Show INGERSOL ON DEMON RUM RU M it most eloquent aud powe powerful E eer efer fer uttered probably the moat most powerful am wn ment of the ae demon rum that there ts Is a any ny present record of wa won that of the famous orator robert Q Ing now thai that the temperance wave ie ts at its height and the liquor question is being ng universally discussed its reproduction may not be considered mull mr ingersoll Inger eoll said sad 1 I am a aware that there Is a prejudice against any roan who manafaro man manu afao fae tares alcohol I 1 believe that from the tune time it issue issues from the coiled and poja pois onous warm worm in the distillery dia tillery until it empties into the jaws of death dishonor and crime de morall izau izeu everybody that touches it 14 from its source to where it ends I 1 do r rot ot believe any body can contemplate jhc thc object withe with cat being prejudiced against tha liquor crime all we w have to do gentlemen is to think of the brecks on cither either bank of the stream of detthof dea death of the suicide of the insanity of the ignorance of the destitution of the little children tugging at the withered and faded tadea breast of weeping and ww despairing ees es pairing mothers of wives asking for bread broad of the men of genious it it has wrecked the men struggling with imaginary serpents eer pente produced by thi this de devenish dev eliah thing and when you think of U ane jails of f the almshouses of the asylums aey turns of the prison of the scaffolds upon either lank bank I 1 do not wonder th that t every thoughtful man la to prejudiced against this damned stuff called alcohol n V tempe temperence tence cuts down youth in ita its vig vl or ita its old age in its ts weakness it breaks the fathers heart bereaves the doting mother extinguishes natural affection erases cor jugal love blots out filial attachment blights parental hopes brings down moui mourning ling age in sorrow borrow to the gra grave ve it produces weakness not strength sickness not licul th death not ii life it makes wives widows children orphans fa failers therit fiends bonds and all of them paupers and beggars it feeds rl eum abiam invites cholea cholera imports pestilence and embraces ton it cover the land with I 1 dl bleness dlen eness miser I 1 and crime it fills your jails your almshouses Ims housea and demands your asylums it crowdog your penitentiary ies les and turnis furnishes hes victims for scaffolds at it 13 the life blood wood of the gan gambler abler abb element of the burgler burgl cr the prop of f the highwayman and support of the midnight incendiary it countenances the liar respects the thief at ma the blasphemer it violates the obligation reverences fraud and honor honors infamy it defames benevolence hates love scorns virtue and alanders innocence it excites the father to butcher hit helpless bel cleas offspring helps the husband to bis wife and afie th child to grind the patricidal ax ar it burns bums up nen inen consumes women de tests life curses god despises heaven it suborns witnesses anisa 4 perjury defiles the jury box and stains the judicial ermine it doa the citizen debases the legislator dishonors the statesman and disarms the patriot it brings shame not honor sorrow not rot happiness and with the malevolence 0 of I 1 a fiend it calmly surveys ita frightful desolation and havoc bavo it ns leli felicity city kills peace ruins morals blighty blights confidence slays reputation and wipes out national law then curses the world and laughs at ltv itc ruin it does dew that and more mom it murder murders the soul it is the sum of I 1 all it the th T 11 dinies the father of all crimes the mother other of all abominations the devis best friend and cods worst enemy I 1 |