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4 Vol.II.-Xo 25. Lexington, Kentucky, Saturday December ,19 1891. Subscription, $2 a Tear GRASS .BJLAIDIHL 4. PEV. J, W, Sermon on "Horse-racing, the Liquor Traffic, Whoredom and Corruption.'' 'CharleyMoore has said Some very bad Things but I have never yet Caught him in a Lie." (From the Lexington Press.) For many years back I have thought at intervals of calling such a meeting as this and presenting an address on the subject which I have now chosen, and I would have done so had I felt certain as to the results. But now that 1 8ee before me bo large a representation of the character and the brains of i Lexington, I thank God that at the request of the Y. M. C. A. I have made the announcement. One of our daily papers eaid yes terday morning that I have se lected a large subject. It is a large one, and it has grown on me bo during my preparation that I am burdened with the magnitude of it. I can speak only of its most promiuent features, and can touch these but lightly. They are ""ILn IMHHili"" horse-racing, the 4-PP IC5v-f- ore " unj.-ftuJ t- ruption in the city government. When the Kacing Association made an assignment a Bhort time since and the pool rooms were closed under action of the Circuit Court a little later, our papers ex pressed the most tender regrets as tender as if one of our most prominent citizens had died. I published a short article in the Transcript expressing surprise at this. I asked if the men who had thus written cared more for the little money brought here by pool selling and horae- racing than for the morals of the community. I aked these gentlemen whether they had no sons to be ruined, and if not, whether they had no daughters liable to be married to young men who were thus beiug ruined; and if not, whether they had no care or simpalhy with us who have. I called tor some one to give a sober answer to these questions and to explain these re grets. No one responded, but when the Leader sent a reporter around to certain gentlemen for an expression of tlair views as to the effect of closing the pool rooms, one of our Councilmen said that it would send moj.ey away from Lexington to Louisville and Cov ington. Now I would like to kuow what money is brought here and put into circulation by the pool rooms and the races, liy the first, there is nothing but the pass ing of money from one man's pocket to that of another, and the biggest rascal in the game gets the biggest pile. The same is true precisely of the races, except that the visitors Ut these bring some money here with them. But every rascal of them comes ex pecting to take away with him more than he brings, and if he does not he is woefully disap pointed he is outdone in betting by our home gamblers. True, these do bring an 1 expend some money; but who gets it? A large portion goes to the saloons, and another large portion goes to the bawdy house. In consequence of the latter, every season a races is attended by a very large influx of etrumpets from Louisville and Cincinnati to accommodate our distinguished visitors, and these carry away with them the money which they get. The only legiti mate lines of business to which any or the money goes are the street railways, the hotels and the livery stables; and the Councilman to whom I have referred, and the man whom you are going to elect Mayor, get the plum out of the pudding. iNow let us look tor a moment on the other 6ide ot this money question. It can not be denied that horse-racing, with its attend ant vices, is a deadly foe to col leges. It seems to me that some ot our city rulers do not know that we have such things as col leges in our midst, or else thev care nothing for the interests con nected with them. I know it to be a fact, that hundreds of fathers in this state who admire our col- eges. send their sods right throuel; this city on the train to other col leges, because they are afraid to trust them to the moral atmos phere of Lexington. Nevertheless, we have every year not less than one thousand young men from abroad in the University, the Commercial College, and the State College combined, and they expend among us at a low esti mate f 200 each per anDum. This makes 8200,000. The professors in these colleges, most of whom are married men. and none of whom would be here but for the colleges, number more than thirty, and they expend here not less than fcoO.000 more. Besides there are not less, I think than thirty fami- les that have moved into the city within the last few years to send their children to our schools, aud their expenditures amount to another $50,000. Thus we have another aggregate of $300,000 put into circulation here every year by these educational institutions, and it goes to legitimate lines of business. If we could get rid of the races, the saloons and the bawdy houses, Lexington would be the model place of the whole country for the education of young men, and the number of students here would soon be double the present number: the number of professors would be double, and so would that of the families moving iu, aud thus the money put. into circulation by all would amount to more than half a million annu ally. Looking at the matter fron. .a purely financial point of view, then, which do you prefer; the races, with the saloons and the bawdy houses, or the col leges? That the saloon is a deadly foe to morals, is admitted by every sane man, and no honest man can deny it. The measure of immoral ity in any community, is the measure of its patronage of the saloon. Do you know how many of these are now operating in this city? The figures have been ob tained for me by the Y. M. C. A., and they number 275, all of which are licensed by our city ' govern ment. Now if we suppose that their average income is $1,000 which I am sure is a very low esti mate, we have $275,000 annually expeuded by our people for whisky bought by the dram. It were infinitely better that every dollar of this money had been thrown in the fire. If you add to this sum. say $25,000 per annum, to represent the tax entailed upon the benevolence of the city in caring for the widows and orphans of drunkards, and the tax on all of us to keep up the police, the po lice court, the jail and the watch house, you have an aggregate of full 300,000 which we give every year to debauch ourselves and our eons, bueli is the state ot things, that as soon as our boys get big enough to be trusted on the street, there begins a hard fight between the father and mother of the boy on one Bide, and the saloon-keepers on the other, to see whether he shall be brought up as a man, or degraded like a brute. This tight goes on day and night tor long years, and the bitterness of it to the hearts of fathers and mothers, many ot you before me have felt. I have felt it most keenly. Often the victory is won by the saloon-keeper, and a heri tage of shame and mourning is entailed upon the boy'8 family. Who lias a right to impose this heavy burden on me? Who has a right to 6teal my boy from the shelter of my home, aud ruin him, body and soul, forever? Who gave the saloon-keepers this right, and who protects him in it? You say we have laws to repress this hellish traffic. So we have; but what do they amount to? We have a law against selling to mi nors and a law which imposes a fine ot forty dollars for every drink of liquor sold to an inebri ate; but who does not know that inebriates are the principal cus tomers of the saloons? These laws in our city are dead letters. One ot my best friends is so unfor tunate as to have an inebriate son Within the last six months he has, at great trouble and mortification to his feelings, obtained convicting evidence against nine saloons for having sold him liquor after warning given. This evidence was placed before the grand jury and an indictment was found; but when it was brought before court now in session, somebody iu draw ing up the indictment had been so careless as to leave out a word or two, aud there the matter was dropped. What shall we say to these things? Are we helpless, bound? Have you any idea of the extent of this vice in Lexington? Men who are supposed to know, have been called upon, and they vari ously estimate the number of public strumpets at from four to six hundred, besides a large num ber of private sluts which are kept by individuals. Suppose we put the number at five hundred; what does it cost to keep them all? Some of them have an income of thousands; and I suppose that none of them live on less than $500 a year. At this lowest estimate for the average, our men pay not less than $250,000 a year. Com bine these figures with the $300,000 spent for whisky and you have largely over a halt million which we spend every year for strong drink and lewd women. How can God look down upon us, and spare us? llow can we look one another in the face, while we stand still and permit this rotten ness to continue? While we are timidly holding our breath in the presence of this Moloch, its audacity is increasing day by day until it has reached a climax. Last month, a young man in good circumstances, and ot good family, was enticed into a Megowan street house while drunk whisky and lewduess ever go hand in hand); when a relative who heard of it went to the house and demanded him, that he might take him home, he was insulted, re fused admitance and ordered away. Only three weeks ago, a married man who has a store, and had been on a spree from which he had not yet recovered, was met at the door as he closed it for the night by a strumpet from the same street, who had been wait ing for him. She took him bv the arm and started with him to her den. A relative ot his met them at the postoffice and began to plead with the man to let him ead, pim home. 1 bp amjarions woman cursed him and threatened his life, and he was constrained to turn away for tear of a street fight with a whore. A married man, drunk, with $150 in his pocket, went to one of those houses to have a frolic, and in treating the crowd to wiue, which is there sold to such as he at $5 a bottle, though it is bought down in town for $1, he spent all of his money, yet the next morning a bill was sent to him for $140 more, and he aid it to avoid exposure. A modest youth, a clerk iu one of our Main street dry goods stores, was waiting on one of these painted Jezebels, when she leaned over the counter and whispered honeyed words to him, persuading him to visit her house. If I had store I would not permit the wretches to come into it. I would feel bound to protect my clerks from their meehinations. lucre are young widows on Megowan street, who, in order to go there unencumbered, abandoned their own little children which are now under the care aud protection of some of our benevolent women. state these facts as they have been stated to me by reliable per sons, the most of them having been collected by workers in the Y. M. C. A. These, gentlemen, are the creatures on whom the men of Lexington are expending a quarter of a million of dollars every year! But these wretched women have not always been the vile sluts that they are now. All of them were once innocent little girls. Every one of them was somebody's little daughter; somebody little sister. O! what a transformation since the days of their childhood! Our city papers have receutly given Belle Breezing a handsome tree advertisement as an owner of dia monds. Yes, of diamond earrings worth $1,500. When she lost them, nice paragraphs were pub lished about it as nice and couched in as respectful terms as if she had been the richest lady in .Lexing ton. Aud when the diamonds were found, this furnished our obsequious newspaer men occa sion tor some additional para graphs, all paying due respect to "Madam" Breezing. Eighteen years ago this unfortunate woman was a bright little pupil in the Broadway Suuday School. She was the daughter of a jioor, honest widow, who tried to bring up her child in decency and respectability . But the tempter came. Some scoundrel seduced her, and before many years she was a regular strumpet. Nine years ago she waa living with another girl on North Upper street in a little cot tage of two rooms. So miserable had their lives become that one night they undertook to kill themselves. They took morphine m what they supposed to be fatal quantities, and went to bed to die, A negro woman heard their hard breathings, broke through their window, raised the alarm, and physicians were called who, after hard work brought them back to life. Since then, in those nice short years, she has become the owner of five dwellings on which she pays taxes, one ot these being ine palatial residence wnieu sue now occupies on Megowan Btreet. When she bought that lot, less than two years ago. she paid the cash for it, and I have not been able to find any mortgage against it on the records. Y here did she Set all this money? There is a ying girl now in one of our in firmaries, recently brought there from one of these houses on that same street, who sent piteous en treaties to some benevolent ladies whom she had known in her inno cence, not to allow her to die in that horrid place. Just a few years ago ehe and her sister were pupils in the Main street Sunday school and the daughters of a poor woman with a drunken, worthless husband The mother died and the girls were enticed into a life of shame. The other sister is still in the house whence this one was brought away to die. Less than a year ago a girl just blooming into womanhood, a member of the Broadway church, and, like the others, a daughter of a poor widow, was drawn into the same cesspool, and I, with the help of others, tried to rescue her. In the course of a conversation I told her that if she kept on in her present career she would land in a few years on Water street among the negroes. I asked her how on earth she came to fall into such a course of life. She answered that danc ing was the cause of it. "We be came excited in dancing the round dance, he went home with me, I slipped him into the house quietly, and we went to bed together."' Gentlemen, you who have daugh ter?; will you permit them to in dulge in this pernicious amuse- menu uo so u you win; nut as for me and my house', God for bid. Even now when less than one year has nnssed. hr health, has failed, her supporters have de serted her, and she is begging good women whose advice she spurned to come to her relief. These three are but specimens of a vast number of these wretched creatures, whose lives are now but a hell on earth. Surely, with all their infamy, they are more sinned against than sinning. And where are the seducers? Tell me, where are the men who beguiled them from their childhood inno cence, and became the murderers of their souls. If these poor girls had had fathers, or grown brothers, of any spirit, of the Ken tucky spirt, mauy of these se ducers would have been dead and in hell long ago. But where are thev now? Some of them are married men, who lav down at night by the side of virtuous women, and tell them he alter lie to hide their crimes. Some of them are still unmarried men, who walk about with up lifted heads, and who expect ere long to marry virtuous women, and to go on like the others with this continuous string of lies. Well if, they are going to hell any way, as most ot them will, let them keep up their lying, for a few lies heaped on top of their worse crimes will not sink them much deeper in the bottomless pit, and they will keep their wives from the shame and horror of lowing how mean their hus bands are. Iu the presence of sin and crime like this, you are perhaps ready to cry out: Is there no law in the land that these things are allowed? I jaw! there is a plenty of it. Listen while I read to you an enactment that is iu point, "bee. .52:3. Any iktsoii who shall in this city keep any ill- governed and disorderly house, or house, at which lewd or ob- sceue acts are perpetrated in such manner as to become a nuisano to the neighborhood, shall be fined tvventy-live dollars for each day he or she shall so keep said house." Here is a law which would, if enforced, shut up every bawdy house in this city; for every one of them is a nuisance. But what about the law? Is it one of the blue laws of Connecticut that has come down to us? No! Is it a res olution passed by some Methodist Conference? Or a deliverenee sent forth by some Presbyterian Synod? No! Wind is it then? It is au ordinance under which we are now living in this city, passed by our own City Council when it was composed of better men than it is now. Whose duty is it to enforce this ordinance? It that of the Chief of Police and his subordinates; and it is the duty of the Mayor to see that the Chief of Police does his duty, and the duty of the Council to see that the Mayor does his. The City AttOiTiey and the City Judge have ilieir part in it Why then is it rot done? I will tell vou why. The city of Lexington be- longsto the Democratic party and the Democratic party belongs to tha gamblers, saloon-keepers and bummers, who control itspri mary elections. These classes dicta'o the election of a sufficient number of their own men to pre vent pny serious interference with the immoralities of the town They will permit no man to be elected to any municipal office whojj-res to come out openly with n endorsement of such speecit 83 I am now making, i hey take possession of the poll ing p'aces at the primary elections and will not allow a gentleman to east his vote unless thev know what tt is to be. They have hitcht'd all of you decent Demo crats n the traces and they have mounted the box, whip and lines in hand. The bass behind is filled with saloon-keepers, strumpets and gamblers, and you, like little ponies, are pulling along; .2 - o If any ot you tries to kick out of the; traces at any time, the party uvhip is cracked, yon are threatened with a boycott, and you lujiiicuiaicijr ijuil iYlliVlllg. jUOOK, for example, at the ticket now in the field. Did you see Charley Moore s analysis ot it yesterday in his ilade.' Lharley says some very 1 ad things, but I have never yet caught him in a lie. He says that on this ticket there are five saloon-keepers, and three ex saloon -keepers, twenty-one pa tronize of the saloon, six hard drinkers (he calls them drunk ards); nd four race horse men. They riave some good men sand wiched among these; but when the wl ole of them come into power; these few can do n thing they will bo handcuffed and tongue-tied. Let me say, that I speak thus of the Democratic party, not from a Republican point it view, for I have never in my life voted for a Republican. I speak the plain truth, which ought to be spoken, and I sup pose tjiat nothing I say will be cnijafci'tM Is tfiere any remedy fur these crying evils: rerhap3 some of you aro ready to answer: No we are helpless; we can do nothing; and it is not worth while to be talking about it. You say, for example, that it is impossible to prevent the existence of bawdy houses in a city like this. But I know better. I know that it is not impossible? There is the city of Glasgow in Scotland with 650, 000 inhabitants, and there is not a house of ill -fame in the cor porate limits. There is Edinburg, with its 4o0,000, which not only has none within its limits, but none within two miles of its boundry. In the hospitals of those cities there are no cases of venereal diseases. These facts I state on the authority of Dr. Sweeney, who is present, aud who took special pains to inquire into the lact whin he visited Great Britain a few years ago. What, then, is the remedy in Lexington? First and foremost of all, you must banish party politics form your city flections Good men of both parties must get their eon sent to vote in city elections for no man because he is a Democrat, or because he is a Republican to vote for a man only because he can be relied on to manage hon estly the city's finances, and to enforce w ith the utmost strictness all ordinances against every form of immorality. The moral forces of the city combined in this waj, can d anything that honest men ought to do; and if they will not do it, they may make up their minds to go on iu their impotence, and l slaves instead of beiug free men. I love this city. Here I have reared my children; here I have hurried one of them; here my grand-children are grow ing un. and here I expect ere long to be buried; and when I think of the things of which I have spokeu, 1 dread the thought of appearing at the bar of God until I shall have done more for the future protection of boys and girls, aud especially of the fatherless girls among us, than I have al ready done. I have much more that I would love to say to you, but I must desist. I close with this j rojosal: If a goodly number of true men, men who are afraid of nothing on earth or iu hell but to do wrong, will come together, appoint their leaders, and lay out their plans tor me suppression oi these evils, I am ready to culist for the campaign; yes, for the whole war, and it it shall cost me all I am worth, and cause me to wear out mv life I could not die in a better cause. Rev. J. W. MeGKrrejr wads from the Blue Grans Blade to an Andienee of more than a Thonaaud men In a Lexington Pnlpit. On Sunday evening, Nov. 20, at the new Broadway Christian church in this city, liev J. W McGarvey, President of the theo logical department ot the Univer sity of Kentucky in this city, preached to an audience of more than a thousand, all men, a ser mon that was probably the most startling ever delivered in this city. His remarks were fre quently interrupted by cheers, demonstration until that time un known in any Lexington church on the occasion of a Sunday ser mon. Rev. McGarvey is perhaps the most learned theologian in the West, and is the peer ot any in America. He was selected by the "Arena,' the ablest magazine in America, to contribute an article on the Evidences of Christianity. 1 publish the outline ot his ser mon that was given by the Ken tucky Leader ot this city, though the sermon being solely to men, and a part of it about lewdness, some of it has been thought im proper tor publication. lie had in his hand a copy ot the Bine Grass Blade of Nov. 28th He held it up and said, "Have ou read the last number ot the Blue Grass Blade? Charley Moore has said some very hard things, but I have never yet caught him in a lie." When he said this the audience cheered him. He then read from the Blade of Nov. 28, an extract from what I had written with reference to a body of thirty men lately elected as officers of this city. it was as follows. There are on that "Democratic ticket," thirty men. Of these there are five that I do not know, or know much about. Of the thirty there are only four have the entree into what is truly our best society .in the town. Of that four one is intellectually pretty weak. Every man on that ticket will take a drink of whisky. Twenty-one of them will go into a saloon and get a drink of whisky, twelve are "drinking men," six are drunkards, five are saloon-keepers, three are ex-saloon-keepera, nineteen can not speak the English language gramatically, or approximately so. Only three' are members of any learned profession, and one of those never waa a student at any college. Nine of them are Catholics who be lieve that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. Only four of them so far as I know are members of any Protestant church, and one is a Jew. Four are race horse men, two are dead beats, who are not good for their debts, twelve of them I would not lend $100.00 on his own name, if I were a banker. There is not a man in the whole lot who has distinguished himself a3 a public benefactor. There is one of them who onght to be in the peniten tiary. There are only three men in the lot who are even first-class smart" men, and there are only two men of first-class brains in the whole gang. Prof. McGarvey is a true blue third party Prohibitionist, and always votes with us; but I think at the last election here his vote as recorded as having been east for Sullivan, the saloon keeper ho was elected, as was the vote of Rev. R. T. Mathews, known by everybody to be a thorough Pro- ibitionist, and that if . E. libler who had but lately been Chairman of the Prohibition State Executive Committee. The men who falsely recorded these votes and the details of the eir- ura3tances under which they did so, are all familiarly known to thousands of people in Lexiugton to day and have been ever since that election; and yet they are not only not in the penitent uin-, but are leaders iu Lexington De mocratic politics, and would be oted for to-morrow by leading men from every church in the city, if they should run for office. The indignation against the Democrats for that ticket thev have nominated, I think has never beeu equaled here before, and I think it is among all proper kind of people, regardless of political affiliation. It is interesting to note that Duncan, the editor of the Press, who was defeated in his desire to head that ticket as the nominee for Mayor, now joins in the expres sion of opjtosition to them. Rev. McGarvey said, in his ser- mon tnai ue wouiu stump me city if the people would nominate the right kind of candidates. I have very little experience iu oratory outside of theology, but if anybody wants my oratorical services I will make a few incon gruvial remarks. ELECTED Oar high qualities and low prices have won, and we are far in the lead on Underwear and Hosiery. Just What You Want: In wool, merino and'eottoa Underwear for Gents. In wool, merino and cotton Underwear for Ladies. In wool, merino and cotton Underwear for Children. In fast black Hosier for Ladies, Gents and Children. In Union Suits and Jersey-ribbed Underwear forLadiea. In Cloaks and Jackets for Misses and Ladies. Iu fancy Dry Goods of Every Description. AT TAYLOR & HAWKINS No. 7 West Main Street, Lexington, Ky. Ko. 7 W. Main Street THOMPSON & BOYD Mannfort FINE SADDLES & HARNESS, RACE AND TROniHG EQUIPMENTS A SPECIALTY. NO 53 EAST LEXINGTON, KY. Q Q n THE DAILY TOE LOriSTILLETIlIES,lCEJITSPER WEEK. Will be delivered at your residence every day for 20a per week. or 25c. per week for Daily and Sunday. G ive your order to J. "HUB" FRATHER, Agent, 1SOEAST MAIS STREET. ROBERT. MTCEMSORTO NOKV ILLE FMTURECO. WtoM ail Retail E, Goods Soli cn Weekly 51E. Main St., Kaufman. Straus 8s Co .13 EAST M 41SSTREET. New goods are now arriving daily. Laces and embroideries are crowding our shelves from the narrowest to the widest and richest pattern. We show them iu all sorts of material. A treat for the ladies and a wholesome surprise to those who get our prices on them. Xo lady ia Lexington, anticipating to makeup Spring Underwear, Children's or Misses' Dresses of White Goods, can aiiord to miss ex- amiuing our stock of these goods. Early Sprius Wa1ea Dress Mateilal. Novelty Suitings, the rarest and oddest ot patterns, new entirely and phasing to the ye; prices below uc m v per a i u. i new une oi spring suaues oi .Henriettas just opened, n jw colors, no change in price in spite of the additional duty ou them. WASH UOODgS. Just received and put in stock a quantity of fine Zephyr Ging hams, all new patterns and coloring, modest pin stripes and checks. Scotch plaids aud neat stripes. marked them at iOe per yard A lull line of dress Ginghams ia new designs, estimated to be worth 15c; our price is 10c. IjIUIEV JII SL1S I'XDERWEAR SPECIAL SALE. Forty dozen Children's Muslin Drawers, six button holes, patent facing, at 10c a pair; worth 20c. Ladies' Mother llother Hubbard Gown; good muslin, well trimmed at .; they arc worth 8oc. Lakies' Muslin Drawers, "Fruit of the Loom" Cotton, deep hem and tucks above, 22c; worth 40e. Indies' walking skirts, deep Cambric ruffle, at 49c; worth 75c. New Spaiug Hosiery for Ladies and Gents. We were fortunate in securing many eases ot Ladies' Cotton, Lisle and Silk Hose, in both black and fancy, prior to the going into eflect ot the administrative bill, and our prices thereon will show how these early purchases bene fit our customers. tidies' regular made fast black Hose, regular price now 35c- we still have them marked 25e. Ijiidii-s' black and colored Lisle Hose, worth 60c; We atill offer them at 40c. Ijadie fancy striped Cotton still marked at 2 x 40. TOILET C.lgate Turkish lath Soap, a full dozen lor 50c; 4711 Glycerine different sorts at 42e per 1hx; Kspcy's Cream, genuine article, 20c Vasaline, iu lttles at 10c; Ammonia, for household purposes; only 10c per quart bottle. tmuriTiSH, stee'jd a go. nrcra f MAIN STREET. -PER WEEK!- COURIER JOURNAL - KENNEBY. Mar ii an Kinisuf CLOCKS, PICTURES, CARPETS ETC. or Monthly Payments Lexington, Ey. actual anticipation, raoeins from They are quoted at 30c; we have Hose, boot patterns, costing you now ARTICLES.