over the same reports that the magic lantern threw on the screen from the window of the Republi I IITTIK JOHNNIE BELL GEORGETOWN IIEADIW Till RETtRNS can headquarters The street was packed and though the night was cool shiny stood nearly until midnight andall these discordant political elements made the welkin ring applause of every thing that indicated that Bill Owens today the most cordially hated man ill Kentucky was being beaten Of course our own Lexington were reported first and individually cheered and when it was announced that Lexingtonthe place where they keep the Democratic machine that grinds out the for this whole Statehad gone for Republican Denny against bad Bill contcrfeit Bill black back Bill the town just went wild with enthusiasm neighborethere is not much show for our now dis themItown Owens ownest own came and fodr WHAT OWENS WOULDNT TAKE upamIheadquarters went home What has so thoroughly disgusted the people and made them despise Owens is that in a campaign whew the prominent feature was morals a ma of reco galltoIwhen there is probably nit a man in the State of Kentucky Els contributed more to immorality fcthia State his main and only distinct s apart from- his Congressional candi cy being tha he has been a cold blood ambler wh gambled not for pastime or fun as many eXciteiBtor do but purely for the ij in itThat such a man who ad always been supposed to be an infidj should have JnyChristianwomen preachers should have bijgu in his retinue and that this man 111 Owens tha the gamblers were all for and whose nomination had been gt trumpeted EDITOR ROBERTS OF IfHE LEADER FOR DENNYMA JORITY by race horse papers an gambling pa anddamnedhis whole canvass on thtitnmorality ofI beenfortn enough to disgust any mui or woman of good morals and corrnnn intelligence that would for a to think- And yet that fellowtis without a mercilesslyblastedcountry that did not tw down and worship him like a littlepn I do not apologize Jr condone the sons of Bre e Those who have opposedIf he will live here andlive a good life and try to redeem himself I will do what WilY HE DIDNT VOTE FOR can to help hint If hej tries to go to opposhimenough of the man in reckinridge to countrymen to forgive his sins and I suppose he has made the oust mary arrangements with 1nisGodinth i But when Jesus Christ was here he did not set himself up tci be half as good as Bill Owens has done end the people who have chosen Bill Ovens of Billy have simply gotten out of the fry ing pan the fire But Bill wont go to Congress No i Lexington Ky Nov i My Dear Moore- I write this immediately after perusal of your current issue anal more specifically the article on tobacco I guess few boys have suffered more from perstentonly years old and foib of them have added to the daily consumption of arettes my score or so mycigarettevigorousboyof color innocent of energy vacant of bought memory lost its retentive exc tunic and the ees assumed heavy du tress characteristic of the votaries of debauchery sleep was nightly turbed by horrible visions of murders in performedtheindicative of mental disorder And finally after many fruitless efforts have appetiteIdethroned in consequence of the cigarette vice to I wik IIIldictedand even now fear I have vitally injured my mental organism Please give your vice about the best methods of crushing out the pernicious effect still selfevidenl and painfully so I believe the use the cigarette to be fatal to health degrading to morals auda foul especiallyinyou sir it is something terrible to template the vast number of young men and mere boys who dwarf their minds and their physical growth in the- gratifical10n of this conceived ignorance andearfolly and con ceived my Ignorance an early folly and continued either from tie same motives on during the sojourn elsewhere oftthe requisite force of will tc discard it The State Legislature shoul enact laws pro ofcigarettesthe entire territory under their jurisdic tion and and this Bone in this con i Ij dutyitsrdture do this Surely all sensible men can see the necessity of strict pro ibitory measures where this deadly thevitalitythoughbutoable thought to the question of religion riotbeall along the line of monstrous Biblical RationalView PresidentrelievedfinancialYours Cordially Please do not give my name Following this written in short the following nexttimeofReasonwhat are good books for young infidels to read Books that will post them in anddisbeliefs In answer to this last I would say that a cheap edition of the of Reason can be gotten by writing to the Truth YorkCitysamplecopyapplication The Age of Reason is productionOnelate Court of Kentucky one said to me mostirresistableread theological Thelwhichnrejectedbycanonic New Testament was compiled is valuable infidel literature as that the books at present in the New randombya atthatThe most powerful argument against isBishopScripturesOne defcnsehaveitChristianssu ose nnii i4jraog eat nuuioer ot om seeps oi meut without date and without an inEgypt inThegoodpointswould not have published it Rationalsianic prophesies and some on ths dis thoseinreader of fair average intelligence an in sight into some the facts about theI withitsI call the attention of Christians to tohelpwhohavein my desire to help the fallen women are infidels I do not know the gentleman who writes this letter He writes nicely in shorthandcigarettesor fstory as Lihcoln used to say afteratmuchdebatedplans were Fmallv some- mansaidt1evvaytoresumcistoresume the government just resumed and there was an cud of the trouble stopusingend of it And that is all of it I wish there was some easier plan that I could suggest to my young friend but there is notI must tell a little story on my friend Major Thomas the famous turfman I met him in the postofTicebuilding a few hours before I and he was laughing at what I had said about to bacco chewers lie is one of the neatest and cleanest men I ever saw and pises tobacco as much as I do He saidthat hot long ado he went to a funeral that was beingconducted in a handsome fine carpets on the floor He said when the preacher was through the ceremony a man with n hymn book in his handspit a great puddle of tobacco juice on the carpet and then started the hymn tolthe neck and kick him out the door confidencesec now we have made a start in the somebodysothis young man Cant some old to helpoYou Christians who claim to be lowers of Jesus Christ just try o think how Jesus would have looked with a great hunk of tobacco in his cheek audl squirting around the extract of it Ounginfidelhvpotrites Lexington Ky Mr C C MooreI am one woman to say I will ti eat of those women well as long as I think she is trying to do bet anythinghad continuced in the old way if she in business I give her a share of public patronage why should we not do all we eau to overlook such things in negroes and have then around us and girllienwill not sign mv name but will do what I say now who will come next t AT TSIE with the State A M College Honer Clothing at J I ttj rfBehablePricesc i j fi with eyery Cash Purchase of 20a choice of Hundred standard Books or a Credit Card with les t kfser amount z irP HcfcLLOEVENHARTi MAMMOTHrCLOTHIERS HATTERS FURNISHERS It VOGTMFOLEY t Voglit Foley GROCERSCorner Short and Broad ayS4 w Opera licuseJBlook iAll Kinds of SeedsAgent For Langdons Bread and Cakes EDUCATEFOR SUSINESSLexington Business CoIl e e Incorporated Connected Thoroughly Thoroughly One Garden inBookKeepingCorrespondenceGuaranteed C C CALHOUN PRINCIPAL LEXINGTON KY Iflbondholder855 1 will sell it to you for 50 By buying from me you will assist a s poor but pious editor beside saving 5 and heavenYours DP Rev Jones on and amRevArk A country church called Providence has dispensed with the religious minis trations of Rev J B Jones because Brer Tones preached and wrote agaKist Breck inridge I myself think that all good men who for conscience sake have voted against Breckinridge ought now to even toladright when the preacher has done I have heard and read pretty much all of the oratory and literature to which the famous Breckinridge campaign has given birth The ery in that that has been produced are the letters of Rev Jones of Lexington to Lexington newspapers against Breckin ridge They were alike fine in moral sentiment and in literary style The campaihas n Owens speeches were the letters of Prof JonesRevJonesposition commonly designated in Ken journalism as between the devil and the deep blue sea If h does not use his office to rebuke such Breckinridgebackis outside of the church does not carefor him or for bItvated and highly moral man is ever no in mature Years converted to trid church amd if the church holds its own against the inroads that enlightenment uponitnd it the respect of the thinking outsiders The has come in are going to repudiate the miracles of religion and discard all belief in Go andangels and devils and hell and pur gatory and heaven and they are going ry i to demand that religion in order to its further existence among an enlightened practicalifand earnestly means to try to make men and women eIndoing some thing that was creditable to opposBreckinridge ed rY Tydkinkspreacher who has the brains to appre r diReytian church and his congregation of country clodhoppers say they will support One of became so excited that he t JontheNow what should a man like Jones d Ought he to stand his ground like complexionoften of whom I suppose vote for againstitsuppose almost unanimously in favor consequentlyintinguished himself as a friend of sympathytweenclose and intimate that that congregation very naturally ProvidenceIBreckmnd IfJones backs down he renders his own manhood e enI courages that and other congregations abrrrbeat any nan whs aares teach tliemTj ptlhisalii orals instead of the old sup fareall the harder for any other preacher dutytoLexingtonWith all its aItsthere is not a preacher here who in his department has risen above the level mediocrity Why could we not have Beecher or Swing or Cave I have talked to two out of that three and have talked to Rev Prof Jones and as far as I can judge Jones is intellectually the equal any of them It is not so much the fact that those men were so intellectually superior to others as that they were more willing to what they think than others in their line have f been that they have made more impr upon the world I do not care w theologyI en ut above the fripperies of theological dogma and has taken the bun by the immoralityin rIParkhurst belongs and I do not care to know We need a man like him in Lexington the city which exerts the est immoral influence of any city in United States This is because this is a great whIskyand race horse market and because here more than place in t giventoI sin profoundly disgusted with the fact that of all these evils a man with the pbility of John W Me Garvey can stop articles in de fence of a fool story like that of Noahs Ark I will not so prostitute myintelli gence of the age in show to any educated people the abs dity of the story of Noahs Deluge If it 3 clr is a fact that any considerable part of the educated people of this country still ieve that story then all the absurdit in morals with which our land is religiousfaith disgracefulto believe and teach such ignorant rot It is simply impossible that mind can accept such a story and w peopletoa lie as the story of Noahs Ark to true they systematically instill into theto hypocrisythat fills the church with liars and by pocrites The result is that the church is no great fashionable money making sham andwhen we having all the power to do what it wants in its han we appeal to an institution devoid any moral and one that is ingtosubstituleafaith in miraculous absurd stories for good deeds of humanity Tess of the DUrbervilles a Story About the Double Standard of Virtue IIhave been reading Tess of the It is a story intended to the injustice of the difference be tween the worlds treatment of a young woman who has lost her virtue and a young man who has done the Wing me Whatever may be the conclusion at which we are to arrive about this mat ttr cat thiag is certain and that is that r f justice should be done between man woman as much as between man man Certainly not only gallantry and mercy but justice even demands that if there is to be any discrimination between men and women as to the re sponsibilit for their morals the dis crimination should be in favor of the woman The fact that this is not the case is simply the result of the fact that man being the physically stronger has taken the making of the laws and Ute manu faciure ofpublic sentiment into his own hands and he has made discrimina n between men and women in his own It is simply an outrage and an of brute to a woman that the woman is ruined by being only once seduced and that women themselves will sanction this while they will honor societythathabitually guilty of sexual impurity there are of sueknruined women in a town like this re is one man whose social impurityCertainly f two things should be done Either viihemen who have been the occasion oftheir debasement should alike receive the con poxae any difference in the treatment of the two sexes in this regard If we decide that there are so men of this crime that it would impractical to punish them by social or by law then we have right to blight the enth tiled atioma because she has done once when a man eau with impunity persist in th sin I do not know what the cons societyrecognized justiceI thsthing and there is no sense in making moral laws We have lately had it seems in Lexington a case about like that of Tess and her seducer A beautiful girl is gointoof her life but he will just as much as be received into what is called the j cityThe in the town propvfear of the men they ha to join with the men in co their own sex more than tl sex It is unjust unkindand womanly The woman who will vith her recognition from a woman wh once fallen and at the same tin recognize a man who she knows is no hhiser has committed sin scarcely less than tl fThepowera in behalf of fallen women while she socially scarcelythwoman to whom she is to mightrtouch thedHann in Lexington I am Ute ot religions mligion is tile friendof thatimmoralityn the ratio that religion docs and so as I know the same is true else This is exactly what an intelligent man religionfalse re is fore be false and immoral There are some religious people who good but they are good to of religion rather than as a consequence strongholdI30000 tants it exerts an immoral influence not CityThischurches theological university distil gamblingdenstrade The two men who are today adniigby more people than any other men tiarreputation as a libertine and the latter a gambler The most influential church here is Campbelliterecognized as the Christian church That denomination has within the last five years built three churches here and is now beginning to build snot Lei tietheyoung men- the ministry In these depressed times TwooithelhreenewUuildtngserecten e l fhndsomehandsomest thing of the kind in the city and I suppose the finest church building andEpiscopalians churchesherenowur aud religion are greatly venerated here A few eveniugs since thedtiedstanding and ladies andetlem tocA nch bankers daughter was being married to a rich Cincinnati banker Assocben ia an I am the only man iu the town who will darepubliclytosayanythingdisparagiug never was any town anyoc in and this town is a shining example what a community will be when religion itvthen to show what being done here now to show the leg mate consequence of religious influence oiand I will simply mention the new andOne of the handsomest new houses built on the stlye of a bayourcastle and to the permanency and sta bilityof which I have unusual opportu n jaiLItbuilding and should have been built in a prominent cityrheone is increased in just about the same ofchurcheshasbeen the A saloon has recently bean started in a splendid new building in this city that overshadows anything ever before seen here When I can first remember these saloons were called bar rooms then the name saloon became the more eleg t name and now this new establishm in gold letters on plate glass calls its elfable a cafe Saloons hitherto have generally been on outoftheway streets so that men coi into them unobserved This last venture in that line however comes out on the most prominent part of the town right opposite Main Street Christian Church It was built by money won on race horses and is named for a race horse All the newspapers in town have sung its praises the Observer edited by the Christian candidate for Superintendent of the public schools said to me that he was toprinthiseditorialadvertisingthat moneylI thies wn ever was The city is building palatial new banks and security vault buildings and the men at the head of them are always men distinguished for their prominence in churches isinown At the pinning race track the wooden structures that they had a few andYre t and attractive grand stand and dub house The famous fair ground that ewas originally really here is here name now Theyused to exhibit on that ground live stock and agricultural products and imple ments The plain buildings formerly there have been replaced by most elegant and onlyraya vegetables excusne go to race un der the pretence of going to a fair TIle only things that make people come likee ey lore races Not even other varieties Sooceon same are the regular trotting races here and ey flood this town with the lowest description of ignorant and vicious men is simply a training school for Ute race track One ofthe great impovements to this city is Megowan street The buildings are nearly all new and the whole street is used for houses of prostitution Some of these are run by white women an some by women and the who prostitution business has the appearance of thriving A right new and elagant building there is the establishment of Miss Belle Bree zi veNorth1DtoA new feature in entertainment here that is a great assistance to the estab eshiewomen at Opera highestChristian thisLwas up s church and is now a good Christian his parents are members in full churchII went to that show simply to be able ento certify personally as to its character should deeply mortified and dis tressed if one of sons should go to that entertainment at which I saw a Kazininhavingdevelopedthat is old and neglected and needs painting and has a general tumble down air about it It is the Orphan Asylum on West Third street Asvlumthaj9 flourishlingbuildings added to it that I never kne onlytheThis institution is supported by th public money here in order to keep the Iris bytheProtestants to Catholicism Catholics and Protestants are tin great Christian parties of this tow hatelwilling to beburied in the same ground where the other is so that out West onitse olics while the Jew whose daddy wrote the Bible will not be buried with tithe of them but has a place all to himself- If they get up an infidel cemetery I am oing to buy a lot in it it turns out to be true that some of Gabriel is oing around these- cemetenes and blowing a horn to wake them all up I dont want to be where he wantjustany waking Catholic Prayer Books Rosaries Beer Cigars Tobacco and Other Re byforThe following sent me in a cite rom Lexington Tire first part down t name T J Danahy S Sons is printedand the balance below that is written in a business hand notadtertisethegino case to do it with the hope of saving some souls by thejprayer books rosa ries 1894jat request customers we have put our office 58 West Main Catholiceuligious articles which will be sold at a small profit Your patronage is solicited T J S We also handle beer wine gin cigars and tobacco etc at corner Third and Race Streets Lexington Ky TexasoThe Queen C Crescent Route will sell andfilltrip plus Tickets on sale from sta tions Cincinnati to Meridian inclusive returninShreveportSolidShort Jne and gniclc lime Ask agents particulars or address J N Rush T P A Victor Bogaert MAFUFACTURING JEWELER RelieatGoods Fair Dealing Bottom Prices goods and work guaranteed E Short street Lexington Ky 3 Old SoL The sun no longer smiles upon us 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KENTUCKY Residence No 44 Barr Street T T MILLERDSIALERIN all D wBJ E IRON STEEL22 W Main St Lexington Ky n axa as xx t x a k lARRISlIAttorneyk r I Dolan pamsb s i j REAL ESTATES INSURANE ACTS k k Buy and sell Real Estate of all kinds Have nowk JlHb Real Estate titles carefully examined and abstract x furnishedat reasonable prices Loans peg tiated k Parties desiring to loan money can find safe borrow ers through us at a good rate of interest Callor k k write before buyingk x 11 Cheapsldeelsewhereik x kkkk Ik I SOILED DOVES A Lexington Woman Who Not Believe the Bible Strikes Out From the s Shoulder at Her Christian Sisters and Nobly Comes to the De fence of Fat ten Women WANTED LIST OF THE NAMES PROMINENT MEN OF LEXINGTON WHO HOUSES OF PROSTITUTION Lexington Ky Nov 3 Dear Brother Moore- I thought a few views on the question ou are now agitating would not come amiss from the pen of a woman Who are the ones who have hereto fore taken the last prop from under fal len woman Every one knows It is an open secret It can be told in two words Goodwomen The workers for the erring sister witlc have to carefulluy they must think see and learn all the question liberalIview ofit- Let us be sure that our own armor is true steel before we attempt to breakthrough the brazen solidity of theirs If we intend to make these women social themiThe men who frequent these places 11theirthe fairest and purest in the city and offer them as rank an insult by asking a these girls to marry them as they would by asking them to become their mis tresses But poor children they do not mist and the result is generally lives of led with brutes who are not a fit to touch their hands and the bright dreams of sweet girlhood how are they shattered Fvirtuousmywifefrom such lips Whom else was he fit to marry But enough of him I leave him his o God the spirit of wife of his youth whom he will haveo face hereafter I pity him from the soul yet I pity the fallen women more the victims of his kindaSome times one of these women makes a grand atonement for a misspent life Who in this city does not remember the p tragedy of the girl who saved the life of agonyfrombetrayed more heroism to an admiring world Do you not suppose there are more of them like her and are they not a worth saving for their own sakes leaving religion aside They are their lives tend to make them sensual We must lead them slowly give them cause to love and trust us and half the battle will have been won But on the other hand they cannot de demand and expect social recognition and respect at once They must prove their sincerity to usfore they can expect us to take them into our homes and treat them as equals At present they are not equals and cannot be treated as such until they be COJUIThey cannot deny this and twass 4 in whtlhpapfor they know it is but true and but just 0 I believe in a Creator a great spirit all love and in the immortality of the soul yet I do not despise an infidel- I do not believe in the Bible nor do I believe Christ to have been the son of God except as all men are his sons If a man or a woman is moral pure and true I care nothing for his or her belief but love and respect them I am not church member and never will be unless I turn hypocrite Yet I want to adda pfallenYou are an infidel I am a deist and spiritualist The church people are creedists saybetweenseaThese fallen ones think that women do not care for them think that all this praying and drivelling talk of th church women about saving them is all done simply for the purpose of saving o glrificationown set And justly they think this at least so far as most of them are con cerned But they are wrong when the think there are not true women who ar broad enough and deep enough to understand their needs better than most o the church kind I not utterly condemn the motives of the church women but they are going at it left handed With them it is number one first Christ second and the demimonde a bad you Brother I have no fixed no tion of what to do first but will venture a few of my ideas In the first place it will be a telling stroke to get the names by hook or by crook of men who visit the big houses during the week and publish them This would be taking the bull by the horns but fight fire with fire Must these poor women live in eternal grace while socalled reputable citizens creep away from these places like thieves in the night Then again if these women were not so much afraid of work if they woul resolve to do better and stick to it out o into the world and by pluck and endurance show us that they are in earnest they would find many friends among really good women If those who have grown rich in thi terrible traffic would stop where they are and use their nione the others much good would bedone This would win regard from the good people who would help then in turn by every means in their power What do you good women do to an erring girl almost a child hardly at an age to distinguish between reason an passion Why you kick her stone her turn her adrift treat her like a leper and then dear souls you wopder why those awful places fill up so rapidly why so many girl faces almost facesarc seen in them It makes no difference if the errin gill had no mother to guide her th this one had a drunken father to beat her or that one had no parents at all but had to subsist upon hard charity sprinkled with tracts and inconsistent prayers She ought to have known of course What is a ship in a storm without a rudder what is a boy or girl at certain ages without a guide or help of the right kind Of course there are those whom one cannot help caused by inheritance they can not change though I pity them with an infinite pity There is no help for such this side the grave But to those who can think and feel who realize and deplore their degradation I for one am ready to stretch out the right hand of human love to help them Why should we not do it It is to our own interest as well as theirs Have we not brothers and sisters boys and littl baby daughters growing and may no one false step cast our idolized ones into the yawning hells open and waiting with greedy flames to consume Have we not helped to make these hells and our ancestors Men and women we have done it and until all rise up together men and women helping each other in this great work bud these fallen women helping us to help them nothing will be done parlorstalkunder it all eating eating eating We may call on the Lord and pray fo the lost ones as some do and consider our duty done but prayer is not work God those who helps themselves Christian women hire a negro girl with perhaps three babies at home who could not for the life of her tell which is the father of each and yet will drive from their door a poor white girl in virtuous indignation who has one pitiful child These women tell such a white girl that the poor house is too good for her slid that she had better go to a reform school They do not tell her in so many words to go to house of shame but it amounts to that all the same They would not have such a thing to nurse their children Mercy No But the black mammy of many babies also f many colors sometimes may teach her children all the filth she desires so long as the dear ones do not speak of it to mamafthat fills these lacesbThere is to be pitied and fully as worthy of help as tOftenlove After a while his passion for her cools and he goes back to his old vile haunts The wife perhaps has several to children but even these do not up for the loss of the husband and love of society and ten to one if she is woman of a good deal of animal in hertshe finds a new lover These are the women who are not able of grand sacrifice of self for the right They long for love and gener lly get it or at least a poor substitute for it Some day the husband finds it out Tableauwife in tears begs for forgiveness and a little love and makes keepwitll Jthechildren puts them in the care of an unloving hireling and pursues his dirty course unmolested What of the woman The very woman friends who should help her do not gingerly JShewants it and she goes to one of two lacesa house of shame or the grave ofa suicide Church members pure goodwomen of all beliefs I ask you how many such AgainI l chance to such anti drawn back for fear of sullying your own purity by even mere contact with them No contact with or sight of evil can smirch the whiteness of a goodwomans soul or character as the kind though mistaken ladies who have these provenTheythey have proven their sincenty liagainstrespect all of them who live honestly up to their firm beliefs But I take the theyhaveIfllleTchoooctotnrnthctoldahoaderF creedist they will prove their title of bigots If they try to retaliate on me for what I have said I will show that I have more of the Christian spirit than they for if they smIte me upon the left cheek I wilt turn unto them the right Malice vindictivenees and spite cannot touch me for they are articles in which dealaBut if they are willing to be tolerant nd work with us in a pacticalway drop ing all discussion of religion much can be done in harmony and many that intellectual Jewess if she were to open a millinery store in Lex ington I for one could go into her store and come out as I went in a pure woman I should treat her with cour tesy and politeness just as I would any other keeper A woman who could despisedebe every true woman She who is so terribly careful of her virtue as to shun that woman has not much to lose- Are you churchwomen willing to take it in the broad right spirit You who a are for morality humanity and justice toepulling out to amuse you in times f You have work to do and you will find us allies not to be despisedaAnd for you Brother in hope you go on in the good wor you have begun in aiding our fallen sisters I honor you for your candor respect t ou for your honesty in your belief I admire you for your fearlesness purity and lack of that rottenest of sins hypocrisy I hope you will live to be a hun dred You stay publish this letter if you think it can do any good Like you I am not afraid to say just what I think andsign my name to it Sincerely yours JEssiE CIARK w Jacksonville Ills Nov 194 Charles C Moored near Sir Enclosedclipping is from St Louis its are correct I wish to express my admiration for you Like yourself am called an infidel but am proud of my religious convictions Do not consider me a cranks or an inquisitive idiot I write these lines because I admire the step you have taken and wish to en courage you in your mission I may even be able to assist you not in a financial way but by suggestions and perhaps finding employment for some of the un fortunates here where they are unknown That is of course for those who are will ding to work For those who are no willing to labor I fear there is liltl hope In regard to the one in the artier which I have encircled with apen mark particularss foatr opening for her at once You send me the information yourself or give ha r my address with instructions to write believe there is a great deal in getting such unfortunates away from their old haunts and giving them a chance to make a future for themselves It is only too true that a fallen woman can never rise again where she is knownnot so long at least as the human mind is sill tained with Christian hypocrisy and sel fishness Now sir if the clipping is true and correct please let me know Also in form me if I can address in con dence in the future Please send copy ofyour publication Must say that the name appended is not my true name But on hearing n you I will write over my own signature simplybecausewill ever reach you Yours truly The following headlines and all is from the St Louis Chronicle The words encircled with a pen mark be gin at A young woman and endwith the words a house of bad repute RESCUE THE FALLEN INFIDEI TURNS SAYSrWITHOUT FMooreGrass Blade has undertaken the refor mation of fallen women and in company with two young newspaper men as guides commenced the task Lexington has about 30000 inhabi tants but more than its share of im proper houses Several blocks of val uable property in the East End are al most wholly given up to these houses and the good women of the city have been stnving for many years to get precinctsUnlike Parkhurst or any other re formers of note in the country Moore uses no prayers or oratory but he met reat encouragement today by his plain manner and advice Some of costlybuildingsHere he was treated in a spectful manner and soon had the ention of the inmates He did not ocate a house of reform in the sense it has been used devoting the time mostly inquiry of how the house of reform worked and as to what plan would be the best suited to these fallen women He found that many of them had in houses of reform and had re urned to their wayward lives They for said that there were no prospects for a future nothing but the same work from er one day to another and that the best they could do after living in a house of reform for several years would be toU serve in a family as domestic there be oTheyfrequentlycarnecold cruel world was before them they preferred shame to being cuffed at has an idea that the reforma tion of fallen women can be made a sucte cess by offering inducements for a ture He found nearly all of these he p visited tired of misery but unwilling to do drudgery So he be that a house of reform should be established on a plan whereby those willing to work could make and save enough money so at the end of four or five years they would be ails to buy a home of their own be able to dress as well as other people and not be looked tITwoshame resolved to et from that atportionand bought property a more JIknownvery people arguing for reform and they could not in homes A young woman very pretty and attractive with- a reasonable amount of education who although she had not openly defied pub c morals resolved a few days ago to back in her downward course and having no revenue to gain employment applied to a school for instruction in a branch of study by which she could earn iivinn nor was tor lUg sue became isheartepedaa boldlyentered a house of bad repute Prayers have been offered for these women by good women of Lexington in their houses but so far no reformations have been made Moore had many promises from those seen by him that they would willingly accept a solution to the difficulty witch gave promise of a future I have been to see the young woman very pretty and attractive alluded to in the St Louis Chronicle She fills the bill She is quite handsome and her manners are good and she speaks good the address of the gentleman in Illinois and will write to him and I have written him giving him a description of her La Grange Ky Nov Editor Chas C Moore- I have had the pleasure or it may be misfortune to see several copies of your paper the BrUE My son Wilt Edds is unfortunately a sub scriber You say that you are an infi del and you have intimated that there is religionissk you if there is nothing in the Chris hardkyou answer yes or no an not beat about the ResptJOHN Eons You have got that thing up Nobody ever heard me intimate that there is no God I have though a good many times said very plainly that there is to God You are wrong ain in supposing that I ever said there tian religion is a great deal in it It is just bigotryhypocrisy c to humanity If you find that it isa misfortune to you to see a BLUE BLADE you ought to shut your eyes when one is about I have always found that the best way to keep front seeing anything is just to shut my eyes or get in the darkI your son WiUwill not beg you to read his if you dont want to and if you will just let the BrAn alone it will let you alone Had to Hack Down oil theIII TcritiH of the Shade BLADeno r less than a year Having been receiving them for shorter times I find it difficult to change and will have to resume the old way Instruction to Agents for the Blue Grass BladeI- 1txiNGroNKYOCLq9a From this 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business is done for Cash D K BEJTTY- r The Most Reliable DRY GOODS IN LEXINGTON ARE iKaufman Straus fcti 12 East Main REALESTATE want to show you everyimprovement imtA Third Street Residence with every convenience A choice piece of centrally located business property A lovely Cottage on Maryland AvenueA home of 12 60 or 100 acres right at the city limits manyfine MASSIEICor Short and Mill StII MONEYo Liberally Advanced on Diamonds- Watches And all Articles of Value 4 DADLER SON 17 S UPPER ST Agents Wanted fotl the Blade Iwant agents to sell the BLADE on the inftheeditor x t NOAHS ARK An Editorial Letter to Rev Prof J W McGar ey About That Fa j1 onmousF Rev Prof J W McGarvey headptucky Universt your reputation as a speaker and writer on theology make prominenttheologian ceived over theological training in the same and we have stood to gether in the same pulpit You said o me in a sermon at the Broadway Chris thoughhad I r to tell a lie We have been fpersonal friends ever since I first knew haColmost energetic workers for Prohibition in Lexington You of churchmen who excommunicated m from the Christian church be cause I did not believe the miraculous yoknewu fore my life I declined to appear be your ecclesiastic body when t tink5appeared in my own defence you wen- presumably ready to attempt to show theIgospeltevery man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is within you I Peter 3 You have recently written for the 4 Christian Cincinnati some long articles defending the story of the Deluge and Noahs Ark as given in the Bible against some one who attacked that account from the standpoint of thIconnection and think that you probably sustained yourself against the higher critic but body of infidels amnoone of whom I more accept the DltheyDean Milman and Cannon Farrar for andprominentthe as i world r I will give a specimen of their reaso ing In the New Testament we have ti wittheoCJesusAsd an many bodies of the saints that had fallen asleep were raised and coming forth out of the tombs after his resurrection the appeareuntoHere the resurrection of the saints brought into direct connection with W theirimight have the honor of being first iu the procession and the one event pears to be fully as miraculous as ether le the earthquake the and thetof the saints is allowed even by conservative i mythicalMilmanThe same convulsion tfieearthquake would displace the stories wHlcn covereu the tombs and lay open many of sepulchwhich Is publicJesusdoubt a no pearances of the spirits oCtheirdeceased brethren Quoted in Supernatural ChristianityAnd to the same effect Farrar An earthquake shook the earth and split the rocks and as it rolled away from their places the great stones which imagintionses a e spirits of the dead and to have filled the air ghostly visitants who after lingertheSuch admissions as these on ofable and professed apologists cairn but reveal how singularly frail is the Jestfors the product of a pious imagination the followers of Jesus and their appear visionarythe chaacterreferred and quake being in each case as complete mythical as the resurrection The ima gination which raised the saints could be depended upon not to leave Jesus in the grave Jn your reply to the higher critic I did not any where find any place from which I could determine whether or not you believed the story of the Noachian deluge was an actual occurrence or BiblecOuldFarrar explain away the story of the res urrection of the saints at the crucifixion- ofJesus I am veryanxious to hear you definitely on this point and think there are a great many people who would say the same I do not know whether or not youabelieve thefstory or oahlliioda given but assuming that you do I will dogmatically assert the in fidel view of the matter and if you not accept that view I ask you to fur nish your written objection to it pre erring that you use m paper as your means of communication- It seems to me that if you believe that story of the ark you must of necessity associateVith it in your own some of the details of the story and these I would like for you to give us For in stance to us how the varieties of animas that lived in America and Australia and other islands and remote lands being such animals as were not found in the country where the ark was built got to the ark offoodkinds of food for himself and his family animalsismusthave whichIRHow then multi Noah reed himself L family and a large part of the animals on the flesh of other animals without destroying some of the limited number animals of each kind that he was allowed to take into the ark Supposing Noah to have killed aui hisBeshtIEfloodfrom becoming tainted during the time t of flood The niiimals would not havebeen Godir T 4 miraculouslyhavethe oceans from distant countries by miracle then if God was going to use miracle at all to preserve some of the hum au race and some of the animals necessarytosimply by such a miracle as that in n the case of Jesus and Peter walking the water Noah and his family and animals that God designed should he saved could all have just walked on the surface of the water and have been supplied with food by tuiracle Some of the creepingthings and small animals lived in remote part oft earth and no specimens of lived in Armenia where the Ark was built could not at their ordinary gait of traveling have gotten to the ark in ears They could not have theft t have lived through the climate that they equatordirected each animal large andsmall and insect of every kind they could not ve found their to the ark and the fact that God directs Noah to build an ark to save himself and family and waeJ1Ahalf feet In round numbers the ark was 600 feet long 100 feet wide and 60 feet high This ark had only one door and 0one window the only two openings in it beea little less than two feet square was fastenedall the time until near the end of the deluge The ark naturally meaning the whole ark above water below was pitched within and without and was therefore not absolutely dark inside but without any chance of ventilation so that man and beast must hay e in the ark must hay been the same for allanimalsandapolar bear would have a hours in a climate that a hippopotamus could liven fThefeet above the highest mountains and highest mountains are seven miles Every volcano in the world would have been extinguished The deluge according to the accepted Bible chronology was q23 years ago There are volcanoes geologicalthey had been burning much longer than that If that water was more than sere n haynee e level and it had to cover the remotest island of the earth What then has be waterd that is evap evaporation didd othter thehem le believescientist says the remains of men have Mississippithatthen human beings in America 9000 years before the flood As nobody from the Eastern Hemisphere ever heard of our Hemisphere until after 400 punishing rs j Americans drow the preachi knbew at God would destroy the world by water or by fire or tornado or any other way in one hundred and twenty years from now would you believe the man Non you believe that man if he should to an oath that God had inspired him to preach this or that God had personally appeared to him and told him this Certainly not If you would not believe such a man thinghasthat the people have believed Noah before such athing had ever happened Would you believe any man in the hoclyoubelievewillingtoofGod had said to him Certainly not would not believe it any sooner than todayinspirewonderful that was to take place in a hundredand twenty years from no 1would you that man not you would say as a rational man would say thatitwasmu more probable that the man was lying mistaken or had become t inspiredSomebody let iu which a man who is evidently a cul theBibleing of the Bible prophecies and that the tgooYouUbroughtyou are warranted in believing that the may take place tomorrow but will yo thebooknotThere was then no reason why any preachingof hundrelid e preachingwhen Ark was much the largest boat ever built Noah and his three sons wouldhelp d inbuilding havebeeuhavebeenboat Nobody has ever found any metal re of the ark Such a boat if itse musthave anditfromtheIt would have been impossible for water to be higher than the mountains all over the earth because at the poles w iceheretake the amphibious animals into t ark because the flood could not have hurt them There are remains of animals now tohavewater in the deluge was thirty feet higher than the highest mountian the bodies socthe me of the sea and have been left on the land when the water subsided No such ofa whale have ever been Men have written all kind of lies both intelligentmost unreasonable lies have been ten about all religions except their own religion The Greeks have a story abo Ducalion and Pyrra that is very limit to the one about Noahs Ark Some of probablyolderoldIt is not possible that anybody now can know who wrote story about Noahs Ark It is simply a tradition among the Jews that Moses did itJesus Christ did not seem to have muc justtherat in do they quit believing the stories of the These are simply the most natural dif beliefinsuggestedThecept the story of the deluge as a true one and the belief in story is therefore closely related to belief in the Christian religion andhonestyou do afford to ignore my request to answer these questions It will not do for you simply to assert belief ti these things occurred just as they are impossibleforXnnhs Art wit out liavitur with hal inhkI subjectstances and especially under existing expectthatthis subject forceithinkiteither afraid to attempt a defence of this story of the ark you believ- at all or that you are indifferent to claims of your religion if Ou do not re Ply to this communication I do not even know that you claim to youinthink you believed the story of Balsa ass replyIwill I believe that do believe it until I have declaration to that effect There is much interest now being felt about these matters and more than e 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