The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1882-04-01
ALCHOHOL.
Col. IngersOll PronounCes IL the
Greatest Enemy OF Mankind.

Col. 1ngersUll PT0n0unCes IL the
Creates Enemy Of Mankind.
Colonel II. G Ingersoll, in speaking
to jury in ease which involved the
manufacture OF alchohol, used the
following eloquent language:
~ am aware that there is a preju-
dice against any man engaged in the
manufacture of alchohol. 1 believe
that from the time it issues from the
coiled and poisonous worm in the dis
tillery until it empties into the hell Of
death, dishonor and crime, it demor-
alizes everybody that touches IL, from
its source TO where IL ends. / do not
believe anybody can contemplate the
subject without becoming prejudieed
against the liquor crime. All we have
TO do, gentlemen, is TO think OF the
wrecks on either side of the stream of
death; of the suicides, of the insanity,
of the poverty, Of the ignorance, OF
the destilution; of the little children
tugging at the faded and weary
breasts of weeping and despairing
wives, asking for brea of the talent
ed men of genius that 1t has wrecked;
the men struggling with imaginary
serpents, produced by this devlish
thing; and when you think of the
jails, of The almshouses, OF the asy-
lums, of the prisons, OF the scaffiolds,
upon either bank, / do not wonder
that every Thoughtful man is preju-
diced against this damned stuff called
alchohol. Intemperance cuts down
youth in its vlgor, manhood in its
strength, and aye i'm its weakness.
II breaks the fathers heart, bereaves
the doting mother, extinguishes the
natural affections, grasses conjugal
love, blots out filiaI attachment,
blights parental hope and brings down
mourning age I'm sorrow to the grave.
II produces weakness, not strength;
sickness, not health; death, not life.
1t makes wives widows, children or
phans, fathers fiends, and all Of them
paupers and beggars. Ii feeds rheu-
matism, nourishes gout, welcomes
epidemic, invites cholera, imports
pestilence aud embraces consumption.
II covers the land with idleness, mis-
cry and crime. IL fills your jails.
supplies your almshouses and de-
mands your asylums. 1t engenders
controversies, fosters quarrels and en-
genders riots. II crowds your pene-
teniarie- and furni hes victims To
your scaffolds. Ii is the life blood of
the gambler, the element of the buf-
glar, the prop of the highwayman
al nd hn ri II -, t..L u.
cendiary. IL countenances the liar.
respects the thief, esteems the BIAS
phemer. IL violates obligations. rev.
erences fraud, and honors infaniy.
IL defanes benevolence, hates lose,
scorns virtue and ISLANDERS innocence.
II incites the father to butcher his
helpless offspring, helps the husband
To massacre his wife, and the child to
grind the paracidal AK. Il burns up
men, consumes women, detests life,
curses God, and despiSes heaven. II
snborns witnesses, nurses perjury,
detiles the jury box. and stains the
judicial bench. Ii degrades the citi-
zen, debases the legislator, dishenors
the statesman and disarms the patriot.
II brings shame, not honor; terrer.
not safety; despair. not hope; misery,
not happiness; and with the naleyo.
lence Of a fiend, it calmly surveys its
frightful desolation, and. unsatistied
with its sad havoc, it poisons felicity,
kills peace, ruins morals, blights con-
tidences, slays reputation, and wipes
out national honors, then curses the
world and laughs at its ruin. 1t does
all that and more-it murders the
soul. 1t is the son OF all villianies,
and the father of all crimes, the
mother of abominations, the devils
best friend. and Gods worst enemy.