Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-11-14
PREJUDICE AGAINST ALCOHOL
An Attorney Outlines the Cost and
Gives Some Reasons.

An Attorney Outlines tho Soss ano
Gives Some Reasons.
The following wonderful piece Of
word painting has been frequently
published, says the Chicago Tribune
but we reprint it at the request OF
several readers who desire COM
Dlete copy. An attorney, in address
ng jury in a case which involved
he manufacture Of alcohol, made the
following terrible arraignment of the
lemon:
II am aware that there is preju-
lice against any man who manufac-
lures alcohol. / believe that from the
time it issues from the coiled and
poisonous worm in the distillery until
is empties into the jaws Of death, dis
,onor and crime, it demoralizes every
)ody that touches it, from it's source
% where it ends. 1 do not believe
anybody can contemplate the object
without being prejudiced against the
iquor crime. All we have to do, gen.
:lemen, is to think of the wrecks on
either bank of the stream Of death
If the suicide, of the insanity, Of the
ignorance, of the desititution, of the
little children tugging at the faded
md withered breast of weeping moth
ers, of wives asking for bread, of the
nen of genius it has wrecked, the men
struggling with imaginary serpents
produced by the devilish thing; and
when YOU think of the jails, Of the
llmshouses, of the asylums, Of the
prisons, of the scaffolds upon either
1ank, I do not wonder that every
thoughtful man is prejudiced against
his damned stuff called alcohol. In
temperance cuts down youth in It's
yigor, manhood in it's stength, old age
n its weakness. 1t breaks the fathers
heart, beteaves the doting mother ex-
inguishes natural affection erases con-
iugal love, blots out filial attachment
olights parental hopes, brings down
Mourning age in sorrow to the grave
it produces weakness, not strength;
sickness, not health; death, not life
t makes wives, widows; children, or
)hans, fathers, fiends; and all Of them
)aupers and beggars. 1t feeds rhuma-
ism, invites cholera, imports pestilence
ind embraces consumption. 1t covers
he land with idleness, misery, crime
fills your jails, supplies your aims
louses, and demands your asylums. 1t
,ngenders controversies, fosters quar-
els and cherishes riots. 1t crowds your
)enitentiaries and furnishes victims fol
our scaffolds. 1t is the life blood 4
he gambler, the element of the bL g
ar, the prop of the highwayman and
iupport of the midnight incendiary
countenances the liar, respects the
hief, esteems the blasphemar. 1t vio'
ates obligation, reverences fraud and
lonors infamy 1t defames benevo'
ence, hates love, scorns virtue and
SANDERS innocence. 1t incites the faith
,r to butcher his helpless offsprings
lelps the husband to massacre his
wife and the child to grind the
,aricidal ak. 1t burns up men, con
;umes women, detests life, curses God
lespises heaven. 1t suborns witnesses
nurses perjury, defiles the jury boz
md stains judicial ermlne. 1t des rade!
he citizen, debases the legislator dis
lonors the statesman and disarms
he patriot. 1t brings shame, not hon
)r misery, not safety; despair, moi
rope; misery not happiness, and witt
he malevolence of a fiend it calmly
surveys it's frightful desolation ant
lnsatisfied havoc. 1t poisons felicity
iills peace, ruins morals, blights con-
idence, slays regulations, and wipes
put national honor, then curses th'
world and laughs at it's ruin: 1t doe:
III that and more. 1t murders the
;oul. 1t it the sum of all villainies
he father of all crime, the mother o
Ill denominations, the devils bes
'riend and Gods worst enemy"