Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-08-12
SAVE YOUR OWN SELF
If You Are Fast in the Grip of
Alcoholism
VISIT FAIR BENTON HARBoa
Where a Kelley Institute Is
Located for the Sure and
Certain Cure of All
Forms of inebriety.

The success Of tho Kelley institute
recently opened At Benton Hsroor IS
nov assured. There was hardly .
doubt OF Il fronl the nlomsnt the
progenitors conceived the idea OF To-
cating II in that enchanting resort.
With the advantages the place Affords
in which to spend the hot months OF
GUNNER IL was . foregone conclusion
that any man in the western or north
ern portion OF Michigan or northern
portion OF ind ana who had resolved
TO break away from the slavery OF king
alcohol would visit Benton Harbor Tor
that purpose. The spot - 80 pleasant,
the exact site OF the institute 10 90 sd-
mirably located, being upon tho sum-
NIT Of = high bluff which overlooks
the lake and u cure TO receive the full
benefit of the cooling breezes which
blow across it, surface, that II could not
fail to attract any one IN search OF .
place 10 spend . few weeks IN rest and
comfort. WHAT then could be better
than such . place in which to receive
treatment for y dread maiady? The
hope and expectation OF the founders
have been entirely realized.
Alcoholism . Disease.
That people afflicted with the disease
OF alcoholism hesitate At this day TO
Toxic advantage Of the Kelley cure
seems Incredible. Such hesitation 10
certainly born OF some other feeling
than lack of confidence in its efficacy.
Perhaps the thought that thus openly
avowing oneself Q drunkard is die
grace may be the restraining influence.
Such feeling is today the height OF
folly. Ii is established beyond ali
power of controversion that alcoholism
Is disease and requires the physician's
aid IS does any other malady. The
disgrace 10 when q man goes Keeling
home in maudlin state of intoxication
to meet = loving and suffering wife and
be seen BY his children; the disgrace is
when he 10 too drunk to go home at all
or perhaps having some shadow OF re-
spectabllity left. he stays away all
night to hide his shame and his weak
ness from hrs family. He shows the
man when he resolves to break these
letters which must gall any man until
he is. as he will assuredly be, lost to all
sense of decency. He shows his man.
hood when he resolves to take the
Kelley treatment and be man indeed.
Unjustiy AssaiIed.
The Kelley system has been assailed
| as has every other new creed that man
has endeavored to bring before the
world. The Hon. Frank NJ. Fogg of
Lansing made some interesting re-
marks In this line only few days ago
at st. Joe, when he delivered lecture
upon the Kelley treatment. He char
acterized i. as the grandest discovery
Of the nineteenth century. He alluded
to Christ and the christian religion and
drew picture of the Saviour with .
crown of thorns upon his head.
"But let me tell you, my friends"
said Mr.. Fogg, "that in the not distant
| future, hundreds of men saved by the
Kelley system will rise up willingly
and erect . monument to the name of
Kelley"
Speaking of what this appetite for
drink cost Mr.. Fogg quoted from Sem
ator Blair of New Hampshire.
"Can you believe that the enormous
amount of 5000 ,000. 900 . year is spent
in this county for intoxicating drink"
said he; ''stOp it and save that money
to the people. Can you believe that
$500, 000, 900 more is spent for the sup
| port of paupers and criminals? No;
you hardly can, but it 10 true, and l
am sure you will say with me that you
are in favos of a law being passed at
the next session of the legislature that
every man who shall be convicted of
being drunkardshall DO sentenced to
thirty days at q Kelley institute instead
# thirty. sixty or ninety days in some
house of correction"
Mr.. Fogg paid glowing tribute to
Benton Harbor and plainly said the
| people of Michigan had much reason
to be thankful that an institution for
such practical temperance reform was
in their very midst. The location Is
certainly admirable. for the ease with
which It can be reached, if for no
other. The Graham Il Morton and the
| Nandalia steamboat lines CONNECT the
town with the principal ports on Lake
Michigan and the Vandalia and Big
Four railroad make it accessible from,
the south while there are ample facili-
ties from all the northern and western
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