Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-09
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State Committeeman WinslOW
BOumces me for Blowing up
Old Kelley, and His Bi.
chloride Of Gold
Humbug.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. -'o1.

ing "Dr. Keeley's Bichloride of
Gold don't prohibit worth a cent"
you had an article discouraging
DR.. Keelev's Liquor Treatment.
You have certainly done the
Doctor a very great injustice. You
may also have killed the hope
aroused in some sad mothers
heart that her son would yet lead
a sober life.
IknoU pherecf / speak whcn 1
say DR.. Keeley's Bichloride of Gold
does prohibit.
The clipping you gave from the
Courier-Journal is. 30 far as l am
able to learn, correct. Your ar
gument and conclusion drawn
therefrom is fallacious. Your
reasoning is exactly the same as
that given by those who do not
favor Prohibition, when they say
that because a drunken man can
occasionally be found in our Pro-
hibition states, therefore "Prohi-
bition don't prohibit" and 1 sup
pose it lie from that argument you
take your quotation in your head
lines.
A good Prohibitionist like you
should know better than to at
tempt to put up lame argument
used by a saloon-keeper. They
are certain to be caught sooner or
later.
If you had followed the Voice
instead of the Courier-Journal
you would have doubtless avoided
falling into error; for, in COM
menting, editorially, on the case
of Col. Mines, it said substantially,
that because one man has fallen
we are not to conclude that the
Kelley treatment is a failure"
Six months ago the Voice openly
opposed the treatment and de-
nounced it as fraud just as you
have done, but it has since learned
better. 1 hope you will be con-
WINGED also.
Nor are you correct in saying
that the treatment is q scheme OF
the saloon keepers. You are
aware that / am not engaged in
any such business. But very few Of
your readers know that there is any
such person as myself in existence
For their benefit allow me to state
that / am a Prohibisionist-the
ex-chairman of the Sixth Con.
gressional District-having resigned
only q few weeks ago, on account
of my removal to this city which
is out of said district, and am now
q member of the State Executive
committee of the Prohibition
party; so / think no one will ac-
cuse me of commencing the treat.
ment for the benefit of the saloon
keepers. 1 have no interest in the
;,Esfts &c The treatment. My only
reason for advocating it is, thai
men may be made Of the unfortu.
mates, and that mothers hearts
may be made glad.
My knowledge is based prin'
cipally upon facts, not on news
paper talk.
Last January I accompanied &
patient to DR.. Keeley's head
quarters, at Dwight, Ills, ant
remained there several days.
saw the working of the treatment
and am ready to pronounce it al
great, if not a greater success thar
any medicine in the world. DR.
Kelley does not claim to curt
every i'll that flesh is heir to.
He does claim to cure the liquor
morphine and opium habits, ant
he does It. His is not a medicin,
that will cure every case, nor doe
he offer 81 900 reward for a cas-
which can not be cured.
When our ordinary physician
cure a case of pneumonia they d.
not guarantee that the patient will
never be able to contract th,
disease again, if be violates the
laws of health and exposes him.
self.
DR.. Kelley treats drunkenness
as a disease. He eradicates i
from the system so that there i
no craving or desire for liquor; bu
he warns his patients that if the,
take one drink this craving will
probably come back.
In other words he places then
in the same position toward it tina
you and ] are. Although neithe
of us had any desire for liquor. ye
if we choose to do so we can g
and get drunk just as quick a
anybody.
In speaking to me of the efficac,
of his treatment the Doctor said
81 can not say that L cure ever,
case, but could safely guarantee
ninety per cent; it is next t
death and taxes in certainty.
However he does no insurance
business in connection with hi
treatment, and does not actual,
guarantee a cure in any case.
My experience in regard to tn
liquor treatment bears out hi
statement, and l hear that he i
even more successful with tn
morphine and opium patients.
know personally ten men name
and post Office addresses will b.
furnished to any one interested
who have used the liquor treat
ment. All of them had been ad
dicted to the habit for at leas
fifteen years and some of then
thirty: three of them We're treatet
at Dwight and the other sever
took the home treatment. o
these only one at the end of tel