St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-31
The FAMOUS DR.. KELLEY.
Ne ADDRESSES A MAMMOTH MEET
INC Al TIE LYCEUM.
PEOPLE WE'RE TURNED AWAY

Over $500 People Listen to a
Treatise on Inebriety and Its
Cnre-From the Cradle to the
Gravc-Prominent Men Speak
on the AiI-Important Question
"A Remarkable Gathering.
Over $500 people crowded themselves
into the Lyceum theater last night.
Over 800 people were turned away
from the doors, and most of them went
away with a feeling of having missed
one OF the banner events of the season.
For a time the policemen and detectives
that guarded the front doors of the
thcater had all they could do to keep
the crowd from breaking through. The
occasion was the mass meeting under
the auspices of the ladies' auxiliary.
at which DR.. Leslie E. Kelley was to
speak. Never in the history of the
theater has so large crowd assembled
within its doors, and never has there
been such a clamor for admittance.
The event demonstrates the popularity
OF the movement to cure inebriateS in
scientific way, without the customary
mawkiSh palaver and sentiment. The
arrangements for this mass meeting
have occupied the time OF the ladies'
auxiliary for long time, and it must
be said that they were thoroughly sue
cessful III bringing together large
attendance to listen to the famous doe
tor. People stood in the aisles and
upon the backs of the opera chairs. The
stage was filed to such an extent that
there was barely room enough for the
speakers to move about.
Judge Brennan, of Litchfield, who
occupies the petition of president of the
Minneapolis Kelley league. acted as
chairman of the evening. He opened
the programme with Jew remarks, iii
which he eulOgiZed DR.. Kelley and
lauded his treatment. He said there
was no greater boon to humanity at
large than the treatment for drunkards.
1t was one of the greatest of scientific
inventions, and marked distinct era of
social reform. He introduced DR.. Kee-
ley to the audience, who found it diff
cult for few moments to begin his
lecture, owing to the enthusiastic ap-
plause. On the stage were great many
members of the Kelley league, and they
were the most enthusiastic in their
demonstrations. The doctor turned and
thanked the biue-ribboned gentlemen
with a smile. and he proceeded to de-
liver a scientific. though lucid and en-
Pertaining lecture on ineDriety and its
cure.
He said that sixteen years ago he first
discovered that gold as chloride was an
RntidOte for the poison of alcohol,
though it was really two years later
that he perfected his method of treat
ment. Up to year ago last September
there was not an imitator of him In the
country. Now there are 21S initators,
and he found they were doing incalcu-
liable injury, .inasmuch as their treat
ment was deleterius to health. The
manner OF treatment was gone
into at considerable length, and
disease. He maintained that of all dis
eases it was the most susceptible of
cure. He had treated thousands and
thousands of cases, and found that sue
cess crowned his efforts i'll one and all
of them. The treatment placed the
patient, so far as his appetiSe for alcohol
was concerned, back to where he was
before he ever took drink. 1t could
do no more, and the percentage of
lapseS was very small.
DR.. Kelley stated that lnebriety often
started in the cradle when soothing
SyrupS and other narcotics were poured
into the infants system, there to lurk
and burn until ruin was wrought. He
had had cases at his institute of chill
dren ranging in age from two months
to five years old. Inebriety was due
solely to poor sanitation. That was
really the original cause. When once
alcohol gets foothold in the system it
does not take long before the poison
sets up kingdom for itself and then
becomes truly King Alcohol. 1t de-
StroyS home, happiness and life, makes
criminals and wretches out OF those
who indulge in its use. A time is COM
ing, he said, when the law will stand in
the same relationship to inebriety that
it does to insanity now.
Freeman p. Lane, the well-known
attorney, followed with brief speech
on the manner and the effect of the
wonderful cure. He said he was not
ashamed 10 stand up and say that he
was graduate, and he did not think
the world would look down OH man
who was endeavoring to do better by
himself and his family. DR.. Kelley, he
said. had discovered something besides
cure for drunkards. He had dscov-
cred the balm of youth, as was evinced
in the bright eyes and faces of the wom-
ELI of the country whose husbands and
sons had been reclaimed from what
seemed almost perdltion. There were
100000 wives in the country who were
happy because the cure had been dis
covered.
Rev. G. l.. Morrill, made one of his
characteristic addresses, aud spoke with
great deal of feeling on the subject at
hand. Judge Willis, of st. Paul, de-
livered himself of an eloquent dis
course, in which he referred to the
happy effects of the new remedy" He
said DR.. Kelley should be welcomed
with as much ardor as though he were
Columbus. The latter brought America
out of the slough of barbarism by dis
covering 1t, and DR.. Kelley delivered
perance. Mayor Eustis remarked that
at one time he thought there was no
other way to redeem drunkard than
by bringing him into the fold of the
church and uplifting him by divine
power. DR.. Keeley's discovery made
drunkenness disease. and its cure
was wrought OH purely scientific prin-
ciples.
There were number of other speak
ers who delivered short and interesting
speeches, among them Rev Wayland
Hoyt, Bishop Fowler, Plat Walker and
James Bennett, of st. Cloud Then this
remarkable meeting was brought to
close,