The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01
THE KELLEY LEAGUE
ELEBRATB THE ANNIVERsARY OF
THE BIRTH or WARRINGTON
WITH A ROUSING MEETING AT
THE OPERA HOUSE.

Local Talpnt-speeches by Graduates
of the Institute.
For some time the wide. awake members
Of the Kelley League had in preparation a
programme for grand rally to be held at
Che opera house OF the evening OF Washing.
toms birthday, and had not the elements
been against them, there is no question but
that crowded house would have greeted
Maem.
Last Wednesday will long be remembered
"a one OF the worst days In many years for
shoBe who were obliged 10 be out OF doors.
FROM early morning the snow Tell heavily,
and before night over eighteen inches had
fallen. Daring the afternoon and evening
il was piled high in drifts that the snow
plows were pOweTless to contend with, 30
shst,belore the hour Of opening the exercises
AocomotiOn, except on the business streets,
was well nigh impossible.
1t was thought best not to post pOne the
aaeeting, however, and while almost any
other kind OF an entertainment would have
been Cancelled or exhibited 10 empty seats,
an audience surprisingly large hal gathered
at eight clock, and " hat 1t lacked in point
OF numbers it made up in enthusiasm.
The Montpelier Military Band was pres
ont and opened the exercises with spirited
Selection. The patients at the Institute,
with DIR. Nichols, Manager Foster, and the
graduates, were seated ON the stage, and az
1he curtain was raised they were greeted
with burst OF apI lause.
p. l.. Lyons, the president Of the league,
lad charge Of the exercises, and when quiet
was restored he advanced To the front of
the stage and said Ladies and Gentlemen:
I want 10 say that Am glad there are SO
many people in Montpelier who are not
afraid To face the weather on such night
as this II had the making OF the weather,
would have had George Washington post
pone his birthday to a better day. l am
sorry these seats are not all full, but we are
going to have a good lime here Tonight.
do not propose to say much at present, but
sill Introduce MIR. John q. Wing as the first
speaker Of the evening"
Mr.. Wing was cordially received as he
advanced 10 the front Of the platform. He
said, in part. Mr. President, Members Of
the League, Ladies and Gentlemen: ] did
not anticipate that l should be the first
speaker of the evening and must beg your
pardon for being called upon somewhat un.
expeCtedly, and because l am suffering with
n severe cold. In the trst place l would
say that we are met here tonight TO COM
ERemOrate Washingtons birthday and 10
show you some OF he effects of the Kelley
treatment. We are all conferred ON one
common object; there is one common cen
Ter TO which we push on, and that il lib
erty-whether in religion, politics, or in-
dividualy. So to-day we think because of
liberty Of the man, and the love of liberty,
Washington became The Father Of his COun-
try. 1t WAS for that seven years struggle
for colonial Independence that we gave him
the name OK Father OF his Country; Tor this
liberty we threw Off allegiance to every QUE
but him who rules us all. But time rolled
on. After The Revolution was over, again
chaos was brought to our country in 1861,
and again came a struggle for the liberty
that Washington saved TO as in the days OF
the Revolution. On every occasion that
has arisen when luen have rallied around
fhe flag 10 preserve lhe liberty of this cOun-
try, there have been homes made desolste
by the daik days and the struggle that it
cost us TO preserve that liberty.
And TO H. is that today men are fight
ing for liberty-fOr that liberty no law can
give them, that no power on the face of the
earth, save the man himself, can make them
free men. Lincoln, by stroke OF his pen,
set four millions OF people free in this Cuun-
try, and to-day, thank God, so far as men
are concerned, there is not one in the
United States OF beneath the flag who owes
allegiance 10 any one but his country ard
his God (Applsuse).
d" But Of how much more vital interest
Ia the liberty OF man with himself. A man
may be Tree to go where he will, to act AZ he
chooses, but hey ODd it all Is a serfdom that
reaches TO mems hearts and chains them
down lower than any slave, and, ladies and
gentlemen, il is for the liberty Of these men
and the salvation Of the divinity that is
within them that the boys of the Kelley
League are labOriDg.
"You have had in your midst q Kelley
Institute since last JANE. Many questions
ehat naturally arose have been answered TO
your satisfaction and il is useless TO take
time to speak Of them. Men who have for
fhe past six or seven mouths been tmaLCi
pated from their besetting sin have all
swered these QUESTION:, aud the objections
that have been urged against the Keelty
treatment have been answered in the daily
lives Of men who have taken the treatment
as the Institute.
Some time ago we felt insulted that
Within church IN this town gospel minis
ter, supposed TO DO preaching religion, spoke
Language regarding the Kreley Institute and
The Keeley treR ment uutt for minister OF
lhe gospel TO utter. 1t was we'll that the
&eelry boys were not there, for every one
of Them would have answered his talk by
asking him ~ scan the record OF heir past
and present. What be said was not true, as
avery one who has taken the treatment
knows.
I'm regard to those who lapse after bsv-
ing taken the treatment, have you ever no
S.ted that OF one hundred men who have
been drunkaIdB and have taken the treat
meDt how muct more talk in Occasioned by
enc failure than by the success OF the ninety.
miner And when men ask you about the
treatment, whether it will cure YOU they
say, How about 6o.and So, who has gone
back 10 drink they don't speak of MIR. Cam
ming, MIR. Lord, Mr. Wood, and others, but
OF the one who las fallen. When a man
who has taken The treal ment sees nc to bind
himself again with the chains that have bee u
once broken he 10 TO be pitied, but IL is the
aault OF the man and not of the Institute.
The managers Of the Kelley Institute
40 not pretend To make II man any different
from what he is. They say that the liquor
disease affects the nervous system. that
drinking goes from custom to la bit aud
then 10 a disease, and as snch il IL treated.
After tie treatment The man stands rs he
once was, his health normally restored, his
heart beating regularly, his brain clear
Before treatment nau's system demands
liquor, after the treatment it does not 1t
gives g man strength to withstand tempta.
ton OF which those who never had IL know
nothing. 1t has been well said that there
liz some man in every nation ard in every
country who Is looked up TO az guiding
star. We have such a man, whose Lille is
written in the homes Of this land, thousands
honor him to-day, and with the name OF
George Washington II emba2oned in letters
of gold the name Of Les 10 r, Keeley Of the
West" loud applaUsr).
Mrs r. l. Piikln WAS on the programme
for a song, hut Was detained at home by i'll
ness. f. w. Bancroft was called for aud
sang Free Lances " in a manner That
ELECTED persistent encore. He gracefully
responded with Mary Of Argyle" Ii. III
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