The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-18
evening At THE KELLEY
Members of League 10 and Friends
Enjoy an Entertainment.
TWO THOUGHTFUL ADDRESSES
They We're Delivered by Attorney Charles
l.. iIawlcy nnd Rev. =. =. McNniiy,
OF tho West Side-Others
Who Assisted.

The Scranton Kelley league. No. IL,
and the wives of many of its members
attended an entertainment last night
at the Kelley Institute. on Madison ave-
nue., and listened to able addresses by
Attorney Charles l.. Hawley. OF this
city. who was the Prohibition candidate
for governor last year, and Rev. +. l..
McNally, OF the West Side. The league
is composed of Kelley liquor cure grad
uates and men who advocate temper
anCe but who are not necessarily total
abstainers. The officers of the league
are Edward +. Blewitt, president; owen
L. O'Malley. vlce-president: Charles $.
Fowler. secretary. and Frank l.. Can
avan, treasurer.
When last nights meeting was called
toorder by President Blewitt there We're
present about fifteen ladies. Mr.. Haw-
ley was chosen TO preside. He said the
presence OF ladies was an omen for
good: that it betollened their sympathy
was with the Kelley work, and that
whatever wCmen as body favored was
certainly good
NJ. Hawley made the announcement
that Mrs. Ida Cole would early next
month be here from the east to organize
ladies societies auxiliary to the Keeley
leagues She is an advocate of the new
school of belief that temperance Will not
lie brought about through moral argu-
ments nor persuasion. but that the
drinking habit is a disease and must be
cured by practical and material means.
Father McNaliy' Address.
Father McNallys subject was Life"
His was one Of the best of the addresses
which have been given by able and
scholarly men in the institute since It
was opened in this city. He refrained
from making many direct allusions TO
the Kelley cure. but indirectly referred
TO it afte: a fashion which pleased the
graduates and patients now undergoing
treatment, many OF whom We're in the
audience. He argued that man cured
of any trouble or disease is in a meas
ure redeemed. in worldly sense: and
if a man is rid of a habit or disease that
de-rades himself. his family and his
friends. that man is brought into closer
unity with his God, society and his
family.
Wni,Beck sang two bass solos and was
accompaned by Charles Chandler.
recitation by eX-Patrolman Patrick
Barret closed the entertainment, after
which light refreshments were served.
Probably less IS known about the
Kelley leagues and their work than Of
any new and similar organizations that
are not governed on a secret basis. 1t
is not an association which advocates
prohibition or publically puts its disap-
proval upon the liquor traffic. The
grardest work of each league is in
maintaining a fund to pay for the treat
ment Of unfortunates of promising
character who have been brought low
by drink. but who cannot afford to pay
for being cured. Each league also finds
employment for graduates. It's mem
bers make known their belief that the
alcoholic appetite IS not an evidence Of
moral depravty, but that it is a dis
ease.
object Of Ladies' Auxiliary.
The Ladies' Auxiliary movement,
mentioned by Mr.. Hawley, is not a tenn
perance organization, but Is a move
rnent created by philanthropic women
to work in conjunction with the keeley
eagues and with the knowledge that
2S5. 900 men and women have been cured
Of the liquor habit by medicine, where
only a small percentage of the number