The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-01-25
THE TESTIMONY OF MIR. mRDILL.


Chicago Tribune, by the Kelley leagues
OF Southern California. The pulpit, the
bar, the press, the trades, the banks
and the mercantile community were
represented by their most distinguished
members, and among the guests were at
least one ex-governor from an eastern
state, and several army men. We cite this
fact, not for the purpose of compliment
ing the leagues that gave the banquet,
but to show that the most influential
deep interest in one of the most remark
able and bene6cent discoveries of the
present century. On one OF the league
banners displayed in the hall was en-
blszoned the figures $3.50, 000." That is
understood to be the number of MEM
bers now belonging to the Kelley
leagues in the United States. OF course
there are thousands of graduates who
have not joined the leagues, and there
fore that number does not really repre-
discovery.
Mr.. Medill, in his powerful and in
huential journal, has carefully followed
the history of this remarkable remedy,
and from his close study of the treat
ment and its results has arrived at the
conclusion that it accomplishes what
DR.. Kelley claims for it. He has, there
fore been strong friend and advocate,
though his paper, of the dissemination
of cure institutes throughout the United
States. In his remarks at the banquet
Tuesday night he presented the subject
in striking light. He admitted that
there was a percentage of the patients
who relapsed after they received the
treatment, but claimed that they were
so few that their special cases proved
nothing against the general success of
the discovery. He then entered into an
analysis of the mode OF metaphysical
approach in which DR.. Kelley arrived
at his benefcent discovery. He started
out with the postulste that dipsomsnis
is g disease; that it has It's seat in
the blood, the brain and the nerve GEN.
tiers. To those who treated it in it's
moral aspect as a habit, and declared
materia medica could reach aud cure
habit, he admitted that in its incipient
stage it might be such, and could then
be effectually abolished by moral means.
But when it became chronic practice
it was different. Then it grew into
disease rooted in the physical sy stem,
and could only be expelled by counter
acting specifics. The dipsomaniac at
that stage might be never so anxious to
disenthrall himself, yet the will power
had then become go feeble as compared
with the appetite and craving, that he
found himself unable to conquer in the
unequal fight, until the system had been
thoroughly cleansed OF the poison that
infested and dominated it. Having es-
tablished his theory, he sought for an
agency that would perform this marvel
GUS work. He found it, and by expert.
ment proved in hundreds of thousands
OF cases its complete efficacy,
This is certainly weighty and as.
founding resume OF the outcome of the
search for the care OF an evil which has
brought more affection to mankind than
any other propensity with which poor
human nature has been cursed. The
testimony OF Mr.. Medill is important.
He has carefully and constantly studied |
the progress of the cure. His opportn- |
mites for information on the subject have
been exceptional. His candor ia unim-
peachabe. His good sense and judy
ment are unquestioned. His desire to
arrive at the truth in 80 momentous a
question ia beyond doubt. The conclu-
slons OF such man are of inestimabe
value, and when he deals with substan-
tial facts which have come under his
own observation, no one can challenge
their truth. Therefore when he tells US
that the relapses are few and the perma.
nent cures are many, he places the
treatment on plane that entities it to
the serious consideration of every phi
lover OF his kind. |
We are by his testimony assured that
dipsomania can be cured, and il we &C.
cept it in its broadcast, or even lite mar.
rowest sense, We are confronted with the
fact that DR.. Kelley has placed within
the reach of the most hopeless tippler
one OF the greatest boons ever conferred !
upon poor, erring humanity.
The Kelley leagues, as we learned
from Mr.. .Medills remarks, are not only
social and mutually benevolent organ
lzatlons, but they extend their com.
bined power of doing practical good by
assisting those who are worthy subjects
OF the cure with material aid to 90
through the treatment. Having bene-
flied by it themselves, their sympathies
naturally go out to those who should re-
ceive it. In this way they are effecting
an amount of good which raises their
associations immensely in the estima-
ton OF all good men. Their embers
are proud OF having been redeemed, and
whilst they may justly deplore the great
gulf that has been made in their lives
from the propensity to which they had
been addicted, they are glad to devote
themselves to the nigh duty of helping
others, who are struggling in the slough
OF despond from which they have hap
PLY emerged, to avail themselves of the
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