Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-19
Thinks i am hard on tssc
''kcciy Cure

NcSsy SOES.
A nice letter from a neighbor-
ing state contains this clause. "If
the Keely Cure turns out to be
what its friends claim it to be, the
friends of the Blade will be sorry
you wrote so strongly against IT,.
We all think so much of tie
Blade and its brave editor that we
can not bear to have it publish
anything that may afterward be-
found incorrect"
In answer to this | have to say
that l am satisfied that less than
six months will place the "Keeiy
Cure" so called, among the mil
lions, of quack nostrums that
have preceded it. l sy ympathize
with any intelligent effort that is
being made to save men from the
misery of drunkenness, but the
"Keely Cure" is not an IN elHgeni
one, and from the beginning unto
this day has never had the speci-
business and possibility that at
tacbed to the Kochlymph inocu-
lation theory, which after having
received the endorsement Of thou
sands of fine physicians every
wherein Lexington among
others-is now as Thoroughly col
lapsed as a punctured bubble.
There are only two arguments
that l now offer against the Kelley
Cure.
The first one is that Col. Miners
the inebriate journalist who gave
the "Keeley Cure" its great boom
by saying in a fine article in the
North American Review" that
he kne,o he had been healed by
the "Keeley Cure" has since died
in New York hospital, as tha
result of a drunken debauch of ;
month.
The next argument against the
:Keeley Cure is that the liqno,
papers, that represent the interes
of the saloon-keeper and the dis
tiller and brewer are all for the
.'Keeley Cure" Besides the gen
eral principle that papers ano
people of that kind would not be
in favor of anything that is good
there is the special reason to be-
lieve that they would not en-.
courage the sale, and use. an
general dissemination, of a mcdl.
cine that would give men such {
distaste for liquor that they would
forever lOathe it. | am a newspa
per man and farmer. WOult
not ererybody think me crazy, a.
many now do; i'll We're systematic
cally to go to work to breal
down my own business, either a.
an editor or as a farmer? O
course the liquor dealers and th'
liquor newspapers got all the fact'
and statistics about the "keeley
Cure" as soon as it got its boom
because,it bore Immediately upoi
their business, and they come t,
the conclusion that 1T was calcu
lated to help their business. anC
they boosted the "Keeley Cure
and are still doing it, for all there
is in it.
If the theory of the "Keele!!
Cure" had been correct, thes,
liquor devils, who are Just a
sharp as their old daddy, who il
the boss of all the devils, woul,
have sense enough to know tina
it would take away from then
their best customers right away
1t would make no dii1erenc,
whether the drunkard wanted IL
submit to the cure, or not. TIL,
first time a woman's husband came
home drunk, all in the worlI
she would have to do would be t.
pull a little hyperdermic syring,
out of her pocket where sh,
would carry it, knowing tina
even one ofPinkerton's detective
or bank burglar, or any othe
masculine humanity cant find Ill,
way unto wOman's pocket
though my wife has no trouble IA
all in finding the way into mine
and with that syringe already
loaded with a charge of bichlorid,
of gold, all she would have to dl
would be to cock it and fire it int,
any part of the drunken carcas.
of that sleeping man. He woulC
probably never move. or woult
possibly make few scratches a
a supposed flea, and the mex
morning that man would wake
up a clear-headed sober man Will
such an aversion to liquor that h'
would be stumping the state foI
Prohibition before night
Do you my dear brother, wh'
wrote me that letter suppose tha
the saloon-keepers would b'
in favor of law that allowed ;
woman to carry a "concealeS
weapon" of that kinE Never.
Whenever salcOn-keepers an,
distillers and liquor paper editors
get to be such humanitarians a:
they claim TO be, by their advo-
cacy of the "Keeley Cure they
will lay the AK at the root of the
evil, stop the business, turn Pro
hibitionists, send me $500 for tn,
Blade and try to make others stoI
it, and to make Prohibition with
great big 4, "prohibit."