The Durham daily globe., 1892-04-08
WE CANNOT BELIEVE 1T.


The New York Morning Advertiser
always level-headed and always bright
says this about the Keeley business:
The legislature in Albany has had SO
much to do in the way of passing East
River Bridge bills, Huckleberry Railroad
bills, Central Park Spoliation bills, East
River Gas Company bills and much other
legislation of a similar character, that il
has had no time to investigate the alleged
Kelley cure for dipsomania which is be.
ing practiced in the Kelley institute al
| White Plains. A resolution was intro
duced in the legislature to make such an
investigation, but it was promptly voted
down. 1t is estimated that Mr.. KELLEY
is making profit of over $1,000,000 a
year from his alleged gold cure, and this
is believed to be the reason that he has
been able to prevent any legislative in
vestigation into the method of his treat
ment.
In the meantime fatal results of this
| treatment continue to be reported from
almost all the towns where Mr.. KELLEY
is carrying on his business. In addition
to the fatal cases a great many Of his pa
tients are being driven insane presumably
from the effects of the treatment. The
|
LIAM GARRETsON, the wife of premi-
nent citizen of Jersey City, who has be.
come, 1t is feared, hopelessly demented
after undergoing course Of treatment in
the White Plains institute.
There are so many cases of the kind re-
| ported that it becomes the duty of the
| legislature of any state in which one of
| these institutes is located to subject it to
q rigid investigation. tits the duty of the
New York legislature to again take up
| the matter and adopt similar resolution
| to the one which has been rejected. Pub
| lie sentiment demands it.
We cannot believe it. THE GLOBE is
| not a graduate of the institute, but it
knows several of the brightest newspa-
per men who are graduates. 1t knows
that men drunk and beeotted for thirty
years have remained four weeks at one
Of these Institutes and went back to their
wives and their homes, happy men,
cured men, decent men and sober men.
We know that men who were shipped to
Kelley institute at Dwight as express,
tagged like dog would be, but not even
placed in box have been sober and
bright for three years.
1t occurs to us that if drunkard can
not help himself and KELLEY has dis
covered something that will help him,
he has proven public benefactor and
his secret is manifestly his.
True that patients, those who have
been treated die. But true it is also that
at common inebriate asylums, where the
remedy is known and where skilled
physicians attend the patient, there are
many deaths; there is insanity and all
that. But the whiskey brought it about
and not the treatment. In fact men and
never drank whiskeY and who never
heard Of KELLEY. If KELLEY is max
ing million year, it must be remem-
bered that as one patient pays him but
seventy-fve dollars, it would take close
to fourteen thousand patients to give
him his million a year. If the figures
which COLONEL CoCKERELL quotes are
correct, that is to the million a year busi-
ness, 1t is not surprising to know that
occasionally a dissipated man goes crazy,
and the wonder is that out of the four
teen thousand being treated each year,
at his institute more than the present
small per cent do not become demented.
The Kelley institute is great success,
and the work of the one at Greensboro,
now turning out two patients day and
regularly treating fifty, will bear US out
in this statement
Those who go through stick to the text
and it will one day be the prohibition
party. Not cranks and fanatics, but total
sbstainers-and that is prohibition.