The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-10-04
THE WORK OF ALCOHOL.
lngersoll's Famous Arraignment Of
tho Liquor Crime and Its Fearful
consequences,

Ingersoli's Famous Arraignment OF
tho Liquor Crime and Its Fearful
Consequences.
One OF the greatest temperance Ora.
lions ever delivered In the Enplish
language was delivered by Ingersoll in
q case where he was defending n Iionor
dealer. 1t was ss follows: 4No'
| - am aware that there 70 MO
judice against any man engaged IN the
manufacture OF alchol. believe that
from the time 1t Issues from the ooileS
and poisonous worm in the distiIlaru
until 1t empties into the hell of death
dishonor and crime, it demoralizes
everybody that touches it, from its
source to where it ends. 1 do not be-.
liove anybody can contemplate the
against the liquor crime.
"All we have to do, gentlemen. ia IN
| think OF the wrecks on either bnnl. n
the stream OF death ; Of the suioides
| OF the insantty, Of the poverty. of the
ignorance, OF the destitution; of the
little children tugging at the faded
and weary breasts Of weeping and
despairing wives, asking for bread of
the talented mon of genius it has
wrecked, the men struggling with i'm
aglnary serpents, produced by this
devllish thing and when you think OF
the, jails, the almshouses, of the
asylums, OF the prisons, OF the scatfolds
upon eithor bank, / do not wonder that
every thoughtful man is prejudiced
against this stun called alcohol
lntemperance cuts down youth in
lts vigor, manhood in its strength, and
age In Its weakness. 1t breaks tho
fathers heart, bereaves the dotipp
mother, extinguishes natural atfec.
tions, grasses conjugal loves, blots out
iilial attac chments, blights parental
hope, and beings down mourning age
in sorrow to the grave. 1t produces
weakness, not strength sickness, not
health; death, not life. 1t makes wives
widows; children orphans; fathers,
hends, and all OF them paupers and
beggars. 1t feeds rheumatism, nurses
gout, welcomes epidenics, invites
cholera, Imports pestilence and en-
| braces consumption. 1t covers the
land with idleness, misery and crime,
1t fills your jails, supplies your aims
houses, and demands your asylums. 1t
engenders controversies, fosters quar-.
rels and cherishes riots. 1t crowds
your penitentiaries and furnishes VIC
Tins to your scaifolds. It is the life
blood OF the gambler, the element of
the burglar, the prop Of the highway
man and the support Of the midnight
1ncendiary. 1t countenances the liar,
| respects the thief, esteems the BIAS
| phemer. 1t violates the obligations, re-
verences fraud and honors infamy. 1t
defames benevolence, hates love, scorns
virtue and slanders innocence. 1t in
cites the father to butcher his helpless
offspring, helps the husband to mas
| sacre his wife, and the child to grind
the paricidal AK. 1t burns up mon, con-
| sumes women, detests life, curses God,
and despises heaven. 1t snborns wit
nesses, nurses perjury, deiiles the jury
box, aud stains the judicial ermine. 1t
degrades the citizen, debases the legis.
| lator, dishonors statesmen and disarms
the patriot. 1t brings shame, not
honor terror, not safety despair, not
hope; misery, not happiness and with
the malevolence Of a Gend it calmly
surveys It's frightful desoation, and,
unsatistied with It's havoc, it poisons
felicity, kills peace, ruins morals,
bllghts confidence, Stays reputation,
and wipes out national honors, then
curses the world and laughs at It's
ruin.
1t does ell that and more--!t mur-
ders the soul. 1t is the son OF villainies,
the father OF all crimes, the mother of
| abominatiOns, the DEVILS best friend,
and Gods worst enemy"