St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-25

That rs THE STATEMENT or Or.
LESLIE KEELEE
VERY INTERESTING MEETING

tury hall. at winch lhe famous DR..
Kelley spoke. was well attended. The
| programme vas an interc--ed one. and
aside from lue speaking Including sing
Ing by Miss Sample ana Miss Charlotte
Van Cleve. Rev. S. w. Sample acted
as chairman of the meeting. and intro
duced the speakers. DIR. Kelley was
the first to speak. The title of his adj
dress was 1.-The Relation OF Woman to
Inebriacy." He spoke with his old-time
| fervOr. and his address was both inter-
esting and instructive. The other speak
ers were Mayor Eustis. Rev. FIR. Cfeary,
Col. w. G. Haskell. Judge James Ben
nett, of st. Cloud. the president of the
district Kelley league. and Mrs. T. b.
Walker. The trend OF their argument
was that drunkenness was the bane Of
all the world. During his discourse DR..
Kelley said:
II think all men will acknowledge
that woman is the divinely appointed
guardian of the morals of the family.
and of society. We must acknowledge
even more than this. which is that
it is developed In the mind of the child
and the youth. The mucl-talked
about s'w0man's sphere" is
necessarily the world which
is mapped out in the architectural plan
of the home. and whose blessed inhabi-
tants are the children of the household.
Here she Is, the arbiter of destiny-the
queen Of the realm, the tutor, the men-
tor, the mother, the very angel of peace
and good will to men. The family Is
the unit of society, and Of the great
aggregatiOns of humanity which form
states and nations.
education than in heredity. as life is
manifested by human beings. There is
more in training than in heredity; in
fact, the great distinction between the
human creature and the lower species
is the fact that animals are SO little sus-
ceptible Of education, aud inherit their
knowledge, while men and women in
,herit SO little. but their capacity for
education seems to be boundless.
think that the most interesting and
vital Ques tiOns which concern mothers
TeTth0se of inheritance and education.
We hear great deal about bad aud
good inheritance. The general rule of
Inheritance is that no direct evil Is ever
hereditary. The neredity of seeming
evil is simply lack of development of
good qualities. Evil is forgotten by
nature in hereditary Transmission.
mo deformity resulting from dis
ease, or accident, poison. ignorance OF
lmmOraliues, Is ever transmitted by
heredity. lnebrietv is not hereditary.
! No disease is hereditary. No result of
disease of any character is heredi-
tary. II the contrary were true,
the last poor, miserable de-
formed, idIOtic. depraved specimen of
humanity would have persisted from
inability to feed himself centuries be-
fore Noah built his ark, and the floods
came and drowned the world. Tue no.
ton that inebriety is inherited is vain
excuse. People do not like to stand
accused of mistakes or inisdemeanors.
TO avoid the accusation that all IN
ebriates," continued the speaker, .sare
self-responsible for their disease be-
cause they drank liquor, they will claim
that they are thirsty because their an
cestors were drunken and they inherit
inebriety. Heredity reaches no further
back In efnebriety or in--otber dis
ease tl:an the stage of embryonic
existence. A drinking mother can
make an inebriate of her child before
its natal day. but this is not heredity, it
is direct communication of the alco-
h0l, which, when it reaches the brain,
never fails to cause prOp0rtionate
inebriety. But this is not all.
The nursery Is sometimes worse
than the saloon. Opium and whisky
are given children for teething,
for indigestion. for irritability and for
children's diseases. 1t is impossible to
give an infant these drugs without caus-
ing corresponding disease. A child may
be born an inebriate. it is true. but must
be made so by the direct action of al
pnbnI The child nd do
velop from the nursery an opium or.
whisky iuebriate for the same reason,
but the cause is the direct action of
these drugs and not heredity.
1.-THE influence of women in the pre-
yentIon of intemperance has led the
van of cru SADIE, suasiOn and pledge.
Woman is the sufferer when husband,
brother OF son inebriates. Nc place on
earth. or under 1t, nOthing Outside of the
internal contains or exposes more l,u-
man agony or degradation than the
drunkard's home. and.the wife is the chief
Sufferer. The strong arm that should
support her is palsied by poison. The
manIlness that won her love is debased
The intellect which commanded her
pride and respect is darkened
by stupor, coma, or maudlin
vaporings. Alcohol stains the breath
which once bore to her waiting
ears the tender words Of confidence and
affection-yOu cannot refine drunken
ness-neither wealth or fashion can
atone for the loss of thought and the
intellectual coma from poison. Woman
is the steadfast friend of the cure for
inebriety. Her Intense mind at once
graSped the new idea and the truth that
lnebriety is disease"
In conclusion. DR.. Kelley said: IF
not for her influence and her watchful-
ness and care the fatality of the inebri-
ate debauch would exceed the present
rate by at least % per cent, and the
number presented for treatment and
the cures would be far less. Today, as
always. the inebriate's best adviser is
his wife, his sister. and his mother.
When the inebriate was known only
as criminal these women believed in
his moral uprightnesS and pitied hi s
misfortune. They labored with tears
and strove by pledge. suasiOn and
prayer to reform the wickedness Of the
crave for drink. They c0ndoned the
awful misfortune of debauch, aud for
got the language which the imbeciiity
of the drunken man heaped abusedly
upon devoted heads and trembling
hearts,"
Yesterday afternoon DR.. Kelley adj
dressed fair-sized audience at Plym-
outh church. He was introduced by
DR.. Wells, and he proceeded to give an
interesting talk on the subject OF in
temperance, incidentally aiiuding to
his experience at Dwight.
The Beauties of Como Park.
To the Editor Of the Globe.
The undersigned was recently In
vAed to visit Como park in the com PAW
of a friend whose appreciation of TIM