Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-02-01
THE KELLEY CURE.
| AN INTERESTING ADDRESS BY HON.
JOSEPH MsOiLL OF CHICAGO.

At a banquet given by the Cnlisor-
mia Kelley League in Los Angeles &c
the Hon. Joseph MediIl, editor and
proprietor of the Chicago Tribune,
the largest and most influential pap L
published in the West, Mr. Medil
adlres-e the meeting as follows:
''Mr. Chairman. aud Ladies and
Gentlemen: We are assembled here
this evening to rejoice at the triumph
Of science over noxinIls psst of uni
versai prevalence, which ha- for long
centuries successfully deiied any eff
forts to prevent its ravaGeS. Shake
speare, in irving t. describe ,ir. ex-
claims: oh. thou invisible spirit of
wine. If thou has no name to be-
known by, let rs cali thee devil And
| the tihla saws: 'Wno has Woe; who
hat - who hath contentious;
VIII = ily; who has wounds
without cause; who hath rrdness Of
the eyes they who tarry long at the
wine And at last it biteth like a ser
pent, and stinSeth like an adder We
meet tonight to celebrate the discpv-
cry of Il specific which can exercise
this Satan, and an antilote that can
cure the serpe nt's bic, and heal the
poisonous sting of the alcoho ic
adder.
The importance of this new discov-
cry in medical science cannot be ex-
aggregated. Alcoholism is the giant
Fovil Of our age and country. 1t is the
parent Of nearly all the poverty and
most of the crime that aff1icts man.
kind. 1t kills more men annually
than the dreadful disease, consump
ton, and its moral efforts are inf
nitely worse, for it spreads disgrace
and misery all around it, clothing the
wife and children in rags, housing
them in novels and feeding them on
crumbs hardly fit for dogs. The
family has taint on it while the in.
ebriate lives. and the faint adhereS
after ne is dead Alcoholism is re-
sponsibie for most of the murders and
suicides. 1t peoples the Bride.,well,
jais and penitentiaries, and completes
successfully with innate dnpraviry.
There was sqnandered in this
country during the past year twelve |
millions in drink: sum larger than |
what was expended for bread and |
meat Of the whole American popula- |
ton: a sum viii Oh is greater than |
all the cost of the Federal. State and |
city governments, including what is
paid for public and private education.
You give this banquet in my honor,
because you ascribe to me some of |
this credit Of having helped to make
known the fact that an antidote has
been found to cure dipsomania, result
ing from the drink habit and 1
hea tily thank you one and all, fer
this testimonial Of your flatterinS sp-
probation.
But Mr.. Chairman, the great honor
and glory belongs to scientific ply
stefan of Illinois, Dr. Leslie E.
Kelley, who by profound inducive
reasoned out the nature of
and thus set about search
ing for a cure and inally found it.
BY studying the effects of alcohol on
the blood. brain and nerve centers, he
arrived at the conclusion that it was a
poison in the del that it was i'm
Dibed into the system and that its
presence in the tissues and nerve CEN
ers causes a disease of the body. and
4 mania, or form of insanity, of the
mind.
He observed that what began as an
xhiIerating and convivial excite ,
neEt became fixed habit, and thence
leteriorated into a fearful disease, .
Utterly incurable by mere will power 9
n pledges given to friends by the
'ictims, because the Will itself has be- ;
ONE weak as water, and could not T
i've up to its pledges, but was over.
lowered and swept away by thirst
or alcohol.
Having progressed thus far in his
DR.. Kelley arrived y
t the cone usion that an antidote
xisted in mater!a medica and that =
/ must be found. He resolutely set .
imself searching for it. He first a
that double-chloride of ;
old and sodium were antidotes for =,
his disease; but his experience e
bowed him that they were liable to to
e dangerous and then he sought Sc
ing and anxiously for an eliminant q
! correction to render them innoc- h
GUS, and finally found it. And CT
lis is the main secret that crowns re
|r. Keeley's remedies with such -