The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-06-27

nfty-One memDerS-We OuBnJ W nave uNe
hundred. We have given financial aid to
three to take the treatment and helped in
many other ways We have $40 in our
treasury to be used in helping some worthy
person take the Kelley treatment. Many
ask us what we are doing, and my answer
is usually this:
Only helping poor drunkard
Only blasted life,
Only desparing children.
helpless, hopeless wife
Only a word to cheer him.
only n hand to save,
Only promise of manhood
These good Samarltans gave.
only month at Montpelier,
on a foundation sure,
only one thing can do II,
And that is the Kelley Cure"
Loud applausel,
Rev. A. H. Webb, pastor of Trinity
Methodist) Church, responded for 1.-THE
Clergy in the following felicitous manner
=" l find myself in very difficult position in
that have to speak for the clergy. / have
first to paint the character Of the clergy, for
it has been impeached in various ways At
a service in Bethany chapel a short time
ago, it was said that a clergyman did not
know anything about business, he had no
business tact. Judge Thompson said once
that II a man had number OF sons, he
would pick out the brightest of them and
send him through college and make law
yer of him. If he had another who was
quite different fellow, he would put him
on farm. The dullest of the lot he would
make a minister. / replied to Judge
Thompson by telling him of a prominent
man who said he was going to die as the
Savior did. There was great curiosity, and
people wondered if he was going to cruelty
himself; but when he was very sick he
called two lawyers, put one on each side of
him, and then he died. So got even with
Judge Thompson for once. Laughter and
applausel. The clergy generally can be de-
pended upon to be on the right side, and
when one speaks against the clergy he
speaks against himself The clergy are
what the people demand of them. l would
ask you to speak well of the clergy, though
there are some crooked sticks among them,
/ was speaking to one yesterday. / asked
him If he was going to be present at this
gathering. He said, No, l am not in sym
patty with it, | told him If he would at
tend this reunion and then was not in sym
patty with it, would give him five dollars.
| see he is not here, and / was Tot afraid of
losing the five dollars There are great
many ministers who are opposed to the
Kelley Cure. ] suppose one reason is be-
cause there are so many bogus institutes.
Another reason is because so many minis
tiers go through the world with their eyes
closed, and one of the necessities for a
clergyman of the present day is to keep his
eyes and ears open. When ISL graduates
have been turned out of this Institute and
work that should affect every clergyman in
this place. and L have no sympathy with
that kind of man who doesn't care for an
Institute of this character 1 say clergy
man who has no sympathy with move
ment OF this kind had better get out of the
pulpit and take to the bar" Applause
w. A Lord, Esq, was called upon to
speak for THE Graduates" He said, in
part: Z" I esteem it privilege pleasure
and an honor at any and all times to stand
up and represent this Institute in any way
in my power To-day you saw this body Of
men march through the streets-all gradu-
ates of this institution-and what a lesson
did they carry And you have had another
lesson in the one man, the new patient, who
was in that procession in the same condi-
ton that every other one of these men were
before they took the treatment. Another
thing we have here to-day-these ladies'
the wives and sweethearts and sisters of
these men, who testify so eloquently by
their glad faces what the Kelley Institute
has done for them, and they testify to this
fully as eloquently as did these men you
saw in line to-day. This day marks the
second anniversary of my entering upon
the Kelley treatment. AS look back upon
that day, with all that has come to me since,
l feel that l want to get down ON my knees
and thank God Almighty for the Kelley
Institute"
In responding for " The Kelley League"
John G.. Wing, among other things, said: "In
| connection with this Kelley treatment that
has been so ably spoken of to-day, there is
| another power known as the Kelley League.
1t is no longer an experiment. 1t is sound
truth that drunkenness is not crime, but
| is a disease. 1t is subject for the medical
treatment of DR.. Kelley. This league has a
duty to perform. 1t is to go out among the
| people and search for the man who needs
the treatment. There have been ISL grad
yates from this Institute, and after two
| 1nra NJ
| his league we must have interest and we
must have members. 1t is the duty OF
| every one of us to join this league; and
now, brother graduates, let us work so that
when five years have rolled by we shall
have, not 172 members, but 1000. We shall
then have become greater power than any
other organization on the face of the earth"
DR.. F. R. S. White, the physician in
charge at the Montpelier Institute, re-
sponded briefly for 1.-THE Kelley Treat
ment." He said there were at present 231 ,.
600 Kelley graduates in the United States
| This treatment is endorsed by the United
| States government, and is in use in twenty.
eight United States Sailors and Soldiers
Homes. There have been l ,260 physicians
$50 clergymen, 1,640 lawyers, and very
large number OF business men-merchants
| bankers, and others-who have taken this
treatment in the United States for the
liquor habit. DR.. White spoke entertain.
ingly of the way the treatment is admin
istered at Dwight, where there are l 200 pa
| tients in line.
| THE MASS MEETING.
Shortly before eight o'clock, the graduates
again formed in line and, headed by the
Montpelier Military Band, marched to the
opera house, where a good.szed audience
had gathered. Most OF the graduates and
speakers Of the evening were seated on tn e
stage. W. A. Lord presided, and presented
each speaker with a few happily.choseI
words OF introduction. After a spirited So
lection by the band, Mr.. Lord raped for
order and said: Ladies and gentlemen
it is certainly evidence OF the interest each
one of you has in the Kelley treatment thai
you brave the heat tonight and come anC
sit for the brief time we shall detain yor
here. A year ago tonight, stood on thi
platform. Behind me was a body of meI
made up as these men are. Some of thos,
here tonight were here then, and some wer
not and they, as these, came here solely be
cause of the interest they had in the Kelley
treatment. These men, every one Of them
are graduates of the Kelley Institutes O
the state Of Vermont. So they have come
some from shorter and some from longe
distances, at their own expense, to testif
by their presence, If not by words, the in
terest they have in the Kelley treatmen,
I The time has passed when there is an
doubt in regard TO the work this institut
is doing, in the minds of the honest peopl