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CHARLES 0 MOORE

THE DAMNED STUFF CALLEDALCOHOL

I believe that alcohol to a certaindegree demoralizes those who makeIt those who sell It and those whodrink It

I believe from the time It Issuesfrom the coiled and poisonous wormof the distillery until It empties Intothe hell of crime death and dishonor

I It demoralizes everybody that touchesIt

I do not believe that anybody cancontemplate the subject without becoming prejudiced against this liquidcrimeAll you have to do Is to think of thewrecks upon either bank of this streamof deathof the suicides of Insanityof the poverty of the Ignorance of thedistress of the little children tuggin-at the faded dresses of weeping andespairing wives asking for bread ofthe men of genius It has wrecked ofthe millions who have struggled withImaginary serpents produced by thisdevilish

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From Lexington Loader

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HEATHEN

Prof Grehan Comes Back al-the Sage of Quakeracre

Editor LEADERI have It upon theundoubted authority of the Sago ofQuakeracre that all things come tothose who walt Acting upon his pre ¬science I waited to break up bluffingslang and literary bossing and espe ¬dally for the effect of my language les ¬son I am encouraged and I am now die ¬posed to close up my part of the littledebate by proving that there Is a GodReplies of merit and I am to judge ofthe merit I will notice as time healthand strength permit My doctor friendshave been talking to me of late aboutreading too much solid matter and Irealize that they are wise on this pointNo reading lias me same damaging ef-fect

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upon my nervous system as thatwhich abolishes all moral obligationand thus degrades and degenerates hu ¬manity as Atheism in my Judgment

doesTheline of argument against Infidel ¬

ity with which I have nothing to do jnthese little exchanges is nothing like assevere In Its logic as that against theAtheistic feature The Inspiration ofthe New Testament clearly establishedfurnishes its own reply to infidelity butIam prohibited from using any Scrip ¬ture until I prove the existence of God

The old old question of wno is God

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even the fine old argu ¬ment that evidece of design proves adesigner I adralt i say that these argu ¬ments lacked logical severity in provingthe existence of the God of the Bible asan independent proposition So taras I know no Catholic scholar ordevine ever admitted even by implica ¬tion that such an argument was otherthan impious 1 do not know if Lutheror any of that early school of reformersever deemed it necessary to prove theexistence of God Evidently the ques¬tion of who Is God had been debatedSpinosa talks as if answering this veryquestion when he says the Universe Isthe Supreme God He was called aPanthtestSplnoaa

by the novelty of his answerraised a jeer A very nice piece of Eng ¬lish literature written by a Frenchmangrew out of it The lineof demarcationbetween genius and lunacy Is definableonly In results The result to the gen-ius is glory to the lunatic ascell in mIasylum The answer to the query whoand what is God and is there such a be-Ing have been numerous About thefirst were there Is no such being Itis all superstition

No such being it Is the UniverseNo such being it is Imagination1 What Is superstition Excessive

rigor In religious opinion the doing ofthings not required by God belief with ¬out evidence

2 What is the meaning of UniverseA collective name of heaven earth andall that they contain There is no comfort for Atheism within those two deft ¬nitions

3 What about Imagination Web ¬ster dwells on this word The facultyor power of the mind by which it con ¬ceives and forms ideas of things com ¬municated to It by the organs of senseIn Its proper sense It signifies a livelyconception of objects of sense It Is dis-tinguished

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from conception as a partfrom the whole

1 will asj the reader to take the un ¬abridged dictionary read the applicationof this word in every phase of It andsee If It Is not sense sense sense noth ¬ing but the five senses no creativepowerI

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that Imagination Is not as gooda word for the use made of it byAtheists as the word invention RobertOwen whom I regard as the most acc-omplished Atheist that ever lived usedthe word Imagination in reply to thequestion How did the Idea of God getInto the world His prompt answer wasby Imagination The Sage of Quakeracre cannot improve on It and he mustanddtoothache wont do It must be an Ideahonor bright mixed up with a modi-cum

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of common sense Since the mindhas no power to originate anIdea how did the Idea of Godget here I answer by reve¬lation In the beginning God createdthe heavens and the earth BrotherMoore let us pray You sing your lay ¬orlte hymn and Ill say the LordsPrayer I can repeat it In Catholic or

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Protestant type The Catholics end withdeliver us from evlj The Protestantsend with for thine Is the Kingdom etcAnion goes with each When we be ¬gan this little friendly spat you promis ¬SomeIB N GREHAN

BOOKERTWASHINGTON

Makes a Valuable Address In LexIngton

Loxington¬thence that packed an opera hourwith our best society white anblack about equally divided made anaddress which I heard under the mostfavorable conditions that the man-agement

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had most courteously specially arranged for me

I had read much of Washington anexpected to find him a very great manand my highest anticipations were fully u not more than realized

All tnat he said was eminently practical and calculated to stimulate hisown race to great exeruon for theirown uplift and to encourage thewhite race to help the blOck one

His style of oratory Js perfectly aimpIe and Is my ideal of that art he isthoroughly arfable and has all the instincts of the thorough gentleman lwould not supposelilm a profoundthinker and 1n eea doubt hlscapacity for the deepest tnought but for tthe very high and Jhporlantand valuIable position which he has assayedto fill he Is the right1man In the Tightplace and I utterSeajtaVsentltnent thatI still entertain wHen T said tp him onbeing ntroducecU oa ijX i1J

ndwe are not o eharms with dead men

The true standard of greatness andgoodness is the good that a man doesfor the world and excepting possiblysome uch materialists as Edisonjudged by this standard lbelteveBooker T Washington the greatestliving man

The only probable compromise ofthe dignity of Booker T Washingtonwas his recognition of Roosevelt

Washington would have been agreater man uhe had said to thatscheming religious hypocrite asDIegenes did to Alexander Get out ofmy light

A PHOTO

And What Was On the Back of It

I have recently received the photoof a man with a srong honest faceand on the back of the picture is thefollowingOLD

HOME FAR AWAYTo Charles C Moore 31498

There Is sadness tonight where the fireburns bright

And the voices of loved ones speak lowThere are heartaches to bear as they

look on the chairTnused In the fires soft glowThere are hopes cherished dear of aday

drawing nearWhen the sunlight will fall glad and gayWhen you step once more through the

glad open doorOf your old Kentucky home far away

There are kinds words for you thereare hearts brave and true

There are tears for your wife grievingsere

There are dew drops that fall when thostars nightly call

There are moonbeams that play on thefloor

There are grasses that cling heath thesoft breath of spring

Where tlie flowers are waking todayTo soothe sorrows pain till you come-

back 8alnaTo your old Kentucky home far awayThere are hand that would fain tear

your shackles in twainCast the stripes where a convict you

trodThere Is scorn for the knave who will

pass In his craveAnd forgotten will rot neath the sodWhile your worth will remain to help

mankind attainA freedom we know not todayWhile brightly will shine through the

cycles of timeYour old Kentucky home far away

RICHARD CONWAYCarroll Iowa

Written in 1SD9 while the Editor ofthe Blue Gras Blade was a convict ithe penitentiary at Columbus 0 for analleged violation of the postal law Thecourts are not always just

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TheiTJYle of a Book by a Gang ofChristian Fools

Why Are Not Worthy to Black theVllfoots of Booker T Wach

iW ington

Wljjfthe Black Man Cnamploned byBooker T Washington Remain4A Christian Nigger or Willf He Become an InfidelNegrodthatIiritwifeandanddpage being 11 by 14 inchesIU is printed by The Americanandg09iHolland

Irr the circular are the followinginstances of misspelling Teachorexplrement and revelaterIt has the word alwlse meaning

t 11wise1 have spent 10 or 15 years of my

life In which I was paid to read proofTha indications here are that theerrors are purely from Ignorance andnor clerical pr typographical

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them both exceeding handspike andwhite and It is the inostvtseenrri c

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ht ffg han rgiFtnt bahe leftjtuRfusf around Eve bothFemTrsingnakediIf comstoCk or Rucker or Thomsnt or Bundy were worth a cuss4hey would arrest that whole Amerl4an Bible House gang and sendthem to the penitentiary-

In this picture looking at the nakedwhite couple there is the head of anegro representing him as an animalas big as the elephant Jumbo

White Christians print pictureslike this then sell cocain to the Negroes and then burn at the stakeInegro msn who rape white womenThe circular has three other picturestwo of which are lisgustingI

Written In the hand of a womanwho writes well and easily and rapidly all Indicating that she belongsto good society on the circularsent to my wife Is the following

Mrs Moore Please do not eat witha mixed blooded negro

1 will retain the circular that hasIher writing on It Sne is evidentlythe woman who mailed this sheetIfrom Lexington and a month or twoIIn some well regulated penitentiaryfor circulating obscene literaturethat is calculated to Influence tholowest and most dangerous class ofNegro men to outrage white womenwould help Improve that Lexingtonwhite Christian womans morals-

I nave been a bank clerk and professlonal reader of manuscript andI can identify this womans hand-writing as that of the woman whowrote It If some body will send me-a sample of the womans wilting andI will give her name to the properauthorities who may wish to investi ¬gate this matterIThe handsome Lexington Operahouse has just been packed frompit to dome with the very finest ofthe white and the black society ofLexington all sitting side by side Ibeing honored with a prominent sea-

tOnbpstage among the most promif of Lexington black and

white the management having de¬dined lto take my offered 50 centsand all of us equally applauding thesplendid utterances of Booker TWashington that complimented Kentucky far its kindness to the negrothough we did not deserve it andthrilling every noble emotion In thebrain and heart of each race withthe grind sentiment of Tom PaineThe vorld is my country humanitymynreligionThe Woman then who right in the

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IgInorantpeople is a she Jonah that ought to bethrown overboard by all good societyand drummed to the tune of the

Rogues March out of the state ofKentucky and the intelligent negioof Lexington who will not do all hecan to circulate this issue of theBlade alnt worth hell room and de-serves no better fate than that Lexlrigton Christian white women would givethem

ConspIclouB on the first page ofthis circular specially encircled bytypographical ornamentation to Indicate that it is one of the brightestgems of thought in this sheet Is the

followingThesays There Is a beast

whereby man can associate himselfwith and produc offspring You can ¬not find any other beast but the negroThe world is defied to name anyother beast

Of course there is no such passage iInin the Bible or anything like it noris there any such idea In any scientific book In the whole world and itis a known fact that no offspringcan be born to the cohabitation of manand oeast and the fact that a largerproportion of the society of our coun-try are the offspring of white men andnegro women give the lie to th argu-ment of this circular

In this amalgamation of the raceswhite preachers and negro womenhave taken a very active part

About ten years ago a white CampIbellite or Christian preacher who hadbaptized twice as many people as anytpreachdrnow In Lexington left LexIngtonbet n twor daysfonunkngwn Yscause tle LeziagtonDa-ltPrspnbhsh d iexptieweLof isi eir F r1i

A housand jJBopia m EBXingtou re-member

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that about twentyfive yearsago there was a onearmed mulattoIn Lexington who In appearance andoratorical genius showed as was commonly recognized that he was the soof a most distinguished Presbyterianpreacher

A statement several times repeatedin this circular is that God and theIBible say Like begets likeIThere is no such statement or any-thing like it in the whole BibleI

As a fair sample of whatithts circularj

contains I give the first part of its firstpage It is as follows

The Negro a Beast or In the lmIage of God Was Adam a Negro Didthe Negro Spring from Adam and EveThe question Is answered by askingDoes Like Beget Like If Like toesNot Beget Like then the Negro may-be an offspring of Adam and Eve If

Like does not beget like and theNegro Is an offspring of Adam and Evethen there was no necessity of Godcreating Adam in His own image forwhy should Adam be created In GodsImage and then Immediately contradictGods Injunction that Like begets likeand at once produce a Negro which Isnot In the Image of God or Adam

Can the Negro be human without hav-ing

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a soulAre there more than one kind of

soulsIfthe Negro has a soul Is your soul

better than his xIf the Negro and the human family

both have souls the souls are bothalike and the Negro Is your equal asfar as souls are concerned If he isyour equal in spiritual things then heis your equal In everything Now howwould you like to be considered on anequality with the Negro

Would your neighbors associatewith you

If the Negro Is human then he is ofthe same blood and flesh as Adam andEve for Adam was the only repre-sentative of God Now if Adam andEve are the parents of the Negro youcannot get around the fact that youhave Negro blood In your veins

You cannot reason this from an-other

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standpoint and if you decide

that Adam and Eve are the Negrosparents then you lower yourself tothe level of the Negro and virtuallysay I am part Negro

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leadsIsGod alwlse did God make a mis-

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The teachings of the Bible becomeclear as the years go by

Reason Dawns In the Sunny SouthThe Inhabitants tho Southern Statesrhave made a long stridelowing out the teachings of GodsWord when they tale the ballot fromthe Negro In the near future theHuman Family will forever relegatethe Negro to his proper sphere whichIs the Servant of his Master theWhite Man

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Never since the art of book makinghas been known has any book everhad such a wonderful sale The rich bhe poor the high the low the learn

ed and the illiterate buy it It sells rto ail it sells itself Agents wantedIn every county In the United StatesYou can clear 1000 every day Send f35 cents at once stamps taken and t fsecure a complete Agents outfit by rreturn mall and make more money

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Address American Book and BibleHouse 807 808 and 809 Holland Build

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of the book are printedGiving them in their order they areIE E Maybrick N Y He saysIn his recommendation I have read

book four times ReviT LSmithson of Vermont He says Iam reading It the nln H flmnM RevA mJUrNortfm of Mississippi Rsvs

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worth of North Caroline md Prof AR Roundtres of VieconslntOS these 10 mire who recommendthis vile book 7 are from the Northcatn ¬tie a huqdredtims as much as theworst man I knew In the penitentiary Iin Columbus Ohio and yet these menhave the Bible on their side from Gen

to Revelations r

Take your New Testament andread >Ythepassagetha Geek original Doulol the Istrongest equivalent In the Greek lang-uage for our word slavesThat passage teaches beyond dcubt

that these vile enemies of the humanFace are light when they say to youblack people that God intended youaUto be the slaves of the white planNo American Negro can be a Chris-tian who does not recognize It to behis duty to be a slave to the whiteman and If you are an Intelligentand honest Negro and claim the rightto be a free man you must be an In-fidel

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even as Lincoln and Ingersbllwere

SETCH IS FAME

A A Snow was very much surprised-to see an article written by his handpublished In the Blue Grass Blade at tDes Molnes Llnevllle Tribune

CQmmentBut I doni know wherethe devil Llnfiville is

It does look like any man who hadtense enough to edit a curl paper

ought to know that anything withBluegrass to It would be in Ken-

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RELIGIOUS

At Batesvllle Ark on May 27 Rev it-

S Deener Methodist nephew of BishopMallelleu was put in Jail cnarged withforgeries amounting to V1500000

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At Texarcana Ark on May 26 astorm destroyed the following churchesChristian Baptist two Methodist andthe Episcopal

At Detroit June 1 Bishop Spaldingsaid women were responsible for threefourths of the crimes

There Is actually no telling how goodwe men might be were it not for the fdebasing Influence of women

What a pity that men have to haveimothers and how many poor men whoare striving to be good are ruined bythe drunkenness and debauchery oftheir wives and daughters j

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