07 Dec




















zvaters the milk before it goes to its prayers. I protest against that morality which poses as a saint in public to do as it pleases in private. As the old woman said of the old man's swearing, "If there is anything I do hybominate it is hypo- crisy." In my opinion that which threatens Kentucky is not the gentlemanly vices of the race course, and the sideboard, but perfidy and phariseeism in public and in private life. The men who made the Blue Grass famous, who put the brand of glory upon its women, its horses and its vintage, were not ashamed to take a drink nor to lay a wager; though they paid their losses and understood where to draw the line. They marked the distinction between moderation and intemperance. They did not need to be told what honor is. They believed, as I believe, that there is such a thing as pre- tending to more virtue than honest mortals can hope to at- tain. I know very well how I shall be rated for saying this; how my words will be misrepresented and misquoted and misconstrued; I told you not to ask me to come here, but being here, I am going to speak as I am given the mind to think and the light to see, and to warn our people against the intrusion of certain "isms" which describe themselves as "Progress," and muster under the standards of what they call "God and Morality," but which fifty years ago went by a very different name; "isms" which take their spirit from Cotton Mather, not from Jesus Christ; "isms" which, where they cannot rule, would burn at the stake; "isms" which em-

Comments
* The email will not be published on the website.
I BUILT MY SITE FOR FREE USING