The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-02-02
Ingerson on Whlskey.


tract from late volume of IngersolPs
Wit, Wisdom and Eloqusnee by Nc
Lure, on the subject of Alcohol and its
horrors. Mr.. Ingersoll is an ayowed in
fidel, but what Christian priest has done
so much as he for the cause of temper
anceP
/ am aware there is prejudice
against any man engaged in tho manu-
facture of alcohol. believe that from
the time it issues from the coiled and
poisonous. worm into the distillery until
it empties into the hell of death, dis.
honor and crime, that it demoralizes
everybody that touches it from its
source to where it ends I do not be.
lieve anybody can contemplate the sub
iect without becoming prejudiced against
the liquor crime.
All we have to do gentleman ia to
think of the wrecks on either bank of
the stream of death; of the suicides, of
| the insanity, of the poverty, of the ig-
,norance, of the destitution, of the little
children tugging at the faded and weary
asking for bread, of the talented men of
gerj1s it has wrecked, the men strug-
ling with imaginary serpents, produced
by this devilish thing; and when YOU
think of the jails, the almshouses, OF
the asylums, of the prisons, of the scaf.
folds, upon either bank do not wonder
that every thoughtful man is preiudiccd
against this stuff called alcohol.
Int 70 4,
vigor, manhood in it's strength and ge
in its weakness. 1t breaks the fathers
heart, bercaves the darling mother, ox-
tinguishes natural affection, erases con-
| jugal love, blots out filial attachments,
blights parental hope and brings down
| mourning age in sorrow TO the grave.
It produces weakness, not strength, sick
ness, not health, death, not life. It
makes wives widows, children orphans:
fathers fiends and all of them paupers
aud beggars. Feeds rheumatism nurses
gout, welcomes epidemics, invites chole-
ra, imports pestilence and embraces con-
sumption, 1t covers the land with idle
ness, misery and crime. 1t fills your
jails supplies your almshOuses and sup
pies your asy lums. 1t engenders contro-
verses, fosters quarrels and cherishes
riots. tt crowds your penitentiaries
and furnishes victims to your scafolds
1t is the life blood of the gambler, the
element of the burglar the prop Of the
highwayman and the support of the
midnight incendiary. 1t countenancet
the, liar, respects the thief, esteems tht
blasphemer. 1t violates obligations
reverences fraud and honors infamy.
defanes benevolence, hates ioYe, scorn
virtue and SANDERS innocence. 1T IN
cites the father to butcher his helples
offspring, helps the husband massacr,
his wife and the child to grind the par
icidal axe. 1t burns up men, it con
sumes women, detests life, curses Goo
and despises heaven. It stuborns wit
nesses, curses perjury, defles the jury
box, and stains the judicial ermine. II
degrades the citizen, debases the legisla
tor, dishonors statesmen, and disarms
the patriot, Is brings shame not honor;
terror, not safety; despair, happiness;
and with the malovence of tiend, it
calmly surveys it's frightful desolati0n
and unsatisfed with its havoc, it pois-
ons felicity, kills peace, ruins morals,
| blights condolences, slays reputation
and wipes out national honors. 1t ours.
es the world and laughs at its ruin.
1t does all that and mOre-it murders
the soul. 1t is. the son of villainies,
the father of all crimes, the mother of
denominations; the devils best friend, and
Gods worst enemy.