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Show I f peak against the entire operation of the system, the manufacture, traffic and consumption of ardent spirits; I speak against the whole accursed process pro-cess and all its several parts, from the time when we take a last look at the simple, healthful, life-sustaining fruits of the earth before they are subjected to the action of the distiller's fire, un til after they have passed through all the transforming processes, and clothed with another nature, and distributed through the community, oonie forth imbued with a new terrific life, gigantic, gigan-tic, multiform, resistless, stalking over the earth in a thousand shapes of poverty, pov-erty, disease, anguish, death, incendiarism, incendi-arism, murder, and undying ignominy. Horace Mann. |