The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01

was. All the boys know that George
Washington waa commander-in-chief of the
army for eight years that he defeated Eng
land. Now, Leslie E. Kelley takes in hand
to finish what George Washington began,
30 he slips little squirt gun In his pocket
and goes to London. Washington never
went there. Keelry goes there and says,
Gentlemen, you need little more civili2ar
ton; and have come over here to conquer
you with this little gun, and you have got
TO pay me for it, He goes over there and
makes them come down with five million
dollars, and does not fire shot. Zap.
plause)
II want to show you also that the Kelley
treatment brings happiness to every home.
Some people won't believe a thing unless
they see II, and sometimes not then. They
remind me Of boys in school-if they can't
be captain, they won't play. That is the
way with some Of our doctors. am sorry
to say some right here Ia Montpelier con.
denim the treatment and tell the patients
and graduates it is simply mind cure
Now we know better. II u man Is honestly
desirous OF getting rid OF the drink habit,
he can do 1t At the Keeley Institute, but IL
will not be mind cure.
"Another thing, you will notice that men
have gone back to drink after taking the
treatment, but those are the ones who have
not suffered by 1t and thanked God TO be
released from 1t. And II nobody suffered
from 1t but the man who drinks, it would
not be 80 bad; but that IL not the case,
Usually men who are habitual druDkards
| don't think Of the wife and family depend
| ing on them for support The disease not
| only reaches the victim, but IL makes others
suffer, and that is the saddest part Of It,"
Mr.. Lyons spoke at some length regard.
| Ing the manufacture and sale OF iDtOxicat-
ing lquor, and in this connection said
Some people say that the liquor traffic is
| Is as honorable as the grocery or the plumb
/ tUaeW LAM Wlaf haaua .NaUNtN .aN
plumbers charge two hundred fifty per
cent, but the rumsellel charges five hundred
per cent; the plumber gives YOU something
| that yon can see, the rumstller nothing
but suakes aud big head. daughter and
| APPLAUSE
"A physician said to me last summer,
My foolish fellow, to go down there aud pay
ninety dollars to be ouredi could have
cured you Tor five dollars That man had
| treated me for two weeks at time when
was bad from the effects Of liquor, aud still
| he said he could cure me for five dollars
| The fact il, he knew nothing about it.
have been sick this winter and people have
said, Pat Lyons is hard up, poor fellow he
| IN going to die, the Kelley Institute nearly
| killed him., when the fact is il there had
been no K-rley Institute, there wonld have
| been no Pat Lyons now. (Applsust). Ihad
been drinking 30 long, eat when l could,
but drink anyway, that my stomach was
| completely honey Combed, and you couldn't
expect me to come out Of it like a fighting
cock in minute.
j want to impress upon You who hear
me tonight, that, II you have friend who
| drink4 sooner OF later 1t will get 10 be a
disease with him, and you have the evidence
| of men right here az to what The Kelley
| treatment will do. Before took the treat.
ment, if got little cold the first thing |
had a hot egg-nog, If could get il and II
couldn't, had stomach strong enough to
a htnr W a . l..
stuff. (Applaus,).
"Why, these men who take the treat
ment are living advertisements OF the
Kerley cure. These men are so well treated
| by Nh Foster aud Or. Nichols that, as soon
AS they graduate, they want to send some
nf their friends to Montpelier for treatment
| II man is man. and has no other trouble
| but the drink deseAse, Ill guarantee TO send
| him out Of Montpelier a sober man in -four
| weeks. Can any other temperance society do
| thsl2 And want to say that the man " he
will go back TO drink after taking the cure
deserves pity, and should be put away from
mankind until he knows better In Maine
they propose to send unfortunaies to Kelley
Institutes instead OF to prison, and iI's a
| good idea, too"
Mr.. Lyons referred TO the improved con
| dition Of Montpelier since the institute was
opened last June, enforcing his ideas with
saveral personal references, and closed by
| saying: hope no man or woman in this
hall will 60 away and say they saw a lot oil
fellows that had been cured by faith; hui
that you will say that we have been cured
by the squirt gun OF DIR. Nichols. Now
ladies and gentlemen, ] am sorry the
weather is 80 bad tonight. We had counted
on a crowded house, but we feel sure thai
it 10 the weather and not the people that is
against u.s."
Since the night of the meeting many citi
Gems have expressed TO the representative
OF the WATCHMAN their regret that the ee
neDts prevented their attendance, and theil
qualification that a full report of the meet
ing was TO al pear in these columns. II re
quires but llttle mental perception to set
| that the better class Of the citizens OF Mont.
prler are in hearty sympathy with the
Kelley Institute IN their midst, and proud
Of the good work it il doing. Any insinua
lions against the efficacy of its treatment
is resented, and, should the occasion arise
it would perhaps surprise the management
to see what an almost universal uprising
there would be- in its defence. The people
The press, and the pulpit, OF Montpelier Biz
1t God-speed in the grand work it is doing