Mr. Baptist and the Ashland Avenue Baptist Church have not only had a positive message of the gospel to spread to the four corners of the earth, but when the occasion demanded it they have stood united as a people as a great bulwark against oppression, injustice, false doctrine and error wherever it is found. Because of this stand for the truth many enemies have been made along the way. But they kept before them the statement of our Lord who said, "If the world hate you, ye know it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." John 15:18, 19. Again we are reminded of the charge of Jude in verse 3, "... it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints".

STANDS AGAINST EVOLUTION

      It was in the early twenties that the doctrine of evolution began to make its inroads into the schools of our land. Many, far too many, shrugged their shoulders in indifference, and let this enemy of the Bible rear up its ugly head. The doctrine of evolution had penetrated the University of Kentucky seemingly unchallenged until the Ashland Avenue Baptist pulpit took an open stand against it that stirred all of Lexington. An excerpt of what happened is taken from the October 12, 1924, edition of the A.A.B. as follows:

TWO STATE PROFESSORS LEAVE CHURCH AS DR. STRATON
PRESENTS ARGUMENT AGAINST EVOLUTION

      Here is part of my effort to defend the old-fashioned truths of the Bible as opposed to the destructive influences of the evolution philosophy.

      "I was told, also, that two professors from another Lexington university were present when I delivered another message on evolution, but that they did not stay through. I saw them get up before I was half through my sermon and leave the church, but did not know at the time just who they were.

      "I merely wish to comment in passing upon the truth that those who are holding to these false theories do not seem to be willing even to hear the other side or to face the old-fashioned truths of God's word.

      "We have had during these revival services direct evidence of the injury to Christian faith that is coming from this teaching, and it does seem an amazing thing that the teachers who are spreading these views, and who profess to be so broad, are really so narrow that they will not even stay to listen to the other side, but interrupt a church service by going out before it is half over.

      Of course it might have been that these two professors from the Kentucky State University did not like Dr. Straton's presentation of the argument against evolution. They might have gotten sick. A pressing engagement may have been the cause of their sudden departure. I say, these things might have been true, but doesn't it seem that common courtesy would have demanded that after they had accepted the invitation to be present they could have explained their conduct by a note.

      That evolution is taught in the State University of Kentucky no one denies. The school is supported by the money of men and women who pay taxes and believe that the Bible is God's word, It is these men and women they are asking to give them $5,000,000 at the next election when the vote is taken on the 75 million bond issue. Think of it, my Baptist brethren, through the State of Kentucky you are asked to give money to the teaching of a thing which if persisted in will destroy "the faith once delivered to the saint." Every Baptist pastor in Lexington is against evolution, speaks against it and as the professor did not offer an explanation to Dr. Straton, isn't it really advisable to leave if evolution is denounced. And what about the example to the boys and girls back home where faithful Baptist pastors preach God's revealed truth in place this unproven theory of evolution.

      Kentucky ought to be aroused atout this matter of evolution being taught in tax-supported schools. I have been watching the Recorder since Frank Norris declared that one of our seminary professors said that Genesis "was untrustworthy." But if the Recorder has spoken I have not seen it. I hope that it has and with the authority of the professor behind that he does believe Genesis is God's word and that its every word is true. That God's word can te tiusted but that man's guesses cannot.

      As to the professor in Transylvania who ridiculed Dr. Straton let me say that all the ridicule cannot destroy - "In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth."

INFIDEL PAPER ATTACKS MR. BAPTIST

      When one stands for the Bible truths, infidel organizations have always been stirred up. This was the case in 1924 when Mr. Baptist called the nation back to the keeping of the Lord's Day as a Holy Day rather than a holiday.

INFIDELS REJOICE - PASTOR CALLED PURITANICAL KILL-JOY

      Monday I received a marked copy of an infidel paper published in New York. The same clipping which was taken from the A.A.B. that so aroused the ire of the "Oxford Student" seems to have made the infidels rejoice. Here is what they have to say:

      "Sunday visiting is most immoral, according to the puritanical kill-joy, Rev. Clarence Walker, pastor of Ashland Avenue Baptist Church, Lexington, Ky. "It is a sight," says the minister, "on Sunday morning to see the cars headed out the different pikes filled with whole families. And the fathers and mothers doing this thing are certainly leading their children into Hell - yes, I said it, and I'll say it again. Parents who do not take their children to God's house and keep His day holy are leading their children into hell-fire." Scarcely a day passes without some preacher lamenting the failure of the people to attend church. Evidently, the situation is becoming serious, from the point of view of the preachers. - If the ministers believe what they preach why do they not solve the difficulty in short order by taking it to the Lord in prayer? The clerical profession might as well resign itself to the fact that it represents a steadily decreasing minority."

      So, I am a "kill-joy."

     A "puritanical kill-joy."

      Just what kind of a creature a "puritanical kill-joy" is I can't tell you. Strange, then, isn't it, that folks will come to hear me preach. Eight years ago next Sunday we met in an old school house and I preached my first sermons at Ashland Avenue. Less than thirty persons were present. Sunday night at the close of my eighth ye the auditorium of our new meeting house was filled. Just our regular services, too. Because I called attention to the "awful sin" of breaking the fourth commandment the infidels seem to have gotten the impression that everybody has stopped attending church.

      Today more people go to church than ever before in our history. During September I preached four weeks in the Baptist Church at Petoskey, Mich., a place in the north, a place where Baptists are few in numbers, yet a loyal, faithful band of believers, and I the crowds grow until the last night a vast multitude was there hear the word of truth. It is true everywhere. Understand me, do not say the world is being converted, but I do say that the infidels are dead wrong when they say that folks have quit going to church. It may be true in New York, yet I doubt it, but thank God, New York is not the United States. She thinks she is but she isn't.

      This coming Sunday is the beginning of my ninth year as pastor of Ashland Avenue Church and my eighth anniversary. I want to see the greatest crowds ever in our meeting house. I am afraid that I'll not be able to be - "a puritanical kill joy" - as I think of the wondrous blessing our Father in Heaven has bestowed upon us.

      The slur on prayer in the infidel sentence I shall answer testifying to the answers - real answers, real evidence that God has added to our numbers. Let your presence at my anniversary be your answer to these themselves. Come with joy, gladness, peace, happiness in your hearts.

      Come with thanksgiving in your soul.
      Come to worship Him who is God, blessed for evermore.

      Remember this - that the infidels rejoice with the devils in hell when they see you "forsaking the assembling" of the believers.

      Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy.

      I guess I ought to sign this article -

"The Puritanical Kill Joy"

PASTOR OPENLY ATTACKS GAMBLERS

      Along with the errors of evolution, breaking of the Lord's day in the early twenties flourished with gambling. But this did not escape the bold scathing attack of Mr. Baptist. He not only took an open public stand against gambling but also against the politicians who supported gambling. In public addresses he crusaded against any public official who took his stand with the gambling crowd. The following is a sample of his preaching:

      In the last issue I told how Brother Moore and his family were challenged at the primary election. They have always been Democrats, but scratched the ticket for Sackett. I said, perhaps their votes were not counted. Brother Moore said, "that there were no perhaps about it, that his vote' and that of his family were not counted."

      There is no doubt that the race-track gamblers did all they could to keep as many of the Democrats away from the election as they could who had voted for Sackett. They know they are the ones who are against the gamblers.

      Fields and the bunch at Frankfort did all they could to help them.

     Don't vote for any man who is opposed to Brother Hunt in his fight against the gamblers.

MR. BAPTIST BOOTS AT THE BOOTLEGGERS

      Prohibition was not perfect! Even with its weakness it was a hundred times better than the licensed, open saloon. Outside of his fight with Al Smith, running for President of the United States (to which we shall refer later), Mr. Baptist met his most violent foe in his battle with the bootlegger. The death of a local officer who was shot to death spurred a crusade against bootlegging. For several Sundays fiery hot sermons were brought on the laxity of law enforcements, sin was labeled sin, names were called. Judges and civic officials commended the crusade which Mr. Baptist launched against liquor and lawlessness.

      Week after week crowds thronged the Ashland Avenue Baptist Church to hear the Pastor speak out boldly about the conditions which existed in the city. I have tried to capture some of the color of this fight by bringing some of the message given by Mr. Baptist in January and February of 1927, into this biography of 1927.

Pastor Walker Speaks on Death of Officer
Lexington, the Bootleggers' Paradise; Call For Crusade
Against Law Violations.
Sunday Night

      Before I read my text and begin my sermon tonight I to call attention to an event which has occurred in our city this last week to grieve our hearts and I hope to arouse our minds to a fearful condition among us.

      Let me read you from the scriptures concerning the duties of an officer of the law and the responsibilities of a Christian citizen:

      "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained by God.
      Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God; and they who resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
      For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same.
      For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain; for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
      Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath also for conscience's sake.

      For this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.

      Render therefore to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor." - (Romans 13:1-7)

      Policeman Jesse Estes was shot and killed last week by a legger. His mother, who is a faithful member of our church, his wife and son, and sister and brother are heartbroken and stricken with a host of other relatives and friends over his death - a death met in battle for the enforcement of law.

      Yes, the enforcement of the law of our land. It is by law that our homes are protected, made safe and our happiness secured.

      The man who breaks the law is striking at the foundation of his home, his country and even the security of his own life.

      Such a man is a bootlegger.

      And from the conversations I have heard and investigations I have conducted among men - young men - Lexington has become the BOOTLEGGERS' PARADISE.

      Hearing these reports and moved by the tragic death of Patrolman Estes, I called upon Mr. Earnest Thompson, the assistant chief of police, to talk the matter over with him. He received me very kindly and related many of the problems the police have in enforcing the prohibition laws.

      Let me say right here that I do not believe one word of the rumors that are afloat concerning members of the departments of our forces charged with the arrest of law violators and the enforcement of the law being in "cahoots" with the bootleggers. Chief Thompson told me that two of his men saw a young man drive up near the spot where policeman Estes was shot and buy something from a person who came to his car. The young man was arrested and told the police officers that he had heard that anyone who wanted whiskey could stop on this certain street and the bootleggers would come and sell him whiskey. The young man stated that he had come in town and hearing these reports went out to get some moonshine for Christmas.

      This led the chief to send two officers, dressed in plain clothes, to trap the bootleggers.

      We all know the rest of the sad story. And yet, do you?

      A week ago tonight this shooting took place - the beautiful flowers placed by loving hands on Jesse Estes' grave are not yet faded. Yet a boy sits in this audience who last night drove past the spot, where death was met in an attempt to uphold the law - and a bootlegger came to his car.

      Think of it. Seven days have not yet passed since this new-made grave was filled, and yet these rebels are still defying the law for which Old Glory flies.

      No, the fight today is not for prohibition but it is a war for law enforcement.

      After I left the office of the Chief of Police I felt impressed call upon Mr. Unthank, the chief prohibition officer of this district. He received me cordially and spoke with amazing frankness.

      He said that Lexington, "was the dryest wet town in the United States and that the prohibition laws were better enforced here than anywhere in the country."

      Mr. Unthank is wrong, I think, when he says that Lexington is the dryest wet town in the United States. He means, I take it, that the vast majority of our citizens, the officials, the newspapen are in favor of a wet city, and that the sentiment of Lexington overwhelmingly in favor of legalized liquor traffic and against prohibition. This may be true but I don't believe it. He is in a position to better judge than I, but my firm conviction is that the crowd in favor of moonshine and the law violation is a mighty little minor of Lexington people.

      Mr. Unthank gave me the following figures:
      There have been 453 arrests in Lexington in the last six monli by his men charged with violations of the dry laws. Of these 200 were convicted, while 103 were continued until the next court.

      After I had received these figures from Mr. Unthank I requested the police, the sheriff and the county patrol, whose business it is to arrest violators of the law, for their figures for the last months. The police:

      Drunks in 1925 - 509 Drunks in 1926 - 473 119 of these were people from out of Lexington.

     The Sheriff: Arrests 109; 60 convictions; destroyed 11 stills and assisted in 42 raids.

      I received the following letter from the county patrol:

     

"January 22, 1922
"Rev. Clarence Walker,
"Ashland Avenue Church,

      "Dear Sir: Mr. Unthank was talking to me about the number of raids my force assisted in last year and he requested me to furnish you with the figures. There were 136 raids and convictions in all cases. I want to say that I and my force have been criticised on more than one occasion, but we have never let up and we will not so long as we are county patrolmen.

Respectfully yours,

J. C. Stewart,

"Chief of County Patrol"

      If I am not mistaken these cases were tried in County Judge Chester D. Adams' court. Convictions in all cases - sounds good. Real convictions and real punishment are what count in this war for law enforcement.

      Thank God for Judge Chester D. Adams. He is not the friend of the bootleggers and each place that I discussed this matter they spoke in the highest terms of the cooperation and help always to be had from Judge Adams' court.

      It is not our purpose at this time to criticise our officers but to issue this call to the people of Lexington to realize the seriousness of the situation. It seems to be the impression among all those with whom I have talked that anyone - young or old - can get hold of liquor without any trouble in the city of Lexington. Saturday night as many as ten drunks were seen on Vine Street. Things have happened in the last two weeks under my own observation that show our city to be a place where the prohibition laws are openly violated. If the policemen, the sheriff, the county patrol and the federal force cannot uphold the law and the constitution, let us appeal to Governor Fields to send the State militia here and if they cannot, let us call on the President to send the U. S. army to suppress the rebels.

      First, let Lexington learn this lesson, that there must be an awakened public conscience and concern as to the conditions about us. The Christian citizenship, the voters, fathers and mothers are urged to join in a holy crusade against the unrighteousness of law violation.

      Mr. Unthank says that he has received no support whatever. In the following statement, he said:

      "That no man has ever made a greater sacrifice for prohibition than he has - but in return he has only received the cusses, kicks and the knocks of the dry people and all others. The dry people take up the lies that the wets spread concerning him, believe them and repeat them as the truth."

      This is a terrible indictment against a city of churches, schools and colleges, a W. C. T. U. and other Christian institutions. I trust that the publication of this statement of Mr. Unthank will result in a clean city.

      A second thing to be pungently considered is that the enforcement of the law is lax. To show what I mean, the negro that kille Jesse Estes was convicted on June 14 for bootlegging.

      July 31st, the second time.

      August 9th, the third time.

      November 22nd, the fourth time, and for some reason he out of jail waiting to be sentenced. I was told that a certain individual asked Judge Cockran to be permitted to go on his bond til the time came for the judge to pronounce sentence and thus it was that Judge Cochran let him out - and out he went unrepentant to his law violation. I called up others that I thought would know about the matter but there seemed to be no definite information as to how this bootlegger was out of jail. Say what you will, but in my heart I believe that the reason this dear mother is without a son today and a wife is a widow is because the law was lax. Whose fault it is I do not know, but by the help of God and if the 700 members of this Church with the Christian citizenship of Lexington will join me in this holy crusade it shall not happen again.

      NO - by God's grace may the tide of public opinion run so high that the life of this brave man shall not be given in vain.

      After this part of the service Pastor Walker preached from the text, "Except ye be converted ye cannot see the kingdom God." Matthew 18:3. Souls were saved and added to the church.

THE HOUR IS COME

      Pastor Walker Says Time to Clean Up Lexington is Here.

      (The following sermon was preached by pastor Clarence Walker Sunday night before a crowd that completely filled the church. Every chair in the building was pressed into use. The sermon the second in the series that the pastor is preaching in a holy crusade against the bootleggers. The third one will be preached next Sunday night, "A Bootlegger, a Whiskey Bottle and a Soul.")

      I call your attention to a text found in the first verse of the 17th chapter of John, which reads: "These words spake Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify the Son that thy Son may also glorify thee."

      The hour is come. - These immeasurable words uttered by our Savior, just before his arrest, trial and crucifixion, are the opening words of perhaps the greatest prayer that ever fell from His blessed lips.

      His hour had come - and there is none who can measure the infinite depths of the darkness of the hour that he was to pass through but in it he looked to His Heavenly Father for help, strength and unfailing aid.

      Last Sunday night I started this holy crusade against the boot-leggers and law-breakers of Lexington. It is with joy that I note several arrests have been made as a result and the interest of this vast crowd proves that the public sentiment is being stirred.

      This iniquity is firmly entrenched and deep rooted. It is not a thing that can be wiped out with the mere brushing of a hand. It is a giant, cruel and wicked, ready to defend itself with all the hidden forces of darkness. Our God is able to use us poor, weak, unworthy servants of His to glorify His name. I realize my own lack of qualifications and weakness to carry on this battle.

      God says in First Corinthians, the first chapter and the 26th to the 29th verses:

      "For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, and not many mighty, and not many noble, are called;
      But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty;
      And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

      That no flesh should glory in His presence.

      It has even been so that when God wanted a work done in the world He has used what men would have looked upon as useless. He took Sampson and gave him the jawbone of an ass and whipped a whole army of Philistines. He took Gideon with three hundred men, put in their hands a trumpet and a pitcher and crushed the whole army of Midianites. Let me read you how God talked with Gideon about his weakness and his strength in Judges, sixth chapt beginning with the 12th verse to the 16th verse:

      And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said un him, the Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
      And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracle which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us from Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
      And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites; have not I sent thee?
      And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
      And the Lord said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.

      These two things stand out in this Scripture: First, that God's hour had come to smite the Midianites. Second, He chose a man who had faith, who believed God's word and though that man was weak. God used him to bring about a wonderful victory.

      By looking to Him as our Saviour did - yielding our all into His hands and depending entirely upon Him, victory will come.

      God's hour is come for Lexington to clean up. The good people are in the vast majority. It is a mighty little crowd that believes and backs up vice and bootlegging and because the public is asleep as to conditions about them Lexington continues to be the bootlegger's paradise.

      How can all this be changed?

      "If ye ask anything - I will do it." (John 14:14). God says, "If we do the asking, He will "do". Pray that God will clean up wicked city.

      To pray aright you must know - you must study the of God - the Bible. With these two things, prayer and God's word, Lexington can and will be changed. The world may laugh at our method of warfare and mock at the weapons in our hands but God shall give victory to our arms.

      This bottle I have in my hand is a whiskey bottle. See, it has some moonshine in it. Come, Brother Ott Miller, smell it and tell the crowd what it smells like.

      Ott - "It smells like the genuine stuff."

      This morning as I came to my study I found this bottle in front of the church. I believe some bootlegger hearing of this crusade and knowing that I come early to the study, put it where I would find it. It is as much to say, "Walker, we are here, and here to stay." I answer the whole crowd that by God's help you shall get out and Lexington will be cleaned up.

      Let me give this incident of the past week: Tuesday night the officers captured a negro bootlegger in "The Jungle," near the spot, where brave Jesse Estes fell. He was taken before the court and held over to be tried March 14 at Frankfort. He was released on a $500 bond signed by a man of his race.

      But would you believe me. Saturday night he was arrested the second time with over seven gallons of moonshine. Again he was brought before the authorities, ordered to be held for trial at the Frankfort court in March. He is at liberty tonight on another $500 bond signed by the same man.

      Something is wrong, somewhere, when a rebel against the laws of our land can be arrested twice in one week and be out tonight defying all that makes Lexington a safe place in which to live. There is one thing dead certain, these bootleggers do not seem, to fear the courts or mind the penalty that will be given them.

     It is said that this negro is a paroled convict.

      He ought to have been in prison. It reminds you something of the case of Richard Carr, the negro arrested as the slayer of policeman Estes. Carr was arrested four times charged with bootlegging this summer. He was found guilty and convicted - yet, say what you will, he was out of jail, where he ought to have been - breaking the law.

      The hour is come for whole soul consecration to Christ. He is our Leader. Every Leader must have a people. The allurements and distractions of this present evil world must not get our eyes off of Him by whose blood we have been made clean. A beautiful story is told of a young man in a far Eastern country who was sent one day by his teacher through the main streets of the city where crowd was the greatest, to carry a vessel full of water - full very brim, with instructions not to spill a single drop. He retur pleased and triumphant, because he had succeeded in obeying command. Not a single drop had been lost. The teacher praised him and then asked what he saw as he passed through the streets. "Saw." cried the young man, "Why I saw nothing."

      "How can that be?" replied the teacher. "For I know that the very time when you were passing thru the streets the king and his royal attendants went through."

      "Well, that may be," said the boy, "but how could I see any body or anything when I had my eyes fixed upon the water the whole time and could think of nothing but how to carry it without spilling as you told me to do."

      The Lord Jesus commanded in Matthew 16:24, "If any man will be my disciple let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me." In other words we can be so occupied with Jesus as to be quite unconscious of those things which strive to attract our attention from Him as our all in Him.

      In this holy crusade see only the Lord Jesus and His glory.

      "The hour is come" for sinners to repent and believe the gospel. Jesus says in Mark 1:15:

      "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent ye, and believe the gospel.

      Repent and believe the gospel. The hour is come - sinner, listen to God (Acts 17:31):

      "But now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent: inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead."

      Repent and believe the gospel. God tells us what the gospel is in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4:

      "Morever, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you. which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
      By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
      For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
      And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.

      The doom of those who believe not:

      "In hell he lifted up his eyes being in torments."

      The invitation was given. During the day nine were added to the church.

CRUSADE AGAINST LAWLESSNESS CONTINUES

      Sunday night Pastor Walker preached the third sermon in the holy crusade against bootlegging. The church was packed. The subject was, "A Bootlegger, A Bottle of Whiskey and a Lost Soul." The text, "For thus sayeth the Lord, ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money."
      (Isaiah 52:3).

      Speaking of the bootlegger Pastor Walker said:
      "The more I study the bootlegging situation the more I am made to realize that it is a gigantic organization built up to carry on an outlawed trade for the sake of money. It is an evil that defies the American people and looks upon the Constitution of the United States, on which rests the liberties we enjoy as a "mere scrap of paper."

      The man who makes moonshine seldom retails it. The wholesale dealers in moonshine seldom retail it. The runners, those who carry it from place to place, seldom retail it. The moonshine business has its "higher ups" and they are the real criminals in this nefarious business. They get the big money out of it but so hide their wicked hands that when the poor negro retailer is caught they can sit back and laugh and know that they are in no danger of going to prison or be compelled to pay a fine out of their ill-gotten gains.

      Millions of good American dollars taken from the tax-payer's pockets are spent every year to suppress bootlegging.

      In Lexington we have the Federal officers, the sheriff's office, the county patrol and the police force, whose business it is to protect the public from these outlaws.

      In thinking of these things there are certain questions the come into my mind.

      Why is it they do not capture the "higher ups" in this illegal trade?

      Why is it so easy for these negroes and all others who sell moonshine to get out of the law's clutches so easily and go on with their wickedness?

      Where do these many rumors that officers and officials are in "cahoots" with the bootleggers originate?

      If a foreign power that was at war with the United States had spies living in our midst, insulting the flag, defying our constitution, killing our citizens, debauching our young people and showing contempt for our institutions, it would not take long to rid the country of such men.

      Neither would it take long to make Lexington clean of the bootlegging if the people will only realize the seriousness of tf situation and the law be upheld and enforced by those whose duty it is to enforce it.

      The following from the Louisville Courier-Journal of Tuesday morning proves conclusively that Pastor Walker is hitting at the right thing when he urges people to be aroused and when election time comes vote only and absolutely for men that are dry:

"CITY OFFICIALS ARE LINKED IN NEWPORT SIFT

      "Newport, Ky., Feb. 7. - The names of city officials, members of the Newport police department and two federal prohibition agents have been linked in a general investigation now in process in Campbell county following the seizure ten days ago of the Wiedeman Brewery Company and the arrest of eleven of its officers, became known Monday.

      "The seizure of the Wiedeman Brewery came as a complete surprise to agents both in Kentucky and Southern Ohio, as the investigation and plans for its seizure were known only to Will J. Foster, district superintendent of the Ohio Anti-Saloon League; W. O. Mays, prohibition administrator for Kentucky and Tennesse; Sylvester Davis, prohibition administrator for Southern Ohio, and Washington officials, who worked up the case following information furnished by the Anti-Saloon League of Southern Ohio."

      These two things ought to burn themselves into the hearts of every patriotic citizen by the above news. First, that for many years the city of Newport has been the center and heart of moonshine manufacturing. Second, that it has not been exposed by those who ought to have wiped it out long ago but that an outside organization; the Anti-Saloon League, supported not by the taxes of the people, but by the voluntary contributions of liberty-loving, God-fearing citizens. I wish it were possible that the Anti-Saloon League would take up work in Lexington and catch these "higher-ups."

      I do not know how much truth there is in this rumor, but they tell me that the wholesale dealer for Lexington lives in Kenwick, not far from our church. I wish I knew his name and on what street he lives. It has been said that you can buy whiskey in five squares of Ashland Avenue Church. By Sunday night I hope to have the evidence if it is true.

MR. BAPTIST BATTLES CATHOLIC CANDIDATE FOR
PRESIDENT - EXPOSES SINS OF AL SMITH

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