The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-05-31
DR.. JACKSON ANSWERED.
A Prominent Attorney of Durham, \. c.,
UphoIds the Kelley Cure.
Let 'er boom.

Editor Richmond Times:
My Dear SRI have read an article on
the Kelley treatment by one DR.. a. W,
Jackson; and an interview a New York
Herald reporter had with Jackson. J
desire through you to express to my
friends and acquaintance throughout
North Carolina and Virginia my idea of
such a writer, and to state facts in my
W experience, which seem to me con-
elusive and unanswerable.
My friends-and | thank God for
their numbcrs-knOw me to have been a
man fond of excitement and periodically
a slave to drink.
Among them | recall very many whose
nature was as mine. To such / speak.
/ have been their companion many a
time and feel and know that within their
breasts beat hearts as true, as gentle, as
brave as ever thrObbed. If there is a
chance for any to profit by my example,
/ would grossly violate a law of human
ity were ! to keep silent.
In regard to DR.. Jackson, Gle seeks
as all such defamatory writer's do
--spargere vOces
In vulgum ambiguas
to raise suspicion in the minds Of the
people" He, an ex-Keeleyite, confessed
to have stolen a bottle of the fluid used
for injections, says he has a perfect anal
ysis Of it and then closes the interview
by claiming to have discovered the only
and original cure for drunkenness. Be
not imposed upon by such persons, who
bankrupts in business, in fame and in
fortune, attempt to build up their
wrecked credit by claiming their ability
to expose the greatest secret of the age,
and by denOuncing as a dangerous fraud
that which in my humble judgment is a
discovery in medicine before which all
recent discoveries pale, and which the
actions and words of thousands and tens
of thousands already benefited and made
anew by its kindly influence give the di-
rectest lie to its defamers.
Does any student" dread the acknowl-
edgement Of having taken treatment, of
being a graduate? Does he fear the sCOrn
and sheer of his frog-blooded neighbor?
Not at all. IT'S an honor to his manhood,
an index to his better nature.
Some may say they would not confess
that they did not have common sense
enough to stop drinking without having
to take the treatment. Fools they "jest
at scars that never felt a wound" |
speak that which | know. 1t is not lack
of common sense, but rather an indispu-
table show Of it, for one to seek in every
way to rid himself Of a taste, a disease,
which rObs him of all that end to en-
noble him and makes him poor indeed.
| have had occasion to talk with several
professional men about the treatment
and its results. My statements would be
answered by wise looks and owl-like
shakes of the head. say to them what
was said to Mr.. Granville on a certain
occasion 81 wish the honorable gentle
men, instead of shaking their heads, would
shake a good argument out of it"
have never seen or read after any one
who, being acquainted with the particu-
lars of the treatment and its results, was
not an enthusiast in its favor, or else de-
nounced it solely from sordid motives.
OF the number treated at the institute
at Greensboro, n. c., when | was there,
and | watched the treatment of at least
seventy-tive men, there was only one
failure, and from his own lips | heard
the confession that he had never ceased
to drink during the treatment and never
intended to stop. OF over two $50 stu,
dents | can learn of but five who returned
to their cups, and in every case they were
jealous at first about the treatment
Alas. their zeal began with hypocrisy
and ended in treacherY. If they so far
forget themselves as to speak aught
= against the Greensboro Kelley institute
met them beware of the evidence of their
rhrother students, who Outnumber them
twenty-nine to one. How quickly would
thev be condemned by such a p%reponder'
ance Of testimony.
Does the treatment last -: The ever
nresent tell us it does. Let tomorrow
care for the things of itself.
Yours verify truly,