The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-09
A Great and Good Measure.
Lake Charles Press.

Lake CuATlGS Efe6e.
W. G.. T. Carver, Esq, of this city,
general agent of the Fidelity Land &
Trust Co., of Mobile, has secured a
large number of signatures to a petition
addressed to the state legislature to
penses of INDECENT drunkards at the
Keely institute at New Orleans. No
better employment of public money
could possibly be made. The govern
ment has adopted the treatment for its
soldiers home, and twenty-one states
have adopted it for the cure of inmates
Of state institutions. A number of
states have made a law compelling
Chronic drunkards to take the treatment
under penalty of imprisonment, and the
law has been exceedingly reformatory
in effect. =
the great proportion of crime and misery
is traceable directly to abuse of liquor.
If the wretchedness and woe consequent
upon the use of strong drink were con-
fined to the persons who do the drink
ing, people would concern themselves
very little about the matter, but such is
not the case. The fact is that the brunt
of the blow falls upon innocent little
children and helpless women. Here is
WuSlO lilo oRpC0l " 6LlO1k "auI1OVA
comes in, and comes in strong. For
years and ages the world looked on and,
saw this suffering, unable to interpose
the protecting hand. But out on the
prairies of Illinois some years ago, an
all-powerful remedial agent appeared,
sought and gave battle to old King AL
cohol in his greatest strongh0lds, and
caused the all powerful banner to trail
in the dust before the mighty charge of
modern science. This knight of hu-
msnity, of the children and Of the wo-
men, is DR.. Leslie E. Kelley, and the
shield against which the shafts of old
King Barleycorn struck again and again
only to break and fall, bears the legend
"Bi-chloride of Gold" Today Leslie
E. Kelley stands honored above all
men. He has done to relieve suf-
fering, to transpose wretchedness to
happiness, to change the howell to the
home, than any man the world has ever
produced. Occasionally the statement
is heard that the Keely cure is danger
Gus, that it's after effects are deleterious.
Again it is said the cure does not cure.
ignorant. The evidence Of over one
hundred thousand cured inebriates is
on record, proving everything claimed
for the treatment. Even professional
enemies Of the Keely cure acknowledge
its harmlessness.
What nobler, what more humane use
Of public money can possibly be made
than restoring lost manhood, restoring
fathers to children, husbands to wives,
restoring mental and physical wrecks to
good and useful citizensq I%nebriates,
a rule, are impoverished. The natu-
raj result of their course is impoverish-
ment. -Four out of five, or at least three
out of five, of the chronic drunkards of
the land, have been too loyal subjects
Of old John Barleycorn to have a cent
to pay for their cure. Private assis-
lance and contribution is entirely in
adequate to provide for the demand of
the hour, and thus it comes that
the powerful aid of the state isl
invoked. If this proposed bill be-
comes q law and appropriation is made,
hundreds of Louisiana families now liv-
in a state Of abject misery and
wretchedness will be the happiest homes
in the land. Hundreds of men, now
worse than useless as citizensand heads
Of families. will be changed to useful,
workers in this great worlds
The Press asks those of
!ts readers having influence in Baton
Rouge to use every effort to secure the
passage OF the bill.