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BLUB
JBJLABB.
Vol.L-Ko.30.
Lexington, Kentucky, Saiuraap, January Hit, 1801.
Subscription, $2 a Tear.
A Mlalnfer On the Blnde
the Rational View.
nd
Winchester, Ky., Dec. 29.
Dear Bro. Mooro: If I may
call yon brother, and I can on
Prohibition. Here I will utrike
you and yon will strike me. I
think I will also hit you in Adam
or in one of those fellows Mul
hatton mw breaking hemp in
"bluefrrassdom;" that is if Dar
win's theory be correct. JJut I am
disponed however to think from
the account, given in the Dlado of
your aneentry, that, yon have de
scended from a better parentage
from a higher origin, namely, Bar
ton W. Stone. 1 thihk the descent
of the monkey from man would be
easier proven than man's assent
from the monkey; especially when
wc ace man descending into the
naloon business with a license given
by our votes.
I do not think from the indi
cations that you ought to "monkey"
with religion. Yon do not
'monkey" with the Prohibition
question. It has been monkeyed
with too much. We need manly
work along this line. Wc need to
hit square nut from the shoulder as
you do, calling them by their suit
able names, and if they do not like
the names let them go into a busi
ness that deserves a better name,
and that we can even call a "dog
gery" without disgracing the dog.
If, you will sign a contract agree
ing to put the whiskycrata out of
Lexington for $5,(XX) in five years,
the time you propose, the churches
and good jteople of Lexington
ought to raise the inoneyarid
when you get it out of Lexington
we will give you a job" here. If I
had the money I jwould buy you
if you v o tld sell oilt, and put you
' niial wuaUt vat
btg'word of late. In fact every
off the bead of this''Goliah," some
times pronounced "Go-lier." Let
. the liar go, for he must sooner or
later.
I have been wanting to send you
two dollars ever since the first
issue of the lust edition of the
Blade, but I have had in tny mind
two reasons for not doing so. The
first was that, I thought from that
number they would have you
killed before this, an J the second
was that I could not write you a
cheek without writing you some
thing else too, and I was afraid you
would publish it in spite of the
loud "ru'tto'' written upon them.
But you arc not dead yet I hope,
and the Blade still lives. And I
think I can write you a letter that
you will not publish (?) for your
own sake, if not for mine, but you
seem to have no sake. Here is my
cheek for two dollars and if you
get killed you need not pay it back,
and il the Blade dies again you
need not, for I have already re
ceived $2 worth and you will be
compelled to "dead- head'' a preach
er for the rest of the year unless
the Blade tlies.
I do not endorse you fully nor
did I ever know a man that did
thus endorse, not even myself, none
except the Man Christ Jesus. I
think we should not preach lesn of
the divine man but more of the
manliness of Jesus. We preach
Him sometimes as though he were
a woman, and with our present
ideas of womanhood reuching will
not reach this age of rum. Christ
was a lion as well as a Uunh ; and
in preaching aguiust the whisky
traftio we need about nine parts
lion to one of lamb.
I want you to say to Dr. Chiun
and Bro. Mat hews that while 1
endorse you on Prohibition, 1
also endorse what they say to you
concerning your writing about your
religion or rather no religion.
I thiuk your views of Prohibition
and your way of t routing it is very
rational, however irrational your
i Rational View" may be.
Yours for the destruction of the
rum traffic, J. S. KKxm.it k.
CMbollo Advocacy of Prohlbl
tlou.
It is to the credit of tho Oath
olio Church that Prohibition is
the only political cuiue in Aiuer
ca that it has ever advocated.
No official declaration from the
Pope Las ever announced this,and
as it is a political issue, as well as
a religious and moral one, it is
right that he has not done it;
more especially as he is not
citizen of this Government.
But I print in this issue, as I
havedone similar ones before, the
utterances of prominent Catholic
dignitaries, to show that they
regard that they are reflecting the
wisnes oi ieo wnen they
advocate the Prohibition cause.
The Catholic Irish of this
country are almost solid for De
mocraey, but tho Democratic
party has appealed to the very
worst element in the Catholic
Church to gain the Catholics as
allies, and the Irish saloon keeper
tho very class of the membership
of the church, that the Pone and
these good Bishops are trying to
influence, in favor of Prohibition
are those who have most heartily
responded to the Democratic call;
and to day I suppose there is not
an Irish Catholic saloon keeper
in the State who is not a Demo
crat, and his loyalty to Democ
racy seems to increase in the
ratio of his ignorance, and to be
marked and aggressive just in
proportion as his saloon is low
and disreputable.
Nobody has seen anything from
tho Pope showing that he had
any preference as to whether his
people should be Democrats or
Republicans, nor has he expressed
any sympathy with the Farmers'
Alliance, or with any Labor
Union, and I guess that nobody
can recall that Pius IX. ever had
anything good to say for Know
Nothingism. But a late letter
from the Vatican to Bishop Spal.
ding in this country, though it is
an expression of his personal
preferences rather than an official
utterance, is quite as plain an
expression of his sympathy for
Prohibition as that lately made
by the Supreme Court.
It is the first time in the his
tory 'of this country whea the
best men in the Protestant, and
the best men in the Catholic, min
istry, have shaken hands across
the bloody chasm which for cen
turies has divided them, and
thoroughly agreed that they were
in unison as to a measure that
Christianity ought to try to
ccnniplish m to fhe best
means'of accofaphamfljr it.
As a political measure, to say
nothing of morals or religion,
there is no question for the ven
tilation of which there is a greater
necessity than the status of the
Catholic and Protestant churches
toward each other; and yet I
have never heard from any pulpit
or any press, Catholic or Protest
ant, a dispassionate discussion of
this question, and of all of
our prominent political orators
there is not one that would dare
say a word about it, and there is
not a paper in Lexington, Demo
cratic or Republican, that would
dare print an editorial taking any
definite position on the subject.
And yet, while no man can
reasonably say that he sees any
strong probability of a conflict at
arms between the Catholic and
Protestant Churches, almost any
man of sagacity, who is looking
out over our horison for political
war clouds, would say that this
ecclesiastical status seemed more
pregnant of so dire a result than
anything else. How it may come
about, if ever, I do not know,
but it is not bard to imagine how
it might be.
The Catholic immigration here
is much greater than the Protes
tant. Then we occasionally hear
of somo Protestant going over to
the Catholia Church, and have
instances of that sort from our
finest society' here in Lexington
the cuse ot lorn Major, tor in
stance, who ' leaves Protestantism
to become a Catholic clergyman,
But if any Catholic in this city
were to become a Protestant, it
would be an eight days' wonder,
St. Johu's Episcopal Church in this
city is simply a Cutholic kinder
garten manuged by Protestants.
But a creator iossibi.ity tor the
predominance ot Catholicism than
these, is the increase ot cutuoiu
power in this government, when
Canada and Mexico and Cuba will
almost certainly ultimately lie
added to this government. The
solidarity of Catholicism will al
most certainly continue to eneroaeu
upon the division of the Protes
tauts.
The short-sighted and teiniMr
izintr policy of our leading politi
ciaus, especially the Democrats, is
continually giving to Catholicism
sticks with which to break the
heud of Protestantism. The most
marked instance of this is the
granting to the Catholic Church a
separate part oi me scnoot uiuu
for their individual use, in contra
ventiou, as it is, of our State Con
(Stilt inn fttfwiia1l nna 2 ft i.. .J
revision on that point, and of the
wonsiuution ami genius oi our
national government. This con
cession to Catholicism, made by
Democratic politicians right here
in Lexington, is not at all because
ot any love for Catholicism, but it
is made by men who not only do
spiso Catholicism, but who despise
themselves for tho contemptible
cowardice which they know, and
everybody else knows, prompts
them to do it. There are perhaps
not a half dozen men of intel
genec and integrity in town, either
1 rotestant or Catholic, who do not
recognize that this partition of the
school fund by the Democrats of
this town, is hut a son to the Cath
olic Cerberus to secure their alle
giance, and simply granted because
they arc afraid to jeopardize the
political friendship' of the Cath
olics.
If the Jews, who, as a church
in this city, arc immensely more
intelligent than the Catholics, and
whose religion differs more widely
from the Protestants than docs that
of the Catholics, were to ask a
special partition of the school fund
ior ineir oeneru, inn iwmocrais
would consider it ns a good joke,
and some of those who would
laugh loudest at the absurdity of
the proposition would be Catholics
now in the Council.
If some accident were to change
the relative numerical forces of the
Catholic and Jewish churches, and
the Jews were to demand a parti
tion of the school fund for their
benefit, the very next meeting of
the Democratic Council here would
take the present appropriation
away Ironi the Uathohc Church
and give it to the Jews.
The Baptists of the State of
Kentucky I suppose pay ten times
as much taxes as the Catholics of
Kentucky, and yet if the Baptists
of Lexington were to nsk a divi
sion of the public school fund in
order that they might get their
peculiar religious views tnught at
the public expense, it would simply
bring them into ridicule.
If the Christian Church, a very
wealthy body in th's city, were to
ask such a division ot t
school fund to add to, tj
incut of ITS
Rome would howl at the instance
of "Campbellite" audacity. '
Under these circumstances it
seems to me that the more gene
rous and broader minded of the
Catholic fuith, ought to see that it
is an instance ot cruelty to animals
for them thus to persecute the Pro
testant Democrat.
This division of the public
school money is calculated to make
a class distinction, and to encour
age sectionalism and religious big
otry, and to array two great bodies
of people against each other, in a
government oue of whose funda
mental principles is universal
brotherhood.
In the country my children go
school where there arc Catholic
hildrcn. An orphan Catholic
bov. and a arec family of children
j w o J
who have lately lost their mother,
:iave more than any children in
school, engaged their sympathy,
and, in all the association of those
Catholic and Protestant children, I
have to hear the first intimation
that the difference in the religious
faiths of their parents made any
difference in their feelings toward
each other.
But to the average Lexington
oy tho demand of the Catholic
church for u special division of their
share or the public school money
ooks like a Catholic assertion ot
Catholic superiority, and a Protes
tant admission ot the claimed su
periority.
This is calculated to excite the
arrogance of the Catholic boy, and
to excite the opitosition ot anv
plucky Protestant boy.
If an intelligent and conseieu
tious press and pulpit would in
struct the people about such church
ustory as bears upon the uilierence
betweeu Catholicism and ProteS'
tantistn it would do much to re
move religious sectionalism, am
correspondingly decrease tho dan
ger of a rupture at some future
time, between these two great re
ligious bodies.
When all the facts are known
there is not much ground for the
recriminations that exist between
these religious bodies. Tho mas
sacro of St. Bartholomew was hoi
rid, but considering tho increased
light ot this age over that, it wus
not much worse thau the fact that
George 1). Prentice, in tho days of
Know-Notuingism, in Louisville,
so excited the Protestants agaiust
the Cutholies. that the Protestants
sot fire to a frame house in whie
Catholic men, women and childre
were hurieaded, and shot and killed
sixteen of thcso"Wfthey ran out.
Any bright scl ool child knows
the touching stoi f of how the ugly
Protestant, Kllen jcth beheaded the
beautiful Catholfs Mary Queen of
Scots, because h was a Catholic,
and that Henry VIIL, the only
and great origin Bluebeard, was
the great champion of Protestan
ism. .s
The average Lexington Pr ites
tant looks at theThltar, tho vestry,
the candles and fpnsor of Catholi
cism with no idenin the world that
there is any rclig
mis authority for
them, and that i
inrt of his own
religious faith cj
le from exactly
the same source lhat these Catholic
paraphernalia anj emblems did.
You can not lAoro readily offend
the averago Projostant Christian
than by telling him that he has no
authority for th observance of a
Sabbath', or Suiry.
He may ituj all the way
through his No Testament, and
he will not finarsingle precept or
example for the keeping of any
pabbath. i
He will not fijid an instance in
which Jesus or ay ol his apostles
commended anylody for keeping
the Sablrath, or proved them for
violating it, ando to justify him
self he quotes th0 Old Testament as
authority to a Christian.
1 he Catholic does the same and
finds abundant fauthoritv for his
altar, his vestry, his censer and for
burning candles (n the middle of
the brightest day that comes.
Both of ,then have made the
mistake of supposing that the
Jewish scriptures are authority for
Christian practice.
Again on the first day of Janu
ary there are Protestant and Cath
olic gentlemen ia Lexington that
will spend the day walking around
from house ...tor house .drinking
liquors, and ar"not ashamed to be
seen recline uune drunk, who
would feel theR"eIves disgraced to
be seen acting 1 lus on the first dav
of December ' c the first dav of
June. r " " T
They don't -jxnow why public
consent allows yem to make this
distinction. , L
This idea Is religious one, and
was brought " v he Christian
church by tik o'.'ifere. con
verted toc fr-he
heathen, jusi iwej Inc censer !IIH
the candles, and the Sabbtah wi re
brought into the Christian church
by those who were converted trom
mong the Jews.
A religious duty among the
eat hen was the observance of the
jupercaliu. ThU required that
they should get drunk, and stay
drunk for a week at the beginning
f the year, in honor of the heathen
god Janus, for whom they named
tho first month, ami which heat bin
god the Christians still honor by
retaining the name ot that month.
Subsequent heathen converts to
vjiii Miiiuiiij' uiyugui mtu un
church the names of their gods by
calling the days of the week for
them, and we retain them to this
ay.
The evidence that Jesus, the
founder of the Christian religion
was born in Bethlehem is, regarded
as a historical matter, almost as
strong as that Mahomet established.
Mahometunism six hundred years
iaterjis quite a ineoutestiblo us tho
story of Hannibal and Hasdrubal
and Scipio and Dido and Carthage;
as plain as the story of Alexander
tho Great; plainer than that ot
Anthony and Cleopatra, and im
mensely plainer than the story of
Acnaeus; of Meneluus, of Paris,
of Helen and Troy.
No scholar would doubt that
there were such characters as
Zoronstcr,Gauramu,Suchiu Amouni
Confucius and Socrates, nor
fail to trace tho effects of the reli
gions and tho morals they taught.
But the story ot the birth ot
Jesus and his wonderfully beauti
ful life and trngio death with tho
effects of his moral and religious
touching, is, regarded as a mere his
torical tin t, immensely plainer than
any I have mentioned except
Mahomet.
He was born in a cave that was
used us a stable, and was laid in the :
ruck, or trough, or "manger," that
they put straw in for tho horses.
Hut be wus not born in tho wiuter,
nor anv time near our Christmas
day. He wu born in the summer
in u climate where they have snow
and raise tigs and about us cold as
Georgia; and when tho weather
was so warm that the Shepherds
could lie on the ground uud sleep
through tho night. All tho con
verts to Christianity wanted to
celebrate hU birthday, and the
others probably compromised with
with the heathen converts who had
to get drunk for a week at tho be
ginning ot the year by arrauging
tho birthday for tht J'Jth ot De
cember, and they all got drunk to
gether for a week, and it is largely
perpetuated to this day, by
Christian jienple, though in n most
inappropriate manner.
You will therefore find in the
New Testament that St. Paul
alludes to Christian oojilo in his
day, who used tho occasion of ob-
At
serving ine sacrament known as
"the Iord's Supper," as one upon j
which to get drunk, and the Chris
tians who did this were those who
had been converted from amonir
the heathen or the Gentiles.
Just as Paul wrote against the
impropriety of these converts from
the Gentiles bringing into the new
church the peeuliarties of their old
religions, so does he frequently
w rite agninst the disposition of the
converts from among the Jewish to
bring into the new church the pecu
liar rites and ceremonies of the
former Jewish religion.
But those Christians persisted in
doing that, and therefore until this
day, we have handed down the
censer and the candles nnd the
altar and the vesture that were
used in the Jewish service, and
which the converts to Christianity
from Judaism insisted on blending
with the simpler form of worship
introduced by Jesus.
As will be seen in reading the
New Testament, if seemed dillicnlt
for Peter so to divest himself of
his sectarian! prejudice for the Jews
as to enter heartily into the idea
that the new religion was for the
Gentiles as well as for the Jews.
But Paul considered that his own
sjieeial duty was to preach the new
religion to the Gentiles; so he
started out as a missionary and
came as far west as Hal v.
Peter and Paul did not exactly
agree as to some of the minor de
tails of the church ceremonies, and
Paid "withstood'' Peter and there
was a division among them, Paul
says, and "sonic were for i'aul nnd
some for A polios nnd some for
Cephas," or Peter, and the division
has continued until this day, the
Catholics branch of the church
transmitting the prejudice of Peter
for the Jewish forms, and the
simpler forms of worship that Paul
advocated being more nearly repre-
senteAbr 'tfVfc- ' V
Wf rhi ififTi -i - i' iki i ,
These two grand divisions ot
Christianity are equally xealous to
promote the moral purity of their
common Master, and more than
ever in the history of Christianity
are intelligent people of all shades
of opinion in other respects, agreed
upon the one pivotal laet of the
Christian religion that doing good
to others is the way to promote our
own happiness.
The best and purest thinkers in
the Catholic ana Protectant faiths
are earnestly agreed in the one
common idea that the liquor traffic j
is the greatest source ot human
misery and the greatest bar to the
ulterior purposes of advancement
that they have to encounter and
these representative men from these
two great religious bodies all
agree that Prohibition is the most
effectual menus of overcoming this
evil.
It is therefore to the interest of
the Prohibition party, that all pos
sible concessions be made between
Protestants and Catholics who are
working for the common end of
Prohibition, and in order that this
may most easily be done it should
be "the policy of all Prohibition
speaker and writers, whether
Catholic or Protestant, to show
that the ditlerence in these religious
bodies in matters of form may be
accounted for on principles that are
entirely creditable to both parties.
l.m'Hl Oi'IIoii HlutMla.
The Miim-ine court of Micliwui ha
derliiri'd llic Hawliiuk local option lu
all lijiht. The test cae was that ol
John W. Fcek. at-Vinn for u uiaiidainiii'
to euuuiel the township Imard of Uumuii
iiiKlali' township, Van Btireti county, t;
issue hint a liipior license and approve
his Kmd.
Van Hurcii county voted Feb-34. ls,
to adoiit liK-al option tinder tin law til
1SSt. Fcek applied for n license, Inn
was refused.
The chief justice writes the opinion,
which det lai there is nothing inicoii
tiUttioiial in the law, uud that it i all
ritfht. lo therefore denies tl't uiau
dauiu. Juxtice Moim tit h from
tho opinion.
t.u t Work Vuit.'Msir.
Iid N'aisilisiH suv, "If there wnw no
Alt?" Xo. Ho said, Titer shall Utt no
Alps." IVohiliitiouists, itay there shall
be n "if ami go to work. It is tru
"we" cau't elect huu.but our Democratic
and Republican friends ant only waiting
to be uvked to help us. It w ill be all
ruiht for you to pray, provided you don" I
bk the Lord to do moro thau his bare.
You just hustle for ninety -uiu hun
dredth of the vote n.vessary, and th
Lord will show you the Uun UvdtU ntau.
Don't ask the Lord to furnish the ninety
uine. Hit won't do it. (.' y Ur per
oual lutlueiiiM an. I work.
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