Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-09-07
I HE KELLEY Gu |.
Two Splendid Addresses on the Subject
by Two Brilliant Sons of North Car
olina, Who Have been Reclaim
ed from the EnthralIment of
Strong Drink.
READ AND PONDER WELL
THEIR WORDS.

ept weather of last Tuesday evening
quite good;y audience assembled in
the Messenger Opera House in this
city to hear the address Of Capt.
Swift Galloway and dr. Dossey Bat
lie on the Keeley Cure for alcohol
ism and nocrphi,.isr,.
Capt. Galloway was eloquently in
troauc4l by Hon. g. B Aycock.
Capt Galloway in his opening said
that in the argument whieh he should
submit he appeared in a dual role, namely
as attorney for the State AID for the des
| fen ant; that is, he aprea,ed for society
at large and for every unfortunate man
who had bt come the victim of the dread
disease of which he proposed to treat. He
said that his mission here was to make
IN Offering on the al 'aroone of the
. eatest moral agencies which, in
the mcrciful providence Of God,
had elcr been evolved through the
ages for the amelioration of our fallen
race; and that, speaking from personal
experience, he could bear testimony to
the efficacy of the Kee1ey treatment and
declare that it fulfilled to the letter its evs
| cry promise and established its every
claim
He said we 1oast of this age Of ads
vancemeut in the arts and sciences, this
age of invention and in rai~ing mankind
higher in the scale Of being, in expanding
his mental vision, broadening his humans
ity, placing higher his moral standard and
increasing his prl sperity, but yet a mons
ster tyrant pursues and confronts and
curses him rs it did in the early dawn of
his bistcry-his relentless foe, Alcohol.
The speaker here drew a pathetic pics
ture Of the evil effects CT alcohol upon the
victims of its abuse an6 upon their fans
lilies and upon society. He said that to
arrest this mighty evil, expe1ient after
expedient had been devised and agency
after agency had been invoked and put in
motion, instancing the temperance organs
iZations, the eloquent and touching aps
peals Of g,f ed orators in the pulpit and
II the lecture field, etc. He conceded the
great good that had thus been accomplishs
ed and declared that society owed a debt
of gratitude it could never pay to the
lself>sacriicing and philanthropic spirits
that had engaged so earnestly in those
movements; but yet, said he, there has
always been one class of men which i
was practically impossible for those meth
DDS to affect: namely, those who had
become confirmed in the habit of excessive
J indulgence in alcoholic drink. What
said he, is the reason of the failure alons
this line? Here it is: There had been q;
failure to discover, or at least to establish
the real, actual nature of the monster
curse which they had been so bravel,
: fighting. 1t is true that as far back as fifty
= years ago, said he, it was family suggested
by few able physicians that drunken
ness-the drink crave-was ii disease; bu
/ it was reserved for the latter quarter {
: this wonderful century, SO rich in usefd
/. inventions and discoveries, and for th
active Investigating mind Of a now liyin
eminent physician, DR.. Leslie E. Keeley
to accept this as rational theory and the
to establish IT as scientific fact A grea
mary physicians, he continued, deny to
day that the craving for alcoholic stimu
lants, ,hegotten by long addiction to its use
} is disease; and vet every one of them call
9 a confirmed periodic inebriate dipso
maniac, thus giving their argument con
: pleteiy away in one word: for mania is
$ mental disease, and "dipzomania" is din
- mania tho 11ncoD4r,Ia blo thirst or ora "; y,
C for strong drink. Having satisfied hi
= mind ofthe truth of bis theory, the rest
:, less genius, ,impclled by the yearning c
r his soul to confer a priceless boon upol
;. suffering humanity, set himself to find
cure tor the dread disease. Unbalfle
= by obstacles and taking fresh courag
0 from each repea.ed trial and test, he q
9 last,sfter patient and assiduops toll de
J veloped this wondaful and gloriou
{ discovery which bears his now illus
= trious name.
Capt. Galloway pre- eecded then to de
: scribe the early stage in which wi
1 power and ahstention would probabl
:, cure the disease; and then that in whic
it was practically imp asible TO perma
4 nently eradicate the disease withou
} medical treatment inthe Kelley Inst
tute, II said that in the second stag
it was his opinion, formed Upon intel
: ligent estimates by persons of goo
). Judgment on the snhjest, that one ma
), only in thousand might be cure
without the treatment; but who ough
to run this SIX, sali he, when by tI
treatment niue hludred and fifty out c
a thousand cases are permanently res
cued from the drink hab:tg
He described the methods pursued /
the Keeley Fnstsiutes. and spoke of ii
splendid work being done by Mr.. O
d borne al Greensboro, n, c. and Mr.. Ba
Is tie at Rocky Mount. n. c.. for tt
g disenthIa a lmeEI and restoration
= the uaiuappy victims of this III
oi fortunate habit. He spoke Of the
y ability an high character an
IT perfect adoption ior their chosen worl
is He spoke of the traternal teclilg an
kindly spirit ever manifested by ii