The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-23
BETWEEN 1000 AND 5000.
Persons Have Been Treated at Kelley
Institute Within Fourteen Years.

|
The following letter from Col. w.
! II. Osborne, president of Kelley In
stitute at Greensboro, shows that his
institution has been a powerful ally
| for temperance in North Carolina:
TO All Men Who Are i'm Favor of Tenn
| rerance:
For nearly fourteen years 1 have
| had the honor of being president of
| The Kelley Institute at Greensboro,
North Carolina. During that period l
have seen between four and five
! thousand patients pass through our
medical line for treatment, and today
nearly all of them are sober, healthy,
industrious, self-suppOrting people;
whereas. before they took the treat
ment only a few of them lived with
| out assistance from their friends or
| families. The treatment has passed
/ the experimental stage. You can
scarcely find a hamlet in our State
that cured person does not reside
| therein. You will hardly find a per
| son in our State who does not believe
that the Kelley treatment at Green's
! boro will do what it claims to do,
namely, restore a drug or drink pat
! tents nervous system to its normal
condition and put him just where he
| was before he contracted the disease.
/ am especially grateful to the ply
| sicians of our State, and | might say
almost the entire medical profession,
| for the manner in which they have
treated us since we first opened our
| institute Hardly week passes but
! what physicians come to our institute
! to bring their patients. They fully
realize that the sanitarium treatment
is the only successful one for their
| drink and drug habitues
We have treated patients from sew
! enteen different States, as we'll as the
| Dominion of Canada, and we are plac-
| ing before you every morning in sew
eral daily papers new letter from
these people who have been cured
from two to thirteen years ago. why
! do these people permit us and insist
| on our publishing these letters over
| their own signatures? 1t is not be-
/ cause they desire to advertise to the
world that they have been so untor-
| tunate. No. on the contrary, it is be-
! cause they are thankful for their cure
and their restoration to normal con-
| dition. which they are anxious to inn
part to others similarly afflicted as
they were themselves, thus influencing
! them to seek relief. not only physical
| ~, but mentally.
Now. in view of these facts, is ii
asking too much of you to assist us in
! this work by advising habitues to come
! to this institute? There is scarcely a
sober man living in this State who
| cannot influence some habitue to avail
| himself of this wonderful cure.
! Nearly all of our towns are voting pro-
hibition, and many of them complain
! of blind tigers. If you will cure the
man who is addicted to drink he Will
| not hunt for the blind tigers, and the
tigers would soon be forced out OF
| business. But Just as long as the man
| has the whskey addiction he is going
! to DuN WnlSkeS, ana IL lG C1iiiiOI D"S
| it in one way he will in another and
| in my opinion it is cruel to punish him
| for being drunk until he has had the
| advantage of a cure. When We had
| saloons in Greensboro and collected
$1,000 license for each saloon, toward
the latter part of my administration
as mayor l made up my mind that l
would never again fine any man Tor
being drunk as long as we took the
money for license from the saloon that
| made him drunk. 1t is wrong to license
a bar-keeper. or operate a dispensary
either, and then fine a habitue to
whom the liquor has been sold which
| debauches and makes him drunk.
Let us try to cure all of those who
are addicted to drink, and then we Will
have no trouble in having temper
ance State.
w II OSBORN