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EIH-T1HE AH® HARVEST. 
Ingersoll on Alcohol. 
Colonel Robert Ingersoll was lately em¬ 
ployed in a case which involved the manu¬ 
facture of ardent spirits, and in his speech 
to the jury he used the following language: 
“I am aware there is a prejudice against 
any man engaged in the manufacture of 
alcohol. I believe from the time it issues 
from the coiled and poisonous worm in the 
distillery until it empties into the hell of 
death, dishonor and crime, that it is demor¬ 
alizing to everybody that touches it, from 
the source to where it ends. I do not 
believe that anybody can contemplate the 
subject without being prejudiced against 
the crime. All we have to do 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 destruction, of the little 
children tugging at the breast of weeping 
and despairing wives asking for bread, of 
the men of genius it has wrecked, the men 
struggling with imaginary serpents pro¬ 
duced by this devilish thing; and when you 
think of the jails, of the almshouses, of the 
asylums, of the prisons and of the scaffolds 
on either hand, I do not wonder that every 
thoughtful man is prejudiced against this 
vile stuff called alcohol. Intemperance 
cuts down youth in its vigor, manhood in 
its strength, and age in its weakness. It 
breaks the father’s heart, bereaves the dot¬ 
ing mother, extinguishes natural affection, 
erases conjugal love, blots out filial attach¬ 
ments and blights parental hope, and 
brings premature age in sorrow to the 
grave. It produces weakness, not strength; 
sickness, not health; death, not life. It 
makes wives widows, children orphans, 
fathers fiends, and all paupers. It feeds 
rheumatism, nurses gout, welcomes epi¬ 
demics, invites cholera, imports pestilence 
and embraces consumption. It covers the 
land with misery, idleness and crime. It 
engenders controversies, fosters quarrels 
and cherishes riots. It crowds your peni¬ 
tentiaries and furnishes victims to the 
scaffold. It is the blood of the gambler, the 
element of the burglar, the prop of the 
highwayman and the support of the mid¬ 
night incendiary. It countenances the liar, 
respects the thief, esteems the blasphemer, 
It violates obligations, reverences fraud, 
honors infamy. It defames benevolence, 
hates love, scorns virtue and innocence. It 
incites the father to butcher his helpless off¬ 
spring, and the child to grind the paracidal 
axe. It burns up men, consumes women, 
detests life, curses God and despises heaven. 
It suborns witnesses, nurses perfidy, defiles 
the jury box and stains the judicial ermine. 
It bribes voters, disqualifies votes, corrupts 
elections, pollutes our institutions and en¬ 
dangers the government. It degrades the 
citizen, debases the legislator, dishonors the 
statesman and disarms the patriot. It brings 
shame, not honor: terror, not safety; de¬ 
spair, not hope; misery, not happiness; and 
with the malevolence of a fiend, calmly sur¬ 
veys its frightful desolation, and unsatiated 
with havoc, it poisons felicity, kills peace, 
ruins morals, wipes out national honor, then 
curses the world and laughs at its ruin. It 
does that and more—it murders the soul. 
It is the sum of .all villainies, the father of 
crimes, the mother of all abominations, the 
devil’s best friend, and God’s worst enemy.” 
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