The herald., 1893-02-23
CRITICISM FROM WITHOUT,

LOU VAIN TO know what is thought OF
the Kelley cure by a man who has
studied the matter but has never taken
the treatment, do you? Well, here
1t is:
In the first place, do not think any
one can accuse me of partiality to DR..
Keeley.. There are good many things
aDout him and his method and the men
ABOUT him that l do not approve, and
on the lew occasions when l have had
an opportunity to express this disap-
provai, have done so in manner
which at the time left no doubt on the
subject in the minds of the men con-
cerned.
In the second place I have had oppor-
tunitles to study the treatment both at
Dwight and at the homes of the patient (;
have had chances to see men before they
went to Dwight and after their return
home, and to watch the development OF
their conditions from the time of dis
charge to four years in the case of one,
and to nearly two years in the case OF
many more. will go farther and say
that some of the very best friends ever
had are men who were at one time under
the dominion of alcohol, and who are
now free. 1t 10 thus from my knowledge
of the workings of the remedy, and not
because 1t has ever done anything for
me, that base my judgment of its
merits.
The Kelley remedies will cure inebri-
ETY.. That is as certain as that water
will quench thirst. True, there may be
In one case in a thousand some abnor-
NAL condition which will pervert the
palate, and thirst will not vanish for the
cooling draught. But in go many cases
the principle, is sound that it can be
said water will quench thirst. And in
the same degree the Kelley remedies
will cure inebriety. You may call
drunkenness disease or whatever
you like, but the fact remains. Here is
physical condition which racks the
frame more seriously than fever or
blight or chill will do, and here is
remedy which when taken according to
prescribed formuloe relieves the distress,
reflls the veins with healthy blood, and
builds up the bones, new sinews and
rosy flesh, and restores to the world q
man. He is different being from
what he would have been had he never
drank. He is safer. have known
more than one man to acquire the drink
ing habit to h;4 fall after he had at
tanned the age of 40. After taking the
Kelley treatment he will not fall again
unless he wants to. 1t will not breathe
into his nostrils the breath of life that he
may become living soul. God did that
once, and man cannot well improve on
the work of the Maker But it will put
him where he is as free from temptation
as he possibly could have been had he
never drank @ drop to the age of 80, aud
will record in his memory warning ex-
perience that will keep him sefe if there
be spark OF manhood in his breast.
This always assumes that man must
have basis for cure. There be drunk.
ards who have committed the unpardon-
able sin of wasting their day Of grace
of expanding their bank account of vi
telity, and being unable to command
any new physical resources with which
to second the current OF recovery sent
through their veins by this medicine.
This sort of a man may die. He may
60 crazy. He may simply come home
and drift in q half-idiotic state to his
death, sadder than anything words can
paint, and more hopeless than doom.
But this is stage rarely reached. Ihave
seen men demented through drink 60 to
Dwight and come away at the end of
four weeks as clear and fresh and guilt
less of liquor as the lad of 10. Like the
lad of 10, though, they must begin and
gather flesh and blood. No man after
the cure should attack exacting business
for time. He is not physically able.
He wants weeks for the fibres of his new
being to adjust themselves, as the hands
Of the babe adjust themselves after re-
peated trial, to the playthings we place
before him. But the pr ogress is as sure,
and the result as wonds rful. That man
who has been cured will be safe to the
day Of his death.
There is another view to be taken,
and that is the sentimental. Down at
Dwight, while reporting convention
brotherhood of feeling among the men
who had been drunkards and had been
saved, as never saw in any other de-
partment of life. Nothing short Of the
close bond of union in the early churches,
or that knitted fellowship when Grecian
heroes went to the war, could have
equaled it. Men who had never met
before, and never expected to meet
again after departure from that place,
were brothers at once. Each knew the
needs of the others, and strove to sup
ply them. Each one knew the weak
nesses and the temptations and the
struggles of the others, and all that could
be done to make the life there easier,
and the conquest after leaving more
sure, was done. And these are the men
who must prove the efficacy of the cure
at last. 1t gave them not only bodies
restored to health, but the loving kind
ness which has made me more tender
to every man in trouble, and more hope
full for the fallen, wherever he may be
found.
undertake to say that any cure that
will be successful in one-fourth of the
cases presented, is successful cure. No
man who has tried to reform men, vic
Tins of drink, or women-who are vast
ly more discouraging-but knows the
task is difficult one. The man who
cure q half Of them ia benefactor great
or than he who builds colleges. That
man who can heal three-fourths Is great
or than he who conquers nation, for he
gives back to the world men who are
peerless in many lines, yet who had lost
their last claim to recognition, and their
last title to hope. If it was great thing
to give doubtful and bodily freedom to
black men, what must it be to give this
blessed freedom of hand, and brain and
heart to thousands of talented and &C.
complished men? This is the rebuild.
ing Of the nation. And this is what the
Kelley cure is doing, and has done.
Iwish might tell you Of the men have
known who lost their manhood in the
jungles Of strong drink, and then were