The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-16

guests. About one hundred gentlemen
from all parts of the State organized the
Iowa Kelley League, and arranged to
hold yearly reunions to celebrate their
release from the bonds of narcotics in
various forms. The reunion was held
last month, and the Des Moines Capital
printed long report of what was said
and done there. The speech of the pres.
ident, Editor Robert Harris, of the Afis.
souri, Valley Times, contained some
mighty interesting comments, upon the
temperance problem, which will hardly
be relished by prohibitionists or total
abstinence exhorters. He said:
II want to say right here that in no
place can brighter, more intelligent, OF
warmer-hearted set of men be found than
are those who come to the Keely Insti-
tute to be cured of the liquor habit. The
intelligent big.hearted, whole.souled,
genial men are the ones who succomb to
the insidious influence Of liquor. They
arc the kind that have the love of man.
kind in their hearts-they are the ones
that fall by the wayside. The man who
is so stingy that he won't say his prayers
for fear that he will have to give the
thanks to the Lord don't come to the
Kelley Institute. You couldn't pump
whiskey into him with siphon fast
enough to make him drunkard. His
heart is too small and his instincts too
mean. He will stand on the street cor
ner and hold his hands up in holy horror
when he sees one of his fellow.men in
the clutches of the whiskey fend, but he
never takes drink himself-unless some
one pays for it. BE goes down to his
grave sober man, but it is not because
he is better than his brother who has
fallen. 1t is because God has made him
different-took up room for his liver that
should have been given to the heart.
"Missouri Valley, Iowa, the city in
which 1 live, is not very bad city in
the drinking line-just an average pro-
hibition city, but since I made by pill
grimage to Dwight have sent thirty'two
of the boys to that place or to Des Moines
to be cured, and I am proud to say this
evening that they are all sticking to the
faith, and are to day as sober men as can
be found in Iowa.
ri am not egotistical-that is, not more
SO than the average run of newspaper
men-but I believe that my cure has
done more good to the temperance cause
in the city in which live and in West.
ern Iowa than all the temperance lec--
tures ever delivered there. [ was known
as drinking man, and now am known
as one of the Keeley patients, one who
was thoroughly cured, and hundreds of
my friends have gone and done likewise.
Although I do not wear the blue or red
ribbon, believe I have been temper
ance worker, and I'm willing to back my
work against the long haired howler for
prohibition, and 1 have no fear for the
result when the returns are all in, and
the back townships have been counted.
"What most want to say is that the
State should take this treatment in hand.
The State provides home for the blind,
home for the insane, where the poor
unfortunates may be cured, a home for
the feeble minded, a home for the
decrepit old veteran, and why should the
State not provide an institution for the
cure of the unfortunates who have been
mastered by the desire for liquor? The
liquor habitue is afflicted with disease
worse than insanity. he has chance
for his life in the Keeley cure, and why
should not the State furnish the ,insti-
tute? If the State owned the institution
for the cure of drunkards there would be
no need of prohibition laws, for when-a
man has gone through the Keely treat
ment he ceases buying liquor, and if all
drinkers will quit buying the saloons
will soon close up without the interfer.
ence of law. Then the prohibition
millennium will have arrived, and j.
Ellen Foster and the W. O. T. U. can
put on their little crowns and join the
gang on the other shore, for their work
will have been finished, and they can 60
over and claim their reward"
There we're other speeches by men who
had had no desire for liquor since sub
mitting to DR.. Keeley's inoculations,
some of them several years before, and
then this oldest Of all temperance meet
ipgs came to an end.
A genuine Iowa drum kard apparently
is fer beyond the reach of any temper.
ance exhorter, and the peculiar effect of
being "shot," as they call it, with BIZ
chloride of gold is source of great won
der to the subjects themselves and to
those who witness the transformation.
A recent letter from the town of Boone
indicates that the village has verify found
the boon it most needed in the new dis
covery. Nineteen of its inhabitants have
been changed from lovers of prohibition
whiskey to sober, trustworthy citizens,
and great is the general rejoicing thereat.
The writer describes some Of the cases:
"Wm. Marsh is the first who went
from here. he owned q meat market
and had become well of. He tells me
he was raised on cattle ranch out West,
and that his father bought whiskey by
the barrel, and they drank it like water.
He says he always thought he could quit
drinking any time, but when he tried he
found that, instead Of having the habit,
the habit had him. He became bloated
and 'maudlin'-not ft for bust >ess, and a
burden to himself and family. He told
me he had many times sworn he would
go through night without drink, but
could not sleep, and before morning