The herald., 1893-10-10
THE GENIAL COuNTERFHTER
Dealing With the Physical and
Mental Salvation of Man.
Inscriptions Charlatans Who Sue
ceed in Deceiving People.
A Bright Young Man OF Good Family
Far Como IN Alcoholism Treated
TO the Most Approved
Fake Style.


down to work. the more valuable the
article he countsrfeits the greater the re-
ward OF his rascali.y-the more his
heart swells within him. The subtle
fakir, whether be fakes on the street
corner with brass jewelry or painless
tooth extractor, enjoys life because he is
a natural born scamp, and rejoices in
deceiving and injuring his fellow man.
1t is source OF great comfort to him
when he can pass bogus double eagle,
but the summit OF supreme Joy 10
reached when he can tamper with and
destroy the health and life oil human
being.
The Kelley discovery deals with the
phvsicaa and mental salvation OF men,
with the happiness of women and chill
dren. 1t ia the mission OF the Kelley
league, working hand in. hand with the
Kelley institute, to rescue men from
temporal and eternal ruin, to send Joy
and cladness into homes utterly wrecked
and desolate through the ravages OF
nun and the horrors of the opium habit.
Ii does its work with the sanction and
approval OF the best men and women in
the laud; the government gives its OIL
cisl endorsement through body OF
which the president Ia the chairman.
The league points to it's hundred thou
sand men saved from worse than physi-
cal death. The fakir knows this and
still goes on with his devilish work, not
only with heartess greed, but rejoicing
in the harm he does. He is bhghting
tho hopes of thousands OF men and
women. He is destroying the conf.
dence in the only cure that God has
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given to man against the fearful disease
Of alcoholism. Throughout the length
and breadth OF the land he is filling the
bodies OF men and women with power.
full poisene, and when they leave his
dens OF quackery. the majority of them
are beyond all hope OF cure.
The ease with which these unecrupu-
lone charla.ans and rogues succeed in
deceiving numbers OF people would be
laughabie were it not SO terrible in it's
reeu!ts. liberated and swollen limps,
weakened and impaired organs are bad
enough, but when a man finds himself
driven back to drink, horrible thirst
raging within him. and realizes that his
case has been made euch, through the
fakirs' druge, that even the Kelley
treatment is powerless to reach it, he Ia
an earthly hell indeed.
An individual without the fear OF God
or man before his eyes, hailing from
somewhere beyond the Sierra Nevadae,
came through the state OF California a
while ago selling receipt for curing
drunkarde. Certain, heretofore, we'll
meaning men, deceived by his smooth
presentationa-lying statements OF
good accomplished elsewhere-allured
by golden promises held before their
eyes, invested money in the bogus cure.
They started in business, having secured
the services of a phyeician who had up
to that date borne a good name. They
put their price OF treatmedt at what
Seemed TO be q low figure, guaranteed
cures on the quack system, and took
mortgages on poor men'a teams, cows
and other belongings, in fact anything
they could get hold Of. The poor dupes
to the number OF 80 odd Hooked in for
treatment, and they received it after
a faehion. This amateur fake doctor
had his private practice to attend to,
and found it difficult to be in his office
at regular hours, four times day. in
order to initiate the Kelley system.
Bnt he was equal to the occasion. He
had in his Office young fellow who
knew as much about medicine as a
monkey about the Lick Telescope, SO he
prt him to handling the syringe and
prescribing for the victims. Ithsppened
that some OF the suffering wretches hnd
business to attend to and could not
CONS out at the prescribed houre to the
eo-ralled institute, go cut went the
eyiinge monkey with the little syringe
4, and bottle and performed on the inebri-
ates wherever he found them-whether
behind bars or in back otii.es. In the
mean time the patients were to have
whieky galore-and they had it of vari-
Gus kinds ard strengths, in various
places. This went on from day TO day,
resulting in the SOLDERING up of few,
al OF whom except three or four have
gone back TO their cnps. Some, how
ever, broke away from the treatment in
disgust. demanding back their money
where they had paid any.
fhe mott pitiable thing, however,
connected with the whole business was
scene witnessed on passenger train
on the eonthern Pacific railroad. A
yonng man OF good family connections,
far gone in alcoholism, had been in
duced 30 PIT himself under this bogus
treatment. He had been for some time
undergoing the meerable procese, when
he took notion to make journey. He
was found on the train provided with
syringe. bottle OF tonic and two
bottles of whisky. He was treat
ing himself according to the most
appro o;ed fake etyle. The two bot
ties OF whisky he emptied in
short order and replenished them
at the buffet car. while the acton
ished porter looked on with dilated eyes.
This last thing reported about this poor
fellow was that he had fallen into the
hands OF come hoodlums in neighbor-
ing city and had been beaten within an
inch OF his life. What became of the
syringe and bottle Of tonicia not stated.
The wretched eide Of this whole mat
/, ter is that in the community where this
ecandalous performance has been going
on all faith in any cure whatever has
beeu destroyed, ami all hope of deliver
ance from the run and morphine curses
utterly blighted.
II there is no human law to punish
such wreichee, in time the divine law
will certainly wreak vengeance on the
evil doers in eternity.
Sanborn, Vail g. 90.