Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-22
HOW INGERSOLL
CONVINCED JURY

Gentlemen Of the Jury: am
aware that there is prejudice against
any man. who manufactures alcohol
believe that from the time it issues
from the coiIed and poisonous worms
in the distiilery until il emp;ies into
the Jaws OF death, dishonor and crime,
il demoralizes everybody that touches
ii, from its source TO where il ends.
/ do not believe that anybody can
contemplate the object without being
prejddieed against ihe: liquor crime.
All We have TO do. gentlemen, is
Id think of the wrecks on either banks
OF the slream-of deaths, of suicides,
of the insanity. of the ignorance, Of
the destitutien, CT the little children
Juggling at the faded and wfthered
breasts of weep1ng and despairing
mothers, of wives asking for bread. of
the men of genus it has wrecked, the
men struggling with imaginary SER
rents produced by this deyilish
thing; and when you think of the
jails, Of the alInshouses, of the asy-
lums, Of the prisons, of the scaffolds
upon either bank, do not wonder
that every thoughtful man is preju-
diced against this damned stuff called
alcohol Intemperance cuts down
youth in its vigor, manhood in its
strength, old age in its weakness. 1t
breaks the fathers heart, bereaves the
doting mother, extingaishes natural
affection, grasses ,coningal love, blots
out filiaI attachm ents, blights parent
al hopes, brings down mourning age
in sorrow to the grave. 1t produces
weakness, not life. 1t makes wives
widows; children orphans; fathers
fiends. and all of them paupers and
beggars. IL feeds rheumatism, in
yites CHOLERA, imports pestilence, and
embraces consumption. 1t covers the
land with idleness, misery, crime. 1t
fills your jails, supplies your aims
houses and demands your asylums.
II engsHders. controversies, fosters
quarrels and cnerishes riots. 1t crowds
your penitentiaries and furnishes VIC
tins for your seaffold. 1t is the life
blood II the gambler, the element OF
the burglar, the prop .of the highway
man and support of the midnight In
cendiary 1t countenances the liar, re-
spects the thief, esteems the bias
phemer. 1t violates obligation, rever-
ences fraud and honors infamy. 1t
| defames beneyolence, hates love,
scorns virtue and ISLANDERS innocence.
1t incites the father to butcher his
offspring, helps the husband to mas
sacre his wife and the child to grind
the parricidal AK. 1t burns 4up men,
consumes women, detests life, curses
God, despises heaven. 1t suborns wit
nesses, nurses perjury, defiles the
jury Dox and stains judicial ermine.
1t degrades the citizen, debases the
legislator, dishonors the statesman,
and disarms the patriot II brings
shame, rot honor: misery, not safety;
despair, not hope; misery, not ilappi-
ness, and with the malevolence of a
fiend it calmly surveys its frightful
desolation and unsatiated havoc. 1t
poisons felicity, kills peace, ruins
morals, blights confidence, Stays reIu-
tations and wipes out national honor,
then curses the world and laughs at
it's ruin. 1t does all that and more.
1t murders the soul. 1t is the sum of
all villainies, the father of all crimes,
the mother of all denominations, the
devils own best friend and Gods worst
enemy .~-