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NATION + +WRITTEN BY HERSELF + +REVISED EDITION +1905 + + + + +ENCOURAGEMENT FOR CHRISTIAN WORKERS. + + +"My word shall not return unto me void."--Isa. iv., II. + + +"When saddened by the little fruit thy labors seem to yield, +And when no springing blade appears in all thy barren field; +When those whom thou dost seek to win, seem hard, and cold, and dead-- +Then, weary worker, stay thine heart on what the Lord hath said; +And let it give new life to hopes which seem well-nigh destroyed-- +This promise, that His word, shall not return unto Him void. +For, if, indeed it be His truth, thy feeble lips proclaim, +Then, He is pledged to shadow forth, the glory of His name. +True this at present may be veiled; still trustingly abide, +And "cast thy bread," with growing faith, upon life's rolling tide. +It shall, it will, it must be found, this precious living seed, +Though thou may'st grieve that thoughtless hearts take no apparent heed. +'Tis thine to sow with earnest prayer, in faith and patient love, +And thou shalt reap the tear-sown seed, in glorious sheaves above, +Then with what joy ecstatic, thou wilt stand before His throne, +And praise the Lord who used thee thus to gather in His own! +Adoring love will fill thine heart, and swell thy grateful lays, +That thou, hast brought some souls to Christ, to His eternal praise, +That thou hast helped to deck His brow, with blood-bought jewels bright; +Trophies of His wondrous love, and His all-saving might. +Oh, the grandest privilege to be thus used, to bring them in! +Oh, grandest joy to see them safe beyond the reach of sin! +Then mourn not, worker; though thy work shall cause thee many a tear, +The glorious aim thou hast in view, thy saddened heart will cheer, +Remember, it is all for Him, who loveth thee so well; +And let not downcast weary thoughts, one moment in thee dwell, +It is for Him! this is enough to cheer thee all the way; +Until thou hearest the glad "Well done", and night is turned to day." + --Author Unknown + + + +A MOTHER'S CRY, + +Yes I represent the mothers. "Rachel wept for her children and +would not be comforted because they were not." So I am crying for +help, asking men to vote for what their forefathers fought for--their +firesides. Republican and Democratic votes mean saloons. There is not +one effort in these parties to do ought but perpetuate this treason. Yes, +it is treason, to make laws to prohibit crime and then license saloons, +that prohibit laws from prohibiting crime. There is not a lawful or +legalized saloon. Any thing wrong can not be legally right. "Law commands +that which is right and prohibits that which is wrong." Saloons +command that which is wrong and prohibit that which is right. This +is anarchy. There is another grievous wrong. The loving moral influence +of mothers must be put in the ballot box. Free men must be the +sons of free women. To elevate men you must first elevate women. +A nation can not rise higher than the mothers. Liberty is the largest +privilege to do that which is right, and the smallest to do that which is +wrong. Vote for a principle which will make it a crime to manufacture, +barter, sell or give away that which makes three-fourths of all the +crime and murders thousands every year, and the suffering of the women +and children that can not be told. Vote for our prohibition president +and God will bless you. Pray for me that I may finish my course with +joy, the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus. + CARRY A. NATION, + Your Loving Home Defender. + + + +CONTENTS +CHAPTER I. +MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME AND WHAT I REMEMBER OF MY LIFE UP TO THE +TENTH YEAR. + +CHAPTER II. +MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE NEGROES AS SLAVES.--THEIR SUPERSTITIONS.--A +BEAUTIFUL FAIRY TALE. + +CHAPTER III. +MOVED TO WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY.--ALSO MOVED TO MISSOURI.--SAVED +FROM BEING A THIEF.--MY CONVERSION--GOING SOUTH AT OPENING OF +THE CIVIL WAR.----AN INCIDENT OF MY GIRLHOOD SCHOOL DAYS.--WHY I +HAD TO BELIEVE IN REVELATION.--SPIRITUALISM OR WITCHCRAFT. + +CHAPTER IV. +MY FIRST MARRIAGE.--A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT.--MOTHER GLOYD.--MY +DRUGGED AND WHISKEY MURDERED HUSBAND.--LOSING MY POSITION AS +TEACHER.--SECOND MARRIAGE.--LOSS OF PROPERTY.--KEEPING HOTEL.-- +STRUGGLES FOR DAILY FOOD.--THE AFFLICTIONS OF MY CHILD.--ANSWER +TO PRAYER. + +CHAPTER V. +THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST.--REJECTED AS A BIBLE TEACHER IN +METHODIST AND EPISCOPALIAN CHURCHES.--TAUGHT IN HOTEL DINING-ROOM.-- +VISION, WARNING AND BLESSING.--ENTERTAINING ANGELS.--THE JEWS.-- +PRAYER FOR RAIN AND ANSWER--GOD'S JUDGEMENT ON THE WICKED.-- +MOVED TO KANSAS.--DEATH OF MOTHER GLOYD.--SERMON OF A CATHOLIC +PRIEST. + +CHAPTER VI. +WHY MY NAME IS NOT ON A CHURCH BOOK.--CLOSING THE DIVES OF MEDICINE +LODGE.--CORA BENNETT, AND WHY SHE KILLED BILLY MORRIS IN A DIVE +IN KIOWA.--HER RESURRECTION.--RAIDING A JOINT DRUGSTORE. + +CHAPTER VII. +SPIRITUAL LEADINGS.--JESUS A CONSCIOUS PRESENCE THREE DAYS.--LOSS OF +LIBERTY BY COMPROMISING.--THE PRICE PAID TO BE REIN STATED.-- +DISGRACE TO IRE A MILLIONAIRE. + +CHAPTER VIII. +THE DIVINE CALL.--THE JOINT DRUGGIST OF MEDICINE LODGE.--BEER A POISON.-- +DOCTORS MAKE DRUNKARDS.--SMASHING AT KIOWA.--ATTITUDE OF SOME +W. C. T. U.'S OF KANSAS.--SUIT FOR SLANDER.--SMASHING AT WICHITA.-- +CONSPIRACY OF THE REPUBLICANS TO PUT ME IN THE INSANE ASYLUM.-- +SUFFERINGS IN JAIL AT WICHITA.--SLANDERS FROM THE RUM-SOAKED +PAPERS OF KANSAS. + +CHAPTER IX. +OUT OF JAIL.--EGGS AND STONE.--SMASHING STILLING'S JOINT AT +ENTERPRISE.--WHIPPED BY HIRED PROSTITUTES.-PLOT AT HOLT BY HOTEL KEEPER +AND JOINTIST TO POISON AND SLUG ME.--AT CONEY ISLAND.-HAND +BROKEN AND HANDCUFFS. + +CHAPTER X. +LEGAL STATUS OF PROHIBITION AND JOINT SMASHING. + +CHAPTER XI. +MY TRIAL FOR DIVORCE.--THE LICENSED RUM TRAFFIC THE CAUSE OF SO MANY +DIVORCES.-DIFFERENT TIMES AND PLACES I HAVE BEEN IN JAIL.--AT THE +CAPITOL OF CALIFORNIA.--WIDE OPEN TREASON.--AT THE UNIVERSITY OF +TEXAS.--WOOLLEY CLUB AT ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN.--CATHOLIC PRIEST +AND CIGARETTES. + +CHAPTER XII. +WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE. + +CHAPTER XIII. +ECHOES OF THE HATCHET. + +CHAPTER XIV. +CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. + +CHAPTER XV. +SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY FOR MY CHRISTIAN WORK. + +CHAPTER XVI. +IN NEBRASKA.--WHAT I DID WITH THE FIRST MONEY I GAVE TO THE LORD +AT CONEY ISLAND.--WHAT I SAID OF MR. MCKINLEY.--IN CALIFORNIA. +"CRIBS" AT LOS ANGELES.--ARREST IN SAN FRANCISCO--CONDEMNED BY +SOME MINISTERS.--WHISKEY AND TOBACCO ADVERTISEMENTS. + +CHAPTER XVII. +MY VISIT TO WASHINGTON, D. D.--ARRESTED IN THE SENATE CHAMBER.-- +TAKEN OUT BY OFFICERS.--THE VICES OF COLLEGES, ESPECIALLY YALE~ +ROOSEVELT A DIVE-KEEPER. + +CHAPTER XVIII. +PROHIBITION OR ABOLITION.--WHAT IT MEANS.--THE FREE METHODISTS AND +OTHER MINISTERS ENDORSE THE WORK.--A CATHOLIC PRIEST'S ENDORSEMENT.-- +MODERN DEBORAH.--JOHN P. ST. JOHN. + +CHAPTER XIX. +DR. MCFARLAND'S PROTEST.--KICKED AND KNOCKED DOWN BY CHAPMAN OF +BANGOR HOUSE.--MEDDLING WITH THE DEVIL.--TIMELY WARNING TO OUR +BOYS AND GIRLS.--BRUBAKER OF PEORIA.--WITCHCRAFT.--LAST TIME IN +JAIL. + +CHAPTER XX. +WHY I WENT ON THE STAGE.--THE VICE OF TOBACCO. + +CHAPTER XXI. +TRIP ON FALL RIVER STEAMBOAT, FROM BOSTON TO NEW YORK--OFFICERS TRIED +TO LOCK ME IN MY STATE ROOM.--SEQUEL SATISFACTORY, MADE PLEASANT +TRIP AND MANY FRIENDS. + +CHAPTER XXII. +TRIP TO CANADA, CORDIAL RECEPTION.--RETURN TO CHICAGO TO FILL ENGAGEMENT.-- +SECOND VISIT TO CANADA.--TRIP TO MARITIME PROVINCES.--VISIT +CLUB IN CHARLOTTE TOWN.--PREJUDICE AGAINST ME OWING TO MALICIOUS +REPORTS.--SPEAK IN PARLIAMENT IN FREDERICTON.--VISIT TO SIDNEY.-- +SCOTT ACT.--MY ARREST AND RELEASE.--EPISODE IN JAIL. + +CHAPTER XXIII. +COWARDLY ASSAULT BY SALOON KEEPER, G. R. NEIGHBORS OF ELIZABETHTOWN, +KY.--APATHY OF OFFICERS, BUT PEOPLE MUCH MOVED BY OUTRAGE, +LECTURED AFTERWARDS, THO' VERY FAINT AND WEAK FROM LOSS OF BLOOD.-- +CIGARETTE SMOKING IN HIGH PLACES DISCUSSED WITH MISS GASTON, +PRESIDENT NATIONAL ANTI-CIGARETTE LEAGUE. + +CHAPTER XXIV. +SISTER LUCY WILHOITE'S VISION.--WRITES TO ME FOR CO-OPERATION IN MAKING +RAID ON MAHAN'S WHOLESALE LIQUOR HOUSE.--HESITATE ON ACCOUNT +PRESSING ENGAGEMENTS AHEAD.--ANSWER THE CALL.--RAID SET +FOR 29TH.--W. C. T. U, CONVENTION IN SESSION.--FOUR SISTERS AND +MYSELF START FROM M. E. CHURCH.--A CALL FOR THE POLICE BEFORE WE +COULD EFFECT AN ENTRANCE.--TAKEN TO JAIL IN HOODLUM WAGON.-- +UNHEALTHY CONDITION OF CELL IN JAIL FROM FRIDAY TO MONDAY.-- +GOOD OLD PENTECOSTAL TIME ON SUNDAY.--COUNTY JAIL MONDAY.--TRIAL +WEDNESDAY.--JAIL SENTENCE AND FINES.--APPEAL TO DISTRICT COURT. + +CHAPTER XXV. +CLOSING REMARKS WITH PLANS FOR THE FUTURE.--PROHIBITION CLEARLY +DEFINED. + +CHAPTER XXVI. +CARRY NATION CLOSES CRUSADE IN DAYTON, OHIO.--HOLDS THREE LARGELY +ATTENDED MEETINGS. --SPEAKS TO LARGE AUDIENCE IN ARMORY.--HAD +ENGAGED NATIONAL THEATRE, BUT INSPECTION OF AUDITORIUM INTERFERED.-- +REVIEW WEEK'S WORK. + +CHAPTER XXVII. +SKETCH BY WILL CARLETON, IN HIS MAGAZINE "EVERYWHERE." + +CHAPTER XXVIII. +LIQUOR DRINKING IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. + +POETRY. + + +{illust. caption = This is what's the matter with Kans. This is a reproduction +of an oil painting I had made and put on my building in Topeka. The oil being +poured on the wounded heart a prohibition ballot.} + + + +The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation. + +CHAPTER I. + +MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME AND WHAT I REMEMBER OF MY LIFE UP TO THE +TENTH YEAR. + +I was born in Garrard County, Kentucky. My father's farm was +on Dick's River, where the cliffs rose to hundreds of feet, with great +ledges of rocks, where under which I used to sit. There were many large +rocks scattered around, some as much as fifteen feet across, with holes +that held water, where my father salted his stock, and I, a little toddler, +used to follow him. On the side of the house next to the cliffs was +what we called the "Long House," where the negro women would spin +and weave. There were wheels, little and big, and a loom or two, and +swifts and reels, and winders, and everything for making linen for the +summer, and woolen cloth for the winter, both linsey and jeans. +The flax was raised on the place, and so were the sheep. When a child +5 years old, I used to bother the other spinners. I was so anxious to +learn to spin. My father had a small wheel made for me by a wright in +the neighborhood. I was very jealous of my wheel, and would spin on it +for hours. The colored women were always indulgent to me, and made +the proper sized rolls, so I could spin them. I would double the yarn, and +then twist it, and knit it into suspenders, which was a great source of +pride to my father, who would display my work to visitors on every occasion. + +The dwelling house had ten rooms, all on the ground floor, except +one. I have heard my father say that it was a hewed-log house, +weather-boarded and plastered as I remember it. The room that possessed +the most attraction for me was the parlor, because I was very +seldom allowed to go in it. I remember the large gold-leaf paper on the +walls, its bright brass dogirons, as tall as myself, and the furniture of red +plush, some of which is in a good state of preservation, and the property +of my half-brother, Tom Moore, who lives on "Camp Dick Robinson" +in Garrard County, this Dick Robinson was a cousin of my father's. +There were two sets of negro cabins; one in which Betsey and Henry +lived, who were man and wife, Betsey being the nurse of all the children. +Then there was aunt Mary and her large family, aunt Judy and her family +and aunt Eliza and her's. There was a water mill behind and almost +a quarter of a mile from the house, where the corn was ground, and +near that was the overseer's house. + +Standing on the front porch, we looked through a row of althea +bushes, white and purple, and there were on each side cedar trees that +were quite large in my day. There was an old-fashioned stile, instead of +a gate, and a long avenue, as wide as Kansas Avenue, in Topeka, with +forest trees on either side, that led down to the big road, across which +uncle Isaac Dunn lived, who was a widower with two children, Dave +and Sallie, and I remember that Sallie had all kinds of dolls; it was a +great delight of mine to play with these. + +To the left of our house was the garden. I have read of the old- +fashioned garden; the gardens written about and the gardens sung about, +but I have never seen a garden that could surpass the garden of my old +home. Just inside the pickets were bunches of bear grass. Then, there +was the purple flag, that bordered the walks; the thyme, coriander, +calamus and sweet Mary; the jasmine climbing over the picket +fence; the syringa and bridal wreath; roses black, red, yellow and pink; +and many other kinds of roses and shrubs. There, too, were strawberries, +raspberries, gooseberries and currants; damson and greengages, and apricots, +that grew on vines. I could take some time in describing this beautiful +spot. + +At the side of the garden was the family burying ground, where the +gravestones were laid flat on masonry, bringing them about three feet +from the ground. These stones were large, flat slabs of marble, and I +used to climb up on top and sit or lie down, and trace the letters or figures +with my fingers. I visited this graveyard in 1903. The eight graves +were there in a good state of preservation, with not a slab broken, +although my grandfather was buried there, ninety years ago. My father +had a stone wall built around these graves for protection, when he left +Kentucky. I am glad that family graveyards have given place to public +cemeteries, for this place has changed hands many times and this graveyard +is not pleasant for the strangers who live there. We who are +interested in these sacred mounds, feel like we intrude, to have the homes +of our dead with strangers. + +{illust. caption = +MY OLD HOME WHERE I WAS BORN IN GARRARD COUNTY, KENTUCKY. +THE OLD GRAVE YARD NEAR BY, AND MY GRANDFATHER's GRAVE.} + + +The memories of this Kentucky home date from the time I was +three years old. This seems remarkable, but my mother said this +incident occurred when I was three years old, and I remember it distinctly. +I was standing in the back yard, near the porch. Mr. Brown, +the overseer, was in the door of my half-brother Richard's room, +with my brother's gun in his hands. At the end of the porch was a +small room, called the "saddle room." A pane of glass was out of the +window and a hen flew out, cackling. Aunt Judy, the colored woman, +went in to get the egg, and walked in front of Mr. Brown, who raised +the gun and said: "Judy, I am going to shoot you," not thinking the +gun was loaded. It went off, and aunt Judy fell. Mr. Brown began to +wring his hands and cry in great agony. I screamed and kept running +around a small tree near by. This was Sunday morning. Runners were sent for +the doctor, and for my parents, who were at church. +Aunt Judy got well, but had one eye out; we could always feel the shot +in her forehead. She was one of the best servants, and a dear good +friend to me. She used to bring two of her children and come up to my +room on Sundays and sit with me, saying, she did not want to be in the +cabin when "strange niggers were there." This misfortune had disfigured +her face and she always avoided meeting people. I can see her +now, with one child at the breast, and another at her knee, with her +hand on its head, feeling for "buggars." I was very much attached to +this woman and wanted to take care of her in her old age. I went to +Southern Texas to get her in 1873. I found some of her children in +Sherman, Texas, but aunt Judy had been dead six months. She always +said she wanted to live with me. + +My mother always left her small children in the care of the servants. +I was quite a little girl before I was allowed to eat at "white +folk's table." Once my mother had been away several days and came +home bringing a lot of company with her. I ran out when I saw the +carriages driving up, and cried: "Oh, ma, I am so glad to see you. +I don't mind sleeping with aunt Eliza, but I do hate to sleep with uncle +Josh," think I was quite dirty, and some of the colored servants snatched +me out of sight. Aunt Eliza was aunt Judy's half-sister, her father +was a white man. She was given to my father by my grandmother, +was very bright and handsome, and the mother of seventeen children. +My grandmother remembered aunt Eliza in her will, giving her some +linen sheets, furniture, and other things. + +One of aunt Eliza's sons was named Newton. My father had a mill +and store up in Lincoln County, near Hustonville. Newton used to do +the hauling for my father with a large wagon and six-mule team. He +would often do the buying for the store and take measurements of +grain, and my father trusted him implicitly. Once a friend of my father +said to him, as Newton was passing along the street with his team: +"George, I'll give you seventeen hundred dollars for that negro." My +father said: "If you would fill that wagon-bed full of gold, you could +not get him." A few weeks after that Newton died. I remember seeing +my father in the room weeping, and remember the chorus of the song +the negroes sang on that occasion: "Let us sit down and chat with the +angels." + +The husband of aunt Eliza was "uncle Josh," a small Guinea negro, as +black as coal and very peculiar. I always stood in awe of him, as all +the children did. I remember one expression of his was: "Get out of +the way, or I'll knock you into a cocked hat." The reason I had to +sleep with aunt Eliza, Betsy, my nurse, was only ten years older than +I was. Betsy was a girl given by my grandfather Campbell to my +mother when my father and mother were married. My mother was +a widow when she married my father. She had married Will Caldwell, +a son of Capt. Caldwell, who died in Sangamon County, Ill., +he had freed his negroes and moved there from Kentucky. Will Caldwell +died after three years, leaving my mother with two children. Both of +them died at my grandfather Campbell's in Mercer county, Kentucky, before +she married my father. + +I was about four years old when my grandmother Moore died. She +lived on a farm in Garrard County, about two miles from my father. She +used to ride a mare called "Kit." Whenever we would see grandma +coming up the avenue, the whole lot of children, white and black, ran +to meet her. She always carried on the horn of her saddle a handbag, +then called a "reticule," and in that she always brought us some +little treat, most generally a cut off of a loaf of sugar, that used to be +sold in the shape of a long loaf of bread. We would follow her down +to the stile, where she would get off, and delight us all by taking something +good to eat out of the "reticule." We would tie old Kit, and then +take our turn in petting the colt. The first grief I remember to have +had was when I heard of the death of my grandmother. I wanted to +see her so badly and go to the funeral, and for weeks I would go off +by myself and cry about her death. I used to love to lie and sit on +her grave at the back of the garden. Older people often forget the +sorrows of childhood, but I felt keenly the injustice of not being allowed +to see her dead face and do to this day. + +We left that home, when I was about five years old, for a place +about two miles from Danville, Kentucky. The house had a flat roof, the +first one built in that county; it had an observatory on top. Our nearest +neighbors were Mr. Banford's family, Mr. Caldwell, and Mr. Spears. +Dr. Jackson and Dr. Smith were both our physicians, and my father +used to hire his physicians by the year. Dr. Jackson was a bachelor +and said he was going to wait for me, and I believed him. I remember +visiting Dr. Smith in Danville and seeing a human skeleton for +the first time. I also saw leeches he used in bleeding. I remember when +one of my little brothers was born, they told me Dr. Smith found him in +a hollow stump. After that I spent hours out in the woods looking +in hollow stumps for babies. + +My mother's father was James Campbell, born in King and Queens +County, Virginia. His parents were from Scotland. He was married +twice. By his first wife he had two sons, William and Whitaker. William +married and died young, and I heard, left one child, a daughter. +Uncle "Whitt" lived to be an old man. The second time my grandfather +married a Miss Bradshaw. He had four sons and six daughters. I +used to stay at grandma's with my aunt Sue. When my mother would +take long trips or visits, she would send the younger children, with my +nurse Betsy, over there to stay until she returned. The only thing I +construe into a cross word, that my grandfather ever spoke to me, was +when I was running upstairs and stumbled and he said: "Jump up, and +try it again, my daughter." I was so humiliated by the rebuke that I +hid from him for several days. He was a Baptist deacon for years. +When gentlemen called on my aunts, lie would go in the parlor at 10 +o'clock in the evening and wind the big clock. He would then ask the +young men if he should have their horses put up. This was the signal +to either retire or leave. He never went to bed until everyone else had +retired. My grandfather lived in Mercer County, not far from Harrodsburg. +My grandmother was an invalid for years, and kept her room. +My aunt Sue was housekeeper. In the dining room was a large fireplace. +The teakettle was brought in at breakfast, water was boiled by +being set on a "trivet," over some coals of fire. + +Every morning my grandfather would put in a glass some sugar, +butter and brandy, then pour hot water over it, and, while the family +were sitting around the room, waiting for breakfast, he would go to +each, and give to those who wished, a spoonful of this toddy, saying: +"Will you have a taste, my daughter, or my son?" He never gave but +one spoonful, and then he drank what was left himself. This custom +was never omitted. I remember the closet where the barrel of spirits +was kept. He used to give it out to the colored people in a pint cup +on Saturdays. Persons have often said to me: "Our grandfathers used +it, and they did not get drunk." Truly, we are reaping what they have +strewn. They sowed to the wind and we are reaping the whirlwind. + +After breakfast, the colored man, Patrick, who waited on my +grandfather, would bring out a horse and grandfather would ride around +the place. He was very fond of hunting, and always kept hounds. My +father would tell this joke on him. When "Daddy" Rice was baptising +him in Dick's River grandpa said: "Hold on, Father Rice, I hear Sounder +barking on the cliffs." Sounder was his favorite hound. There was a +Mr. Britt who was a great fox hunter, who lived near my grandfather, +and whose wife was opposed to his hunting. One morning my grandfather +went by Mr. Britt's house winding his hunter's horn. Mr. Britt +jumped for his trousers and so did Mrs. Britt, who got them first and +threw them into the fire. Another time, quite a party of ladies and +gentlemen had gathered at my grandfather's place, to go on a fox hunt. +Grandfather went upstairs hurriedly to put on his buckskin suit. He +jumped across the banisters to facilitate matters, lost his balance and +tumbled down into the hall, where the company was waiting. He did not +get hurt, it was a great joke on him. When he was a young man +he learned carpentering in company with Buckner Miller, who was of +the same trade. These two young men came to Kentucky from Virginia, +on horseback, seeking their fortunes. They had many experiences, +always endeavoring to stop at houses for the night where there +were young ladies. One house where there were quite a number of +girls, Buckner Miller played off this joke on my grandfather. The +girls occupied the room below where the men were sleeping. The men +heard a commotion in the girls' room. My grandfather tipped softly, +down and Buckner after him, to find out what was going on. They +opened the door sufficiently to see the girls in their gowns, circling +around the candle, playing "poison." Mr. Miller, to pay my grandfather +for some pranks he had played off on him, gave him a push, and grandfather +rushed into the middle of the room in his night clothes. The +girls flew under the beds and the men ran upstairs and climbed out at +the window. + +{illust. caption = MY FATHER, GEORGE MOORE.} + + +My father's name was George Moore, and his father's name was +Martin Moore. He was of Irish descent. He had two brothers who +died when the cholera raged in Kentucky, about 1842. One of them, +William Moore, married a Miss Blackburn of Versailles, Ky. He had +several sisters, some of them died young. + +Mark Antony, in his memorial address over the body of Caesar, said +that Brutus was Caesar's angel. If I ever had an angel on earth, it was my +father. I have met many men who had lovable characters, but none +equaled him in my estimation. He was not a saint, but a man--one of +the noblest works of God. He was impetuous, quick, impatient, but never +nervous, could collect himself in a moment and was always master of +the situation. I have seen him in many trying places but never remember +to have seen him in a condition of being afraid. When he lived +in Cass County, Mo., during the war, we saw Quantrell's men coming +up to the house. These men were dressed in slouch hats, gray suits, +and had their guns and haversacks roped to their saddles. My father +was a union man, but a southern sympathizer. He cried like a child +when he heard the south had seceded and taken another flag. He did +not know to what extent he was disliked by this gang of bushwhackers, +and we were very much alarmed; fully expected some harm was meant. +Men on both sides were frequently taken out and shot down. When +the Bushwhackers would kill a union man then the Jayhawkers would +kill "a secesh." + +My father said to us: "You stay in the house and keep quiet. I will +meet them." I watched him through a window. He was tall and straight +as an Indian. He walked up to them, taking off his hat and called "Good +morning" to them in a friendly tone. Asked them to get off their horses, +for he had a treat for them. In the corner of the yard was the carriage +house and under that was a rock spring house, through which a +living stream of water ran around the pans of milk. He took them to +the door, gave them seats, then went in this milkhouse and brought out +a jar of buttermilk. I have heard it said that buttermilk is one of the +greatest treats to a soldier. He talked with these men as if they had +been friends; brought out fruit; loaded them with bread, butter and milk; +and they left without even taking a horse from us. I fully believe it +was their intention to do some harm, but by the tact of my father they +were disarmed. "A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words +stir up strife." He was a thorough business man, but his social qualities +exceeded all others. He often had to pay security debts, one for +Mr. Key, his brother-in-law, of five thousand dollars. Just before the +election of Lincoln, he took a large drove of mules to Natchez, Miss., +twenty-two of these mules were of his own raising. While there Lincoln +was elected, which threw the south into war. He sold the mules +on time and never got a dollar for them. To the honor of my father +be it said, he gave up all his property to pay his debts, never withholding, +where he could have done so. A short while before he died there was +one debt of a few hundred dollars he could not pay. He wept and told +me of this. A year ago I settled up with Mr. Wills' heirs and paid +this debt to his children, who live near Peculiar in Cass county, Mo. +It would be such a joy to my father to know that I did this to save his +honor. When I see him, in our heavenly home, he will bless me for this. +"Love knows no sacrifice." + +I can not call to mind when the thought of self, governed any of my +father's actions. It was his delight to provide for the comfort of others. +Devoted to his family and friends, and such a friend to the poor; I have +heard my mother say that he made every one rich who worked for him. +When I first remember him he was a "Trader" and left his farm to an +overseer. My father drove hogs to Cincinnati before there were any +railways. I was always at his heels, when I could be. He was standing +on the stile one day giving directions to have a drove of hogs meet +him at a certain place on Sunday. I said: "Pa, you will lose on those +hogs. You ought not to do that on Sunday." He gave me a quick, +light, playful slap, saying: "Stop that, every time you say that, I do +lose." + +I can see that a responsibility to God was the fundamental principle +in my father's life. After the negroes were freed, and we lived on +the farm, there was so much to do, especially for him, but there was +always a conveyance prepared to take his family to church and Sunday +School--I took the "New York Ledger". Mrs. Southworth wrote for it +then. 'Capitola', The Wrecker's Son, with other thrilling stories, were +so fascinating to me--The paper came late Saturday and I would rather +read it Sunday morning than go anywhere. One morning I took my +paper and went to the back of the orchard, thinking to get out of the +sound of my father's voice when he would call me to get ready for +church. I could just hear him but did not move. After reading my +paper, I returned to the house, Pa was just coming back with the rest +of the family from church. He looked at me with grief and anger in +his glance and said, "Never mind, you ungrateful girl, you cannot say +at the judgment Day, that your father did not provide a way for you +to go to church." I never did this again and never was free from remorse +for this ingratitude. I know how Dr. Johnson felt when he was +seen standing on a corner of the street with the sun beaming down +upon his bare head, when asked why he did that he said, "My father +had a book stand on this corner, when I was a boy once he asked me to +stand here in his place as he was sick. I would not, now I would expiate +that by blistering my bare head in the sun if I could. To this day +I weep to think of grieving so noble a parent. + +My mother was a very handsome woman. My father was what you +might call good looking. I was very anxious to look like him; used to +try to wear off my teeth on the right side, because his were worn off. +About two years before he died, he came to Texas to visit me. I was +then in the hotel business. During the first meal he ate at the hotel, +he looked up and seeing me waiting on the table, he got up and began +waiting on the table himself. I had to work very hard then and it was +a grief to him to have no means to give me. One morning he came into +my room while I was dressing and said: "Daughter, I have not slept +all night for thinking of you. The last thing last night was you in the +kitchen and the first thing this morning. I have always hoped to have +something to leave you, and it is such a grief to me that I can not help +you. Carry, it seems the Lord has been so hard on you." I said: +"No, Pa; I thank God for all my sorrows. They have been the best for +me, and don't you worry about not leaving me money, for you have left +me something far better." He looked up surprised and said: "What is +it?" I answered: "The memory of a father who never did a dishonorable +act." My father's eyes filled with tears, and after that he seemed to +be happier than I had ever seen him; everything seemed to go right. + +My father was a very indulgent master to his colored servants, who +loved him like a father. They always called him "Mars George." The +negro women would threaten to get "Mars George" to whip their bad +children, and when he whipped them, I have heard them say: "Served +you right. Did not give you a lick amiss." This was proving their +great confidence, they being willing for some one else to whip their +children. They were very sensitive in this matter and were not willing +for my mother to do this. My father would lay in a supply, while in +Cincinnati, of boxes of boots and shoes, arid get combs, head handkerchiefs, +and Sunday dresses, which would greatly delight his colored people. +Happy, indeed, would the negroes have been if all their masters +had been as my father was. + +When we moved to Mercer County from Garrard, we had a sale. +It was customary then at such a time to have a barbecue and a great +dinner. The tables were set in the yard. I remember Mr. Jones Adams, +a neighbor and great friend of my father, brought over a two bushel sack of +turnip greens and a ham. I remember seeing him shake them out of the +bag. At this sale for the first, and only time, I saw a negro put on a +block and sold to the highest bidder. I can't understand how my father +could have allowed this. His name was "Big Bill," to distinguish him +from another "Bill". He was a widower or a batchelor and had no +family. There was one colored man my father valued highly, and +wanted to take with him, but this man, Tom, had a wife, who belonged +to a near neighbor. After we got in the carriage to go to our new home, +Tom followed us crying: "Oh, Mars George, don't take me from my +wife." My father said: "Go and get some one to buy you." This Tom +did, the buyer being a Mr. Dunn. Oh! What a sad sight! It makes the +tears fill my eyes to write it. + +But a worse slavery is now on us. I would rather have my son sold +to a slave-driver than to be a victim of a saloon. I could, in the first case, +hope to see him in heaven; but no drunkard can inherit eternal life. The +people of the south said no power could take from them their slaves, but +'tis a thing of the past. People now say, you can't shut up saloons. But +our children will know them as a thing of the past. My father was glad +when the slaves were free. He felt the responsibility of owning them. +Have heard him say, after having some-trouble with them: "Those +negroes will send me to hell yet." He would gather them in the dining- +room Sunday evenings and read the Bible to them and have prayer. He +would first call aunt Liza and ask her to have them come in. The negroes +would sing, and it is a sweet memory to me. + +{illust. caption = +THIS IS A PICTURE OF MYSELF AND SISTER EDNA, SITTING ON EACH SIDE OF OUR +MOTHER.I AM ON THE LEFT AND WAS ABOUT SIX YEARS OLD.} + + + +CHAPTER II. + +MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE NEGROES AS SLAVES.--THEIR SUPERSTITIONS.-- +A BEAUTIFUL FAIRY TALE. + +The colored race, as I knew them, were generally kind to the white +children of their masters. Their sympathy was great in childish troubles. +They were our nurses around our sick beds. Their lullabyes soothed us +to sleep. Very frequently my nurse would hold me in her arms until +both of us would fall asleep, but she would still hold me secure. When +any of my misdoings came to the ears of my parents, and I was punished +their testimony would, as far as possible, shield me, and not until I would +try their patience out of all bounds would they tell my mother on me. I +never heard an infidel negro express his views, even if very wicked. +They had firm belief in God and a devil. I always liked their meetings, +their songs and shoutings. They always told me that no one could help +shouting. The first time I ever heard a white woman shout was in Northern +Texas, during the war. I did not wish the spirit to cause me to +jump up and clap my hands that way, for these impulses were not in my +carnal heart, so, for fear I should be compelled to do so, I held my dress +down tight to the seat on each side, to prevent such action. The negroes +are great readers of character; despise stingy people or those who were +afraid of them. These colored friends taught me the fear of God. The +first time I ever attended church, I rode behind on horseback, and +sat with them in the gallery. I imbibed some of their superstitions. +They consider it bad to allow a sharp tool, as a spade, hoe or ax, to be +taken through the house; to throw salt in the fire, for you would have to +pick it out after death. They would kill a hen if she crowed; looked for +a death, if a dog howled; or, if one broke a looking-glass, it meant +trouble of some kind for seven years. They believed that persons had +power to put a "spell" on others, would, if taken sick, frequently speak of +having "stepped on something" put in their way or buried in their dooryard. + +There is no dialect in the world that has the original characteristics so +pleasing to the ear as the negro. There is a softness and music in the +voice of a negro not to be found in any other race on earth. No one can +sing a child to sleep so soothingly as a negro nurse. After I left Texas +and went to Medicine Lodge, Kansas, when I had a headache or was +otherwise sick, I would wish for the attendance around my bed of one of +the old-fashioned colored women, who would rub me with their rough +plump hands and call me "Honey Chile," would bathe my feet and tuck +the cover around me and sit by me, holding my hand, waiting until I +fell asleep. I owe much to the colored people and never want to live +where there are none of the negro race. I would feel lonesome without +them. After I came to Medicine Lodge, I did not see any for some +time. One day, while looking out, I saw one walking up the street +toward the house. I ran to the kitchen, cut an apple pie, and ran out +and said: "Here, Uncle, is a piece of pie." He was gray-headed, one of +the old slaves. He seemed so glad to see my friendly face and took the +pie with a happy courtesy. I watched for his return, as he came in on +the train, and was going out. At last he came. I asked him in the +kitchen, fixed a meal for him, and waited on him myself. Before eating, +he folded his hands, closed his eyes, with his face toward heaven, thanked +God for the meal, as I had often seen them do in slave time. As a +race, the negroes have not the characteristics of treachery. They are +faithful and grateful. + +In my hotel experience, I would often ask Fannie, my cook: "What +kind of a man is that?" Fannie would say: "Don't trust him too far +Mrs. Nation, he steps too light." When a child my playmates were a +lot of colored children. Betsy came to the table with the children and +ate with us. But the sweetest food was that left in the skillets, both +black and white children would go around the house, sit down and "sop" +the gravy with the biscuits the cooks would give us. I was fond of +hearing ghost stories and would, without the knowledge of my mother, +stay in the cabin late at night listening to the men and women telling +their "experiences." The men would be making ax handles and beating +the husk off of the corn in a large wooden hopper with a maul. The +women would be spinning with the little wheel, sewing, knitting and +combing their children's heads. I would listen until my teeth would +chatter with fright, and would shiver more and more, as they would tell +of the sights in grave-yards, and the spirits of tyrannical masters, walking +at night, with their chains clanking and the, sights of hell, where +some would be on gridirons, some hung up to baste and the +devil with his pitchfork would toss the poor creatures hither +and thither. They would say: "Carry, you must go to the house," +and I would not go with one, but have two, one on each side of me. I +remember seeing the negro men laugh at me, but the women would shake +their heads and say: "You better quit skeering that chile." But there +was one pleasure above all the rest, it was to hear any one tell "tales." +When my mother would have a visitor, very frequently the lady would +bring a nurse to care for one child or children, she might bring with her. +Oh, how pleased the black and white children would be to see such visitors. +We would gather around and in every way made our pleasure +known. Would give them doll-rags, nuts, or apples, and in many ways +express our delight at having them come. As soon as they were made +comfortable, the next thing was: "Tell us a tale." And seating ourselves +around on the floor, or in a close group, we would be all attention. +Of course there would be some raw heads and bloody bones, but not so +much as the stories told at night in the cabins. + +One of the prettiest stories I ever heard, and never tired of hearing, +that taught me a great moral, was about two girls the children of a +couple who were hard working people. One of the girls was named +Sarah, the other Mary. Sarah was a very pretty girl with curls. Mary +was rather ugly and had straight hair. Curls in my childhood days were +something very much sought for. Although Sarah was pretty in the face +she had very rude ways; she would not speak kindly and politely; would +not help her hard working mother; but was idle and quarrelsome, always +wanted some one to wait on her; while Mary was the reverse; would pick +up chips to make a fire, would sweep the yard and bring water, and was +kind to all, especially to her mother. One day the well went dry and +there was no water to make the tea for supper. Mary saw her mother +crying and said: "Don't cry, mother; I will go and get some at the +Haunted Spring." + +Her mother said: "Oh, no, dear sweet child, those goblins will kill +you." + +"No, mother," replied Mary. "I will beg them to let me have some +water for dear father, and I am not afraid." + +So her mother got a light bucket for her, and went to the top of +the hill with her, and said: "God bless you, my dear child, and bring +you back to me." + +Then Mary went on until she came to the high iron gate. She said: +"Please gate open and let me through. I mind my father and mother +and love everybody." + +And the gate opened and she passed into the "haunted" grounds-- +She saw a funny, little, short man come running with a stick and said: +"Please, nice man, don't hit me. I have come down to get some good +water to make tea for my father's supper. He has been working all +day, and our well has gone dry. May I please have some of your spring +water?" + +"Well, little girl, as you talk so nice, you can have some. Tell the +little folks to open the briars for you." + +So she went on and came to a briar patch and saw down at the roots +little people, not much longer than your finger. Mary spoke so kindly to +them; said she would be so glad if they would open a path for her to +walk in, she would thank them so much; so they began to pull the briars +back until there was a good path. Mary thanked them and went on until +she came to the spring and there was a rabbit jumping up and down in +it. Mary said: "Please Mr. Rabbit, don't muddy the water for I would +like to get a bucket of nice clean water to take home to make tea for +supper." The rabbit ran off and she dipped her bucket full of pure +water. + +Then she looked down the branch, and there was a little lamb that had +fallen in and was lying down, and could not get up. The lamb said: +"Little girl, please pick me up and lay me on the grass to dry." Mary +stepped on some rocks till she got to the lamb and lifted him up and +laid him on the bank to dry. The lamb said: "When you go home, spit +in your mother's hand." Mary thought that would not be right, but she +said nothing. She went back through the briar patch and the little folks +held them from scratching her, and the little old man spoke nicely to her +and the gate opened for her. Her mother was watching for her and helped +her home with the water, kissed her, and prepared them a good supper. + +While they were sitting at the table Mary said: "Mother, the little +lamb told me to do something I do not like to do." + +"What was it?" + +"He told me spit in your hand." + +"Well, you can my child; come on;" and the mother held out her +hand and Mary spat in it, a diamond and a pearl. This made the family +happy and rich; they had men come the next day and dig a new well. + +Now Sarah wished to try her fortune, her mother did not want +her to go, because she knew what a bad girl she was, to talk saucy; but +Sarah said she would do as well as Mary. Her sister told her how she +must do; she got angry at her, and said: "You mind your own business; +I reckon I know what I am about." + +So she took her bucket and went on until she came to the gate; she +gave that a kick and said: "Open gate!" and the gate opened and slammed +on her. The little old man came running with his stick. Sarah said: +"Don't you hit me, old man; I'll tell my father." And the old man beat +her and the little folks pushed up the briar bushes so she tore her clothes +and scratched herself badly. The little rabbit was in the spring and he +jumped up and down and she threw at him, telling him she would knock +his head off; but the rabbit jumped up and down 'till the spring was a +lob-lolly of mud, so she had to take muddy water in her bucket. The +little lamb had gotten back into the branch and said: "Please, little +girl, pick me up and put me on the bank to dry." + +But Sarah said: "I won't do it." + +The lamb replied: "Spit in your mother's hand when you go home." + +So Sarah had to go through the briars, that scratched her, and the old +man beat her, and the gate slammed on her, and when her mother met her +she was a "sight." Her face was dirty, her dress torn, her legs and arms were +scratched and bleeding, and her curly hair was in a mass of tangles. Her +mother washed the dirt off and scolded her for being so naughty. Mary +helped to wash and dress her for supper. Then they all sat down to eat, +and every one was happy but Sarah. + +Sarah said: "Mother, the lamb told me to spit in your hand." + +"Very well, come on," answered the mother. So Sarah spat in her +mother's hand and out jumped a lizard and a frog. + +A child ever so small will see the moral, and that, I never forgot. Of +course the pearls and the diamonds are the politeness and kindness, which +is so beautiful in children; and the lizard and the frog are rudeness +and impudence. Very often the nurse would say: "Look here, you Sarah, +you." + +I remember how shocked I would be to think I would ever be like that +naughty Sarah. + +A positive indication of a corrupt age is the lack of respect children +have for parents. This is largely owing to the neglect of teachers. I +am heartily thankful I was taught to say 'Yes Ma'am, and 'No, ma'am,' +'Yes, Sir, and No, Sir.' Now it is--'Yah! Yes, No, What, etc. Nothing +is a greater letter of credit than politeness and it costs nothing. T'is not +the child's fault but the parents and teachers. + +I was, when a child, always doing something; was very fond of +climbing; seemed to have a mania for it. I never saw a tall tree that I +did not try to climb, or wish I could. I used to run bareheaded over the +fields and woods with the other children, lifting up rocks and logs to look +at the bugs and worms. When we found a dead chicken, bird, rat or +mouse, we would have a funeral. I would usually be the preacher and we +would kneel down and while one prayed, the rest would look through +their fingers, to see what the others were doing. We would sing and clap +our hands and shake hands, then we would play: "Come and see." + +I never had but one doll, bought out of a store, it was given to me by +Dr. Jackson for taking my medicine, when I was sick. We made rag +dolls out of dresses. My delight was to have one of the colored women's +babies. We would go visiting and take our dolls, and would tell of the +dreadful times we had and of how mean our husbands were to the children; +sometimes one would tell of how good instead. And then we would +catch bees in the althea blooms. One of the delightful pastimes was to +make mud cakes and put them on boards to dry. We had some clay that +we could mould anything out of--all kind of animals, and, indeed, there +were shapes worked out by little fingers never seen before. + +The race question is a serious one. The kindly feeling between black +and white is giving place to bitterness with the rising generations. One +reason of this seems to be a jealousy of the whites for fear the negroes +will presume to be socially equal with them. The negro race should +avoid this, should not desire it, it would be of no real value to them. +They are a distinct race with characteristics which they need not wish +to exchange. When a negro tries to imitate white folks, he is a mongrel. +I will say to my colored brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus; Never +depart from your race lines and bearings, keep true to your nature, +your simplicity, and happy disposition--and above all come back to the +'Oldtime' religion, you will never strand on that rock. + + + +CHAPTER III. + +MOVED TO WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY.--ALSO MOVED TO MISSOURI.--SAVED +FROM BEING A THIEF.--MY CONVERSION--GOING SOUTH AT OPENING OF +THE CIVIL WAR.--AN INCIDENT OF MY GIRLHOOD SCHOOL DAYS.--WHY I +HAD TO BELIEVE IN REVELATION.--SPIRITUALISM OR WITCHCRAFT. + +In 1854, we moved to Woodford County, Kentucky, and bought a farm +from Mr. Hibler, on the pike, between Midway and Versailles. Mr. Warren +Viley was our nearest neighbor. My father was one of the trustees in +building the Orphans' Home at Midway. Here in Midway I attended Sunday +school and I had a very faithful teacher who taught me the Word of +God. I have forgotten her name but I can see her sweet face now, as she +planted seed in my heart that are still bringing forth fruit. + +A minister came to our house one day and gave me a book to read, +which made a very deep impression on me. As well as I can remember +it was called: "The Children of the Heavenly King." This story represented +three brothers, one, the youngest, was named Ezra, the other Ulrich, +the third I forget. These three were intrusted with watching certain passes +in the mountains during the warfare between a great, good king, and a +bad one, and in proportion as these boys were faithful, the good king was +victorious in battle, but when they neglected their duty, he would suffer +loss. The character of little Ezra was a sweet, unselfish one. He tried +so hard to help, and have his brothers do right. He would run from his +post to wake them up, and tried to make up for their neglect; would +do without rest and food for himself, and plead with them to do their duty. +At last, when the king came, little Ezra was richly rewarded; Ulrich barely +passed, and the unfaithful one was taken out amidst weeping, wailing +and gnashing of teeth, and the door was shut. The minister did not know +what good he had done. + + "Only a thought, but the work it wrought, + Could never by tongue or pen be taught; + For it ran thro' a life, like a thread of gold, + And the life bore fruit, an hundred fold. + Only a word, but it was spoken in love, + With a whispered prayer to the Lord above; + And the angels in heaven rejoiced once more + For a new-born soul entered in, at the door." + + +I resolved to be like little Ezra as near as I could. When I was a +child I fought against my selfish nature. I would often give away my +doll clothes and other things that I wanted to keep myself. Some of the +strongest characteristics of my life were awakened in my childhood. I +would often blush with shame, when committing sins, and I had a great +fear of the judgement day; it would terrify me when hearing of Jesus +coming to the earth. I would often ask myself: "Where can I hide?" +If the public knew of the smashing God gave me the strength to do in my +heart, they would not wonder at my courage in smashing the murder- +shops of our land. "He that ruleth his own spirit, is greater than he that +taketh a city." + +In 1855, we moved to Missouri, just a year before the trouble broke +out between Kansas and Missouri. Missouri determined to make Kansas +a slave state; but Kansas said she would not have a slave upon her soil. +Squads of men in Missouri would often go into Kansas and commit depredations. +At one time they burned Lawrence, Kansas, and killed many +people. This trouble continued to grow worse until it brought on the great +Civil War. + +When we moved from Kentucky to Missouri, I took a severe cold on +the boat, which made me an invalid for years. I was not a truthful child, +neither was I honest. My mother was very strict with me in many ways +and I would often tell her lies to avoid restraint or punishment. If there +was anything I wanted about the house, especially something to eat, I +would steal it, if I could. The colored servants would often ask me to +steal things for them. My nurse Betsy, would say: "Carry get me +a cup of sugar, butter, thread or needles," and many other things. +This would make me sly and dishonest. I used to go and see my aunts and +stay for months. I would open their boxes and bureau drawers and steal +ribbons and laces and make doll clothes out of them. I would steal perfumery +and would run out of the room to prevent them from smelling it. +I am telling this for a purpose. Many little children may be doing what +I did, not thinking of what a serious thing it is, and I write this to show +them how I was cured of dishonesty: I got a little book at Sunday school +and it told the way people became thieves, by beginning to take little things +naming them, and some of these were the very things I had been taking. +I was greatly shocked to see myself a thief; it had never occurred to +me that I was as bad as that. I thought one had to steal something of +great value to be a thief. My repentance was sincere, and I was made honest +by this blessed book, so much so that even after I became grown, +if any article was left in my house I would give it away, unless I could +find the owner. I was perfectly delighted when I was entirely free. I asked +for everything I wanted, even a pin. After that, I could show my doll +clothes, and it was not necessary for me to be sly or tell stories any more. +It was about this time I was converted. There was a protracted meeting +at a place called Hickman's Mill, Jackson County, Missouri. The +minister was gray haired and belonged to the Christian or Disciples +church, the one my father belonged to. I was at this time ten years +old and went with my father to church on Lord's Day morning. At +the close of the sermon, and during the invitation, my father stepped +to the pulpit and spoke to the minister and he looked over in my +direction. At this I began to weep bitterly, seemed to be taken up, and sat +down on the front bench. I could not have told any one what I wept for, +except it was a longing to be better. I had often thought before this +that I was in danger of going to the "Bad place," especially I would be +afraid to think of the time that I should see Jesus come. I wanted to hide +from Him. My father had a cousin living at Hickman's Mill, Ben Robertson. +His wife, cousin Jennie, came up to me at the close of the service, +and said: "Carry, I believe you know what you are doing." But I did not. +Oh, how I wanted some one to explain to me. The next day I was taken to +a running stream about two miles away, and, although it was quite cold +and some ice in the water, I felt no fear. It seemed like a dream. I know +God will bless the ordinance of baptism, for the little Carry that walked +into the water was different from the one who walked out. I said no word. +I felt that I could not speak, for fear of disturbing the peace that is +past understanding. Kind hands wrapped me up and I felt no chill. I +felt the responsibility of my new relation and tried hard to do right. + +A few days after this I was at my aunt Kate Doneghy's. Uncle +James, or "Jim," we called him, her husband, was not a Christian. He +shocked me one day by saying: "So those Campbellites took you to the +creek, and soused you, did they 'Cal'?" (A nick name.) What a blow! +My aunt seemed also shocked to have him speak thus to me. I left +the room and avoided meeting him again. How he crushed me! It +had the effect to make me feel like a criminal. + +The Protestant Church here makes a fatal error which the Catholics +avoid. The ministers of the latter have all young converts come so +often to them for instruction. A child may be born, but not being nursed +and fed, it will die. God has command them to be fed in the sincere +milk of the word. My greatest hindrance has been from the lack of +proper Christian teaching. I love the memory of my father, he used +to have me read the bible to him, and while I did not enjoy it then, it +is a blessed memory. The family altar is essential to the welfare of +every home, no other form of discipline is equal to it. The liberty, +chivalry, and life of a nation live or die in proportion as the Altar fires +live or die. + +"And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine +heart and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children and shalt +talk of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by +the way and when thou liest down and when thou risest up." + +When I was fifteen, the war broke out between the north and the +south. My father saw that Missouri would be the battle ground and he, +with many others, took their families and negroes and went south, taking +what they could in wagons, for there were no railroads then in that section. +There was quite a train with the droves of cattle, mules and horses. +One wagon had six yoke of oxen to it; had to get into it by a ladder, +the kind that was used to freight across the plains. The family +went in the family carriage that my father brought from Kentucky. +I remember the time when this carriage was purchased, with the two +dapple gray horses, and silver mounted harness, and when my mother +would drive out she had a driver in broadcloth, with a high silk hat, +and a boy rode on a seat behind, to open the gates. This was one of +the ways of traveling in Kentucky in those days. My mother was an +aristocrat in her ideas, but my father was not. He liked no display. He +was wise enough to see the sin and folly of it. + +{illust. caption = +THIS IS THE PICTURE OF MY GIRLHOOD HOME IN CASS COUNTY, MO. +UNDER THE TREES OF THIS DEAR OLD PLACE I LISTENED +TO THE SWEET STORY OF MY LOVE OF A MAN MURDERED BY DRINK. +"WHEN THOU HAST LOVED ONE LIVING MAN, THEN MAYEST THOU LOOK +UPON THE DEAD."} + + +After being on the road six weeks, we stopped in Grayson County, +Texas, and bought a farm. As we started from Missouri one of the +colored women took sick with typhoid fever. This spread so that ten +of the family, white, and black, were down at one time. As soon as we +could travel, my father left the colored people south, and took his family +back to Missouri. That winter south was a great blessing to me, for I +recovered from a disease that had made me an invalid for five years-- +consumption of the bowels. Poor health had keep me out of school a +great deal. My father at one time sent me to Mrs. Tillery's boarding +school in Independence, Mo., but I was not in the recitation room more +than half of the time. + +After I recovered my health in Texas, it was my delight to ride on +horseback with a girl friend. The southern boys were preparing to go to +war. Many a sewing did we attend, where the mothers had spun and +woven the gray cloth that they were now working up so sorrowfully for +their sons to be buried in, far away from home. They thought their cause +was right. There were many good masters. And again there were bad +ones. Whiskey is always a cruel tyrant and is a worse evil than chattel +slavery. We were often stopped on our trip by southern troops, in the +Territory and Texas, and then again by northerners. We passed over the +Pea Ridge battle ground shortly after the battle. Oh! the horrors of war. +We often stopped at houses where the wounded were. We let them have +our pillows and every bit of bedding we could spare. We went to our +home in Cass County, Missouri. + +Shortly after this we, with all families living in that country, were +commanded by an order from Jim Lane, to move into an army post. This +reached several counties in Missouri. It was done to depopulate the +country, so that the "Bushwhackers" would be forced to leave, because of +not being able to get food from the citizens. This caused much suffering. +But such is war. We moved to Kansas City. I was in Independence, Mo., +during the battle, when Price came through. I went with a good woman +to the hospital to help with the wounded. My duty was to comb the +heads of the wounded. I had a pan of scalding water near and would use +the comb and shake off the animated nature into the hot water. The southern +and northern wounded were in the same rooms. In health they were +enemies, but I only saw kindly feeling and sympathy. + +Mothers ought to give their daughters the experience of sitting with +the sick; of preparing food for them; of binding up wounds. It is a pitiful +sight to see a helpless woman in the sick room, ignorant through lack +of experience and education, of ways to be useful at the time and place +where these characteristics of woman adorn her the most of all others. + +After we returned from Texas, being the oldest child and the servants all +gone, my mother sick, and the younger children going to +school, I had the house work, cooking and most of the washing to do. It +was a new experience for me, and it was twice as hard as it ought to have +been. I exposed my health; would slop up myself when I washed, and +almost ruined my health, because I had not been properly educated. Herein +was the curse of slavery. My father saw this, and I don't believe he +had a regret when the slaves were free. Mother, it matters not what else +you teach your daughters, if they have not an experience in doing the +work themselves about a home, they are sadly deficient. It is not the soft, +palefaced, painted, fashionable lady we want, for the world would be better +without her; but the woman capable of knowing how, and willing to take +a place in the home affairs of life. It is an ambition of mine to establish +a Preparatory College in Topeka, Kansas, where girls may be taught, as +women should be, that they in turn may teach others, how to wash, cook, +scrub, dress and talk, to counteract the idea that woman is a toy, pretty +doll, with no will power of her own, only a parrot, a parasite of a +man. To be womanly, means strength of character, virtue and a power +for good. Let your women be teachers of good things, says the Holy +Spirit. + +The last school I attended was at Liberty, Missouri, taught by Mr. +and Mrs. Love. Only went there a year, but it was of untold value to me. +I was so eager to get an education. On account of ill health and the war, +I knew but little. I wanted a thorough education. I had read a good +many books, and would write sketches; kept a diary part of the time. + +I will here relate an incident that will give my readers a little insight +into my impulses. At Liberty School we had a class in Smellie's "Natural +Philosophy." There was an argument among the girls. Some said +animals had reasoning faculties. Others said not. Miss Jennie Johnson, +our teacher, said: "Have that for a question to debate on in your society." +So it was ordered. I was given the affirmative. The Friday came. +I was taken by surprise and was in confusion, when I saw the room +crowded. The two other societies of the Seminary, "The Mary Lyons" +and "Rising Star," also all the teachers, were present. Our Society was +the "Eunomian". I had made no preparations. When I was called I +know I looked ridiculously blank. The president tried to keep her face +straight. I got no farther than, "Miss President". All burst out in +uncontrollable laughter. I went to my seat put my face in my arms and +turned my back to the audience. I wept with tears of humiliation. I +felt disgraced. I thought of what a shame this would be to my parents. +How ever after this I must be considered a "Silly" by my schoolmates. +These things nerved me. I dried my tears, turned around in my seat, +looked up, and the moral force it required to do this was almost equal +to that which smashed a saloon. I arose and said: "Miss President, I +am ready to state my case." I began in this style: "I know animals +have the power to reason for my brothers cured a dog from sucking eggs +by having him take a hot one in his mouth, and it was the last egg we +ever knew him to pick up. Why? Because he remembered the hot one +and reasoned that he might get burned. Why is it that a horse will like +one person more than another? Because he is capable of reasoning and +knows who is the best to him." I went on in this homely style and spoke +with a vehemence which said: "I will make my point," which I did +amidst the cheers of the school. I was eighteen at this time and you +would say: "You must have been rather green." So I was in some +things. + +I believe I have always failed in everything I undertook to do the +first time, but I learned only by experience, paid dearly for it, and valued +it afterwards. My failures have been my best teachers. I see no one +more awkward than I once was, but I had determined to conquer. My +defects were the great incentives to perseverance, when I felt I was right. + +I shall not in this book speak much of my love affairs, but they were, +nevertheless, an important part of my life. I was a great lover. I used +to think a person never could love but once in this life, but I often now +say, I would not want a heart that could hold but one love. It was not +the beauty of face or form that was the most attractive to me in young +gentlemen, or ladies, but that of the mind. Seeing this the case with myself, +I tried to acquire knowledge to make my company agreeable. I see +young ladies, and gentlemen, who entertain each other with their silly +jokes and gigglings that are disgusting. When I had company I always +directed the conversation so that my friend would teach me something, or +I would teach him. I would read the poets, and Scott's writings and history. +Read Josephus, mythology and the Bible together, and never read a course +that taught me as much. I would go to the country dances and sometimes +to balls in the City. The church did not object to this: I would +teach Sunday school at the same time. No one taught me that this was +wrong. One thing was a tower of defense to me. I always, when possible, +read the Bible and would pray. After retiring would get up and kneel, +feeling that to pray in bed only, was disrespectful to God. If the angels in +heaven would prostrate themselves before Him, I a poor sinner should. +And right here, I believe in "advancing on your knees." Abraham prostrated +himself, so did David and Solomon, Elijah, Daniel, Paul, and even +our sinless Advocate. Why did the Holy Ghost state the position so often? +For our example, of course. There are no space writers in the Scriptures. +I often had doubts as to whether the Bible was the work of God or man. +I kept these doubts to myself, for I thought infidelity a disgrace. I +wanted to believe the Bible the word of God. I early saw that to close +the Bible was to shut out all knowledge of the purpose of life. Without +its revelations one does not know why we are born, why we live, or +where we go after death. We can see the purpose of all nature, but not +of this life of ours, and God had, by revelation, to make this known. + +The Bible was a mystery to me. It often seemed to be a contradiction. +I did not love to read it, but above all things, I did not want to be a +hypocrite. I was determined to try to do my part. I would pray for the same +thing over and over again, so as to be in earnest, and think of what I was +asking. My mind was distracted by thoughts of the world. I said, if +there is a God, he will not hear the prayer of those, so disrespectful as +not to think of what they ask. I never seemed to get rid of this, unless at +times, when I would have some sorrow of heart. "By the sadness of the +countenance, the heart is made better." + +I do not believe the Bible because I understand it; for there are few +things of revelation that I do understand. Creation is a mystery, still +we know everything had a beginning. I do not know why things grow +out of the earth. Why they are green. Why grass makes wool on a +sheep and hair on a cow, but I know these are facts. I cannot understand +why or how the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from sin, neither +do I understand that greatest of all mysteries, the new birth, but nothing +more positively a fact in my experience. + +God is not perceived by the five senses. The things that are seen +are temporal, but those that are unseen are eternal. What a sin of presumption +to question God in any of His providences. What God says +and does is wisdom, righteousness and power. + +The book of Psalms condemned me. I said, I never felt like David. +I cannot rejoice. Still I felt that I ought to, but instead, a constant +feeling of condemnation and conviction. This was torture to me. I would +often have been willing to have died, if I thought it would have been an +eternal sleep. My childhood and girlhood were not happy; had so many +disappointments. I was called "hard headed" by my parents. I never was +free to have what I wished; something would come between me and what +I wanted. No one understood me so well as my darling aunt Hope Hill, +my mother's sister. She seemed to read me and would talk to me of persons +and things, answering the very cry of my heart. My mother would +often let me stay with her for months. She had five sons, but no daughters +and she was very fond of me. This lesson she taught me: A party +of ladies came out from Independence to spend the day with her. Mrs. +Woodson and a Mrs. Porter, wife of Dr. Porter, I remember the latter, one +of the handsomest women I ever saw, beautiful feet, hands, hair, and a +woman who knew it, and, it was a mater of the greatest pride with her, +these charms. I was very much captivated by her splendid appearance +and could not keep my eyes from her. Next day Mrs. John Staton, a +country neighbor of my aunts, came in to make a visit, She was very +plain, wore a calico dress, waist-apron, and she was knitting a sock. +After she left aunt said to me: "Carry, you did not seem to like Mrs. +Staton's society as you did Mrs. Porter's; but one sentence of Mrs. +Staton's is worth all Mrs. Porter said. Mrs. Porter lives for this world, +Mrs. Staton lives for God." This Lesson I did not learn then, but have +since. Oh! for the old-fashioned women. + + +MY EXPERIENCE WITH SPIRITUALISM. + +Just at the close of the war when we were on a farm in Cass County, +Missouri, a colony of spiritualists were near us, Mrs. Hawkins, the +medium was about 60 years old, very peculiar, and finely educated. +My father had some farms he was selling for other people. He took +Mrs. Hawkins and several of her company to look at a farm with a view +of selling it. When she saw it from a hill some distance off she said: +"That is the place I saw in Connecticut." She bought it for a town site. +In writing to Washington to give it a name, the word "Peculiar" was +selected, and so it has ever been called. Mrs. Hawkins took a great +fancy to me. She would tell me of great things she had done, then say: +"Could Jesus Christ have done more?" I had never heard of Spiritualism +that I knew of, up to this time. This colony brought mechanics, merchants +and musicians with them. I was in great confusion about this matter, not +knowing what to think, for she did some superhuman things. Up stairs +we had a large safe full of old books. I was looking over them one day, +came to a little book called "Spiritualism Exposed". I immediately went +to the orchard, sat under a tree, as my custom was, when I wished to read, +for there I could be quiet. I read the little book through, before I stopped. +This blessed lesson showed me to my entire satisfaction, that modern +spiritualism is witchcraft. The writer took the instances in the Bible. +God told Moses: "You must not suffer a witch to live;" see it at the +court of Pharoah, and that they have "superhuman power." There are +two kingdoms. One of darkness, and one of light. God rules in the latter; +The Devil in the former. Both have powers above the power of man. +The magicians at Pharoah's court were wizards; and the woman of Endor +was a witch. The Bible speaks of dealing with "familiar spirits." Manasseh, +Saul, and other Kings, were cursed for such. Gal. 5th has it as +one of the "mortal sins." The Devil can do lying miracles to deceive. He +will heal the body, or appear to do it, to damn the soul. I find this in +"Christian Science." This is the mark of the "Beast" or carnal mind. Man +is but a beast without the new birth, or spirit of God. Carnality always +seeks to elevate itself. Grace is humble, and sees nothing good outside of +God. The mark of the beast, is the number, or mark of a man; that is +carnality or the Beast. Rev. 13:18. + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +MY FIRST MARRIAGE.--A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT.--MOTHER GLOYD.--MY +DRUGGED AND WHISKEY MURDERED HUSBAND.--LOSING MY POSITION AS +TEACHER.--SECOND MARRIAGE.--LOSS OF PROPERTY.--KEEPING HOTEL.-- +STRUGGLES FOR DAILY FOOD.--THE AFFLICTIONS OF MY CHILD.--ANSWER +TO PRAYER. + + +In the fall of 1865, Dr. Gloyd, a young physician, called to see my +father to secure the country school, saying he wished to locate in our +section of the country, and wanted to take a school that winter, and then +he could decide where he would like to practice his profession. + +This man was a thorough student, spoke, and read, several different +languages; he boarded with. I liked him, and stood in awe of him because +of his superior education, never thinking that he loved me, until he +astonished me one evening by kissing me. I had never had a gentleman +to take such a privilege and felt shocked, threw up my hands to my face, +saying several times: "I am ruined." My aunt and mother had instilled +great reserve in my actions, when in company of gentlemen, so much so +that I had never allowed one to sit near or hold my hand. This was not +because I did not like their society, but I had been taught that to inspire +respect or love from a man, you must keep him at a distance. This often +made me awkward and reserved, but it did me no harm. When I learned +that Dr. Gloyd loved me, I began to love him. He was an only child. +His parents had but a modest living. My mother was not pleased with +seeing a growing attachment between us, for there was another match she +had planned for me. When she saw this she would not allow me to sit +alone in the room with him, so our communication was mostly by writing +letters. I never knew Shakespeare until he read it to me, and I became +an ardent admirer of the greatest poet. The volume of Shakespeare on +his table was our postoffice. In the morning at breakfast he would manage +to call the name "Shakespeare;" then I would know there was a letter +for me in its leaves. After teaching three months he went to Holden, +Mo., and located; sent for his father and mother and in two years we +were married. + + +{illust. caption = +MRS. NATION IS SITTING WHERE SHE STOOD AT HER FIRST MARRIAGE IN THE PARLOR +OF HER OLD HOME IN CASS COUNTY, MISSOURI.} + + +My father and mother warned me that the doctor was addicted to +drink, but I had no idea of the curse of rum. I did not fear anything, for I +was in love, and doubted in him nothing. When Dr. Gloyd came up to +marry me the 21st of November, 1867, I noticed with pain, that his countenance +was not bright, he was changed. The day was one of the gloomiest +I ever saw, a mist fell, and not a ray of sunshine. I felt a foreboding +on the day I had looked forward to, as being one of the happiest. I did not +find Dr. Gloyd the lover I expected. He was kind but seemed to want to +be away from me; used to sit and read, when I was so hungry for his +caresses and love. I have heard that this is the experience of many other +young married women. They are so disappointed that their husbands +change so after marriage. With my observation and experience I believe +that men have it in their power to keep the love of ninety-nine women out +of a hundred. Why do women lose love for their husbands? I find it is +mostly due to indifference on the part of the husband. I often hear the +experience of those poor abandoned sisters. I ask, Why are you in this house +of sin and death? When I can get their confidence, many of them say: "I +married a man; he drank, and went with other women. I got discouraged +or spiteful, and went to the bad also." I find that drink causes so much +enmity between the sexes. Drinking men neglect their wives. Their wives +become jealous. Men often go with abandoned women under the influence +of that drink that animates the animal passions and asks not for the +association of love, but the gratification of lust. Men do not go to the +houses of ill-fame to meet women they love but oftener those they almost hate. +The drink habit destroys in men the appreciation of a home life, and when a +woman leaves all others for one man, she does, and should, expect his +companionship, and is not satisfied without it. Libertines, taking advantage +of this, select women whose husbands are neglectful, and he wins victims +by his attentions, and poor woman, as at the first, is beguiled. Marriage, +while it is the blissful consummation of pure love, is the most serious of +all relations, and girls and boys should early be instructed about the secrets +of their own natures, the object of marriage, and the serious results of any +marriage where true love is not the object. I confess myself that I +was not fit to marry with the ignorance of its holy purpose. Sunday school +teachers, mothers, fathers, and ministers, look into God's word and see the +results of sin. God has written of this so as to force you to educate your +children. Talk freely. Truth will purify everything it comes in contact +with. Ignorance is not innocence, but is the promoter of crime: "My +people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." + +About five days after we were married, Dr. Gloyd came in, threw +himself on the bed and fell asleep. I was in the next room and saw his +mother bow down over his face. She did not know I saw her. When +she left, I did the same thing, and the fumes of liquor came in my +face. I was terror stricken, and from that time on, I knew why he was +so changed. Not one happy moment did I see; I cried most all the time. +My husband seemed to understand that I knew his condition. Twice, +with tears in his eyes, he remarked: "Oh! Pet, I would give my right arm +to make you happy." He would be out until late every night. I never +closed my eyes. His sign in front of the door on the street would creak +in the wind, and I would sit by the window waiting to hear his footsteps. +I never saw him stagger. He would lock himself up in the +"Masonic Lodge" and allow no one to see him. People would call for +him in case of sickness, but he could not be found. + +My anguish was unspeakable, I was comparatively a child. I wanted +some one to help me. He was a mason. I talked to a Mr. Hulitt, a +brother mason, I begged of him to help me save my precious husband. +I talked to a dear friend, Mrs. Clara Mize, a Christian, hoping to get +some help in that direction, but all they could say, was. "Oh, what a +pity, to see a man like Dr. Gloyd throw himself away!" The world was +all at once changed to me, it was like a place of torture. I thought +certainly, there must be a way to prevent this suicide and murder. I now +know, that the impulse was born in me then to combat to the death +this inhumanity to man. + +I believe the masons were a great curse to Dr. Gloyd. These men +would drink with him. There is no society or business that separates +man and wife, or calls men from their homes at night, that produces +any good results. I believe that secret societies are unscriptural, and +that the Masonic Lodge has been the ruin of many a home and character. + +I was so ignorant I did not know that I owed a duty to myself to +avoid gloomy thoughts; did not know that a mother could entail a curse +on her offspring before it was born. Oh, the curse that comes through +heredity, and this liquor evil, a disease that entails more depravity on +children unborn, than all else, unless it be tobacco. There is an object +lesson taught in the Bible. The mother of Samson was told by an angel to +"drink neither wine nor strong drink" before her child was born, and not +to allow him to do so after he was born. God shows by this, that these +things are injurious. Mothers often make drunkards of their own children, +before they are born. My parents heard that Dr. Gloyd was drinking. +My father came down to visit us, and I went home with him. My +mother told me I must never go back to my husband again. I knew the +time was near at hand, when I would be helpless, with a drunken husband, +and no means of support. What could I do? I kept writing to +"Charlie," as I called him. He came to see me once; my mother treated +him as a stranger. He expressed much anxiety about my confinement in +September; got a party to agree to come for him at the time; but +my mother would not allow it. In six weeks after my little girl was +born, my mother sent my brother with me to Holden to get my trunk and +other things to bring them home. Her words to me were: "If you stay +in Holden, never return home again." My husband begged me to stay with +him; he said: "Pet, if you leave me, I will be a dead man in six months." +I wanted to stay with him, but dared not disobey my mother and be +thrown out of shelter, for I saw I could not depend on my husband. I +did not know then that drinking men were drugged men, diseased men. +His mother told me that when he was growing up to manhood, his father, +Harry Gloyd, was Justice of the Peace in Newport, Ohio, twelve years, and +that Charlie was so disgusted with the drink cases, that he would go in +a room and lock himself in, to get out of their hearing; that he never +touched a drop until he went in the army, the 118th regiment, Thomas L. +Young being the Colonel. Dr. Gloyd was a captain. In the society of these +officers he, for the first time, began to drink intoxicants. He was fighting +to free others from slavery, and he became a worse slave than those he +fought to free. In a little less than six months from the day my child +was born, I got a telegram telling of his death. His father died a few +months before he did, and mother Gloyd was left entirely alone. + +Mother Gloyd was a true type of a New England housewife, and I +had always lived in the south. I could not say at this time that I loved +her, although I respected her very highly. But I wanted to be with the +mother of the man I loved more than my own life; I wanted to supply his +place if possible. My father gave me several lots; by selling one of these +and Dr. Gloyd's library and instruments, I built a house of three rooms +on one of the lots and rented the house we lived in, which brought us in +a little income, but not sufficient to support us. I wanted to prepare myself +to teach, and I attended the Normal Institute of Warrensburg. I was +not able to pay my board and Mr. Archie Gilkerson and wife charged me +nothing and were as kind to me as parents. God bless them! I got +a certificate and was given the primary room in the Public School at Holden. +Mother Gloyd kept house and took care of Charlien, my little girl, +and I made the living. This continued for four years. I lost my position +as teacher in that school this way: A Dr. Moore was a member of the +board, he criticised me for the way I had the little ones read; for instance, +in the sentence, "I saw a man," I had them use the short a instead of +the long a, and so with the article a; having them read it as we would +speak it naturally. He made this serious objection, and I lost my place +and Dr. Moore's niece got my room as teacher. This was a severe blow +to me, for I could not leave mother Gloyd and Charlien to teach in another +place, and I knew of no other way of making a living except by teaching. +I resolved then to get married. I made it a subject of prayer and went +to the Lord explaining things about this way. I said: "My Lord, you +see the situation I cannot take care of mother and Charlien. I want you to +help me. If it be best for me to marry, I will do so. I have no one picked +out, but I want you to select the one that you think best. I want to give +you my life, and I want by marrying to glorify and serve you, as well as +to take care of mother and Charlien and be a good wife." I have always +been a literalist. I find out that it is the only way to interpret the Bible. +When God says: "Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him he +shall bring it to pass," I believe that to be the way to act. My faith does +not at all times grasp this or other promises, but there are times when +I can appropriate them and make them mine; there are times when I can +pray with faith, believing that I have the things I pray for, other times it +is not so. + +In about ten days from that time I made this a subject of prayer, I +was walking down the street in Holden and passed a place where Mr. +Nation was standing, who had come up from Warrensburg, where he was +then editing the "Warrensburg Journal". He was standing in the door with +his back to me, but turned and spoke. There was a peculiar thrill which +passed through my heart which made me start. The next day I got +a letter from him, asking me to correspond with him. I was not surprised; +had been expecting something like it. I knew that this was in +answer to my prayer, and David Nation was to be the husband God +selected for me. He was nineteen years older than I, was very good looking, +and was a well-informed, successful lawyer, also a Christian +minister. My friends in Holden opposed this because of the difference +in our ages and of his large family. I gave him the loving confidence +of a true wife and he was often very kind to me. We were married +within six weeks from the time I got the letter from him. Mother +Gloyd went to live with us and continued to do so for fifteen years, until +she died. My married life with Mr. Nation was not a happy one. I +found out that he deceived me in so many things. I can remember the +first time I found this out. I felt like something was broken that could +never be mended. What a shattered thing is betrayed confidence! +Oh, husband, and wives, do not lie to each other, even though you should +do a vile act; confess to the truth of the matter! There will be some +trouble over it, but you can never lose your love for a truthful person. I +hated lying because I loved the truth. I hated dishonesty because I loved +honesty. I loved, therefore I hated. I love mankind therefore I hated +the enemies of mankind. I loved God and therefore hated the devil. +Truth is the pearl of great price. Whoso getteth it has all earth and +heaven. + +I shall not in this book give to the public the details of my life as a +wife of David Nation any more than possible. He and I agreed in but +few things, and still we did not have the outbreaks many husbands and +wives have. The most serious trouble that ever rose between us was in +regard to Christianity. My whole Christian life was an offense unto him, +and I found out if I yielded to his ideas and views that I would be false +to every true motive. He saw that I resented this influence and it caused +him to be suspicious and jealous. I think my combative nature was largely +developed by living with him, for I had to fight for everything that I kept. +About two years after we were married, we exchanged our mutual properties +for seventeen hundred acres of land on the San Bernard River in +Texas, part of which was a cotton plantation. We knew nothing of the +cultivation of cotton or of plantation life. We took a car load of good +furniture with us and some fine stock, hogs and cattle. In packing up to +go to Texas there was a widow who assisted me. In paying her for her +services, I gave her some worthless things, because I was so avaricious. +I would not pay her money, but gave her the things I did not want to +carry with me. I remember I left about eight bushels of potatoes in the +cellar for her and the night we left they froze. I felt very much condemned +the way I treated this poor woman. + +We were as helpless on the plantation as little children. The cultivation +of cotton was very different from anything we had been used to. A +bad neighbor threw all of our plows in the Bernard River and everything +seemed to go wrong. We had eight horses die in the pasture the spring +after we moved there. Soon the money we took with us was gone and +Mr. Nation got discouraged. He went to Brazoria, the county seat, and +stayed six weeks during court, for the purpose of entering the practice +of law again. + +The cotton had been planted before he left. A neighbor named Martin +Hanks came over and told me not to allow the cotton to go to waste, said +he would lend me his plows, and advised me to get a colored man named +Edmond, who was his master's overseer in slave time, to manage this +crop for me. I hired five other negroes, paying them with things I had +in the house, for I had not a cent of money. The result was a fine crop of +cotton. Mr. Nation's daughter Lola, was then eleven years old, and +Charlien was three years younger. We lived six miles from a school, and +just at a time when the girls needed school most. I began to see what a +disastrous move we had made. I became very dispondant and sick at +heart. I was young and did not know then how to contend with +disappointments on every hand. At one time I was quite sick with chills +and fever. I had nothing in the house but meal, some fat bacon and sweet +potatoes. There was a poor old man that we took in for charity who +was with us, named Mr. Holt. I called him to my bedside and asked +him to go to the patch and dig a bushel of sweet potatoes and take them +to town and exchange them for a little tea, sugar, lemons and bread. +He failed in this and was returning when, he met a dear, sweet woman, +Mrs. Underwood, that I called my "Texas Mother." She called to Mr. +Holt, and asked him how I was. He told her I was sick and out of +anything to eat. She took the potatoes and sent the articles I wanted. +I believe I should have died had he returned without them, for I was +almost famished for food and sick besides. + +I was in Columbia one day and stopped at the Old Columbia Hotel, +owned by the Messrs. Park, two bachelors. Mrs. Ballenger a widow was +renting it from Messrs. Park. I said to them: "If you ever need a tenant, +send for me." In a few months Mrs. Ballenger's daughter died and she +left. Mr. Park sent for me to come. We had a car load of good plain +furniture and bedding, some handsome tableware, but no money to buy +provisions. + +Dear old mother Gloyd was a great help to me. She had once +kept hotel herself. I did not ask credit, and this is how I got the money +to begin keeping hotel: There was an Irish ditcher named Dunn whose +wife did my work. She was a good cook. I borrowed of Mr. Dunn three +dollars and fifty cents, and with this money began the hotel business. The +house was a rattle trap, plastering off, and a regular bed-bug nest. +I fumigated, pasted the walls over with cloth and newspapers, where the +plastering was off, and made curtains out of old sheets. My purchases +were about like this for the first day: Fifty cents worth of meat, coffee +ten cents, rice ten cents and sugar twenty-five cents, potatoes five, etc. +The transients at one meal would give me something to spend for the next. +I assisted about the cooking and helped in the dining-room. Mother Gloyd +and Lola attended to the chamber work, and little Charlien was the one +who did the buying for the house. I would often wash out my tablecloths +at night myself and iron them in the morning before breakfast. I would +take boarders' washing, hire a woman to wash, then do the ironing myself. +Columbia was a small village of not more than five hundred people. It was +the terminal of a railroad called the Columbia Tap. Mr. Painter, the +conductor, began boarding with us right off and in three or four days he +brought a family there to board by the name of Oastram, father, mother +and two boys, having come south to buy a plantation. Mrs. Oastrom handed +me a ten dollar bill. I called Lola and Charlien upstairs and showed +them the ten dollar bill. We were overjoyed; we danced, laughed, and +cried. Charlien said: "Now we can buy a whole ham." For several +months my little children and I ate nothing but broken food. I can never +put on paper the struggles of this life. I would not know one day how we +would get along the next. + +The bitterest sorrows of my life have come from not having the +love of a husband. I must here say that I have had, at times, in the +society of those I love, a foretaste of what this could be. For years +I never saw a loving husband that I did not envy the wife; it was a +cry of my heart for love. I used to ask God why He denied me this. +I can see now why it was. I know it was God's will for me to marry +Mr. Nation. Had I married a man I could have loved, God could never +have used me. Phrenologists who have examined my head have said: +"How can you, who are such a lover of home be without one?" The very +thing that I was denied caused me to have a desire to secure it to others. +Payne who wrote "Home Sweet Home" never had one. There is in my +life a cause of sadness and bitter sorrow that God only knows. I shall not +write it here. Oh! how the heart will break almost for a loving word! +I believe the great want of the world is love. Jesus came to bring love to +earth. + +During these severe afflictions I began to see how little there was in +life. I wondered at the gaiety of people. Seemed like a pall hung over the +earth. I would wonder that the birds sung, or the sun would shine. I +might say that for years this was my experience. I would go to God but +got very little relief; yet I never gave up. It was all the hope I could see +for me. About this time my little Charlien, who had been such a help to me, +began to go into a decline, until she was taken down with typhoid fever. +Her case was violent and she was delirious from the first. This my only +child was peculiar. She was the result of a drunken father and a distracted +mother. The curse of heredity is one of the most heart-breaking +results of the saloon. Poor little children are brought into the world, +cursed by disposition and disease, entailed on them. How can mothers be +true to their offspring with a constant dread of the nameless horrors wives +are exposed to by being drunkards' wives. Men will not raise domestic +animals under conditions where the mothers may bring forth weak or +deformed offspring. My precious child seemed to have taken a perfect +dislike to Christianity. This was a great grief to me, and I used to pray +to God to save her soul at any cost; I often prayed for bodily affliction on +her, if that was what would make her love and serve God. Anything for +her eternal salvation. + +Her right cheek was very much swollen, and on examination we +found there was an eating sore inside her cheek. This kept up in spite of +all remedies, and at last the whole of her right cheek fell out, leaving the +teeth bare. My friends and boarders were very angry at the physician, +saying she was salivated. From the first something told me this is an +answer to your prayer. At this time, when her life was despaired of, I +had an intense longing to save my child, who was so dear to me. I said: +"Oh, God, let me keep a piece of my child." A minister said: "Don't +pray for the life of your child; she will be so deformed it were better she +were dead." I could not feel this way. After being at death's door for +nine days, she began to recover. The wound in her face healed up to a +hole about the size of a twenty-five cent piece. Her jaws closed and +remained so for eight years. The sickness of my daughter and the keeping +up of the hotel was such a tax on my mind, that for six months all +transactions would recede from my memory. For instance, if anyone +told me something, in an hour afterwards, I could not tell whether it +had been hours, days or months since it was told me. I never entirely +recovered from this, still being forgetful of names, dates and circumstances, +unless they are particularly impressed upon my mind. When I could afford +it, I took my child, then twelve years old, down to Galveston, put her +under the care of Dr. Dowell for the purpose of closing the hole in her +cheek. I had to leave the little one down there among strangers, for I +could not afford to stay with her. A mother only will know what this +means. After four operations the place was closed up in her cheek, still +her mouth was closed, her teeth close together. I suffered torture all these +years for fear she might strangle to death. I took her to San +Antonio, Texas, to Dr. Herff, and he and his two sons removed a section +of the jawbone, expecting to make an artificial joint, enabling her to use +the other side of her jaw. After all this, the operation was a failure, and +her jaws closed up again. We, in the meantime, moved to Richmond +from Columbia. We became very successful in the hotel business and I +saved money enough to send her to New York City, where her father, Dr. +Gloyd, had a cousin, Dr. Messinger, who would see that she had the best +relief possible. None of the surgeons there gave her any hope of opening +her jaws. She went to Dr. John Wyeth to have him perform the plastic +surgery; that is, he cut off a flap from under her chin, turning it over the +scar on her cheek. + +Although Charlien was not a Christian, she had faith in God. Once +she complained of my being too strict with her, but said: "Mamma I owe +it to you that I have any faith in God, even if you are severe with me." +She always believed that her mother had a God. Finding no physician +in New York that could open her jaws, she wrote me this: "No one but +God can open my mouth, Mamma; ask him to do it." There was a Catholic +woman, Miss Doregan, who boarded with me and had a store around +the corner from the hotel, and I could think of no one else who had as +much faith as this woman. She said she believed that God would heal +my child according to prayer, so I went for seven mornings before breakfast +to this saint of God. She taught me many holy truths and she +explained the Scriptures to me. I learned from her a prayer that we said +in concert, that was written by one of the Old Fathers, and is one of the +most complete in devotion I have ever read. I will record it here: + "Come Holy Ghost send down those beams, + That sweetly flow in silent streams, + From thy bright throne above; + Oh, Come Father of the poor, + Thou bounteous source of all our store; + Come fire our hearts with love. + Come thou of comforters the best, + Come thou the soul's delicious guest, + The pilgrim's sweet relief: + Thou art our rest in toil and sweat, + Refreshment in excessive heat + And solace in our grief. + Oh! sacred light shoot home the darts, + Oh! pierce the center of those hearts + Whose faith aspires to thee. + Without thy God-head nothing can + Have any worth a price in man, + Nothing can harmless be." + "Lord wash our sinful stains away, + Water from heaven our barren clay, + Our wounds and bruises heal. + To thy sweet yoke our stiff necks bow, + Warm with thy fire our hearts of snow, + Our wandering feet repair. + Oh, grant thy faithful dearest Lord, + Whose only hope is thy sure word, + The seven gifts of thy spirit. + Grant us in life to obey thy grace, + Grant us in death to see thy face + And endless joys inherit, + Through the same Christ our Lord." + "Amen." + +And now I often use this beautiful and comprehensive petition to my Dear +Lord. + +Charlien wrote that she had letters of introduction to a physician in +Philadelphia, Dr. J. Ewing Mears, but in every letter would say: "Keep +on praying." This we did. Oh, the anxiety of my mother heart! My +duties as landlady kept me busy all day and part of the night. I often +had to do my own cooking. + +God was good to me and we were very successful financially, and +managed to meet all debts and payments on the property we had purchased. + +After I knew the operation had been performed in Philadelphia, I +telegraphed to Charlien. The answer came from the physician: "All +right," but my anxiety was intensified. I became almost wild with anxiety, +and I determined to go to her. I borrowed four hundred dollars from +Alex McNabb, the man she was engaged to, and in three hours I was +on my way to my precious suffering one. As soon as I got on the +train a sense of divine guidance came to me. + +When I arrived at the hospital, I had the nurse take me to my child's +room. I cannot describe the meeting. She was packing up her clothes. +I said: "Why are you doing this?" Then she told me this pitiful story: +"Mamma, you did not send me any money, and the Doctor and nurse +seemed dissatisfied, so I took most of my clothes down to a soup house and +pawned them, that the woman may give me a room and soup until I +could hear from you." + +This was horrible to think of. I had sent her money, but like some +others, Charlien never knew the value of money. I had her on my lap +and we were crying together. Just to think, in ten minutes more my +child might have been gone, and I might not have found her for some +time. Her mouth was opened half an inch, and as she talked, I noticed +that the side of her face the jaw bone had been taken from, was moving +as she chewed a piece of gum. I placed my hands on each side of +her face and said: "Now chew, Well, this is just like God; he has not +only opened your mouth, but has given you a new jaw bone. My darling +you know that the bone from this side was taken out." "Yes", she said, +"I told Dr. Mears that, but he said it could not be." + +I told him I saw the bone and teeth that were taken out. So in answer +to prayer, God had wrought this miracle. + +I stayed there six weeks with her, She went to see the doctor three +times a week. He used a pry to open her jaws, which was very painful to her +but she gradually grew better. We were so happy in each other's society. +I took her every place to see sights in that grand, philanthropic city. I +believe Philadelphia, "Brotherly Love," has more evidence of the meaning +of the name than any city I have ever seen. The "Breakfast Association" +for redeemed men has no equal in its Christ-like work. When I left +New York for Kansas, I bought two tickets, one from New York to Chicago +and another one from there on. When I went to check my trunk +I found one ticket was gone. I had only about three or four dollars, not +enough to get me another ticket. This was at Fulton Ferry. I turned and +walked out going toward the elevated road, looking as I went for my +ticket. Was praying God to help me find it. I walked about the streets +as if in a dream. Wishing to learn where I was, I crossed the street to +ask a policeman. Seeing a paper at his feet I picked it up and it was my +lost ticket. Joshua made the sun stand still by prayer. Elijah closed the +heavens from raining on the earth and raised the dead. It is not strange +that God should answer my prayer in this case. + +In six weeks I returned home leaving Charlien, who went to Vermont +to visit some of her father's relatives, the Gloyds. She was gone six +months, came home and married and continued to live in Richmond, +Texas. For a year she and her husband lived with me; also Mr. Nation's +daughter, Lola, was married and living with me, and mother Gloyd, now +eighty-six years old, was there. My cares now were so heavy many times +that I could not attend religious worship as I wished. Sunday morning I +frequently gathered my servants in the dining-room, and there we read and +studied the Bible. I had great heaviness of heart, because I had no time +to meditate and study the Scriptures. I saw I was only living to feed +the perishing bodies of men and women. I would frequently go upstairs +and prostrate myself on the floor, crying to God for deliverance from my +present surroundings, telling Him over and over, "if he would free me I +would do for Him what he couldn't get anyone else to do." How literally +this has been fulfilled, for God held me to my vow, and what Carry A. +Nation has done is what no one else has; not only in the instance of smashing +saloons, but in every other work. My life beyond dispute has +been marvelous and no one that will stop to consider but will know +and must admit that an unseen power, one super-human, has upheld me, +"not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord." + + + +CHAPTER V. + +THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST.--REJECTED AS A BIBLE TEACHER IN +METHODIST AND EPISCOPALIAN CHURCHES.--TAUGHT IN HOTEL DINING-ROOM.-- +VISION, WARNING AND BLESSING.--ENTERTAINING ANGELS.--THE JEWS.-- +PRAYER FOR RAIN AND ANSWER.--GOD'S JUDGEMENTS ON THE WICKED.-- +MOVED TO KANSAS.--DEATH OF MOTHER GLOYD.--SERMON OF A CATHOLIC +PRIEST. + + +In this chapter I will tell of God's leading. I say of my life, "This +is the Lord's doings and marvelous in our eyes." A Methodist conference +was held in Richmond, Texas, about the year 1884. I attended. The +minister read the sixty-second chapter of Isaiah. From the time he began +reading I was marvelously affected. Paul said it was not "lawful" or possible +to utter some things. There was a halo around the minister. I was +wrapt in ecstacy. My first impression was that an angel was talking and +that the house was ascending to heaven. I felt my natural heart expanding +to an enormous size. I looked to see what impression was made on +the people in the audience. I saw one man nodding. I was surprised, for +no one seemed at all astonished or delighted. + +At the close of the meeting I tried to find out the meaning. No one +felt as I did. I went to a saintly woman, Mrs. Ruth Todd, and asked her +about the sermon. She had felt nothing remarkable. I had never been +taught that anyone but the Apostles in Jesus' time got the gift of the Holy +Ghost, or I would have understood this wonderful state. I then and there +openly consecrated myself to God, telling my friends that "from henceforth +all my time, means and efforts should be given to God." (Mr. Nation +in his petition for divorce said that up to this year I had been a good wife.) +I was often considered crazy, on the subject of religion. When I spoke +to people I would ask them, "if they loved God;" I could not refrain from +this; the servant in the kitchen, the guest, the merchant, the market man; +I felt impelled by divine love for the souls of men. + +God had given me an intense love for souls, and one was as precious +as another to me. I now see what the enlarging of my heart meant. Once +an old colored man brought in the kitchen some eggs to sell. I said: +"Uncle, do you love God?" He turned to my cook Fannie and said: +"Hear dat". Fannie said: "Oh! Mrs. Nation knows the Lord." Uncle +said: "Thank God one white woman got ligen," clapped his hands and +praised God. It used to be and is now the sweetest music to have anyone +praise God. I am at church often, when I long to hear a loud shout of +praise go up to the giver of every good and perfect gift. It is torture to +attend the cold, dead service of most of the churches. + +I was a teacher in the Methodist Sunday school and had given perfect +satisfaction up to this time; but things changed. The minister said from +the pulpit that the teachers should be Methodists, and spoke so pointedly +that all knew he meant me. The superintendent at the Episcopal Sunday +school asked me to teach in their Sunday school. (This was Judge Williams, +the husband of Lola, Mr. Nation's daughter.) I did so, and things +went smoothly for a while. + +Father Denroach was the minister, and one morning he asked the +school questions out of the catechism. My class could not answer. I +arose and said: "Father Denroach, I do not teach my class the catechism, +I use only God's word." "What objection do you find to the +catechism?" he asked. I replied: "I cannot teach the Bible and catechism, +for one contradicts the other. The gospel is to be believed and +obeyed and a Christian is a follower of Christ. The catechism in the +first lesson asks this question: What is your name? 'Bob, Tom or John.' +'When did you get that name?' 'In my baptism, when I was made a Christian.' +"Baptism never did make a Christian. Infants cannot be made Christians, +they cannot follow Christ, cannot believe or obey the Gospel. Jesus +said: 'Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven! Now if I teach my class that +the state of being a Christian is something they get without the exercise of +their will, I contradict what I have been teaching." The dear old man +walked up and down the aisle shaking his robes. I said: "A house +divided against itself cannot stand." You must have an Episcopalian +teacher to teach your doctrine." So I was shut out from teaching in the +only two churches in Richmond. + +I could not be satisfied. I tried to get the Methodist church for a Mission +school in the afternoon, but failed. I got plank for seats and after +dinner on Lord's Day I had my hotel dining-room seated and gathered all +the little ones I could. These were largely children who went to no Sunday- +School. I got five Catholic children to attend. We had an attendance +of from thirty to forty. We bought an organ, had our charts and +maps. One poor saloon keeper named Frost came several times and always +gave a dollar. He was killed in the fight between the Jaybirds and +Peckerwoods in Richmond. This work was a blessing to my soul and I +have seen happy results from that little school. I kept this up until I +left there for Kansas. The last Sunday we all went to the graveyard to +study our lesson. I wished by this to impress the little ones with the +purpose of the Gospel. + +I have had visions and dreams that I know were sent to me by my +Heavenly Father to warn or comfort or instruct me. I notice my dreams, +not all, but I can tell the significant ones, usually by the impression they +make on me. The dream that comes to me just before waking up generally +means something to me. To dream of snakes has always been a +bad omen to me. When I first started out smashing, while in Wichita +jail, I dreamed of two enormous snakes, one on one side of a road, the +other on the other; one raised to strike me, the other made no move. I +was impressed that the one that was the most venomous and in the attitude +of striking me with its fangs was the Republican party, and this +has been my deadly foe. + +I will here relate a vision I had. One cold night in March, 1889, I +heard a groan across the hall. It was about three o'clock in the morning. +I found the sufferer to be an old gentleman who was having very severe +cramps, so I went down to the kitchen to make a mustard plaster. The +hotel was a number of frame buildings, one having twenty-one rooms, and +about five or six cottages around the main building. We carried no insurance, +and so many would say we had a "firetrap" there. We had a mortgage +on the place, and I was kept in terror constantly for fear of fire, and +would often spring out of bed at night in my sleep, expecting to see a fire. + +I lit a candle, went down stairs through several dark halls. Then +I went upstairs again and gave the old man the plaster; afterwards returned +to the kitchen, thinking probably I left the candle burning. Things +were all dark, but when I started up the stairs, there seemed to be +a light shining behind me, which would come and go in flashes, as I +ascended. I looked everywhere to see where it came from, but discovered +it to be an unnatural manifestation, for I could not see to step nor +move by it. It followed me until I got to my room door. It did not alarm +me. I felt the sweet, peaceful presence of God, I prayed to him and I +could think of no reason for having this blessing from God, except that +I had gotten up in the cold to relieve this suffering man. I stood by my +bed for a short time praying to God, and thanking him for his goodness to +me. I thought Mr. Nation was asleep, but he afterwards told me that he +heard me whispering. I slept until late, and when I did go down to breakfast, +Mr. Nation and Alex, my son-in-law, were at the table. I told them +I had a warning last night, and if I had a Daniel or Joseph they could +interpret a vision I had. The peculiar vision of the light was repeated to +them, but they paid very little attention to it; being very busy I thought +no more of it that day. + +Just about three o'clock the next morning, I was awakened by the cry +of fire. Charlien screamed from the next room: "Mamma, the town is on +fire." I ran out and the whole heavens seemed to be on fire. It had originated +in a drugstore and was sweeping towards the hotel. I immediately +ran upstairs and began to pray. I told God "There wasn't a dishonest dollar +so, far as I knew in the house, and that He told me "to call on Him in +a day of trouble," and said, "this is my day of trouble, and begged He +would hear me. Many of the guests passed by, some of them with baggage +in their hands and some still dressing. I prayed until I seemed to get +an answer of security. One lady, Mrs. Moore, the wife of a physician, +who had boarded with me a long time, had a very elegant set of furniture, +and she called to me several times to take my things out of the hotel. She +had two colored men moving her furniture I heard her say to several persons: +"That woman has lost her mind." All the boarders had their trunks +out and everyone was saying to me: "Why don't you try to save your +furniture?" I would take hold of some things to take out, but it seemed +something would intimate, "Let it be." I walked down the street and Mr. +Blakely, one of the men who was killed in the Jaybird and Peckerwood battle +in Richmond said: "Are you insured?" + +I said: "Yes, up there," pointing to Heaven. + +All fear was gone, and now in the time of almost certain danger I +was confident of deliverance, when before I had been nervous, in time when +all was secure. At last the cry came in: "You are saved." I went in the +hotel office, sat down by the stove and Alex, my son-in-law, was by me. I +said to him: "Oh, Alex, my vision!" He looked almost paralyzed, for +I had told him it was a warning and all the circumstances. From that +day to this I have never had any fear of fire. + + +ENTERTAINING ANGELS UNAWARES. + +One noon I was busy with the guests and waiting on the tables, and +going to the kitchen I saw sitting on the wood-box a poor dejected looking +creature, a man about twenty-four years of age. He asked me if I had any +tinware to mend. I told him, "No, but you can have your dinner." +He said. "I don't want any." He looked the picture of dispair. +I said: "Don't go until I can speak to you." + +When I had time I told him I wanted some one to wash dishes. He +consented to stay, and I felt at that time I must care for that poor creature +or he would die. He stayed with us three years and proved to be a +jewel. All the rest of my help was colored, and generally speaking, white +and colored help do not assimilate, but they all had profound respect for +Smith. He soon owned his horse and did the draying for the hotel. Then +he got to be a clerk, and bought pecans for the northern market. All his +family had died from consumption, and he was traveling for his health. +He left us for Pierce's Sanitarium, Buffalo, N. Y., and stayed there some +time for treatment. He ran a little booth by the Niagara Bridge, and soon +accumulated quite a little sum. He became a Christian and married. I +often got letters from him expressing so much gratitude. He was an +infidel when he first came, and he said it was my influence that made him +a Christian. + +I often had the Orthodox Jews to stop with me. They ate nothing +that contained lard; their food was mackerel, eggs, bread and coffee. The +rates were two dollars a day, but I charged them only one dollar, and +allowed them to pay their bills with something that was in their "pack." +My other guests would often regard them with almost scorn, but when +they were at their meals I would wait on them myself, showing them this +preference, for I could not but respect their sacrifice for the sake of +their religion. I have always treated the Jews with great respect. Our +Savior was a Jew and said: "Salvation is of the Jews." They are a monument +to the truth of the Scriptures, a people without a country; and +though they are wanderers upon the face of the earth, they retain their +characteristics more than any other people have ever done. If an Italian, +German or Frenchman comes to America, in a hundred years he becomes +thoroughly an American, losing the peculiarities of his descent. But +wherever a Jew goes no matter how long he stays he remains a Jew. +This can be said of no other people on earth. + +I know by experience that the Jews are tricksters, but they have +almost been forced into their cupidity in getting money, yet the greatest +promise of deliverance in the Bible is for that nation. The foundation +stones of heaven and the pearly gates are named for the twelve tribes. No +Christian should scorn a Jew. + +One day I was driving down the street of Richmond in a buggy, and +Mr. Blakely the merchant I dealt so much with, and also a member of +the Methodist church, stopped me, saying that he had something to say +to me: + +"Your friends are becoming very uneasy about the state of your mind. +You are thinking too much on religious subjects, and they asked me to +warn you." This gave me a blessed assurance, and I laughed very heartily, +saying: + +"Your words are indeed a blessing to me, for if I have a religion +that the world understands, it is not a religion of the Bible." + +I was naturally ambitious and was very fond of nice furniture, china +and dainty things, but I have lost all taste for these, and stopped making +fashionable calls, for I have seen the vanity and wickedness in fashionable +society and costly dressing. I educated myself to look at things as I +thought God would, and this change came about after that transaction +between my soul and God, at the Methodist church, which I know was the +"Baptism of the Holy Ghost;" but did not know then what it was. I had +been born in the Christian church, and was taught that only the Apostles +had received that gift. I never knew what to call this experience until +three years after when I went to Kansas, and had it explained to me by +the Free Methodists, and where God gave me a witness that it was true. + +We had quite a drought in Texas, everything was parched and burning +up, and great concern was felt by all. Charlien said to me one day: +"Mamma why don't you pray for rain?" + +I was so struck with the idea that I went to the church that night and +proposed that we pray for rain. So four ladies were elected to appoint +a special meeting. The minister's wife, Mrs. Todd, Mrs. Blakely and myself +were the four. We met and we said the first thing is to agree. The +minister's wife began to cry and said: + +"I have read of so many thunderbolts lately, that I am almost afraid +to pray;" and Mrs. Blakely repeated the same, but I told the women this +was doubting God in the beginning. + +" 'If you ask for bread, will He give you a stone.' I am willing to +trust God who said: 'Ask and ye shall receive,' and let Him send the +rain any way He pleases." This was finally agreed upon, and the next +afternoon the citizens of the town were called to the church to pray for +rain. + +After the meeting, we were standing on the platform in front of the +church, and a sprinkle of rain out of a cloudless sky fell on the platform, +and on the shutters of the house. This was nothing but a miracle, and +was very astonishing to us all. The next day the clouds began to gather +in the sky, and the moisture began, at first, to fall like heavy dew. There +was no lightning or thunder and the rain came down in the gentlest manner +and continued in this way three days. With this marvelous manifestation +in direct answer to prayer, many people said "we would have had the +rain any way." "Truly the ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's +crib, but my people doth not know, my people doth not consider." + +I began to think what I should do to fulfill my vow to God, for I +vowed to return to Him something for rain, to show my gratitude that I +had seen done. There was an old man, about seventy years old, entirely +destitute, whose name was Bestwick. I went to see him, asked him to +come to the hotel and make his home there. There was also a poor German +girl, named Fredricka. I also gave her board at the hotel. These two +stayed with me free of charge as long as I lived in Richmond. + +There were two political factions in Richmond at this time, one called +the "Jaybirds" and the other "Peckerwoods". The latter were people +that were in favor of the negro holding offices. This party had control of +the country for some time. The head of this party was Garvey, the +sheriff. The head of the former was Henry Frost, a saloon-keeper, and +to this belonged nearly all the young men of Richmond. + +Mr. Nation was correspondent for the Houston Post and he wrote +a letter speaking of the bad-influence and conduct of these young men the +night before; screaming about the streets and disturbing the peace generally. +He went down to meet the trains about twelve o'clock at night. The +next night after the article appeared in the Post, he came in and woke +me up saying: "Wife get up; I have been beaten almost to death;" +and lighting a lamp, I found that his body was covered with bruises. +I bathed him in cold water and otherwise tried to relieve him. He +was too faint to tell me the trouble, only the boys had beaten him. I knelt +down by the window to pray to God. I began by calling on God to send a +punishment on people that would do such a mean, cowardly act. I prayed +until I received perfect deliverance from that kind of a spirit, and when I +got up from off my knees, it was four o'clock in the morning. + +In this crowd was a family of Gibson boys, whose father was an +infidel, and encouraged his sons in this matter and in all their bad ways. +There were also other boys, Peason, Little, Winston; twenty-one in all. +A man by the name of Henry George asked Mr. Nation to come and sit +on a bale of cotton on the depot platform, and talk with him; another one +of these boys came up and threw Mr. Nation backwards on the platform. +Then each one gave him a hit with a stick, or a cane. I don't think there +are but two or three of those boys living now. After moving to Kansas, +a few months after this I returned to Texas for a visit. I then looked, +upon the graves of four of the Gibsons. "Truly, vengeance is mine, I will +repay," saith the Lord. + +Mr. Nation was very unpopular with the "Jaybird" faction, because +they said no Republican should stay in Fort Bend County. The bitterness +between these two factions broke out in a war. Garvey and Frost with +three others were killed. Before this animosity between them arose, Richmond +was a very pleasant place to live. A great deal of sociability existed +among the people, but from this time business and social relations were +almost entirely ruined. + +I visited Richmond in 1902, and I never saw such a difference. The +Galveston storm greatly damaged many of the houses, and the ruins were +still there. A pall of death seemed to be over the whole place, and one +coming into the town would feel a desire to leave it as quickly as possible, +if there was not some interest independent of the town. God said: "They +shall eat the fruit of their own doing." Still in Richmond God has those +who have not bowed their knees to Baal. + +Mr. Nation's life was threatened and we had to leave. He went to +Kansas where he had a brother. After an application he took charge of a +Christian church at Medicine Lodge, Barber County, Kansas. This is January, +1904, and we moved to Kansas about fourteen years ago. + +We traded the hotel for property in Medicine Lodge. Charlien, Lola +and their husbands moved to themselves and mother Gloyd would consent +to stay away from me only until we could get settled in Kansas. She +had her trunk prepared for the journey. She was now eighty-six years +old, but had remarkable vitality. I said: + +"Mother you had better stay here the rest of your life, for Kansas is +much colder than this climate." + +But she replied: "I came from Vermont and it is very cold there." + +She followed me to the train, and when I went to leave her she placed +her arms around me and her head on my breast. Her last words were: +"I have lived with you and I want to die with you." Oh, how I disliked +to leave her! This was the last time I saw her dear, sweet face. We +had lived together as constant companions for twenty-three years. + +Before I left Richmond, I requested of two of my dear friends, Mrs. +Connor and Mrs. Todd, that if mother ever got sick, they would stay by +her until the last. In a year from this time she died, being sick only three +days. These dear friends stayed by her side until the last. A telegram +was sent to me when she was first taken sick, and I wanted to go, but I +had no money of my own, and Mr. Nation would not consent. I have +never ceased to be sorry for it. + +I was very much pleased when I first went to Kansas, for it was a +great relief from burdens. We boarded six months. After the year was +up, Mr. Nation went to Holton, Kansas, and took charge of a church +there. He went before I did, and to save shipping our horse and buggy, +I drove through. In order to get a good start and directions for my journey, +I went to Bro. Ed. Crouce, who lived on a farm about five miles from +town. Our horse was not very safe for he had a way of balking. Bro. +Crouce told me to give him a severe cut across the back and give him the +reins if he attempted to balk. I tried this on two occasions, following his +directions. The horse reared up and acted in a way that terrified me, but I +conquered and for ten years I drove that horse. He was a noble beast +with almost human sense. This journey was four hundred miles. For a +hundred and fifty miles I was accompanied by a young girl of sixteen +years of age, who was a farmer's daughter and seemed to be afraid of +nothing. She was a great inspiration to me, preparing me to drive the two +hundred and fifty miles alone. The great difficulty was in finding places +to stop at night. I got so I did not look for large roomy houses for +entertainment, but the smaller ones. I found out that the friends of the +poor are the poor. Mr. Nation met me at Topeka and he was so pleased that +he said: "You shall have this horse and buggy for your own." + +Holton was thirty miles north and we drove up together. + +I began to have a contempt for popular preaching, keeping apart from +"clicks" and "sects". I knew that my husband ought not to be in the ministry. +I do not believe he was ever a converted man. This made me very +miserable, putting us in a false light before the people. It was my desire +to serve God in a simple, humble way. Before the year was out because +of some dissatisfaction in the church between Mr. Nation and the board, +we left Holton. I then drove back to Medicine Lodge alone, enjoying my +trip very much. Mr. Nation never took charge of a church again. He +was a man well versed in law, and at one time rendered valuable service +in prosecuting liquor cases in Medicine Lodge. + +When I lived in Texas and was keeping hotel in Richmond, one cold +rainy morning, a lot of men came in from the train. + +I took special notice of one man. His hands were that of a woman, +his face was very refined, but his clothes were shabby. He was sitting +by himself and I said to him: "You must excuse me but you +look so much like a catholic priest I once saw." I did not then dream he +was one. Next morning I sent one of the boys that waited on the table to +see what was the matter that he did not come down to breakfast. He was +sick. I went up to see him and he told me he often had attacks of heart +trouble; that he had fallen in a faint in the yard the night before. I asked +him if he had any friends. He said: "No." I asked him his business? +"You guessed it last night," he replied. Then he told me he was a catholic +priest. I was very much astonished for he had on a common suit with a +red necktie. I then knew he was in trouble somewhere. He told me he +had no money. I told him he was welcome to stay as long as he wished. +I gathered up some clean garments and did for him all I could. I felt +glad to have this catholic priest in my house. I resolved to ask him +concerning their faith. He was one of the saddest man I ever saw and it +made my heart ache to see him. I knew so well what it was to have "a heart +bowed down with grief and woe," and I saw in this poor creature desolation. +I asked him if he should die, what sin he would have to repent of. +He said: "I may have sinned in trying to fix up a home for poor priests +who come into disfavor with the bishops." His words were: "There is +no one so helpless as a catholic priest sent adrift. A boy ten years old +knows as well how to make a living for himself. I have been from a boy, +in a Jesuit College, St. John's, near New York. You do not know the +sorrows of a catholic priest. Few know that so many priests are dying from +heart disease. I am trying to get to San Antonio, for a priest there may +help me some." He stayed at the hotel five days. One evening he came in +the parlor where there was quite a company, and I was astonished to see +him so changed. He was no longer the shrinking, crest-fallen man, but he +seemed bright and joined in conversation; sang and played on the piano. +I soon found out he had been drinking. I wanted to shield him from the +scandal and made an excuse to call him from the room, and told him what +I did this for. Next morning he came down as "sad as night". I said: +"Are you going to leave?" "Yes," he replied. I wrote a note to the +conductor, whom I knew well; told him the condition of this poor man; told +him to pass him to San Antonio. I had just three dollars, this I gave to +him. Oh, the gratitude in the face of this poor man. He raised his +hands and asked "Christ, and his mother, the holy martyrs, and the angels +to bless me." + +In a few days I heard of a priest from Cleveland, Ohio, who through +gambling and drinking, had spent thirty thousand dollars of the church's +money and he was sent adrift. The name of this priest was John Kelly +and on our hotel register the name of this priest was written "John Kelly." + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +WHY MY NAME IS NOT ON A CHURCH BOOK, AND WHY THE MINISTERS WITHDREW +FROM ME.--CLOSING THE DIVES OF MEDICINE LODGE.--CORA BENNETT, +AND WHY SHE KILLED BILLY MORRIS IN A DIVE IN KIOWA.--HER +RESURRECTION.--RAIDING A JOINT DRUGSTORE. + + +I soon saw that I was not popular with the church at Medicine +Lodge. I testified to having received the "baptism of the Holy Ghost," and +the minister, Mr. Nicholson, took occasion to say that I was not sound +in the faith. This church at this time had a board of deacons and elders, +who I knew to be unworthy, some of them addicted to intoxicating drinks +and other flagrant sins. There was one man whose sincerity I never questioned, +Mr. Smith, who had a good report from those in and out of the +church. + +Mr. Nicholson, the preacher, used to go to a drugstore kept by a noted +jointist and infidel. He would sit with him in front of his drugstore. I +would rebuke him for "sitting in the seat of the scornful and in the way of +sinners." + +Whenever I went visiting, I went where I felt I could do some +good for Jesus, and at Thanksgiving and Christmas I invited the poor, +crippled and blind, to a feast at my house as Jesus said to never invite +those who were able to make a feast. + +There was a Mrs. Tucker, who was quite young and married to an +old man. She worked hard, washing, to care for her five children. I +would take her to church and it was not long before she joined. There +was rejoicing in Heaven, but none in the church at Medicine Lodge. +For two years she attended church, and not an officer or member ever +called to see her. I would visit her, and often take her clothes for +her children, also read the Bible, and prayed with her. I did not wish +her to notice the lack of all Christian fellowship, but she saw the +cool way in which she was treated and she stopped going to church. A +false report of treachery was told to this minister by her unfeeling, jealous +husband, and without going to see this poor woman, it was decided to take +her name from the church book. + +One Lord's Day morning, before Mr. Nicholson commenced his sermon, +he said: "It is the painful duty of the church to withdraw fellowship from +Sister Tucker, who had been living in open adultery." I was sitting in +front, and I rose to my feet. + +Mr. Nicholson said: "You sit down, the elders will attend to this." + +I said: "No, the elders will not, but I will. What you have said is +not true about this woman. She has been a member of the church for two +years, and neither you nor the elders or any member of this church but +myself have been in her home. I do for that woman what I would want +some one to do for me, under the same circumstances. These elders never +reclaim the erring or pray with the dying, but this poor little lamb has +come in for shelter, and they are pulling the fleece off of her." + +All this time Mr. Nicholson was telling me in angry tones to "sit +down". He then called on the elders to take me out, came down from the +pulpit, took me by the arm intending to put me out himself, but he could +not move me. I turned to the audience, told them what the preacher said +could not be proven. The Normal was in session and there were many +strangers present. I sat down as calmly as if nothing had happened out of +the usual, and waited until the close. + +Mr. Nicholson came to me after service and said: "We will settle +your case." + +I said: "Do your worst and do your best." + +That afternoon the elders met in the church, and withdrew from me +because I was a "stumbling block," and a "disturber of the peace." This +was a grief to me, for my beloved father, mother, brothers and sisters +belonged to this society of Christians, and I had, since I was a child ten +years of age. I wept much over this, but I went to church as usual, not +so much to the Christian church, but the Baptist, where they were very +kind to me. + +Bro. Wesley Cain had charge of that church and this man and his +wife were a tower of strength to me. What this man and wife did for the +people of Medicine Lodge will receive approbation on "That Day," at the +resurrection of the just. + +Mrs. Cain was local president of the W. C. T. U. and she was at her +post; was self-sacrificing, and had such a sympathizing heart. The poor +never applied to Bro. Cain and his noble wife in vain. I have much to +thank them for. + +I was Jail Evangelist at this time for the W. C. T. U. and I learned +that almost everyone who was in jail was directly or indirectly there from +the influence of intoxicating drinks. I began to ask why should we have +the result of the saloon, when Kansas was a prohibition state, and the +constitution made it a crime to manufacture, barter, sell or give away +intoxicating drinks? When I went to Medicine Lodge there were seven dives +where drinks were sold. I will give some reasons why they were removed. +I began to harass these dive-keepers, although they were not as much to +blame as the city officials who allowed them to run. Mart Strong was a +noted joint-keeper. He and his son, Frank, were both bad drinking characters, +and would sell it every chance they got. Mart had a dive and I +was in several times to talk to him, and he would try to flatter me and +turn things into a joke. When he saw I did not listen to such talk, +treated me very rude. One Saturday I saw quite a number of men +into his place, and I went in also. Saloons in Kansas generally have a +front room to enter as a precaution, then a back room where the bar is. +I didn't get farther than the front, for Mart came hastily, taking me by the +shoulders and said: "Get out of here, you crazy woman." I was singing +this song: + + Who hath sorrow? Who hath Woe? + They who dare not answer no; + They whose feet to sin incline, + While they tarry at the wine. + +CHORUS: + + They who tarry at the wine cup + They who tarry at the wine cup. + They who tarry at the wine cup. + + Who hath babblings, who hath strife? + He who leads a drunkard's life; + He whose loved ones weep and pine, + While he tarries at the wine. + + Who hath wounds without a cause? + He who breaks God's holy laws; + He who scorns the Lord divine, + While he tarries at the wine. + + Who hath redness at the eyes? + Who brings poverty and sighs? + Unto homes almost divine, + While he tarries at the wine? + + Touch not, taste not, handle not: + Drink will make the dark, dark blot, + Like an adder it will sting, + And at last to ruin bring, + They who tarry at the drink." + + +I continued to sing this, with tears running down my face. When I +finished the song there was a great crowd; some of the men had tears in +their eyes as well. James Gano, the constable, was standing near the door +and said: "I wish I could take you off the streets." I said: "Yes, you +want to take me, a woman, whose heart is breaking to see the ruin of these +men, the desolate homes and broken laws, and you a constable, oath-bound +to close his man's unlawful business." + +The treatment I got at the hands of this Mart Strong was told to the +mayor and councilmen, and there was great indignation. The councilmen +went to Mart's place that night. The door was locked and a number of +gamblers were in there. The mayor forced the door open and told Mart +Strong never to open business in the town again. He left next day; and +this closed up one of the worst places in the town. Then there was Henry +Durst, another jointist of long standing who was a German and had +accumulated quite a lot of property by this dishonest business. He was a +prominent Catholic. A Mrs. Elliott, a good Christian woman, came to my +home crying bitterly and between sobs told me, that for six weeks her husband +had been drinking at Durst's bar, until he was crazy. She had been +washing to feed her three children and for some days had nothing in the +house but cornbread and molasses. She said that her husband had come +in, wild with drink and run his family out and kicked over the table and +she said: "I came to you to ask you what to do." + +I did not speak a word, for I was too full of conflicting feelings; but I +put on my bonnet and Sister Elliott asked me what I was going to do. I +told her that I did not know, but for her to come with me. We walked +down to Henry Durst's place, a distance of half a mile. I fell down on my +knees before the screen and began to call on God. There were five men +in there drinking. I was indifferent to those passing the street. It was a +strange sight to see women on their knees on the most prominent part +of the street. I told God about this man selling liquor to this woman's +husband, and told Him she had been washing to get bread, and asked God +to close up this den and drive this man out. Mrs. Elliott also prayed. We +then told this man that God would hear and that hell was his portion if +he did not change. In a short time he closed his bar, left his family +there, and went to another state. His property was sold gradually and he +never returned, except to move his family away, and I heard afterwards +he was reduced to poverty. + +Another jointist was named Hank O'Bryan. In passing his place one +night from prayer-meeting, I smelled the horrid drink and went in. A +man by the name of Grogan was there, half drunk, and I said: "You have +a dive here." Mr. Grogan replied: "No, Mother Nation, you are wrong, +and I can prove it." + +"Let me see what you have in the back room," I asked. "All right, +Mother," he said, and took me through several windings, until I came to a +very small room with a table covered with beer bottles, that had been +recently emptied, and in one corner sat a man, Mr. Smith, a man from +Sharon, who the W. C. T. U. had been talking of handling for selling +liquor in that town. Mr. Grogan introduced me to him, and he, Mr. +Smith, looked terrified and astonished. I took up one of the bottles +and asked what it had contained. His reply: "Hop Tea." I asked: +"What name is that on the label?" It was "Anheuser-Busch," but I could +get neither of them to pronounce it. I turned up one of the bottles and +put it to my lips and told them that it was beer, and that I could take an +oath that it was. Grogan threw up his hands saying: "Now, Mother +Nation, if you get me into trouble I will do something desperate." I +had visited this man Grogan in jail about a year before this, where +he was put for getting drunk and fighting. I said: "I do not wish +to get either of you in trouble, but want to get you out." I had my Bible +with me and I opened it to several passages where drink was condemned, +and told them where it would lead. I told them I would not speak of this +to anyone. When I said I would not "tell on them" the look of gladness +on their faces was pitiful to see. + +I said, I am going to pray God to have mercy on you. Kneel down, +like two obedient little children--they knelt--some may smile at this, +but I was deeply affected and felt a compassion and tenderness toward +these poor men, whom the devil was leading captive at his will. That +prayer I offered, was heard. + +In one week from that time this man Grogan came to my house; one +Sunday morning, and fell down at my feet crying and wringing his hands, +saying: "Oh! Mrs. Nation I am going to hell, but it is not your fault and +I came to ask you to pray for me." He was in great agony of soul. +He had been drinking until he was almost crazy. He left in about half +an hour, saying he "was going to hell," but I told him, no; to have faith +in God and He would save him. + +This was the last I saw of him, but I heard afterwards that he had +a small store in Wichita and was living in the rear of it with his family. +The person that told me of him, said that he asked Mr. Grogan if he sold +liquor. His answer was: "No, I got enough of that in Medicine Lodge." +This Mr. Smith became a wreck for a time, and lost his business in Sharon. +After I came out of jail in Wichita the third time, I met a man on the +street and he made himself known as the Smith of Sharon. He looked +quite well and said he had quit drinking entirely and was a real estate +dealer in Wichita. + +I soon heard of its being told around in Medicine Lodge that I drank +beer in a dive. So I went to Hank O'Bryan's restaurant and said: "Some +of these jointists are telling that I drank in a dive. Now if it comes to the +ears of the public, I will have to go on the witness stand and tell where I +drank beer." Hank turned pale, looked comical and I never heard any +more of that. + +There was a saloon keeper in Kiowa, named "Billy" Morris and living +with him as his wife was a girl whose name was Cora Bennett. This +poor girl had been living an irregular life, but was true to this man, who +had promised her time after time to marry her, but was only deceiving +her. She entered his bar room one day and told him he must fulfill his +promise to her now, or she would kill him. He tried to laugh at her. She +fired a shot and killed him on the spot; then the poor girl fell on his dead +body screaming in a distracted manner. She was arrested and brought to +jail at Medicine Lodge; and was there six months. Being Jail Evangelist I +went to see her, sometimes twice a week. When I first saw her she was +reticent, and did not seem glad to see me. She was so nice, that I fell in +love with her and I asked the ladies of the W. C. T. U. to visit her, but +they thought her a hopeless case. She bought a Bible and we would read +and pray together and talked about the need of Christ in our lives. She +was a woman of great sympathy. I asked her once: "Did you ever love +anyone." She wept bitterly and said: "Yes, the man I killed." + +Toward the last she seemed perfectly delighted when I came to her +cell. She, consented to go to a home where she would have friends who +would keep her, to make a change in her life. The morning she left I +went to the jail and rode with her in the hack to the depot and then to a +town about twenty miles east of Medicine Lodge, called Attica. On the +train from Medicine Lodge to Attica, the deputy sheriff had some man +to give this girl a letter from him, telling her to meet him at Wellington. +The girl's father lived at Attica, and an older sister of her's met us. I +could see the sister was not a good woman, and she took Cora to a room +and exchanged the modest hat and dress for a showy hat and elaborate +silk dress; and when I saw her it almost broke my heart. I said to her: +"Oh, Cora, all my work to save you is in vain." I had rather have seen +her drop dead, and I grieved all the way home. From Attica she went to +Wellington, instead of Olathe, Kansas, where she was to enter this home. +James Dobson was sheriff of Barber County and his brother kept a +saloon in Kiowa, the first saloon I ever smashed. + +I heard no good news of Cora for some years; she led a bad life. +Five years later, through a W. C. T. U. lecturer, I heard that she was +married and living in Colorado; and she was an efficient worker as a W. +C. T. U. woman; among fallen women. She told of her past life and of a +Mrs. Nation visiting her. This woman said it was so incredible to believe +that Cora could have been so bad, and had taken a human life, that she +was anxious to see the place in Kiowa and to see Cora's prison cell and +myself. I was then in Oklahoma, and I certainly rejoiced over this news +from her I had learned to love. I saw in this wayward girl certain qualities +that would be a power for good, if once God could have His way +with her life. + +There are diamonds in the slush and filth of this world. Happy is he +who picks them up and helps to wash the dirt away, that they may shine +for God. I am very much drawn to my fallen sisters. Oh! the cruelty +and oppression they meet with! If the first stone was cast by those who +were guiltless, those who were to be stoned would rarely get a blow. + + +O. L. DAY'S DRUG STORE. + +There was a druggist, O. L. Day, in Medicine Lodge who was unlawfully +selling intoxicating liquor. He himself was drinking; also his clerk. +I got a knowledge of a deposit of this contraband goods. I put a little +boy on my buggy horse and sent a letter to our dear Sister Cain, who +was president of our local union. She called several of the women together +at our W. C. T. V. room and made known to them what I knew of +O. L. Day receiving these intoxicants. There was a great deal of discussion, +but at last it was decided that we should investigate. At that +time I was regarded as a fanatic, and many of these were afraid for me to +plan for them, so I kept very quiet. It was finally agreed that Mrs. A. L. +Noble and Mrs. Runyan should go first and see how matters were. Sister +Runyan finally said before we got there: "Let Mrs. Nation go in my +place." I said: "Thank God!" Oh, I was so glad, for I felt that I could +handle this case. + +{illust. caption = +THIS IS A PICTURE OF A SOCIETY I ORGANIZED IN DEWEY COUNTY, OKLA., WHEN WE +LIVED IN DOUGOUTS. WE WOULD GO FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE, WASH, SEW, CLEAN HOUSE, +AND OTHERWISE HELP THE HELPLESS.} + + +O. L. Day was a real gentleman by nature. He was the man with +one fault, and that was alcoholism. Mrs. Noble said: "You do the talking." +While we were in the W. C. T. U. room discussing, Sister Runyan +said: "I will not have anything to do with this if Mrs. Nation does." I +kept still, praying for the raid to go through, even if I was not in it; and +when it came to the point, I had just what I wanted. I felt entirely equal +to the occasion. Sister Runyan did not understand me then, for we are +the best of friends and she has been true to me in my efforts to defend +the homes of Kansas. I told Mr. Day, we, as a W. C. T. U. thought he had +not been dealing fairly, and I looked at his little back room suspiciously, +as much as to say: "I would like to see what you have in there." He +said: "Ladies would you like to go in the room?" I said: "Yes." I +knew I could discover the secret. I saw behind the prescription case a +ten gallon keg. I said to myself: "That is a find." About this time the +rest of the women, accompanied by Sister Cain, came in the front door. +Mr. Day was as white as death all the time. As soon as he went to the +front I smelled the keg bung. I turned it on one side and rolled it to the +front saying; "Women, this is the whiskey!" Mr. Day's clerk caught +the end of the keg to turn it out of my hands and on the other side of it +was Jim Gano, the marshal, who I think hauled all the divekeepers' goods +to them. He was a Republican and in with the whiskey ring and a +"rummy" himself. I then placed a foot on each side of the keg and held +it firm with both feet and hands. Jim Gano sprang in front of me and +with his chest against my head, I thought certainly he would break my +neck. I called to the women to help me. Mrs. Noble caught him by one +side of the collar and some one the other side and held him back against +the counter until I could roll the keg out into the street. All this time +Sister Cain, like a general, was saying: "Don't any one touch these +women. They are right. They are christian women, trying to save the +boys of our state." I called for a hatchet from the hardware store of Mr. +Case. He was very angry and said: "No!" He also, was drinking too +much. I called to Mrs. Noble to get a sledge hammer from the blacksmith +shop across the street. She did and handed it to me. I struck with all my +might. The whiskey flew high in the air. The ladies came near to pour +it out, but I said: "Save some." So Sister Runyan got a bottle and filled +it. Then we poured it out and set it afire. I fell on my knees in the middle +of the street and thanked God for this victory. Dr. Gould, a man +"fit for treason, stratagem and spoils," was the one to help Day dispose +of these drinks, as many doctors do. This doctor gave out that this was +"California Brandy", costing seventy-five dollars, that he had advised Day +to get it for medical purposes. + +Mr. Day was at this time getting a permit to sell it for medical purposes. +He appeared in court to prove he was a graduated pharmacist, +never drank, and never had a clerk that did. The W. C. T. U. were there +in a body. We contested his right to have the permit. Poor man. I +pitied him. He was very much under the influence of intoxicants. When +asked; "What that was in the keg the ladies rolled out of his drug store +on the 16th of February?" he said: "It was California brandy." When +asked: "If he knew the taste of whiskey and brandy," he said: "Yes." +We handed him a bottle of this that he said was brandy. He pronounced +it "a poor quality of sour mash whiskey." Sister Runyan was then put +on the stand and said: "It came from the keg that was smashed." + +This man was so humbled that he sold out in a month and left Medicine Lodge. +There are parties in that town who are more responsible +than O. L. Day. They did every thing in their power to have him do that +which was his ruin. In retaliation for this the republican rum element +one night made an attack on Sister Cain's and my house, broke windows +and threw rocks, and broke my buggy. They also sent a negro to my +house, named Haskel, a noted bootlegger. He asked for an interview. +He had quite a tale to tell me about hearing some men say that if the +women appeared against Day that my house would go. I am so well +acquainted with the colored race I could read him from the first and knew +that these "Rummies" had put this negro up to intimidate me. I listened +as if I believed. Then I said: "Haskel you ought to know by this time +that such men as these will not prevent me from doing my duty, besides +should my home be burned, it would be a lecture in favor of my cause +that would be worth more to me than the home. Now Haskel you get in +the company of these men and you tell them what I have told you." This +negro pretended to me that he came to me as a friend. When I told him +what I did, his expression was amusing to see. + + + +CHAPTER VII. + +SPIRITUAL LEADINGS.--JESUS A CONSCIOUS PRESENCE THREE DAYS.--LOSS OF +LIBERTY BY COMPROMISING.--THE PRICE PAID TO BE REINSTATED.--DISGRACE +TO BE A MILLIONAIRE + + +I had once while in Medicine Lodge, a heavenly rapture for three +days. My Savior was my constant companion. I saw no form, heard no +word. But His dear face was just behind and looking over my right shoulder. +He was a conscious presence and the deep peace was beyond any +experience I ever had. I shunned the society of persons. I would talk +to Him, would sing and play the accompaniment on the organ. I was +particular about my home work. While I saw no face, or form, I realized +that His was a sweet, smiling, gratified expression, and it told me I was +pleasing Him. I did not seem then to think this anything wonderful, and +have often reproached myself for not setting more store by this at the +time. + +There was a period of from six months to a year that I was terribly +haunted by a feeling as if hung over a precipice. I was hanging +only by a rope above my head held by a hand out of a cloud. At night or in +the day, it was the same uneasy dread of falling. The precipice below +was black and horrible. There were banks on each side. At last I swung +over, landing on the right side. Oh! the relief! + +When I first began to pray in public I was very awkward, never could +make any but what one would call a disconnected prayer, that never seems +to be impressive in an audience. + +I asked an old-fashioned sister, who I knew was a saint, to tell me +what was wrong in my testimony. "I do not have liberty when I speak." +She said: "You do not praise God enough." I began to pray for a spirit +of praise. Shortly after this I was at prayer-meeting, was praying for +a spirit of praise. It was put in my mouth I rose to my feet and +began to say: "Praise God; Praise God!" repeating it over and over. +Oh! how sweet to use and hear those words! I could scarcely repress the +impulse to use them all the time. For a long time after this, when the +Bible was read or testimony struck me as being just right, I would audibly +say: "Praise God!" This was a "gift", for I had never felt the +impulse before. I have in a measure left this off, but I use it all the time, +when I hear good news, or see what pleases me. "He led captivity (sin) +captive and gave GIFTS unto men." Ever since I received the "baptism of +the Holy Ghost," I have liked one church about as well as another. I go +to all even the Catholic. I fast on Friday and use the sign of the cross. +Fast, because my Savior suffered in the flesh on Friday; use the sign +of the cross, because in the cross is salvation. Meditations on the cross +always lift heavenward. 'Tis the royal way, I want to keep it always in +view, want it to be the last I see. We who bear the cross continually in +this transient life, will wear the crown continually in the eternal. I love +a picture of the cross or a crucifix. I am debtor both to the Jew and the +Greek. I do not feel the dislike to the Catholic church that some Protestants +do. I believe there are as many honest priests as there are other +ministers. God's church is invisible to the world, for it is set up in the +hearts of the children of men. I have been greatly edified by conversing +with Catholic priests. When I lived in Texas my spiritual condition was +such that I wanted some explanation. I went to see Father Hennesy, of +Houston, I explained to him my strange leadings, he said a wise and +good thing, told me to "read the scriptures and pray and God would lead +me right." + +I was at church in Medicine Lodge one night, during a protracted +meeting held by Bro. Parker and Hodges. Two sisters came to me and +complained that I made so much noise, said they could not enjoy the +service. I said: "To please you I will try to keep quiet, but remember +it is my God and YOUR God I am praising. I would rejoice to hear +you praise Him." Next night something was said that was good to +me. I said: "Praise God!" caught myself when I saw one of the sisters +near, and from that time I felt little impulse and at last none. I went +to every meeting but lost my liberty and became so bound, I could not +testify or pray. I was very miserable, would weep from a desolation of +spirit. This continued for three weeks. The meeting was still going on. +My spiritual darkness became so great, I went up one afternoon to the altar. +I rose and told of how I had "lost my liberty and peace by withholding +praise to God by trying to please two sisters." While I was confessing, +the spirit fell in great power and I acted like I was beside myself, was +almost wild with delight. I seemed to fly home and back in the evening. +One in this state appears crazy to the world, even disgusting. No one +sees a reason for this unnatural overflow of feeling. At the beginning +of the service, opportunity was given for testimony. I rose eager to tell +of my returned joy; told of praying for, and getting what I prayed for, +then losing it, by compromise; closed by saying: "That never again +would I refuse to do the will of God even if it offended all and made me +appear a fool." My testimony seemed to be fanatical, for my manner +indicated one greatly moved. When I took my seat a "still small voice" +said. "You must sing a song." Bro. Osburn was sitting near. He had +the song book "Finest of the Wheat," in his hands. I took it then handed +it back. I felt like one in a dreadful dilemma--all joy had given place +to fear. Bro. Osburn again handed me the book. I felt then I must go +through this trying ordeal. I took the book, walked up to the front, all +were standing, the church crowded and Bro. Parker gave out the number +of the hymn "40". "No," I said, "We will sing No. 3." This song +was, "I know Not Why This Wondrous Grace To Me He Hath Made +Known." Bro. Parker gave out the number again. I said, "No," and +began to sing. Bro. Allen accompanied me with his cornet. Of course +one can imagine what an impression this would make on an audience. +I sang, two verses and the chorus. I then took my seat. Then a flood +of peace and heavenly companionship took possession of me. I then knew +what it was to have angels minister unto you. God took me at my word +and made me appear a "fool," and objectionable, to the whole people. +What a fatal result there might have been, if I had not obeyed God! + +I know why people do not have power with God. They will not +abandon themselves to the whole will of God, because they will not suffer +the OFFENSE of the cross. Why care for the criticism of men that change +and die! + +I had an experience once for eight months, when I felt that Christ +had turned his face from me, not in displeasure, but this was a trial of +faith. My prayers had no response, brought me no hope of having been +heard. But I prayed quite as much, if not more. Never got discouraged, +although I was in gloom, and my heart was like lead. All at once there +was a return of the conscious presence of God. 'Tis a poor servant that +serves only for hire. "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him." God +has kept me from following any but Him. + +One dear friend thought that Haney was the great holiness teacher, +another one thought Carodine. They would quote their sayings, but +I always found better and clearer teaching in the word of God. I could +see errors in all the holiness teachers, but not one in the Bible. The +book of Job settled the question of the most perfect experience. Men can +be perfect men and not perfect saints. When Job was, "holding fast +his integrity" God did not bless him like He did when Job saw the perfection +of God and said: "Wherefore I abhor myself and repent in dust +and ashes." The Sermon on the Mount is the greatest lesson in holiness and is +from the only one that can teach holiness. Great lessons +can be taught by all persons, taught of God, but 'tis better to drink at +the fountain than out of a stale bucket. Besides all have imperfection. +"To the law and to the testimony if they speak not according to this +word it is because there is no light in them." "They shall all be taught +of God." "If any lack wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all +liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given." + +From the time that my Christian experience began, I never wished +to be associated with rich people, or rather people that had wealth for +display. Would feel uncomfortable to go in a house filled with furniture +or bric-a-brac. It would be an evidence to me of the great waste of +money and time by the owner. Nothing had value to me only as it could +be used for the salvation of men and women, and the glorifying of God. +It mortified me to see a "swell dressed" woman. I noticed that those so- +called fashionable women really never had time or money to do charity. +Of course there are exceptions. The display of wealth to me is an evidence +of a depraved nature. The use of wealth, is in relieving the wants +of mankind. The time is coming when the millionaires will be the +despised of the people, for they are learning fast that people who amass +fortunes, and hoard them, are in that condition because they have ground +the face of the poor. They are not honest or good. A man or woman +now that can hoard money or goods and pass and repass the suffering +every day, has a cold, selfish heart, and instead of its being in the future +a letter of credit to say: "Mr. So and So is a millionaire," it will be a +disgrace as it should be, to live for wealth and self alone. Still +'tis well to get all the money in a good way, that you can and then use it +in a good cause. Job was a rich man but he was a friend of the "fatherless +and widow." "He dealt his bread to the hungry. He was feet to the lame +and eyes to the blind." Such rich men as Job are blessings, but those +men who boast of their hoarded treasures, spend their money in the +gratification of their lusts, to them God says: "Woe or curses unto you +rich men! Weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you! +Your garments are motheaten, your gold is cankered and the rust shall +eat your flesh as if it were fire." Yes, there is a class of rich men that +would now HOWL, and weep with all their money, if they knew their fate. + +I have never had so light a heart or felt so well satisfied as since I +smashed those murder mills. For years I had an aching, weeping heart. +I would often put ashes on my head. I felt like wearing sackcloth. I can +see the hand of God in my life. From a small child I loved the world, +used to be fond of pets. It seemed that my pets always came to grief. +Then I was very anxious to be thought smart. Would try to write and +wanted a thorough education. I became almost an invalid. Could not +attend school. Was hindered on account of the circumstances brought +about by the Civil war. The man I loved and married brought to me +bitter grief. The child I loved so well became afflicted and never seemed +to want my love. The man I married, hoping to serve God, I found to +be opposed to all I did, as a Christian. I used to wonder why this was. +I saw others with their loving children and husbands and I would wish +their condition was mine. I now see why God saw in me a great lover, +and in order to have me use that love for Him, and others, He did not +let me have those that would have narrowed my life down to my own +selfish wishes. Oh! the grief He has sent me! Oh! the fiery trials! +Oh! the shattered hopes! How I love Him for this! "Whom the Lord +loveth He chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth." +There are pages in my life that have had much to do in bringing me in +sympathy with the fallen tempted natures. These I cannot write, but let +no erring, sinful man or woman think that Carry Nation would not understand +this, for Carry Nation is a sinner saved by grace and I know He +can save to the uttermost, all that come unto Him. "Heaven is made for +redeemed sinners and hell for the proud and disobedient." When I +see the proud glance, the boastful manner, the display of, "I am better +than thou," I feel pity and commiseration for the poor dying creature and +see "behind the face a grinning skull". I like the companionship of the +servant in the kitchen more than the mistress in the parlor. I covet the +humblest walk. I wish for the power, often, to make the rich take back +seats, and give the front to the poor, the crippled, the lame and the blind. +I will not have a piece of fine furniture. I have no carpets on my floors. +I have two small rooms in Topeka in the building I desire to give to +the W. C. T. U. for prohibition work. The little cupboard I use is made +of a dry-goods box, with shelves in it, a curtain in front. My dishes, +all told, kitchen and dining-room, are not worth five dollars. This is what +the poor have, and better than some have. It is good enough. It is better +than my blessed Lord had. I desire nothing better. I would feel like +a reprobate to fill my room with expensive furniture, using money I could +feed the hungry with, clothe the naked, doing things that would please +my Lord. What a change! I used to delight in cut-glass, china, plush, +velvet and lace. Now I can say "vanity of vanity, all is vanity!" There +may be almost selfishness in this eager desire I have to give away the +means that are at my disposal. What I use or leave behind will never +be placed to my credit in the bank of heaven. What we give away for +the love of God and our neighbor is all we take with us. I will be so +delighted with a home that I can call mine, forever. I like nice wearing +apparel but I will not be deceived by spending my time and means for +that which will hinder me from having them where moth and rust doth +not corrupt and where thieves do not break through and steal. So I +wish to make to myself friends of the mammon of unrighteousness and +not enemies, for the hoarded dollars are bitter foes that will be witnesses +against these rich men at That Day. I am praying that God may send +me means to carry out a plan to save Kansas from traitors. The state has +made herself a name, that will endure forever, because she began a warfare +against a government at a time when few were wise enough to see +that this revolution meant defiance to the rum-soaked republican rule. +Every moral reform is a protest against this government we live under. +What does the W. C. T. U. mean? The mothers banding themselves together +to prevent the Government from slaughtering them. + +From the beginning of my Christian experience I have devoted myself +to the poor. I prayed God to give me opportunity to be helpful to +those who were destitute of the comforts of life. The people of Medicine +Lodge were so good to aid me. I could go to the stores and ask +for flour, sugar and different kinds of eatables and get them. There +was one man I never asked in vain, when I wished aid for the poor, +that was C. Q. Chandler, a man who was able to help. I have taken +poor children to his house and he has given me orders at the dry-goods +stores to clothe them, so they could attend school. He has given me +money frequently to get fuel and clothes for those who needed them. One +Christmas he wrote me a letter, asking me for the names of all the poor +ones and asking me to name something they needed. I did, and all got +something useful. Such men are worthy to be stewards of God's +treasury. + +For years I made it my duty, every fall, to go from house to house +to gather clothes for the poor families, wash women and others who +had not time to sew for their children. I never allowed a child to +stay out of day or Sunday school, for want of clothes. I would sort +out these clothes and distribute as needed. Persons would say, "I +would be afraid I would make people angry." I said if every one feels +that way I will say: "You are not the one I am sent to." I never hurt +any ones feelings by offering them these things. + +There was a family by the name of French who came into a neighborhood +about three miles from town. I heard they were destitute. I +filled my buggy and went there and sure enough they were sadly in +need. I brought the things in just such as was needed. The family was +large. The woman cried like her heart would break, just for gratitude; +she could not thank me enough. It takes so little to make some people +happy. + +I read of a miserable miser once who was on the verge of suicide +by the side of a river. A little girl came to him saying: "Please sir, +my mother is sick and hungry. Please give me something so I can get +her something to eat." The man said within himself: "I will do this +for the child before I die." He went to a bakershop and got her a full +basket. Then she looked so weak he carried it home to her mother. The +poor woman on the pallet of straw, kissed his hands and blessed him. +He thought of the money he might use to make people happy. He concluded +he would use it before he died for he had enjoyed for the first +time in his life the peace that comes from giving. After this his life was +a blessing to himself and others. He had found the best use of life. + +I once read of a beautiful story of one of the early fathers of the +church. He gave away everything even to sufficient clothes to keep himself +warm. A rich kind hearted woman made him a coat of fur very +expensive. Next time she saw him he did not have it. "Where is that +coat father," she asked. He replied: "I thought so much of it I laid +it up in heaven. Where moth and rust doth not corrupt and where +thieves do not break through and steal." He had given it to the first +shivering man he met. + + + +CHAPTER VIII. + +THE DIVINE CALL.--THE JOINT DRUGGIST OF MEDICINE LODGE.--BEER A POISON.-- +DOCTORS MAKE DRUNKARDS.--SMASHING AT KIOWA.--ATTITUDE OF SOME +W. C. T. U.'S OF KANSAS.--SUIT FOR SLANDER.--SMASHING AT WICHITA.-- +CONSPIRACY OF THE REPUBLICANS TO PUT ME IN THE INSANE ASYLUM.-- +SUFFERINGS IN JAIL AT WICHITA.--SLANDERS FROM THE RUM-SOAKED +PAPERS OF KANSAS. + + +At the time these dives were open, contrary to the statutes of our +state, the officers were really in league with this lawless element. I was +heavily burdened and could see "the wicked walking on every side, and +the vilest men exalted." I was ridiculed and my work was called "meddler" +"crazy," was pointed at as a fanatic. I spent much time in tears, +prayer and fasting. While not a Roman Catholic, I have practiced abstinence +from meat on Friday, for Christ suffered on that day, and 'tis well +for us to suffer. I also use the sign of the cross, for it is medicine to +the soul to be reminded of His sufferings. Jesus left us the communion +of bread and wine that we might remember His passion. I would also +fast days at a time. One day I was so sad; I opened the Bible with a +prayer for light, and saw these words: "Arise, shine, for thy light is +come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." These words gave +me unbounded delight. + +I ran to a sister and said: "There is to be a change in my life." + +On the 6th of June, before retiring, as I often did, I threw myself face +downward at the foot of my bed and told the Lord to use me any way to +suppress the dreadful curse of liquor; that He had ways to do it, that I +had done all I knew, that the wicked had conspired to take from us the +protection of homes in Kansas; to kill our children and break our hearts. +I told Him I wished I had a thousand lives, that I would give Him all +of them, and wanted Him to make it known to me, some way. The next +morning, before I awoke, I heard these words very distinctly: "Go to +Kiowa, and" (as in a vision and here my hands were lifted and cast down +suddenly.) "I'll stand by you." I did not hear these words as other +words; there was no voice, but they seemed to be spoken in my heart. I +sprang from my bed as if electrified, and knew this was directions given +me, for I understood that it was God's will for me to go to Kiowa to +break, or smash the saloons. I was so glad, that I hardly looked in the +face of anyone that day, for fear they would read my thoughts, and do +something to prevent me. I told no one of my plans, for I felt that no +one would understand, if I should. + +I got a box that would fit under my buggy seat, and every time I +thought no one would see me, I went out in the yard and picked up +some brick-bats, for rocks are scarce around Medicine Lodge, and I wrapped +them up in newspapers to pack in the box under my buggy seat. I +also had four bottles I had bought from Southworth, the druggist, with +"Schlitz-Malt" in them, which I used to smash with. I bought two kinds +of this malt and I opened one bottle and found it to be beer. I was going +to use these bottles of beer to convict this wiley joint-druggist. + +One of the bottles I took to a W. C. T. U. meeting, and in the presence +of the ladies I opened it and drank the contents. Then I had two of +them to take me down to a Doctor's office. I fell limp on the sofa and +said: "Doctor, what is the matter with me?" + +He looked at my eyes, felt my heart and pulse, shook his head and +looked grave. + +I said: "Am I poisoned or in an abnormal state?" + +"Yes, said the Doctor." I said: "What poisoned me is that beer +you recommended Bro. ---- to take as a tonic." I resorted to this +stratagem, to show the effect that beer has upon the system. This Doctor +was a kind man and meant well, but it must have been ignorance that +made him say beer could ever be used as a medicine. + +There was another, Dr. Kocile, in Medicine Lodge who used to sell +all the whiskey he could. He made a drunkard of a very prominent +woman of the town, who took the Keely cure. She told the W. C. T. U. +of the villainy of this doctor and she could not have hated anyone more. +Oh! the drunkards the doctors are making! No physician, who is +worthy of the name will prescribe it as a medicine, for there is not one +medical quality in alcohol. It kills the living and preserves the dead. +Never preserves anything but death. It is made by a rotting process and +it rots the brain, body and soul; it paralyzes the vascular circulation and +increases the action of the heart. This is friction and friction in any +machinery is dangerous, and the cure is not hastened but delayed. + +I have given space in this book to one of the most scientific articles, +showing how dangerous alcohol is to the human system. + +Any physician that will prescribe whiskey or alcohol as a medicine +is either a fool or a knave. A fool because he does not understand his +business, for even saying that alcohol does arouse the action of the heart, +there are medicines that will do that and will not produce the fatal +results of alcoholism, which is the worst of all diseases. He is a knave +because his practice is a matter of getting a case, and a fee at the same +time, like a machine agent who breaks the machine to get the job of mending +it. Alcohol destroys the normal condition of all the functions of the +body. The stomach is thrown out of fix, and the patient goes to the doctor +for a stomach pill, the heart, liver, kidneys, and in fact the whole body +is in a deranged condition, and the doctor has a perpetual patient. I +sincerely believe this to be the reason why many physicians prescribe it. + +I was doing my own work at the time God spoke to me; cooking, +washing and ironing; was a plain home keeper. I cooked enough for +my husband until next day, knowing that I would be gone all night. I +told him I expected to stay all night with a friend, Mrs. Springer. I +hitched my horse to the buggy, put the box of "smashers" in, and at half +past three o'clock in the afternoon, the sixth of June, 1900, I started to +Kiowa. Whenever I thought of the consequences of what I was going +to do, and what my husband and friends would think, also what my +enemies would do, I had a sensation of nervousness, almost like fright, +but as soon as I would look up and pray, all that would leave me, and +things would look bright. And I might say I prayed almost every step +of the way. This Mrs. Springer lived about ten miles south of Medicine +Lodge. I often stopped there and I knew that Prince, my horse, +would naturally go into the gate, opening on the road, if I did not prevent +it. I thought perhaps it was God's will for me to drive to Kiowa that +night, so gave the horse the reins, and if he turned in, I would stay all +night, if not, I would go to Kiowa. Prince hastened his speed past the +gate, and I knew that it was God's will for me to go on. I got there at +8:30 P. M. and stayed all night with a friend. Early next morning I +had my horse put to the buggy and drove to the first place, kept by +Mr. Dobson. I put the smashers on my right arm and went in. He and +another man were standing behind the bar. These rocks and bottles being +wrapped in paper looked like packages bought from a store. Be +wise as devils and harmless as doves. I did not wish my enemies to +know what I had. + +I said: "Mr. Dobson, I told you last spring, when I held my county +convention here, (I was W. C. T. U. president of Barber County,) to +close this place, and you didn't do it. Now I have come with another +remonstrance. Get out of the way. I don't want to strike you, but I +am going to break tip this den of vice." + +I began to throw at the mirror and the bottles below the mirror. +Mr. Dobson and his companion jumped into a corner, seemed very much +terrified. From that I went to another saloon, until I had destroyed three, +breaking some of the windows in the front of the building. In the last +place, kept by Lewis, there was quite a young man behind the bar. I said +to him: "Young man, come from behind that bar, your mother did +not raise you for such a place." I threw a brick at the mirror, which was +a very heavy one, and it did not break, but the brick fell and broke +everything in its way. I began to look around for something that would +break it. I was standing by a billiard table on which there was one ball. +I said: "Thank God," and picked it up, threw it, and it made a hole in +the mirror. While I was throwing these rocks at the dives in Kiowa, +there was a picture before my eyes of Mr. McKinley, the President, sitting +in an old arm chair and as I threw, the chair would fall to pieces. + +The other dive keepers closed up, stood in front of their places and +would not let me come in. By this time, the streets were crowded with +people; most of them seemed to look puzzled. There was one boy about +fifteen years old who seemed perfectly wild with joy, and he jumped, +skipped and yelled with delight. I have since thought of that as being +a significant sign. For to smash saloons will save the boy. + +I stood in the middle of the street and spoke in this way: "I have +destroyed three of your places of business, and if I have broken a statute +of Kansas, put me in jail; if I am not a law-breaker your mayor and +councilmen are. You must arrest one of us, for if I am not a criminal, +they are." + +One of the councilmen, who was a butcher, said: "Don't you think +we can attend to our business." + +"Yes," I said, "You can, but you won't. As Jail Evangelist of Medicine +Lodge, I know you have manufactured many criminals and this +county is burdened down with taxes to prosecute the results of these dives. +Two murders have been committed in the last five years in this county, +one in a dive I have just destroyed. You are a butcher of hogs and cattle, +but they are butchering men, women and children, positively contrary to +the laws of God and man, and the mayor and councilmen are more to +blame than the jointist, and now if I have done wrong in any particular, +arrest me." When I was through with my speech I got in my buggy and +said: "I'll go home." + +The marshal held my horse and said: "Not yet; the mayor wishes +to see you." + +I drove up where he was, and the man who owned one of the dive- +buildings I had smashed was standing by Dr. Korn, the mayor, and said: +"I want you to pay for the front windows you broke of my building." + +I said: "No, you are a partner of the dive-keeper and the statutes +hold your building responsible. The man that rents the building for any +business is no better than the man who carries on the business, and you +are "particepts criminus" or party to the crime." They ran back and +forward to the city attorney several times. At last they came and told +me I could go. As I drove through the streets the reins fell out of my +hands and I, standing up in my buggy; lifted my hands twice, saying: +"Peace on earth, good will to men." This action I know was done +through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. "Peace on earth, good will +to men" being the result of the destruction of saloons and the motive for +destroying them. + +When I reached Medicine Lodge the town was in quite an excitement, +the news having been telegraphed ahead. I drove through the streets +and told the people I would be at the postoffice corner to tell why I had +done this. A great crowd had gathered and I began to tell them of my +work in the jail here, and the young men's lives that had been ruined, +and the broken hearted mothers, the taxation that had been brought on +the county, and other wrongs of the dives of Kiowa; of how I had been +to the sheriff, Mr. Gano, and the prosecuting attorney, Mr. Griffin; how I +had written to the state's attorney-general Mr. Godard, and I saw there +was a conspiracy with the party in power to violate their oaths, and refuse +to enforce the constitution of Kansas, and I did only what they swore they +would do. I had a letter from a Mr. Long, of Kiowa, saying that Mr. +Griffin, the prosecuting attorney, was taking bribes, and that he and the +sheriff were drinking and gambling in the dives at Kiowa. + +This smashing aroused the people of the county to this outrage and +these dive-keepers were arrested, although we did not ask the prosecuting +attorney to get out a warrant, or sheriff to make an arrest. Neither +did we take the case before any justice of the peace in Kiowa or Medicine +Lodge, for they belong to the republican party and would prevent +the prosecution. The cases were taken out in the country several miles +from Kiowa before Moses E. Wright, a Free Methodist and a justice of +the peace of Moore township. + +The men were found guilty, and for the first time in the history of +Barber County, all dives were closed. Of course it took two or three +months to accomplish this and not a word was said about suing me for +slander, until after the dives were closed. Then I began to hear that +Sam Griffin was going to sue me for slander, because I said he took bribes. +The papers were served on me, but I was not at all alarmed, for I thought +it would give me an opportunity to bring out the facts of the case. I +knew little about the tricks of lawyers, and the unfair rulings of judges. + +I will here speak of the attitude of some of the W. C. T. U. concerning +the smashing. Most of this grand body of grand women endorsed +me from the first. A few weeks after the Kiowa raid, I held a convention +in Medicine Lodge. I got letters from various W. C. T. U. workers +of the state that they would hold my convention for me. I said: "No, +I will hold my own convention." + +Up to this time, no one had ever offered to hold my convention, +and I fully understood, although I did not say anything, that the W. C. +T. U. did not want it to go out that they endorsed me in my work at +Kiowa. The state president came to my home the first day of the convention. +I believe this was done, thinking I would ask her to preside at +the meeting, or convention. I was glad to see her and asked her to conduct +a parliamentary drill. She came to me privately and asked me to +state to the convention that the W. C. T. U. knew nothing about the +smashing at Kiowa and was not responsible for this act of mine. I did +so, saying the "honor of smashing the saloons at Kiowa would have to +be ascribed to myself alone, as the W. C. T. U. did not wish any of it. So +far as Sister Hutchinson, who is, and has been the president for some time, +is concerned, I believe her to be a conscientious woman, and whose heart +is in the right place. She and I have been the best of friends and love +each other, and she has often defended me and spoken well of my work. +But I think the W. C. T. U. would be much more effective under her +management, if she had understood that Stanley, the republican governor, +wished to handicap her in her prohibition work when he appointed +her husband as physician in the reformatory at Hutchinson, Kansas. Be +it said to the credit of this christian physician he never used alcohol in +his practice. And perhaps other bearings have prevented her from seeing +that the republican pressure has injured our work more than anything +else in Kansas. Many of the wives of these political wire-pullers +are prominent in the Union. A W. C. T. U. must of necessity be a +prohibitionist, for her pledge is a prohibition pledge, not a temperance +one. + +The Free Methodists, although few in number, and considered a church +of but small influence, have been a great power in reform. They were +the abolitionists of negro slavery to a man, and now they are the +abolitionists of the liquor curse to a man. They were also my friends +in this smashing. Father Wright and Bro. Atwood were at the convention +I speak of. Father Wright, who has been an old soldier for the +defence of Truth for many years said to me: "Never mind, Sister Nation, +when they see the way the cat jumps, you will have plenty of friends." +The ministers were also my friends and approved of the smashing. Bro. +McClain, of the Christian church, was at the convention, and he was +trying to apologize for the smashing and defend me at the same time, +he said: "We all make mistakes and crooked paths, and Sister Nation +we all know, tries to do right, and even if she did some crooked things, +all the rest of us do the same thing." + +I appreciated his motive, but for the sake of others, I replied: "I +could not see that the term 'crooked' should be used. I rolled up the +rocks as STRAIGHT as I could, I placed them straight in the box, hitched +up my horse straight, drove straight to Kiowa, walked straight in the +saloon, threw straight and broke them up in the straightest manner, drove +home straight and I did not make a crooked step in smashing." This +of course was pleasantry, but it was the way I took to justify myself, as +but few seemed to see the merit or result of this crusade. + +I never explained to the people that God told me to do this for some +months, for I tried to shield myself from the almost universal opinion +that I was partially insane. + +I will now speak of my persecution for so-called slandering the +prosecuting attorney. As I said, no one mentioned such a thing until +the dives were closed. Closing the joints, called attention to the perjury +of the county officials, for it was proven to be their fault, that we +have dives in Kansas. In order to direct the attention from themselves, +as perjurers, and to me as insane, and to be avenged, they put their heads +together to bring this suit against me. Mr. Griffin was no more to blame +in this matter than the rest of the republicans. A. L. Noble, Polly Tincher, +Edd Sample, and Mr. Herr, the city attorney of Kiowa, were all employed +by Sam Griffin. This practically took all the legal ability, leaving one, +G. A. Martin, whom I retained. I had witnesses enough to prove gambling +and drinking in these dives by Sam, and the sheriff; had sufficient +testimony to justify me in saying what I did. The republican judge of +Kingman, Gillette, ruled out my testimony right through. If my case +had been conducted properly by my lawyer, and proper exceptions taken, +I could have taken the case to the supreme court, and had it reversed on +several rulings. Judge Stevens and Judge Lacey, who were at the trial, +told me they never saw such determination on the part of any judge to +cut out the defense as the rulings of Judge Gillette. It was evident that +everything was cut and dried before going into court. Judge Gillette +had several pages of instructions to the jury, telling them their duty was +to convict and that the damages should be a large sum. I had these +instructions examined by a good lawyer, Mr. Duminel, of Topeka, and the +judge overleaped his perogative. He should have told the jury the facts +and the statute governing slander, but his instructions were an appeal and +command to convict me. This Judge Gillette has a reputation for being +a respected citizen, but his zeal to save from disgrace his republican +colleagues led him to thus persecute a loyal woman Home Defender of +Kansas, and protect the rum defenders, and republican schemers, who +have done more to injure prohibition in Kansas than any other party. +If a democrat wanted to carry on a dive, republicans would grant him +the permit to do so. + +The jury brought in a verdict of guilty; but the damages to the character +of this republican county attorney was one dollar, and of course +I sent him the dollar, but the cost which was, including all, about two +hundred dollars was assessed to me and a judgement put on a piece of +property, which I paid off, by the sale of my little hatchets, and lectures. +Strange these trials never caused me to become discouraged, +rather the reverse. I knew I was right, and God in his own time would +come to my help. The more injustice I suffered, the more cause I had +to resent the wrongs. I always felt that I was keeping others out of +trouble, when I was in. I had resolved that at the first opportunity I +would go to Wichita and break up some of the bold outlawed murder +mills there. I thought perhaps it was God's will to make me a sacrifice +as he did John Brown, and I knew this was a defiance of the national +intrigue of both republican and democratic parties, when I destroyed this +malicious property, which afforded them a means of enslaving the people, +taxing them to gather a revenue they could squander, and giving them +political jobs, thus creating a force to manage the interest and take care +of the results of a business where the advantage was in the graft it gave +to them and the brewers and distillers. + +In two weeks from the close of this trial, on the 27th of December, +1900, I went to Wichita, almost seven months after the raid in Kiowa. +Mr. Nation went to see his brother, Mr. Seth Nation, in eastern Kansas +and I was free to leave home. Monday was the 26th, the day I started. +The Sunday before, the 25th, I went to the Baptist Sunday school then to +the Presbyterian for preaching, and at the close walked over to the Methodist +church for class meeting. I could not keep from weeping, but I +controlled myself the best I could. I did not know but that it would +be the last time I would ever see my dear friends again, and could not +tell them why. I gave my testimony at the class meeting; spoke particularly +to members of the choir about their extravagant dress; told them +that a poor sinner coming there for relief would be driven away, to see +such a vanity fair in front. I begged them to dress neither in gold, silver +or costly array, and spoke of the sin of wearing the corpses of dead birds +and plumage of birds, and closed by saying: "These may be my dying +words." At the close Sister Shell, a W. C. T. U. said to me: "What +do you mean by 'my dying words?' for you never looked better in your +life." I said: "You will know later." I never told anyone then of my +intention of smashing saloons in Wichita. + +I took a valise with me, and in that valise I put a rod of iron, perhaps +a foot long, and as large around as my thumb. I also took a cane +with me. I found out by smashing in Kiowa that I could use a rock but +once, so I took the cane with me. I got down to Wichita about seven +o'clock in the evening, that day, and went to the hotel near the Santa Fe +depot and left my valise. I went up town to select the place I would begin +at first. I went into about fourteen places, where men were drinking +at bars, the same as they do in licensed places. The police standing with +the others. This outrage of law and decency was in violation of the oaths +taken by every city officer, including mayor and councilmen, and they were +as much bound to destroy these joints as they would be to arrest a murderer, +or break up a den of thieves, but many of these so-called officers +encouraged the violation of the law and patronized these places. I have +often explained that this was the scheme of politicians and brewers to +make prohibition a failure, by encouraging in every way the violation of +the constitution. I felt the outrage deeply, and would gladly have given +my life to redress the wrongs of the people. As Esther said: "How can +I see the desolation of my people? If I perish." As Patrick Henry said: +"Give me liberty or give me death." + +I finally came to the "Carey Hotel," next to which was called the +Carey Annex or Bar. The first thing that struck me was the life-size +picture of a naked woman, opposite the mirror. This was an oil painting +with a glass over it, and was a very fine painting hired from the +artist who painted it, to be put in that place for a vile purpose. I called +to the bartender; told him he was insulting his own mother by having +her form stripped naked and hung up in a place where it was not even +decent for a woman to be in when she had her clothes on. I told him +he was a law-breaker and that he should be behind prison bars, instead +of saloon bars. He said nothing to me but walked to the back of his +saloon. It is very significant that the picture of naked women are in +saloons. Women are stripped of everything by them. Her husband is +torn from her, she is robbed of her sons, her home, her food and her +virtue, and then they strip her clothes off and hang her up bare in these +dens of robbery and murder. Well does a saloon make a woman bare of +all things! The motive for doing this is to suggest vice, animating the +animal in man and degrading the respect he should have for the sex to +whom he owes his being, yes, his Savior also. + +I decided to go to the Carey for several reasons. It was the most +dangerous, being the finest. The low doggery will take the low and keep +them low but these so-called respectable ones will take the respectable, +make them low, then kick them out. A poor vagabond applied to a bar +tender in one of these hells glittering with crystalized tears and fine +fixtures. The man behind the bar said, "You get out, you disgrace my place." +The poor creature, who had been his mother's greatest treasure, shuffled +out toward the door. Another customer came in, a nice looking young +man with a good suit, a white collar, and looking as if he had plenty +of money, The smiling bar tender mixed a drink and was handing it to +him. The poor vagabond from the door called out. "Oh, don't begin on +him. Five years ago, I came into your place, looking just like that +young man. You have made me what you see me now. Give that drink +to me and finish your work. Don't begin on him." + +I went back to the hotel and bound the rod and cane together, then +wrapped paper around the top of it. I slept but little that night, spending +most of the night in prayer. I wore a large cape. I took the cane +and walked down the back stairs the next morning, and out in the alley +I picked up as many rocks as I could carry under my cape. I walked into +the Carey Bar-room, and threw two rocks at the picture; then turned +and smashed the mirror that covered almost the entire side of the large +room. Some men drinking at the bar ran at break-neck speed; the bartender +was wiping a glass and he seemed transfixed to the spot and +never moved. I took the cane and broke up the sideboard, which had on +it all kinds of intoxicating drinks. Then I ran out across the street +to destroy another one. I was arrested at 8:30 A. M., my rocks and +cane taken from me, and I was taken to the police headquarters, where +I was treated very nicely by the Chief of Police, Mr. Cubbin, who +seemed to be amused at what I had done. This man was not very +popular with the administration, and was soon put out. I was kept +in the office until 6:30 P. M. Gov. Stanley was in town at that time, +and I telephoned to several places for him. I saw that he was dodging +me, so. I called a messenger boy and sent a note to Gov. Stanley, +telling him that I was unlawfully restrained of my liberty; that I wished +him to call and see me, or try to relieve me in some way. The messenger +told me, when he came back, that he caught him at his home, that he +read the message over three times, then said: "I have nothing to say," +and went in, and closed the door. This is the man who taught Sunday +School in Wichita for twenty years, where they were letting these murder +shops run in violation of the law. Strange that this man should pull +wool over the eyes of the voters of Kansas. I never did have any +confidence in him. When he came to Medicine Lodge to lecture a few +months before this, I would not go to hear him, telling the people that +he was an enemy. + +Kansas has learned some dear lessons, and she will be wise indeed +when she learns that only Prohibitionists will enforce prohibition laws. +That republicans and democrats are traitors, and no one belonging to +these parties should ever hold office, especially in Kansas. + +At 6:30 P. M., I was tried and taken to Wichita jail; found guilty of +malicious mischief, Sam Amidon being the prosecuting attorney, and +the friend of every joint keeper in the city. He called me a "spotter" +when I wanted to give evidence against the jointists. + +The legislature was to convene in a few days and it was understood +that the question of resubmitting the Prohibition Amendment would come +up. Being a part of the constitution, the people had to vote on it, and it +was frustrating their plans to have such agitation at this time, and +these republican leaders were determined to make a quietus of +me, if possible. The scheme was to get me in an insane asylum, +and they wished to increase my insanity as they called my zeal, so as to +have me out of their way, for I was calling too much attention to their +lawlessness, at this time, when it might prove disastrous to their plots. +Two sheriffs conducted me to my cell. The sensation of being locked in +such a place for the first time is not like any other, and never occurs the +second time. These men watched me after the door was locked. I tried +to be brave, but the tears were running down my face. I took hold of +the iron bars of my door, and tried to shake them and said: "Never mind, +you put me in here a cub, but I will go out a roaring lion and I will make +all hell howl." I wanted to let them know that I was going to grow while +in there. + +Three days after, on the 30th, there was brought in and put next to +my cell an old man, named Isaiah Cooper, a lunatic, who raved, cursed +and tore his clothes and bedding. He was brought from the poor farm +where he was waiting to be sent to the insane asylum. There were some +cigarette, smokers in the jail and the fumes came in my cell, for I had +nothing but an open barred door. I begged that I might not be compelled +to smell this poison, but, instead of diminishing, the smoke increased. +Two prisoners from across the rotunda were brought next to +my cell. + +What an outrage, to tax the citizens of Sedgwick County to build +such a jail as that in Wichita. It holds one hundred and sixty prisoners. +There were thirteen there when I was put in. I have been in many jails, but +in none did I ever see a rotary, except in Wichita, a large iron cage, +with one door, the little cells the shape of a piece of pie. Perhaps there +were a dozen in this one. The cage rotated within a cylinder. This was +for the worst criminals, and the cells were only large enough for a small +cot, a chair and a table about a foot square. + +{illust. caption = +JUST BEFORE I LEFT WICHITA JAIL A PHOTOGRAPHER CAME TO MY CELL AND ASKED +TO TAKE MY PICTURE. HERE IT IS IN THE POSITION OF KNEELING, READING +MY BIBLE, WHICH WAS MY USUAL ATTITUDE.} + + +Mr. Simmons was the sheriff and he told the prisoners to "smoke all +they pleased," that he would keep them in material, and he kept his word. +Tobacco smoke is poison to me and cigarettes are worse. The health- +board belonged to this republican whiskey ring, and was in conspiracy +to make me insane, so they put a quarantine on the jail for three weeks, +and I was a lone woman in there, with two cigarette smokers, and a +maniac, next to my cell. John, the Trusty, smoked a horrid strong pipe, +and he also was next to my cell. Strange to say, when that jail had so +many apartments, and so few in them, that four inmates should have been +put next to me; but there was "a cause." Mr. Dick Dodd was the jailor, +and for three weeks he was the only one who came in my cell and I was +not allowed to see anyone in that time, but Dr. Jordan who called once. +I cried and begged to be relieved of the smoke, for I do not think Mr. +Dodd realized how poisonous it was to me. I would have to keep my +windows up in the cold January weather, and the fire would go down at +night. I had two blankets, no pillow and a bed that the criminals had +slept on for years perhaps. I would shiver with cold, and often would lay +on the cement floor with my head in my hands to keep out of the draught. +Oh! the physical agony! I had something like La Grippe which settled +on my bronchial tubes, from which I have never recovered, and I +expect to feel the effect to my dying day. I had a strong voice for +singing, which I lost, and have never been able to sing, to speak of since. +Hour after hour I would lay on the floor, listening to the ravings of this +poor old man, who would fall on his iron bed and hard floor, cursing and +calling out names. One night I thought I could not live to see day. I +had in my cell sweetest of all companions, my Bible. I read and studied +it, and this particular night I told the Lord he must come to my aid. As I +often do, I opened my Bible at random and read the first place I opened +to, the 144th Psalm. I have often read the book through, but this chapter +seemed entirely new. It reads, Verse 1: "Blessed be the Lord my +strength, which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight. 2. My +goodness and my fortress my high tower and my deliverer; my shield +and He in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me." + +God told me in this chapter that He led me to "fight with my fingers +and war with my hands;" that He would be my REFUGE and DELIVERER; +that He would bring the people to me. + +David had just such enemies as these when be says in this chapter: +"Cast forth thy lightnings and scatter them; shoot out thine arrows and +destroy them." + +7. Send thine hand from above; rid me and deliver me out of great +waters from the hand of strange children. + +8. Where mouth speaketh vanity; and where right hand is a right +hand of falsehood. + +12. That our sons may be plants grown up in their youth; that our +daughters may be as corner-stones polished after the similitude of a +palace." + +Here is the motive: The drink murders our sons, and do not allow +them to grow to be healthy, brave, strong men. The greatest enemy of +woman and her offspring and her virtue is the licensed hellholes or saloons. + +13. "That our garners may be full of all manner of store." + +Our grain is used to poison; our bread-stuff is turned to the venom +of asps and the bread winner is burdened with disease of drunkeness, +where health should be the result, of raising that which, when rotted and +made into alcohol, perpetrates ruin and death; Our garners or grain +houses are spoiled or robbed. + +14. "That there be no breaking in or going out; that there be no +complaining in our street." + +What is it causing the breaking into jails, prisons, asylums, penitentiaries, +alms-houses? The going out of the homes, of hearts; going out +into the cold; going into drunkard's graves and a drunkard's hell? + +"Complaining in our streets." Oh! the cold and hungry little children! +Oh! the weeping wives and mothers! Oh! the misery and desolation +of the drunkards! All from this drink of sorrow and death. + +15. "Happy is that people that is in such a case; yea, happy is that +people whose God is the Lord." + +"People whose God is the Lord," will not allow this evil. They will +smash it out in one way or another. This blessed word was a "light to +my feet and a lamp to my pathway." I rejoiced for the comfort it gave +me; for the Lord truly talked to my soul while I read and reread this. +I must say that "Little Dodds," the turnkey as I called him, was often +kind to me, but he was completely the servant of Simmons and his wife. + +Once Mr. Dodds asked me if I would leave the jail; that Sam +Amidon would bring a hack to the back door of the jail and he, Mr. +Dodds, and his wife, would go with me to Kansas City. + +John, the Dutch trusty, said to me one day: "There is something +in the wind; people are coming and going and talking to Dodds." Mr. +Dodds was supposed to be quarantined in the jail, but he went in and +out of the office and he would also go to his home; the prisoners saw +him from the window time and time again. + +It was agony to hear the ravings night and day of the poor old +maniac. He would frequently fall on his iron bed and floor. He was a +large man of about sixty years of age or over. He was helpless; but had +no one to take care of him, but John, the trusty, who for the sake of +mercy, would give him some attention. The sanitary condition of his +cell must have been something horrible, from the smell that came into +my room. + +One night the poor lunatic fell so hard on the floor, or bed that he +lay as one dead, for some time. The jailer and others were aroused and +before they dare have a physician come in, they had to scrub and clean +the cell. Then Dr. Jordan came, and the old man was finally brought +to life. This doctor was in the conspiracy to have me adjudged insane; +A woman fifty-five years old, who never broke a statute of Kansas. + +Mr. Dodds told me that Sam Amidon would have a cab at the back +door of the jail and would take me out. I consented. John, the Trusty, +said to me, "Don't you leave this jail, there is some plotting going on, +and they mean mischief. I asked him to get me a wire to fasten my door, +which he did, and I wound it around the open places in the door and to +the iron beam it shut on, and then John brought me the leg of a cot. +I watched all night, listening for some one to come in my cell to drag me +out. With the cot leg I was going to strike their hands if they attempted +to open the door. I know what it is to expect murder in my cell. God +said, 'He would stand by me, and who but He, has." + +I got so many letters from poor, distracted mothers, who wrote so +often: "For God's sake come here." In some letters there was money. +One letter from a United Brethren church in Winfield, Kansas; the minister, +Bro. Hendershot, wrote me that he took up a collection in their +church for me of $7.38. How I cried over that letter and kissed it! I +knew that I had some friends who understood me; and just after this +letter, one from a Catholic priest came, which was a great comfort. The +many letters I got from all kinds of vice was a great encouragement to +me. I must say: "All hell got hit, when I smashed the saloons." For +I never, until then, knew that people thought, or could write such vile +things; letter after letter, of the most horrible infidelity, cursing God, +calling me every vile name, and threatening me. + +I was not allowed a pillow; I begged for one, for I had La Grippe, +and my head was as sore as a boil. Mr. Dodd frequently brought +me the papers, and nearly every time that Wichita Eagle would have some +falsehoods concerning me, always giving out that I "was crazy," "was +in a padded cell," "only a matter of time when I would be in the +insane asylum;" that I used "obscene language" and "was raving." The +bible says: "All liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with +fire;" so the Murdocks of Wichita ought to tremble. I associate the +name "Murdock" with murderer. The real depravity of such people +was shown, when a lone old woman with a love of humanity, was in a +cell suffering so unjustly, that these people should have left nothing +undone to prejudice the people against her. Even when my brother +died, this Murdock paper spoke of me "raving in jail," and I was not +privileged to go to him in his dying hours. Such people drove the nails +in the hands and the spear in the side of Jesus. + +This Wichita Eagle is the rum-bought sheet that has made Wichita +one of the most lawless places in Kansas. + +When first arrested in Wichita, in violation of the Constitution, I +was denied bail and compelled to bring a Habeas corpus proceeding in +the Supreme Court to get a trial or bail. Sam Amidon as attorney +for Simmons proposed a return to the writ, and filed a false certificate +from Dr. Shults, president of the Board of Health, stating that Board had +quarantined the jail. Rather than face the Supreme Court with a false +return the case was dismissed. I do not believe that history ever recorded +a quarantine of a jail before, for public buildings, such as post +office, court houses or jails cannot be made pest houses, and such buildings +are cleansed. There was not a meeting of the Health Board. This +was a conspiracy, signed by Dr. Shults and the sheriff, for the purpose +of keeping me in jail, preventing me from seeing my friends or lawyers, +and by persecution to get me in an insane asylum. Below is a copy of this +fraudulent notice: + + +ORIGINAL NOTICE TO O. D. KIRK, JUDGE, WARDEN EBEY, +CLERK, CHAS. W. SIMMONS, SHERIFF. SERVED +TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1901. + +To O. D. Kirk, Judge, Harden Ebey, Clerk, and Charles W. Simmons, +Sheriff: + +You, and each of you, are hereby notified that the following is a +copy of a paper purporting to be a statement made by J. W. Shults, +President of the Board of Health, of Wichita, Kansas, and attached to +the return of Charles W. Simmons in the The Matter of the Application +of CARRIE NATION for a Writ of Habeas Corpus now pending in +The Supreme Court of the State of Kansas, viz: + + "Wichita, Kansas, December 29, 1900. + +"At special meeting of the Board of Health, held in the City of +Wichita, Kansas, on the 29th day of December, 1900, at the office of Dr. +J. W. Shults, President of the Board of Health, the following resolution +was adopted and ordered spread upon the minutes kept by the said +board. 'Whereas it has come to the knowledge of the Board of Health +that the inhabitants of the jail of Sedgwick County, Kansas, have been +exposed to small pox and that one Isaiah Cooper confined therein has been +exposed to smallpox and is infected with said disease and that the said +Isaiah Cooper is a violently insane man and it is impossible to move him +from said jail and that all of the said jail have been exposed to the same +and that one W. A. Jordan, who is County Physician of Sedgwick County +and City Physician of the City of Wichita, Kansas, asked and desired +and demanded that said jail be quarantined or that said Isaiah Cooper +be removed therefrom and that said jail be fumigated, and whereas it is +impossible to remove the said Isaiah Cooper therefrom, the action of +said W. A. Jordan in recommending the quarantine of the said county +jail and in quarantining the same is hereby approved and the said +county jail is hereby declared quarantined and ordered quarantined for +the space of twenty-one days from this date and all persons in charge of +said jail and the health officer of said city are hereby directed to enforce +this said quarantine and the order of the said W. A. Jordan. + J. W. SHULTS, M. D. + President of Board of Health." + +and that the above statement is not true; that there was no meeting of +the Board of Health on the 29th day of December, 1900 and that the +said jail has never been quarantined by the said board of health on the +said 29th day of December or at any other time. + + Dated at Wichita, Kansas, January 14, 1901. + W. S. ALLEN, + RAY & KEITH, + ROBT. BROWN, + Attorneys for Carrie Nation, an Inmate of said Jail. + Served on O. B. Kirk, 9:20 a. m., Tuesday, January 15, 1901. + Harden Ebey, 9:20 a. m., Tuesday, January 15, 1901. + Chas. W. Simmons, 9:35 a. m., Tuesday, January 15, 1901. + + +I could tell of many interesting incidents in jail. + +There were five singers, one a graduate of the conservatory of music +in Boston, and Mr. Dodd was a fine singer himself; he would often sing +with the prisoners and it was a great pleasure to me. One song he +would have the boys sing was: "My Old Kentucky Home." We had a +genuine poet there, and I here give you a poem he sent up to me one day, +by the trusty: + +SOLEMN THOUGHTS. + + 'Twas an aged and Christian martyr, + Sat alone in a prison cell, + Where the law of state had brought her, + For wrecking an earthly hell. + + Day by day, and night she dwelt there, + Singing songs of Christ's dear love; + At His cross she pray'd and knelt there, + As an angel from above. + + In the cells and 'round about her, + Prisoners stood, deep stained in sin; + Listening to the prayers she'd offer, + Looking for her Christ within. + + Some who'd never known a mother, + Ne'er had learned to kneel and pray, + Raised their hands, their face to cover, + Till her words had died away. + + In the silent midnight hours, + Came a voice in heavenly strain, + Floating o'er in peaceful showers, + Bringing sunshine after rain. + + Each one rose from out his slumber, + Listening to her songs of cheer, + Then the stillness rent asunder, + With their praises loud and clear. + + Praise from those whose crimes had led them, + O'er a dark and stormy sea, + Where its waves had lashed and tossed them + Into "hell's" captivity. + + Wine it was, the drink that led them, + From the tender Shepherd's fold, + Now they hear His voice call them, + With His precious words of gold. + + Like the sheep that went astray, + Twice we've heard the story told, + They heard His voice, they saw the way, + That leads to His pastured fold. + + +The first time I was put in jail, after everything was quiet, I heard +some prisoner down below, swearing, and I called out: "What do you +mean boys by asking God to damn this place? I think he has done so +and we don't want any more damns here. Get down on your knees and +ask God to bless you." And all the rest of time I never heard an oath. +In a week or so I heard them singing hymns; and I called to them: +"How are you boys?" + +"We have all been converted since the first of January," was their +reply. + +One of those young men got out while I was there, and came to my +cell and told me that it was true about their conversion. + +Oh! the sad hearts behind the bars! Oh! the injustice! I am glad +I have been a prisoner for one thing, I never see a face behind the bars +that my heart does not pity. I have heard so many tales of ruined lives; +have seen men with muscles and brain, bowed into tears. Oh, if we +would only love each other more; if we would feel as Paul: "To owe +love to all we meet, and pay the debt. 'Tis the most pleasant debt to +pay and the indebtedness blesses both parties, especially the one who +pays." I used to think that birth and other circumstances made one person +better than another. I do not see it that way now. The man with +many opportunities is not entitled to as much consideration as one with +fewer. I am the defender of the one who needs help most. The great +need of the world is Love. + + + +CHAPTER IX. + +OUT OF JAIL.--EGGS AND STONE.--SMASHING STILLING'S JOINT AT ENTERPRISE.-- +WHIPPED BY HIRED PROSTITUTES.--PLOT AT HOLT BY HOTEL KEEPER +AND JOINTIST TO POISON AND SLUG ME.--AT CONEY ISLAND.--HAND +BROKEN AND HANDCUFFS. + + +I got out of Wichita jail about the last week in January, 1901, under +a writ of habeas corpus. I got bail,--I forget who went my bail, but God +bless them; and left on the evening train about seven o'clock. + +While in jail I got a letter asking me to come to Enterprise, Dickinson +County, and break up saloons there. I said the name ENTERPRISE, +is good and I will go; so I left jail with the intention of going there. +It was dark when I started for the train. Many of the Salvation Army +were near me. The streets were almost impassable, and the whole city +seemed to be on the streets marching down to the station, yelling and +laughing. + +Many said: "Are you not afraid?" Perfect love casteth out all fear +I love the people, I do not fear them. + +There walked by my side, a man keeping the crowd back. "Are you +one of the Salvation Army?" I said to him. + +He said: "No, I am only a tin horn gambler." + +I asked him: "Why do you seem to be such a friend of mine." + +He answered: "Because I intend that no one shall hurt you, for +you are a good woman, and I will see you safe. They all know me, and +they will not hurt you." He carried my valise and put me on the train. + +There were several thousand at the depot and the crowding was +dangerous. I wanted to see the crowd, so I raised the window, waved +my hand and as the train pulled out, the eggs began to come; the window +fell down and I did not get a spatter. God said: "I'll stand by you." +explains this. In two minutes a rock the size of my fist came crashing +in at the window; shivered the glass, and the rock fell down at my side; +which was a miracle. Not once did I feel alarmed but smiled; while all +the passengers were on their feet with fright. + +I got to Enterprise at night. I stayed all night with Mrs. Hoffman +and next morning, I went down to a dive kept by a man named Stillings. +He had closed to go out to a baseball game. The door was locked, so I +broke the front glass and climbed in. Several ladies were on the outside, +and were friendly to my smashing. I broke the place up. There were +twelve cases of beer and I destroyed them and piled them up in the center +of the room on the floor. At the close, the marshal came in, took me out +and would not let me break up the other dive near by. Neither did he +arrest me. + +I came down on the corner of the street that night, to tell the people +why I did this, when Stillings passed, cursing and shaking his fist at me, +saying: "My wife will settle you." Just then a furious woman came +around the corner, rushed up to me and struck me a fearful blow in the +eye, then ran to her husband, Stillings, and in a frantic manner said: +"I have done what you asked me, now let us go home." I stopped speaking +long enough to go into a meat shop and have a piece of fresh meat +bound on my eye, which was already very dark and painful. Then I +finished my address on the street, and went up to a meeting in the church, +gave an address, and we organized a society to smash saloons, if they did +not close. Next morning we went down the street in a body, Mrs. Hoffman +and other women, and the other dive keeper talked to us and promised +to go out of business. This Stillings came to me again cursing and +threatening, saying: "His wife would fix me." Although this man was +disturbing the peace, disorderly and dangerous, no one offered to arrest +him. He held me, while four women ran from some place with whips +and sticks. One beat me with her fist, another with a whip, one with a +raw-hide, while one pulled my hair and kicked me into the gutter, nearly +killing me. + +I said: "Women, will you let me be murdered." For although there +were men and women present, not one did a thing, until at last, an old +lady, the mother of the saloon-keeper's wife, picked up a brick and said: +"If anyone strikes that woman again I will hit them with this." Then all +rushed to defend me. + +I was almost breathless. My hair was down, much of it being pulled +out. I went home with my friend, Mrs. Hoffman. These parties were +arrested. The trial brought out the fact that this dive-keeper, Stillings, +had hired these women. To the gambler's wife he was to give twenty- +five dollars, to use the raw-hide. Two women were prostitutes, whom +this Stillings had brought to town for this purpose. They were fined a +small sum, and the whole of them given a few hours to leave town. + +My body was bruised and sore. My limbs were striped with bruises; +but I was only disabled two days. + +While in Enterprise I got a telegram from Holt, signed by the "Temperance +Committee," it read: "Come here and help us break up dives." +This little town was only twelve miles from Enterprise. In going to +the train that night there seemed to have been some one hiding on every +corner throwing eggs. My dress was covered with them. I got to Holt +at midnight. When I got off the train, I then knew it was a plot to +injure me for no one was there to meet me, and I saw some suspicious +men keeping in the dark. I got in a hack and went to a hotel. +I asked for the women but all had retired. I went up to my room, +which was very small. It had one window which was raised an inch +with a lath under it, and I thought it strange at the time that the landlord +should have let the window down, but I was very tired and dropped +asleep almost as soon as I touched the bed. About two o'clock I was +awakened with a smothered feeling, struggling for breath. I jumped for +the window, which I threw up, for the room was full of the most poisonous +odor, as of cigarettes, and other smells. I knew that there were persons +at the door puffing the poison in. I sat at the window and listened +and in about fifteen minutes I heard some one whistling and saw +through the transom that a light was coming. A man stopped at my +door and knocked. + +"What do you want?" + +"I want to speak to you," he replied. + +"What is it?" + +"I want to speak to you." + +God showed me in a vision two men crouched on each side of the +door ready to either catch or slug me, if the door was opened. + +"I see you sluggers on each side of the door. You villain, you have +tried to murder me by throwing poison in my room and now you are +trying something else." + +"There is a mob here after you." + +"You are a liar," I answered. + +"There is a committee wants to speak to you." + +"You are telling lies in order to have me open my door." + +He left and went down below, and for ten minutes there was a +great tramping of feet and I could hear the landlord making out as +if he was dispersing a crowd. I watched from my window and saw two +men walking away. I certainly was thankful for a lock on my door. +Next morning when ready to leave my room, I looked up and down the +passages well; then I hurried and did not feel safe, until I got on the +outside. I asked a little boy if there were any Christians in Holt. + +"No, but there are some in the country." + +I got my breakfast at a restaurant, and I called out on the streets +that I would hold a meeting in front of this hotel where I had stopped. +There was a crowd and I then told of the telegram and of how I was +treated. I pointed to the landlord, who was the picture of a villain, and +a coward. The two dive-keepers of Holt were at this meeting. They +asked me if I intended to smash the saloons there. + +"Of course, I didn't come to Holt to do anything else." + +One man told me that he would shoot me if I came into his place. + +"I am not afraid of your gun. Maybe it would be a good thing for +a saloon-keeper to kill Carry Nation. It might be the means of causing +the people to smash the dives." + +The one that talked to me was white with fear and anger, but at +last the color came back to his face, and soon he was in good humor; he +told me he never expected to open that saloon again. In less than ten +days from that time, the people of the county became so aroused, that +the prosecuting attorney closed every saloon in the county, which were +twelve in number. + +From Holt I went to Topeka. I stopped with the United Brethren +minister there, and spoke in his church. The saloons were all over +Topeka. I went down town after dark, to see the condition of things. +It was soon learned that I was on the streets, and a crowd gathered. +I went to some dives and joints. I could not get in. One had his mistress +stationed at the door with a broomstick. She gave me four blows +before I could get away, poor creature. I met her niece after that, who +told how the saloon-keeper cast her off and that she died a miserable death. + +While I was there the State Temperance Union had a meeting in +the First Presbyterian church. Capt. Cook, from Chetopa, got up in the +meeting and said: "Here is ten dollars towards giving a medal to the +bravest woman in Kansas, Carry Nation." One hundred and twenty +dollars was raised. + +I said: "I would prefer that the money be used to pay my lawyers, +rather than be put into a medal as I did not wear gold in any way." + +We held a good many meetings. I spoke in several churches and +held meetings in Dr. Eva Harding's office, where we prepared to take +measures to break up saloons in Topeka, where sworn officials were +perjuring themselves from governor down to constable. About this time +a certain woman pretended to be a friend of mine, but was a spy and +a traitor. I believe she was hired by the jointists to find out our plans. +She told me she knew where every saloon in the city was and would +show them to me. It was understood by a few of us that we would make +a raid one morning in February, 1901, and I called on this woman to show +us where the places were. We wandered around from street to street, +and I soon discovered that she was keeping me away from them. One +young boy said: "I'll show you a place." + +I came to one dive. I lifted my hatchet to smash the door and this +woman grabbed at my hatchet and so did the man. He slammed the door +and left his hat in my hand. I passed on down to the "Senate" saloon and +went in. This was about daylight. The bartender ran towards me with +a yell, wrenched my hatchet out of my hand and shot off his pistol toward +the ceiling; he then ran out of the back door, and I got another hatchet +from a lady with us. I ran behind the bar, smashed the mirror and all +the bottles under it; picked up the cash register, threw it down; then +broke the faucets of the refrigerator, opened the door and cut the rubber +tubes that conducted the beer. Of course it began to fly all over the +house. I threw over the slot machine, breaking it up and I got from +it a sharp piece of iron with which I opened the bungs of the beer +kegs, and opened the faucets of the barrels, and then the beer flew in +every direction and I was completely saturated. A policeman came in +and very good-naturedly arrested me. For this I was fined $100 and put +in jail. Mr. Cook was sheriff and I was treated very nicely by him and +Mrs. Cook. Mrs. Cook's mother was visiting them at this time, a woman +thoroughly in sympathy with my work, and I believe that the influence of +this good woman was the cause of my being treated so well, for after +she left things were very different. + +That republican conspiracy in Topeka determined to put me in the +insane asylum. One of them, Judge Magaw, swore on the witness stand +that he believed me insane. His examination brought out the fact that I +compelled him to turn some obscene pictures to the wall once, when I +called to see him in his office. + +I had received ever so many letters from all over the country justifying +smashing as being reasonable, right and legal. I also saw that the +republican newspapers of Kansas and other states were determined to +put me in a false light before the people. I conceived the idea of editing +a paper. I tried to get the Journal to edit the paper, but it seemed +that I could not get anyone to take hold of it. Some one suggested to +me Nick Chiles, a negro, who had a printing outfit. I knew but little of +this man. I sent for him to come and see me at my cell. All the money +I had in the world was from the sale of ten cows which was $240. This +negro, Chiles talked very fair and promised to print my paper in a +creditable way. I gave him the $240. I wrote the editorials while in +the jail, and also gave him bundles of letters which I had received and +a great many poems that had been written on Carry Nation and smashing. +This negro finally cheated me out of my money and papers also. +I closed with him after three weeks, he put the papers out, collected for +them and never paid me a cent. I believe he paid Mr. Nation some and +when I would have made him account for his wrong dealings, I found +that the contract between he and I, which was drawn up by Mr. Nation, +made this negro my partner. This, of course, was done to prevent me +from having any legal redress. My paper was called THE SMASHER'S +MAIL. I called it this for it was largely composed of letters which I +had received on the subject of smashing. I had no one to read the proofs +and was at the mercy of this negro, who was not in sympathy with my +cause, but to the reverse. I was often humiliated at the way my articles +were tortured. I afterwards got The Kansas Farmer to publish the paper +and I then bought a press of my own, but found that I could not conduct +a paper and lecture, so after the 13th edition, I closed. The paper +accomplished , this much, that the public could see by my editorials that +I was not insane. + + +THE SECOND TIME IN JAIL AT WICHITA. + +I was in a meeting of the W. C. T. U. in Wichita, of which Mrs. +Summers was president. I wanted to have these women go with me and +destroy the places there that were murdering their sons. Many present +were in favor of it, but Mrs. Summers was bitterly opposed. Three +went out in the hall with me, Mrs. Lucy Wilhoit, Miss Muntz and Mrs. +Julia Evans. The husband of the latter was a great drunkard, otherwise +a capable physician. Those three women said they would go with me. +We went to Mrs. Evans' home and then, for the first time, I took a hatchet +and Mrs. Evans a piece of iron. We marched down to the first place, +kept by John Burns. We walked in and began to smash right and left. +With my hatchet I smashed in the large plate glass windows and also +the door. Sister Evans and I then attacked the show case, went behind +the bar and I smashed everything in sight. The bartender came running +up to me with his hands up, "Don't come near my hatchet, it might fall +on you and I will not be responsible for the results." + +After we were through for no one resisted us, Mr. Burns was asked. +"Why did you not knock that woman down?" he replied, "God forbid +that I should strike a woman." ("a man's a man for a' that.") + +I did not see what the other two women were doing, but heard Sister +Wilhoit talking to the crowd and telling why we had done this. + +We were put in one cell, the one I occupied before and were given +a cot apiece. This was one of the glorious heavenly and refreshing +times. We sang hymns, repeated scripture, would often laugh and cry +by turns for joy to think we were worthy to suffer for His sake. "The +table was prepared before us in the presence of our enemies, our cup +runneth over." This happy condition was not what our persecutors +wished, and Mrs. Simmons and her husband, whom we called "Jezebel" +and "Ahab," were determined to separate us. Mrs. Simmons was telling +that I used obscene language to her husband. + +{illust. caption = +THIS PICTURE TAKEN BY A MAN WHO CALLED FOR THE PURPOSE, TO SEE ME IN +TOPEKA JAIL. I NEVER WANT A PICTURE TAKEN OF ME WITHOUT MY BIBLE, MY +CONSTANT AND HEAVENLY COMPANION.} + + +These two were very much interested in having me adjudged insane, +for Mr. Simmons had in several ways laid himself liable to criminal +prosecution, especially in the matter of the quarantine. Mrs. Simmons +came to our cell door, and in the presence of Sister Wilhoit, to whom she +had told that I used "obscene language," I asked her if she said this? +She had to acknowledge that she did. I told her she spoke a "lie," for +I had never done such a thing. She sent her husband and son up to the +cell and they dragged me into the rotary and put me in one of those little +triangular cells, which was indeed a place of filth. The faucet leaked, +and kept a continual spatter, which made the foot of my cot damp. I +stayed there five days and while it was not as bad as Jeremiah's dungeon, +it was similar. The dampness and poison of this cell added to the already +deep cold on my lungs. Dear Bro. Schollenberger! Who has not heard +of this great hearted man of Wichita? He brought us little treats and +in many ways relieved us of our afflictions and bonds. I was not allowed +to be with my lovely sisters again in prison they would write notes and +send them by a "trusty," for they were very uneasy about me, fearing +foul play. + +As soon as the sisters could get bonds, they got out, but I was not +allowed to give bond. I was not a meek prisoner, did not act like a +criminal. This vexed my prosecutors and they tried to humble me, but +I felt that I was right and that God would stand by me and I wanted +Him to look down and always find me brave and true and in nothing +to be terrified by my adversaries. + +I had some money sent me while in jail and this I divided, often to +the last, with my fellow prisoners. To one I gave four dollars, for his +poor wife was soon to be confined. To the "trusty" John, I gave three +dollars for his destitute wife, and often bought little treats, such as +fruits and butter. The meals were meat and beans one day, then potatoes +and meat all cooked tip into a mush. I became very much attached to +my fellow prisoners and I found some with noble sentiments. What +do people do who have no hope of heaven, I often ask. What a joy to +have a place in view where there is no sickness, no death, no jails, no +suffering of any kind. + + +THE THIRD TIME IN TOPEKA JAIL. + +I had become so disgusted with jail food that my stomach refused +it. As soon as I was put in jail I told Mr. Cook to send the milkman +to my cell. He came and was very kind. He agreed to bring me some +bread and milk, ten cents worth a day. This I lived on for the eighteen +days. In the cell with me was a woman named Mrs. Mahanna, who was +put in for selling beer. She did not happen to have a government license. +Poor creature! She bad been the mother of fifteen children; had a +broken hip caused by a kick of a drunken husband. She was very ignorant +but kind-hearted. The heat was intense and we were next to the +roof. Sometimes I would feel like I was suffocated. The windows +slanted so that but little draught came in. One pane of glass was partly +out and we would sit by that to get a breath of air. While in this jail +I had many offers from different theatrical, circus, and museum managers, +who tried to tempt me with all kinds of prices; one as high as $800 +a week, and a palace car and a maid. I never for one moment thought +of taking any of them until two managers came from New York City. +The sheriff, Mr. Cook, brought their cards up. I said: "Tell them to +wait until morning." I prayed over the matter nearly all night and before +day all seemed settled. (This was a test to try my faith.) The cloud +was lifted and I told Mr. Cook to tell the men that a "million a minute +would not catch me." My dear friends especially Mrs. Goodwin, Dr. +Eva Harding and others used their influence to have Stanley, the governor +pardon me, this he refused to do, the joint-keepers were those he +favored more than me. + +I had never thought of going before the public as a lecturer. I +knew those people only wanted me as they would a white elephant. I +did not at this time see the stage as a missionary field. + +At this time I was entirely out of means, was in debt and the duns +I got while in jail were a terrible trouble to me. The ten cents I got +for my bread and milk came in almost daily for copies of my papers. I +paid my milkman sometimes in stamps. + +I never wanted to get out of jail so badly in my life, as I did at this +time, when the offers to make engagements were so many. Two days +after the New York managers were there, I got a letter from James E. +Furlong, a Lyceum Manager of Rochester, N. Y., who had managed +Patti and many of the great singers. He told me if I would give him +"some dates", he would assist me in getting out of jail. I hardly knew +what he meant by "dates". Mrs. Goodwin of Topeka called to see me, +I showed the letter to her and asked what this man meant by "dates?" +She said: "He may want you to lecture or you could tell of your experience." + +"I wonder if the people would like to hear me, I can tell my experience," +I said. I asked her to tell Mr. Duminel, my lawyer, to come to +my cell. I told him of it, and he said he would call the commissioners +together and would have them let me out by paying my fines by monthly +installments. This he did. So Mr. Furlong sent the money needed and +Dr. Harding and Mrs. Goodwin collected seventy dollars from my friends +to help me out. When I got to Kansas City, I lacked fifty cents of having +enough money to pay for my ticket east, so I borrowed that of the man +at the fruit stand in the depot. In about a week from that I spoke at +Atlantic City for the Philadelphia American, the proceeds being used to +give the poor children an outing. Thousands of people were present. +I never made a note or wrote a sentence for the platform in my life. +Have spoken extemporaneously from the first and often went on the +platform when I could not have told what I was to say to save my life, +and for several weeks God compelled me to open my Bible at random and +speak from what my eyes fell on. I have literally proved that: "You +shall not think of what you shall speak but it shall be given in that +hour." The best thoughts have come to me after being asleep, waking +in the night or in the morning. + +The way I happened to think of a hatchet as a souvenir, some one +brought me one and told me I ought to carry them. I then selected a +pattern and got a party in Providence, R. I., to make them. These have +been a great financial aid to me; helped me pay my fines and expenses. +People have often bought them from me, at my prison cell window. I +sell them everywhere I go. + +The summer of 1902 I was at Coney Island, speaking in Steeple- +Chase Park, and a man was very insulting to me, and always took occasion +to say something against women. I can scarcely remember how it was, +but I broke or smashed his show case of cigars and cigarettes. I knew +I would have to pay for it, but I did not mind paying for the object lesson +that it would be, for tobacco is a poison, and the use of it is a vice. +I was arrested, stood my trial and was being sent to jail, when Mr. +Tilyou, Manager of Steeple-Chase Park, took me from the "Black Maria." +The policeman who had the prisoners in charge was purple and bloated +from beer drinking, he wanted me to go in a place in the front that was +already crowded with women. I refused and he struck me on the hand +that was holding to the iron bars of the little window and broke a bone, +causing it to swell up. I said: "Never mind, you beer-swelled, whiskey- +soaked saturn faced man, God will strike you." In six weeks from that +time this man fell dead on the streets of Coney Island. This was the +first time I every had handcuffs on. I saw in this experience in Police +Courts in Coney Island what I never saw before, eight or ten women +sentenced for drunkenness; one the mother of five children, and the +others nice looking young ladies, and most of them were weeping. When +they received their sentences there would be a smothered laugh from the +audience of bloated men present, and I turned and said: "Shame on you, +for laughing at the sorrows of these poor women." I thought how heartless +it was for men to laugh at the disgrace of women. I got out by +paying for the destruction of the cigar case. + +I was very successful and made enough money to pay $125 a month +to have my SMASHER'S MAIL published in the form of a magazine, +but having no one in Topeka that could edit the magazine, doing justice +to me, I returned and closed the business. + + + +CHAPTER X. + +LEGAL STATUS OF PROHIBITION AND JOINT SMASHING, + + +The very highest judicial authority, the Supreme Court of the Nation, +has made a most radical ruling, towit: "No legislature can bargain +away the public health or the public morals. The people themselves cannot +do it, much less their servants. Government is organized with a view +to their preservation and cannot divest itself of the power to provide +for them."--101 U. S. 816. + +No state, therefore, can license or legalize immorality, vice or crime. +All such efforts are treason to society and organized government. + +Again, the Supreme Court of the United States has declared: "If +the public safety or the public morals require the discontinuance of any +manufacture or traffic, the hand of the legislature cannot be stayed from +providing for its discontinuance, by any incidental inconvenience which +individuals or corporations may suffer."--97 U. S. 32. Thus the legislature +of any state can confiscate property by wholesale if necessary for +the protection of the community. Powder mills, slaughter houses and +pest houses, necessary institutions, are frequently so condemned and +rendered absolutely worthless. + +The Federal Supreme Court gives ample power to all states to enforce +this great fundamental principle. It says: "The state cannot by any +contract limit the exercise of her power to the prejudice of the public +health and the public morals."--111 U. S. 751. + +Speaking specifically, a sweeping decision of the highest tribunal of +the land, is as follows: "There is no inherent right in a citizen to thus +sell intoxicating liquors by retail; it is not a privilege of a citizen of a +state or a citizen of the United States."--137 U. S. 86. + +No state or citizen of the United States then has any power, authority +or right to vend intoxicating liquors at all. + +That there may be no misconception or misconstruction, in a case +from Kansas, this final court of appeal in American jurisprudence, said: +"For we cannot shut out of view the fact, within the knowledge of all, +that the public health, the public morals, and the public safety may be +endangered by the general use of intoxicating drinks; nor the fact, +established by statistics accessible to everyone, that the idleness, +disorder, pauperism, and crime existing in the country are, in some +degree at least, traceable to the evil,"--Mugler vs. Kansas, 123 U. S. 623. + +And again: "The statistics of every state show a greater amount +of crime and misery attributable to the use of ardent spirits obtained at +these liquor saloons than to any other source."--137 U. S. 86. + +Hon. Justice Grier said: "It is not necessary to array the appalling +statistics of misery, pauperism, and crime that have their origin in the use +and abuse of ardent spirits. The police power, which is exclusively in +the state, is competent to the correction of these great evils, and all +measures of restraint or prohibition necessary to effect that purpose are +within the scope of that authority, and if a loss of revenue should accrue +to the United States, from a diminished consumption of ardent spirits, she +will be a gainer a thousand-fold in health, wealth and happiness of the +people."--5 Howard 532. + +These far-reaching decisions settle forever the disloyalty and un- +Americanism of any state or citizen presuming to authorize or condone +liquor selling. The whole license system of the United States is clearly +illegal and unconstitutional. + +Abraham Lincoln interpreted the Constitution right, when he wrote +the Emancipation Proclamation. The Presidents of the United States +are oath bond to enforce it, and the license to vend intoxicating liquors +as unconstitutional. Mr. Roosevelt is violating his oath to allow this +business to continue. He has the same right and more cause than Abraham +Lincoln to cancel every license, and shut up every brewery and distillery +in the United States. God says, "Woe to the crown of pride, to +the drunkards--Yes, this thing at the head of the nation is cursed--Look +at the assassinated Presidents, since the license was given by the Republican +Party in 1863. Lincoln refused to put his name to the bill at +first, but was over persuaded to do so by those parties who said it was +to pay a war debt, and when that was done, the license would be revoked, +but poor, honest Abe Lincoln was not suffered to undo the wrong he +was persuaded to commit. Every drunkard's wife and drunkard's mother +and child ought to bring suit against the Government, for the durgging, +poisoning and murdering of their loved ones. A man can recover if his +wife's affections are alienated from him, a person can recover damages +even, if he injures his foot on a defective sidewalk--the inference is clear. + +And now let us look at the Legal Status of Joint Smashing. Let +every lawyer, judge and law-abiding person read carefully the following: +Kansas, true to the doctrines enunciated above, and loyal to the best +welfare of her populace, enacted constitutional prohibition forbidding the +sale of ardent spirits. + +Section 14 of the Prohibitory Law reads: "It shall be the duty of +all sheriffs and constables, in their respective counties and townships, to +file complaints and make arrests for violation of this act, whenever they +shall be informed of the violation thereof, and any such officer who shall +neglect or refuse to file such complaint or make such arrest, upon being +informed of the omission of such offense, shall be subject to a fine not +exceeding $100, and his office shall be vacant: Providing that no such +officer shall in any event be liable for costs of such prosecution." + +Hence, it is not necessary that the private citizen drum up evidence, +swear out warrants and prosecute liquor drug-stores and joints. That +is what officials are elected and paid for and if officers fail to abate +these liquor venders, then the duty devolves back on the patriotic citizen. + +This decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, carried +up from Vermont, Spaulding vs. Preston, 21 p. 9, towit: "If any member +of the body politic instead of putting his property to honest uses, +converts it into an engine to injure the life, liberty, health, morals, peace +or property of others, he can, I apprehend, sustain no action against one +who withholds or destroys his property with the bona fide intention of +preventing injury to himself or others." + +In Kansas every liquor selling place is not only a declared nuisance, +but a constitutional outlaw. And in the case from Pennsylvania +where a private individual had abated a nuisance, the court held: "We +consider it also well settled, as is claimed by this defendant, that a common +nuisance may be removed, or, in legal language, abated by any individual. +Any man, says Lord Hale, may justify the removal of a common +nuisance, either by land or by Nyater, because every man is concerned in +it." + +It is not only the privilege of the patriotic citizen to abate a dangerous +nuisance but it is commendable. Bishop on Criminal Law, paragraph +1081, says: "This doctrine (of abatement of a public nuisance by an +individual) is an expression of the better instincts of our natures, which +lead men to watch over and shield one another from harm." + +"The buildings, premises and paraphernalia of a nuisance are not +legitimate property and have no rights in law. Damages cannot be recovered +for their destruction by an individual. The question of malice does +not enter into the case at all." + +I Bishop's Criminal Law 828; I Hilliard on Torts, 605. + +"At common law it was always the right of a citizen, without official +authority, to abate a public nuisance, and without waiting to have it +adjudged such by legal tribunal. His right to do so depended upon the +fact of its being a nuisance. If be assumed to act upon his own adjudication +that it was, and such adjudication was afterwards shown to be +wrong, he was liable as a wrong-doer for his error, and appropriate damages +could be recovered against him. This common law right still exists +in full force. Any citizen, acting either as an individual or as a public +official under the orders of local or municipal authorities, whether such +orders be or be not in pursuance of special legislation or charter provisions, +may abate what the common law deemed a public nuisance. In +abating it, property may be destroyed, and the owner deprived of it +without trial, without notice and without compensation. Such destruction +for public safety or health is not a taking of private property for +public uses without compensation, or due process of law, in the sense +of the constitution. It is simply the prevention of its noxious and unlawful +use, and depends upon the principle that every man must so use his +property as not to injure his neighbors, and that the safety of the public +is the paramount law. These principles are legal maxims or axioms +essential to the existence of regulated society. Written constitutions +presuppose them, are subordinate to them, and cannot set them aside." + +These great principles of civil jurisprudence and popular government +apply alike in every state in the Union. An eminent jurist, Judge +James Baker, of Evanston, Ill., formerly a resident of Missouri, gives +his professional opinion of the late crusading by the women there. He +maintains that it was legal; he points out that the saloons raided, at +Denver and Lathrop, were unlawful and that they were "nuisances at +common law." He quotes Illinois law as follows: "As the summary +abatement of nuisances is a remedy which has ever existed in the law, +its exercise cannot be regarded as in conflict with constitutional provisions +for the protection of the rights of private property and giving +trial by jury. Formal legal proceedings and trial by jury are not appropriate +and have never been used in such cases." Judge Baker sums up +the case thus: "The women who destroyed such property are not criminals. +They have the same right to abate such common nuisances as men +have to defend their persons or domiciles when unlawfully assailed. As +the women of that state are denied the right to vote or hold office, I +think they are fully justified, morally and legally, in protecting their +homes, their families, and themselves from the ravages of these demons +of vice in the summary manner which the law permits." + +More citations might be given proving the legality of joint smashing +by the crusaders, but the foregoing is ample, for all fairminded, loyal +people. Had the joint smasher's cases been tried on their merits, not one +would have been convicted of a misdemeaner. They were arrested, tried, +convicted, imprisoned and fined for disturbing the "peace" of a common +nuisance, and "malicious" destruction of rebel paraphernalia. Their only +intent was against the treasonable liquor traffic. Had there been no liquor +dispensing there had been no smashing. This the liquorized courts would +not admit for a moment. Every ruling was a burlesque on civil law, a +travesty on justice and a contemptible farce. The whole proceedings +from beginning to end were a miserable outrage. + + +DECAY AND DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC. + + +Today the country is ringing with the cry of political bribery, boodle +and official corruption, from the highest to the lowest. The rum traffic +is the principal factor in demoralizing and destroying the dignity, honor +and integrity of civic life. It is the insidious foe that is hatching and +nursing crime. Startling complication of statistics, obtained from the +replies of over 1,000 prison governors in the United States to a circular +letter addressed to them, and a summary shows that the general average +of 909 replies received from the license states, gives the proportion of +crime due to drink at no less than seventy-two per cent; the average +from 108 officials in Prohibition states giving the per centage at thirty- +seven. A considerable number of the latter were "boot-leggers" in jail +for selling whiskey. Out of the 1,017 jailers, only 181 placed their estimate +below twenty-five per cent, and fifty-five of these were from empty +jails in prohibition territory. The relation of drink to pauperism is much +the same as that of drink to crime. Of 73,045 paupers in all the alms- +houses of the country, 37,254 are there through drink. + +According to official statistics as gathered by Commissioner Carroll +D. Wright, of the Bureau of Labor, there are 140 cities in the country +having a population of 30,000 and upwards. + +In these cities there were in 1898, 294,820 people arrested for drunkeness, +almost ten times as many as now comprise our army in the Philippines. + +If this great army of drunkards were marshalled for a parade, marching +twenty abreast, it would require four and one-half days, marching +ten hours a day, for them to pass a given point. And these 295,000 +drunks do not include the arrests for "disorderly conduct," "assault" and +a dozen other offences which grow out of the licensed rum business. The +total arrests for all causes in these cities was 915,167. Counting the +moderate estimate of three-fourths of these as being the victims of the +lawful saloons, it would require more than a week's marching twenty abreast, +for the great procession to stagger past a reviewing stand, and the rum +product of only 140 cities heard from. + +These appalling statistics are the common property of every citizen, +and any political party pretending to financial improvement that ignores +the sixteen hundred million dollars worse than squandered in liquor and +tobacco annually in the United states, is untrue to itself and false to the +nation. Gambrinus, the god Bacchus, the Rum Power, this Moloch of +perdition, must be destroyed. Prohibition is the only remedy. Kansas +is to be the battle ground. Her constitutional prohibitory law and statutory +enactments are all right, properly administered. But in the hands +of a republican whiskey "machine" with the governor belonging to the +Elks, a liquor fraternity; a confessed defaulter as state treasurer; a +United states senator under indictment for bribery; officials from the +state house to every county in complicity with the whiskey rebels, it +will not be enforced. The liquor men and joint keepers subscribe large +sums to campaigns with the tacit, implied or open understanding of +immunity from prosecution and punishment on the part of candidates +and officials. This has been going from bad to worse for twenty years. +Yet the law is so plain that he who runs may read. How many ever saw +it in print. The revised statutes of Kansas, 1901, Article 14, Section 2462, +reads: "It shall be the duty of all sheriffs, police officers, constables, +mayors, marshals, police judges and police officers of any city or town, +having notice or knowledge of any violation of the provisions of this +act to notify the county attorney of the fact of such violation and to +furnish him names of witnesses within his knowledge by which such +violation can be proven. If any such officer shall fail to comply with the +provisions of this section, he shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum +not less than $100 or more than $500, and such conviction shall be a +forfeiture of the office held by such person, and the court before whom such +conviction is had shall, in addition to the imposition fine aforesaid, order +and adjudge the forfeiture of his said office. For a failure or neglect of +official duty in the enforcement of this act, any of the city or county +officers herein referred to may be removed by civil action." + +Also Article 6, Section 2212, says: "Any officer of the state or of +any county, city, district or township, after his election or appointment, +and either before or after he shall have qualified or entered upon his +official duties, who shall accept or receive any money or the loan of +any money, or any real or personal property, or any pecuniary or other +personal advantage, present or prospective, under the agreement or +understanding that his vote, opinion, judgment or action shall be thereby +influenced, or as a reward for having given or withheld any vote, opinion +or judgment in any matter before him in his official capacity, or having +wrongfully done or omitted to do any official act, shall be punished +by a fine of not less than $200 nor more than $1,000, or by imprisonment +for not less than one year nor more than seven years in the penitentiary +at hard labor, or both such fine and imprisonment at the direction of the +court." + +Enforce the statute and thousands of officials in Kansas would soon +be behind prison bars. When the officiary administrative of any government +become corrupt, it is on the highway to disruption and ruin. Greece +and Rome are notable examples. The sworn government report is +that nearly eighteen gallons of liquor to every man, woman and child, is +consumed by Uncle Sam's subjects every twelve months. This republic +cannot long survive half sober and half drunk. The immortal Abraham +Lincoln in a speech at Springfield, Ill., Feb. 22nd, 1842 said: "Turn now +to the temperance revolution. In it we shall find a stronger bondage +broken, a viler slavery manumitted, a greater tyrant deposed--in it, more +of want supplied, more disease healed, more sorrow assuaged. By it, no +orphans starving, no widows weeping; by it, none wounded in feeling, +none injured in interest. And what a noble ally this to the cause of political +freedom! With such an aid, its march cannot fail to be on and on, +until every son of earth shall drink in rich fruition the sorrow-quenching +draughts of perfect liberty! And when the victory shall be complete-- +when there shall be neither a slave nor a drunkard on the earth--how +proud the title of that LAND which may truly claim to be the birthplace of +and the cradle of both those revolutions that shall have ended in that +victory! How nobly distinguished that people who shall have planted +and nurtured to maturity both the political and moral freedom of their +species!" + +William Windom, when Secretary of the U. S. Treasury under the +Arthur administration, said: "Considered socially, financially, politically +or morally, the licensed liquor traffic is, or ought to be, the overshadowing +issue in American politics, and the destruction of this iniquity +stands first on the calendar of the world's progress." + +By Bible authority and by the common law of our land I have proved +to the satisfaction of all who will see the right, that I am a loyal American, +a loving Home Defender, doing the will of Him whom I serve and +whose I am. + + + +CHAPTER XI. + +MY TRIAL FOR DIVORCE.--THE LICENSED RUM TRAFFIC THE CAUSE OF SO MANY +DIVORCES.--DIFFERENT TIMES AND PLACES I HAVE BEEN IN JAIL.--AT THE +CAPITAL OF CALIFORNIA.--WIDE OPEN TREASON.--AT THE UNIVERSITY OF +TEXAS.--WOOLLEY CLUB AT ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN.--CATHOLIC PRIEST +AND CIGARETTES. + +Mr. Nation brought suit for divorce against me while I was in jail. +I was very much astonished at it, for I never thought that our disagreement +would result in his desiring a divorce. We had lived together +twenty-four years, and while we could not agree, I never wanted a +divorce. His petition stated the reason for this was "extreme cruelty +and desertion." He sued for all the property and wanted the court to +have me pay for the cost of the trial. I shall always believe he was +induced to do this by the republicans, thinking to hinder my work. + +The people of Medicine Lodge were shocked at this, for they knew +I had been faithful to my duties as a wife, up to the time I went to +Wichita, and when I went to Topeka I told Mr. Nation if he would stay +there with me, I would pay his board and room rent, which I did. He +came to Topeka and the first thing that he took offense at was my objecting +to his opening my mail, for when he did I never saw a dollar sent +for a subscription and sometimes would find parts of letters destroyed. + +On the day of the trial, Mr. Nation could not produce a witness to +prove I was other than kind, except the affidavit of a man who could +neither read nor write. Mr. Nation wrote out what he wanted this man +to swear to, and the man signed it, for he could just write his name. +This man was in Oklahoma at the time, My neighbors came of their +own accord and testified to my having done my cooking and housework; +frequently cooking meals and taking them to Mr. Nation, who was still +in bed. Judge Gillette, the same man who was on the bench in my +slander suit presided. Mr. Nation did not get his divorce because of my +"extreme cruelty," but because I testified that I could not, nor would +never live with him as a wife. I could not. I was very much grieved to +bear this reproach, of a divorced wife. I made my home during the trial +with my dear friend, Mrs. Judge Howe, who is still living, and she knows +how bitter this was to me. + +The home was given me, and the divorce and a small piece of property +in Medicine Lodge to Mr. Nation. I shortly after sold this home for +$800. It was part of the payment for "Home for Drunkards' Wives" in +Kansas City. It was as I expected, a means used by my enemies to hinder +me in my work. I was blamed for the divorce. It was said, "I broke up +a home." That if I was in a good work I would not do these things. +And while delivering my lectures, it was often called out; "Why don't +you go back to your husband? No wonder he got a divorce from +you," and all such sayings. But I learned to expect and was prepared for +such treatment. + +We hear, "A woman's place is at home." That is true, but what and +where is home. Not the walls of a house. Not furniture, food or clothes. +Home is where the heart is, where our loved ones are. If my son is +in a drinking place, my place is there. If my daughter, or the daughter +of any one else, my family or any other family is in trouble, my place +is there. That woman would be selfish or cowardly who would refuse +to leave her home to relieve suffering or trouble. Jesus said, "Go out +into the highways and hedges." He said this to women, as well as men. +If the women of Galilee had not left their homes they would not have +followed Jesus. If Phoebe had not left her home, she would not have +gone on the business of the church to Jerusalem. We would have no +woman missionaries--Women now, are forced to go out to save the +homes. + +D. L. Moody once said, and which I hardly understood at the time: +"When a wife knew that the man that should be her husband was unfaithful +and corrupt, she was as bad as he if she lived with him." I have thought +much of the meaning of husband. He is one who is a man who provides +and cares for his family, as much as it is in his power to do, but when +he refuses and will not do this, he breaks his marriage vow and becomes +his wife's enemy. A husband is not an enemy. This will place many +women in the roll of living with men who are not their husbands, and +this is so. I do not favor divorce, but it is better to separate, than bring +up children of drunkards or licentious fathers. There is nothing which +is making so much enmity between the sexes as intoxicating drink. This +is the cause of so many divorces. Men who go into saloons generally +visit houses of prostitution. The women they meet there have been +deceived and lost their self respect, become discouraged because men have +made them their victims through treachery and in turn these women +revenge themselves by taking all means to drag these men down. Prostitutes +do not like men; they often hate them. The man who goes there +generally loses respect for the virtues of women, and from associating +with bad women they judge other women to be vile. These men hate +the very women they go to see. Married men who drink are bad husbands, +for they deceive their wives, who soon find it out; and the husbands +and wives cannot be happy. A woman leaves all others for one +man and she wishes his society. In the evening the clubs and drinking +places take up men's time when their families should have it. These +things destroy love and confidence between husbands and wives. 'Tis +not all men's fault, for there are some drinking women. + +A man came to me just before I went on the stage at Newport, and +said: "Carry Nation, step aside here, I must speak to you. I am in so +much trouble. Give me some advice. My wife is at home drunk; she +is that way most of the time. We have six children and they feel disgraced. +What can I do? I am almost wild." + +I asked: "Did you ever drink with your wife?" + +He looked confused. I said: "Women do not usually go to saloons +but you men bring it home and use it on the table and women are just +as apt to catch the disease of alcoholism as men. This may be the way +your wife learned to be a drunkard. Wives have been nursing their +drunken husbands for years; now the chickens have come home to roost, +and you are nursing your drunken wives." + +Poor man! He, indeed, seemed distracted; and he is not alone, +there are hundreds of cases. + +I met a lovely creature on the train, who had been married a few +months. Her husband was a lumber merchant in Chicago. She sat by +me and told me her sad story. She had been a poor girl and dearly loved +a man whose mother opposed the match and prevented the marriage. +The young lumber merchant, left rich by the death of his father, proposed +and she married him. In a month, the mother of the man she +loved first, died and the obstacle was removed. In telling me this story +I smelled liquor on her breath. She would say a few sentences and then +say: "Oh, Carry Nation I am so miserable! If Charlie would only be +true to me I would not grieve for the man I love, but Charlie drinks +and he goes with other women, and leaves me alone. He gives me all the +money I want. I have everything that money can buy; but, Oh! I +almost hate these things! I had rather have a hut with someone to love +me." She kept talking this way until it was enough to break my heart. +She said: "Charlie will be in from the smoking car, and please Mrs. +Nation speak to him. I want to be a good wife and I will do all I can +to make him a good man. But he laughs at me when I talk to him, he +never takes me in earnest. Go speak to him." + +So I did. I found him to be a young man about twenty-three, with +the marks of dissipation on his face. I said: "I have something to say to +you privately. You have a beautiful young wife. If you wish to make +her happy you can do so. There is one thing that will ruin the happiness +of both. That is intoxicating drink. Did you know your wife is under +the influence of some drug?" He said: "Oh, don't say a word to her +about that, I am the cause of it. I drink and have persuaded her to, +because she has a right to do what I do." + +I told him of the fatal results and asked him to quit or it would be +the ruin of both. Here were these two on the brink of ruin, so young, +so attractive. I never shall forget the pathos of that woman's story. +The yearning of that heart for love. Of course in her unhappiness she +would turn to the benumbing fascination of the poisonous drug. + +On every hand I see the desolation of homes and hearts. There are +no five things that make so much enmity between the sexes as this one-- +the licensed saloon. The home life is destroyed. Men and boys are taken +from home at the very time they ought to be there, after their work is +done. Families should gather in the evening to enjoy each other's society. +It is said that Germans are the cruelest husbands on earth. Their beer +gardens have taken the place of firesides. There are more insane and +suicides in Germany than any nation on earth. Alcoholism is a disease. +Men go to the Keeley cure and take different treatments to get cured. +This disease is killing more every year than the deadliest epidemic, and +still not one of the senators or representatives will discuss this. Roosevelt +toured this country moralizing on different questions. The nearest +he ever touched on the subject was "race suicide;" but he did not wish +to intimate that drinking intoxicating liquors was the cause. He wished +to reproach women for not raising larger families. What protection has +a mother if she does? She has to produce the grist to make these murder-mills +grind, and I for one, say to women, refuse to be mothers, if the +government will not close these murder-shops that are preying on our +hearts, for our darling sons are dearer to us than life. + +If I had a family to raise and had to live in a city, I know of no place +as desirable as Topeka. I was once lecturing in Lincoln, Neb., and made +this remark. A wife said to her husband, "Let us take our boy and go +to Topeka." So they came. The husband was D. L. Whitney, manager +of the Oxygenor Company, and both he and his wife have been a great +help to me. I say to fathers and mothers, move to Kansas, where your +sons are taught that it takes a SNEAK to sell, and a SNEAK to drink, +intoxicating liquors in that state. + +I was arrested in Topeka for going into the dives. The officials +were determined to keep them open, and the police arrested me for even +going in. They did not arrest the keepers. I was thrown out and called +names by the proprietors, in the hearing of the police, still they were let +go. This was during the time that Parker was mayor. + +The voting citizens of Kansas will soon find out that no one +but prohibition officers can be trusted to enforce prohibition statutes. I +am glad at the present writing there is said to be not a dive in the beautiful +city of Topeka, and that she has passed the Rubicon. God grant +that no more criminal dens be opened by Republicans, Democrats or any +other Anarchists. + +I was arrested in Wheeling, West Virginia, winter of 1902, for going +in a saloon and telling the man he was in a business that would send him +to hell as well as others. The facts are that the police never knew what +I was going to do and they were so frightened and rattled that they of +course thought they would arrest me to prevent trouble. I have been a +terror to evil doers. I was in jail there two nights. No pillow. The +bed bugs bad. Col. Arnett, my lawyer, said I had a good case of malicious +prosecution. I have begun several suits but the "laws delay" and +the condition of dishonest courts has prevented me. I desire to compel +Murat Halstead to be shown as he is, a liar, almost equal to the "Murdocks +of Wichita." + +I was arrested in Bayonne, N. J., the summer of 1903, because I was +talking to a poor drunkard. A policeman came up and ordered me to +"walk on". I said: "I have a right to speak to any one on the street." +He said: "I will arrest you if you do not move on." I said: "You do +not wish this poor man to have one warning word to keep him out of +a drunkards hell." He arrested me, took me to the police headquarters, +where I was sentenced for disturbing the peace. I was put in a cell with +a hard board, no cover. There were only two other prisoners, both put +there for getting drunk. The partition door was by accident left unlocked +and I heard someone creeping, looked up and there was one of the poor +creatures in my cell. I called loudly. He ran back. The turnkey came +and fastened the door. All night through I was handing water to these +poor creatures. The bed bugs were thick and kept me quite busy knocking +them out of my face. I lay on the plank but could not sleep a wink. +Next morning I was called in court. That police officer in order to make +it a case of disturbing the peace said there were one hundred and fifty +people around. There was but five and I so testified. I never have seen +such false swearing as there is with the police. I got a fine of ten dollars. +Of course this judge was a republican. + +Here is a list of the times and places I have been in jail: + +In Wichita three times. Sentenced December, 1900, thirty days; January +21st, 1901, twenty-one days and January 22nd two days. + +Topeka seven times; once thirty days; twice each eighteen days; then +twelve days; fifteen days, seven days and three days. + +Kansas City once, part of a day; also once, part of a day at Coney +Island, once at Los Angeles; once at San Francisco; Scranton twice, one +night and part of two days; Bayonne, New Jersey a day and night; Pittsburg +three times, one night and part of two days; Philadelphia once, one +night. + +I was also put in jail in Cape Breton, and in 1904, when five of us +attacked the Wholesale House of Mahan Bros., in Wichita, of which I +speak elsewhere, making a total of twenty three times. + +I spoke at Sacramento, Cal., to the legislature when in session. I +got a letter from one of the officers in the capitol, telling of the joints +run in the capitol building and patronized by the members of the legislature. +A reporter went with me. He tried to get me an opportunity to speak, +but he was told I could not do so, and that I had better leave as the crowd +prevented them doing business. I did not leave. The reporter said: "You +will not be able to speak." I said: "I will speak." I waited until the +speaker adjourned for noon, and as quick as a flash I took the stand, and +began my address. I saw impatience in the faces of many, but there was +a great cheer from visitors and pages. I spoke about as follows: "I +am glad to speak to the law-makers of California. I not only believe +in making laws, but enforcing them." I called their attention to the most +needed legislation on the lines of prohibition of evil. I could see that all +seemed rather pleased at this point, I drew out the letter which read as +follows: "Dear Madam: I see you are to visit the capitol tomorrow, I +wish to call your attention to the flagrant violations under the dome of +California's capitol. In the Bill filing room is a place where liquors are +kept, also in the Sergeant-at-Arms room in the senate chamber, behind +a screen, is stored beer and whiskey, in room 56 there is a safe where +bottles of beer and whiskey are kept. These unlicensed bars are patronized +by the members, and with their full knowledge and consent." It was certainly +a sight to see the faces of these men. After reading each charge, +I would stop and say: "Now gentlemen this must be a grave slander, and +I want you as a body to rise and down this outrage." I waited, no one +rose up. I said: "certainly there must be a mistake, is it possible that the +law-makers of this state are the law-breakers, if so, then who is capable +of punishing the criminals?" I continued, "I hope that at least there are +some of the members of this body that are ignorant of this and that some +one if only one will rise and say, "I know nothing of this;" not one arose; +Both the houses were adjourned and the aisles and lobbies were packed. +These men looked at each other grinning and looking silly, some heartily +enjoying it, reminding me of a lot of bad boys that were caught stealing +watermelons. The pages and visitors yelled and waved and clapped +their hands, but was this not a shame? This is but a sample of the +legislatures of the states. Washington's capitol is a reproach to common +decency, this government like a fish, "stinks worse at the head." + +I spoke in Austin, Texas, at the state university. When I arrived in +the city I was met by "Uncle Tom" Murrah. "Uncle Tom" is a true type +of the old fashion gentleman. Had it not been for the chivalry of this +dear friend I expect I would have had some trouble with the police of +Austin. + +I went into a saloon and was led out in very forcible manner by the +proprietor, who was one of the city council. I stood in front of this +man's man-trap and cried out against this outrageous business. The man +kept a phonograph going to drown my voice. The police would have +interfered but "Uncle Tom" told me to say what I pleased, and he would +stand by me. I went up to the state university with students who tried +to get a hall for me to speak to them but they could not. I spoke from the +steps. In the midst of the speech and the cheers from the boys I heard a +voice at my side. I looked and there stood the Principal, Prexley Prather. +He was white with excitement, saying: "Madam, we do not allow +such." I said: "I am speaking for the good of these boys." "We +do not allow speaking on the campus." I said: "I have spoken to the +students at Ann Arbor, at Harvard, at Yale, and I will speak to the boys +of Texas." The boys gave a yell. The mail man was driving up at this +time. The horse took fright, the letters and papers flew in every direction. +The man jumped from the sulky; the horse ran up against a tree and +was stopped. I offered to pay for the broken shafts but the mail carrier +would take nothing. There was no serious damage and all had a +good laugh, except, perhaps, the dignified principal. + +When I visited the students at Ann Arbor, Mich., I was given a banquet +by the Woolley club of the university. It gave me new life to look +at such men of intellectual and moral force. Oh! for such men to be the +fathers of the rising generation. Just such men as these will save the +Nation. THESE are the hatchets that will smash up evil and build up +good. + + One cannot help but compare the tobacco smoking dull brained sot- +tish students with these giants of moral and physical manhood. These +young I men were the greatest argument in favor of prohibition. God +will bless the Woolley club of Ann Arbor and all such as they. + + +AT HIGH MASS, BUFFALO, OCT. 27 + +I attended High Mass in St. Joseph Cathedral. One of the priests, +Mr. Percell, was taking up the collection. He came to where I was sitting +but the smell of cigarette smoke was so strong about him that I could +not refrain from a rebuke, so I said: "You smell so bad from cigarette +smoke." + +He said: "Who?" + +I said: "You!" + +He said: "You are a liar!" + +I said: "No I am not, you do smell bad!" + +He said: "I will have you put out of this church!" + +I said: "I dare you! You are the one that should be put out!" + +He passed on and after Mass I went into the house of the priest's +and asked for him. He could not be found but two priests tried to make +excuses and treated me well. Said they smoked. I told them God said +for them to cleanse themselves from all filthiness of the flesh. That they +were making provisions for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof. I said: +"What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and to smell like a devil!" + +One thing I have noticed--that the Catholic schools taught by the +Brothers are saturated with vile tobacco smoke. I would not like to +send a son to such a place for that reason alone. There are many things +I like about the Catholic church, but why, oh, why is it so silent as a +general thing on the liquor traffic? Why are so many of its members in +this devil's work? Oh! what a retribution will be theirs when it will be +proven that instead of clothing the naked they have robbed children of +clothes. Instead of feeding the hungry they have allowed them to starve +because their bread was taken to buy drink. They sent souls to prison +and did not minister to them! + + + + +CHAPTER XII. + +WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE + + +In all ages woman has taken an active part in the defense of man. She +is the best defender he ever had on earth, because she is his mother. +True mothers think more of the interest of their children than of their +own. God intended it so, All animals have a care for their offspring. +The hen will fight the hawk or dog, even man, to defend her little chicks. +The farmer's wife will not set a hen the second time that will not fight +for her little chickens. Such hens are taken to market. I have heard +my mother say: "I must set that hen again for she is such a good +mother." The mother bear will die fighting for her cubs. The hunters +say they dislike to kill her, because of her mother love, that never yields +up those two little cubs that she places behind her, and then fights until +she dies. This is the mother love of a brute,--what ought to be that of +the human family? + +If a man starts a ranch to raise cattle he protects the females in +raising their young. He will kill the animals that will destroy his stock, +and if he produces the pelt or scalp of these animals the state pays him a +bounty. How is it with the human mothers? They produce the most +valuable offspring, but this licensed traffic is defended, while children +are murdered before our eyes and our hands are tied so we cannot rescue +them. No one will say but that woman represents more morality than man, +also that the mother is more interested in the children than the father; +then of course, the party who has the most care and love should be allowed +the largest privilege to exercise it. + +America claims more civilization than any other nation on earth. In +the main this is so. But certainly she is not true to the motherhood, and +THIS is her peril.. Some of the best reigns have been those of queens. +All nations have had their women rulers, but the mothers of America +are not allowed to say who shall be the ones to help them make good +citizens of their own children, while their bitter foes prey upon their +offspring as cannibals. A widow with six sons has a little home. She +is taxed the same in proportion as the brewer, who carries on the human +butcher-shop that grinds up the six sons of the widow. He and his crowd +(republicans and democrats) have the ballot that smashes the poor +widow's boys and takes her substance to prosecute her boys after they +are made criminals, to pay for their arrest, to build a jail for them. Her +heart is broken, home is gone, and disgrace is hers. To accomplish this +she is rendered helpless by having no voice or ballot to protect herself. +God never made an animal that he did not give it some means of defense. +While I am writing this I am in Bridgeport, Connecticut. I find this a +city of eighty-two thousand. The PRESIDENT of the board of education is +P. W. Wren, who is president of the Connecticut Breweries and owner +of one of the largest wholesale whiskey houses in the state. This is as +consistent as if one were to start a ranch to raise chickens, ducks, pigs +and calves and then place a wolf to guard them from harm, The business +of the brewer is to sell beer. No animal but mankind will use this +rotten slop, for the others by instinct know it is poison. No man would +let his horses drink it, for they would be dangerous instead of being +useful. The only way to make the brewer's business profitable is to have +boys and girls as consumers. The brewer is not the worst to blame. It +is the voter. Mothers would never vote for such a man to be the public +guardian of the morals of their children. All liquor men, or liquor +license men, are opposed to woman's suffrage, for the reason that should +women vote, we would have prohibition or abolition of the vice. The +women saved prohibition in Topeka in the year 1903 by five hundred +majority, while it would have been lost by two hundred if men only had +voted. The contest was between the WET and DRY mayors. Where women +have the ballot, even in municipal affairs, no state has resubmitted or +brought back the saloon. God said: "It is not good for man to be alone. +I will make him a helpmate, a partner, a companion, a guardian." When +man elevates a woman he elevates himself. A degraded woman means +many degraded men. Free men must be the sons of free women. This +land cannot be the land of the free or home of the brave, until woman +gets her freedom and men are brave and just to award it to her. No +man can have the true impulse of liberty and want his mother to be a +slave. + +The constitution of the United States starts out by saying. "We, the +people of the United States." Women are people as well as men. Therefore +I advise all women to go to the polls and vote in spring and fall elections. +We want the moral, intellectual electorate. The brewer, distiller, saloon +man, their agents, even the colored man was given a vote, and never asked +for it. The foreigners in a few months, or a year, after landing, are +given the ballot, but the loving, true defenders of God, home and all the +best interests of humanity, are compelled to see their sons, husbands, +and fathers, murdered before their eyes, without the sign of a protest +from the government under which they live. The outrageous unfairness +of this is quite evident when we consider that the ballot is represented +and controlled by the worst element, when it should be by the best. The +women are more affected by oppression than man. She is the mother, +the rest are the children. + +The mother would vote to save the boy. + +The mother would do nothing to injure her boy. + +The mother makes a good citizen of her son. + +The saloon man votes to make drunkards. + +The saloon man does all to injure. + +The saloon man makes bad citizens. + +The best voters are cast out for President, the vilest are put in, no +wonder we have a snob and brewers choice. + +A boy's best friend is his mother. Boys and girls go wrong when +they do not obey their mothers. God has always used women as a mighty +factor in salvation. The promise was given her in the garden, after the +fall, that she should produce the Savior, who would give the deadly wound +to man's great enemy, the devil. It was the "seed of the woman," not the +seed of the man. Christ was born of a woman and the Holy Ghost. + +No man has ever been greater in God's estimation than Abraham. +Yet when he and Sarah had a dispute and Abraham went to God to +decide the matter, God said: "In all that Sarah thy wife hath said unto +thee hearken unto her voice." Rebecca understood the will of God, +contrary to the will of Isaac. She carried out the plan of God. Jacob +sent for Rachel and Leah to consult with them before he left Laban, and +he took their advice. "Moses, Aaron and Miriam were chosen by God +to lead the people out of Egypt." The Bible so states it. Huldah and +Deborah were prophets. Rahab was the first convert in Canaan; she +and her family were all that was blessed in that cursed city of Jericho. +Esther saved the whole Jewish nation. A woman smashed the head of +the wicked Abimelech as did Jael the wife of Heber also. In the Psalms, +68:11, the original says: "The Lord gave the word.--Great was the army +of women who published it." + +Jesus did his first miracle at the request of a woman, still he rebuked +her. He felt her powerful influence and would know no higher will except +his heavenly Father's. Christ defended woman, saying: "Why trouble +ye the woman, she hath wrought a work on me," hereby rebuking men +to interfere with any woman's work when it is good. Christ never +rebuked even the harlot. There was not a greater preacher than the +woman at the well that brought out the city of Samaria to see Jesus. +Philip had four daughters that prophesied. Women were the first disciples, +they followed Christ from Galilee. He chose the men, the women +chose Him. Pheobe was a deaconess of the church of Cenchrea. The +Bible records no act or word of woman against Christ. With +sufferings not one was caused by a woman. The poor prostitute bestowed +the most loving service when she wept at His feet, kissing them. + +This gives some of the Bible women. There have been others in all +ages. One instance in the early history of Rome. There was a band of +men who first settled Rome. They wished to get wives for themselves +and this was the plan by which they got them. + +The Romans made a great feast; had games; invited the Sabine +nation to come with their wives and daughters, which they did. In the +height of the footraces and archery, the Romans rushed in among their +invited guests and each snatched a woman. The Sabines returned and +prepared for war. The lines of battle were drawn. The stolen women +had a conference and decided to stop the war. They rushed in between +the Sabine men, their former husbands and fathers, and the Romans, +their last husbands, and forebade bloodshed by saying: "You will have +to kill each other over our dead bodies." + +If those heathen women by their act could reconcile two nations, is +it not a rebuke to women in this Christian age for their cowardice in not +coming forward and demanding recognition in the matter of being a +go-between, for one class of men are arrayed against another.. + +A hundred thousand of our sons are being sent to drunkard's graves +and a drunkard's hell every year. By a bold stand for the right, to defend +our loved ones, let us rush between and stop this deadly strife, with the +same heroism of the women of Rome, "over our dead bodies." Women +will get the ballot in time, but it can be hastened only by women themselves. +It will be a great victory for mankind when women can veto the +curse of mankind. The mother impulse is stronger with women than any, +and when she can protect her offspring, she will make a greater effort +to do so than now. She will not then do as many now do, make her +body a manikin to hang the fashions of the day on. She will not then +display her form to attract the vulgar gaze of the world. She will not +place the corpses of cats or birds on her head. She will not wear mops +at the bottom of her dress to sweep up the filth of the earth. She will +not wear shoes that injure her as the heathen do. She will not put her +body in the vice of a corset, displacing the organs of her body, unfitting +her to be a mother, causing more than half the surgical operations in the +hospitals. She will then discuss character more than fashion. She will +be ashamed of her silly, giggling and meaningless conversation. God +said, "a man shall not wear that which pertains to a woman neither shall +a woman put on a mans garment for all that do such things are an +abomination unto God" women will then see the vulgarity and immodesty +and sin in dressing in male attire or in any other form of indecent +exposure of her person. + +Young men often say to me: "Mrs. Nation, if I go to see young ladies +I can learn nothing from them. They are not interested in the subjects +that are improving to young men. They read only trash." Also +they say: "I cannot afford to marry. I cannot support a woman. Their +wants are so many.' Dress is a remnant of barbarism. The Indians +delight in different colors, the plumage of birds, the skins of animals, +even rattle-snakes. We retrograde to their level when we attract the +vulgar gaze to such vanities. + +God said: "I will make man a HELPMATE," a partner, a helper, not a +hinderer to success in any way. What kind of mothers will this class +of women make? It is said that a mother does more to mold the mind +and heart of the child before it is born than can be done by any one from +its birth up to twelve years. God sent an angel to the mother of Samson; +told her "not to drink wine or strong drink" before the child was +born. Why? God wishes here to teach that mothers can injure their +children or entail on them vices before they are born. + +Women will triumph in this battle. The devil knows it and has put +forth every effort to forestall this great reform. Look at the shop windows, +loaded with every style and fashion to attract the eyes of the passing +woman. Things that will be but a burden to her, will cause her to use +the earnings of her husband and the patrimony of her children and destroy +her mother influence and bring upon her just censure of her husband. +This is not the rule but the exception, for women, if they are not false, +spend more for the advancement of their families than themselves. There +never will be a club or other organization of women that will ever make +any regulation that will in any way injure the welfare of their offspring. +And the interests of men are safe in the keeping of good women. + +Woman is also a power for evil. Solomon, the wisest, was not wise +enough to keep out of the toils of bad women; and Samson, the strongest, +was not strong enough to break away from the bad influence. + +Oh! the degradation among women from intoxicating drinks! These +degrade women and she degrades men. "Rise up ye women who are +at ease in Zion!" The drinking places in the cities, especially in New York, +by every device get women in their dens that they may entice men. + +Suffrage is not to give woman greater opportunities to be bad but to +strengthen their powers to resist evil and help men to do the same. To +cause her to think more of the inmates of her home than her raiment. +Woman's greatest sins and vices are those of vanity of appearance and +dress to attract or please their male companions. The prostitutes do +the same thing. Women should be taught to avoid the arts of such. +When I see a woman arrayed as I do these women in these homes of +sin I think, "There is sympathy." + + + +CHAPTER XIII. + +ECHOES OF THE HATCHET. + +MRS. NATION AND THE SALOON. + + +It was a crisis in prohibition enforcement in Kansas. The first +smashing was like the opening of a battle. The crashing glass sent a +thrill through the community and resounded o'er the land a talisman of +destruction to the liquor traffic. It set everybody to talking, even the +public school children and students in all the higher institutions were +profoundly interested. The press and the pulpit broke their silence and from +all over the state came the echo. It was the firing of the signal guns. +The response came desultory, as the rattle of musketry in a skirmish, +then heavier from the bigger guns, as is the case in all reformatory work. +The criticisms and comments were varied, often amusing, reflecting the +agitation from far and near and everywhere. + +A few months ago and the name of Mrs. Nation was unknown outside +of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, but within the limits of sixty days she +has achieved notoriety, if not fame, by her unique crusade against the +Kansas saloon. Many methods have been adopted during the last +two decades for the abatement of the liquor nuisance, but it remained +for an American woman, under the spur of bitter memories, and a sort +heart, to originate a method, at once so bold and radical as to sharply +focus public attention upon the utter villainy and lawlessness of the Kansas +saloon. + +As was to be expected, Mrs. Nation has been subjected to unhandsome +treatment. A section of the press and the pulpit have joined +forces with the rum brigade in holding her up to ridicule. She has been +burlesqued, abused and belied; but when all the facts are soberly and fairly +weighed, it will be found that the scale of justice inclines, very positively, +toward this sorely tried woman and her hatchet. I do not pose +as Mrs. Nation's champion or apologist; she needs neither. History +that corrects the blunders of contemporary critics, will assign to her an +honored place long after the paltry penny-a-liner and ranting pulpiteer +are forgotten. It is a simple task for those to whom the curse of rum +has never come close home, to condemn the methods of a woman, who, +as a drunkard's wife and widow, drank to the dregs the bitter cup of woe. +Mrs. Nation saw her brilliant and handsome young husband slowly transformed +into a demon by rum. She saw him land in an early and dishonored +grave. She saw her baby cursed by the father's sin. She saw +her early hopes blighted, and poverty haunting her door. She saw a +favorite sister grieving her heart out over a fallen husband--fallen in +purse, in character, and station. With this black catalogue of domestic +griefs "deep printed on her heart," is there a man--surely there is no +woman!--who could blame Mrs. Nation, if she turned upon the guilty +gang who had blighted her life and smote them right and left. When +the infernal record of rum is recalled, it is not so surprising that there +is one Mrs. Nation, but that there is not one in every home in the United +States. + M. N. BUTLER. + + +A CONTRIBUTION TO HOME FOR DRUNKARD'S WIVES. + +Dear Madam:--I see you have purchased property to make a home for +drunkard's wives. I send you five dollars to aid you. + Yours very truly, +Oakwood, Ills. JACOB F. ILER. + + +I hope thousands will follow the example of this man. Oh! how +the cry comes in: "I want a place in your Home. My husband or son +is a drunkard." Help the poor innocent results of the licensed curse. + +Persons have often remarked, "How did you feel, when you went +in these places?" Imagine a burning house, a frantic mother, for her heart +treasures, her babes, are in that building. She hears their cries, she sees +their little arms, waving behind the closed window, amid the smoke +that soon will be a flame. She seizes an axe or hatchet near at hand, +with which she breaks open door or window to let her darlings escape. +Is there a mother in all the land that would not act thus? The mighty +ocean, in its anger is lashing a frail vessel, storm tossed, the captain +orders the cannon to boom! boom! boom! arousing and calling for help +to save the crew. We amputate the diseased limb with a knife, we pull +the aching tooth with an instrument of steel. Why? In order to save. +Just so, the people are asleep, while our precious ones are in danger of +being engulfed in ruin. The smashing is a danger signal, and I kept +it up, to prevent the people from relaxing into indifference, just as a +frantic, living mother would think only of the salvation of those she +loved. + + +AN APPEAL TO THE NATIONAL PROHIBITION COMMITTEE TO CONCENTRATE THE +FORCES IN KANSAS. + +(Emmett L. Nichols, Wilkesbarre, Pa.) + +It is a fact beyond dispute, that wherever prohibition is carried in a +state, the liquor dealers' association of the nation in a menacing manner +demands the dominant party in such state that she sees to it that liquor +is allowed to be sold in enough places, at least, to make it appear that +prohibition is a failure, they knowing that the people once made to see +the beneficial effects of prohibition will adopt it generally, as the true +solution of the liquor question, as it really is, all other methods having +been proven to be absolute failures. The politicians fearing the influence +of the power of rum, organized as it is, for self defense yield to the +demands of liquorocracy. Mrs. Carrie Nation has shown this to be the +true state of affairs in Kansas in her hatchet raid upon the joints of that +state. She has shown up to public ridicule the officials of that state, in +different places, in demonstrating the fact that they not only refuse to +enforce the prohibition law, but screen and protect the violators thereof, +and arrest any citizen who attempts to perform the duty which they were +sworn to perform. This state of affairs is most exasperating to every +lover of country. I contend that Mrs. Nation's hatchet has been the +means of bringing about the most critical period of the prohibition reform +movement in its history. It has laid open before the world the fact that +prohibition does not prohibit in certain portions of Kansas, simply because +public officials in violation of their oath of office will to have it so. Now +I further contend that unless these officials are forced to prohibit in +Kansas, prohibition will eventually be repealed in that state, and the way +thereby made all the more difficult for the triumph of the truth if the +officials of Kansas are allowed to continue their work of perfidy in refusing +to enforce the prohibition laws there, prohibition will not only be +repealed in that state, but the securing of national prohibition by peaceful +means will be an impossibility. Viewing the conditions in Kansas +as I do, I am moved to make this appeal to the National Committee of +the prohibition party to concentrate its forces in that state, with the view +of arousing sufficient sentiment among the people there to drive every +"joint" from within her borders. "On to Kansas" should be the battle +cry of the prohibitionists of the nation. It is more important that +the will of the sovereign power in Kansas be enforced in the matter of +prohibition than it was on the principle of the squatter sovereignty there +during the days of slavery. It seems to me that it is the bounden duty +of the National Prohibition Committee to make this fight. I fail to see +any work within its grasp comparing in importance to it. The agitation +which Mrs. Nation created with her hatchet is bound to subside unless +some organization, having the cause at heart will take the matter in hand +and add fuel to the fire of righteous indignation which has been sweeping +the state. The National Prohibition Committee can not afford to +look on letting matters take their course. The time has arrived for action +on its part, that it may set the example before the world what the party +it represents will do if placed in power. The very soul of every +prohibitionist in the nation ought to be on fire in a determined fight +for the triumph of prohibition in bleeding Kansas. I believe the struggle +being had there now means more, either for the weal or woe of this country, +than did the struggle against slavery on the same soil by John Brown +and his followers. + +National Prohibition Committee, I repeat, "On to bleeding Kansas!" + + +A CO-LABORER IN TEXAS WRITES. + +Columbia, Texas, February 23, 1901. Mrs. Carrie Nation, Topeka, +Kansas.--Dear Madame and Co- Laborer in the Cause of Humanity--I +have thought for some time that I would write to you, but knowing that +you were burdened with correspondence I have put it off from time to +time, but at last I venture to consume a little of your valuable time in +reading a letter from me. I have been fighting the liquor devil going +on nine years. Constantly have been called here by the citizens of this +place to deliver a series of lectures. I learn that you once lived here +and I see from today's Houston Post that you once lived at Richmond, +Texas. I find that the lady with whom I am stopping while here knows +you (Mrs. G. W. Gayle). Now Dear Mrs. Nation, I wish to say to you +that I believe that God has called you to a great work--a work that is +much needed, and that is calling the attention of the people of the United +States to the magnitude of the liquor traffic--the devil's great agent in +peopling hell--and I believe you commenced at the right place, the capital +of Kansas--the battlefield. Kansas being somewhat the center of the +United States, the eyes of every state in the union is fixed on it as a +guiding star relative to prohibition. If prohibition could be proven to +be a success in Kansas it would not be long until other states would follow +in its steps and on and on until our nation would be free from ruin, +but I doubt whether that will ever come, short of a great war such as we +have not seen or read of. If it is God's will, let it come, for there is +greater cause for war on this line than there was for the liberation of the +Cubans from the Spaniards. Now we see published in the papers down +here that you have gone into a newspaper enterprise to defend the Negro +race. I don't believe this for I know that there will be many things reported +by the liquor traffic to destroy your influence. I shall deny this +report as far as I can until I hear from you, for I know that the liquor +traffic is as wise as serpents and as harmless as the devil, and will do +anything they can to sidetrack you from the main issue, and that through +your supposed friends, so keep both eyes wide open. Then when they +fail in that they will lie on you. God, give you wisdom and may you +stick to your bush is my prayer. Oh, pray much and look out for enemies +in the guise of friends. They will fool you if you don't look out, for you +are doing more good than all the temperance workers combined. God +bless you; keep at it, and nothing else, for your work is only the beginning +of the greatest temperance and prohibition reform that has ever +been. Now it all depends on your not being sidetracked by supposed +temperance reformers. Don't allow any mortal person to stop you, but +push the battle to a finish. I have known of so many reformers making +a good start but about the time the thing begins to boil right well and +a prospect of doing something, some supposed helpers come in and capture +the whole outfit and put a stop to the move. But I trust in the Lord +that this is not a case of that kind. If you have time I would appreciate +a reply from you. Write me here as I will be here for about ten days, +after that my mail will be forwarded. My permanent address is Fort +Worth, Texas, care Polytechnic College. + Yours for liberty from rum, + J. G. ADAMS. + + +AN OLD SOLDIERS APPEAL. + +Old Soldier's Home, Leavenworth, Kan., February 14, 1901.--Mrs. +Carrie Nation:--As I have read of your grand success in Topeka, and +elsewhere I wish to congratulate. For God's sake come to the Soldier's +Home and save the Old Veterans. Bring your hatchet along and clear +out the Canteen in the Home. Congress recently passed a law for all +Canteens to be closed on United States reservations, the officials of the +Home claim the law does not apply to the Old Soldiers' Home. Last +year the officials of the Home were very anxious to have the saloons +closed in the Klondike near the Home, for the protection of the Veterans; +as it did not bring the revenue into the Home, we are to be paid in one +week. Come at once and close the joint in the Home. Over 70 half- +barrels of beer are sold in on day at the Home after Pension day. + Respectfully, OLD SOLDIER. + + +A TRAVELING MAN'S LETTER. + +Indianapolis, Ind.--"Mrs. Carrie Nation, Wichita, Kan:--As a preface +I feel it my duty to extend to you my sincere apology for encroaching +these lines for your consideration during the trying hours of your +incarceration, but as the purport of my letter undoubtedly differs, materially +in text, from the countless hundreds you have received, I feel assured +that the sentiment involved, originated as it has, solely from the spirit +and intrepid aggressiveness you have exploited in the suppression of that +paramount curse of mankind, Drink! will, in a measure, justify you in +condoning these lines. + +For years the writer has been a traveling salesman, occupying positions +of trust and responsibility. As is the universal trait among the +larger element of my class, I contracted the indulgence of liquor. From +its inception and social intercourse, it gradually developed until I became +an irresistible slave to those base affinities--lewd women and whiskey. The +result, inevitable as death, produced its dregs; shattered health, separation +of family, and social and business ostracism. Prior to a month ago, +reparation and redemption from medical arid spiritual aid, had proven +valueless; with no alternative, I became resigned to the results of a mis- +spent life, when, from the West came the voice and heroic deeds of a +woman. Simple yet fervent, intrepid yet unique. You aroused the press +and the people. Your mission was born. Thousands, you may have +"influenced," but me you have "redeemed." I have read your words with +intenseness. Your forcible acts have impressed me. I resolved and have +conquered. God bless you! I am now organizing a temperance league +among my brother traveling men, paradoxical as it may sound, and am +meeting with a fair support, yet I believe an impetus and a stronger +influential lever can be extended through the expression of your well wishes +and any timely topics you care to extend in furtherance of the cause. +Asking your kind indulgence, and with best wishes for your ultimate +welfare, believe me. Your loyal supporter, W. S. SANFORD.. Care Terre +Haute House, Terre Haute, Ind. + + +FROM A HEART-BROKEN MOTHER. + +Patterson, New Jersey, Sept., 2nd, 1901--Dear Mrs. Nation:--Will +you come to this city before going home? The conditions here are worse +than in any place in the whole country. One thousand saloons run day +and night, every day in the year. Come for God's sake. You can do so +much good, and if you smashed fifty or sixty of the hell holes here you +would be called an angel. Do Come! and save the young of both sexes. +Yours, A HEART-BROKEN MOTHER. + + + +CHAPTER XIV. + +CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. + +The life of a soul moved on by the Holy Spirit is beyond human +expression, as well as human understanding. "He that is spiritual judgeth +(examines) all things. Yet he himself is judged or examined of no +man." The spiritual man can see the condition of the unregenerate for +he was once in darkness, but the unregenerate can never understand the +condition of the regenerate. The impulses that move one born of God is +one of the puzzles not possible to be known by the wisdom of the wise +of this world. 'Tis a secret, 'tis hidden, and can come only by Divine +Revelation and is always a miracle, the greatest ever performed. It +raises from the dead, never to die again. It opens the eyes never to be +closed again, 'tis an armor that causes us to handle serpents (devils) +without harm and we can hear or drink deadly poisons, or doctrines but +they will not kill our soul. "These signs shall follow them that believe. +The real Christ life is and always will be hateful to the world. I have +often heard it said of me; "I cannot bear that Carry Nation!" I would +only to do the people good. I do not blame these as I once did; "For +the natural man is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." +"Marvel not that the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it +hated you." I know that when I was ten years old I felt the movings of +God's spirit--got an answer of peace, but like a little infant pined away, +for lack of care and nourishment. Nothing but the divine mercy of +Almighty God could have directed the affairs of my tempest-tossed life. +I now know there are no accidents. A sparrow falls by a special providence. +There are no sins or temptations that I can not say: "My God +delivered, saved and forgave me for that." I go to prisons and all kinds +of houses of sin. I say: "I can tell you of one who can save and forgive +you for that, he forgave me, and he will forgive you, for I was as +bad, or worse, than you." I have never seen anyone whom I thought had +committed more sin than I. Many will lift up horrified hands at this +but 'tis true. I never saw the corruption of but one life, one heart,--that +was mine. I was never so shocked, so disgusted, so distracted with +remorse over any life, so much as my own. My heart was the foulest +place I ever saw. I do not know what is in other people's hearts. Paul +meant this when he said: "Christ Jesus came into the world to save +sinners of whom I am chief;" Said, this, "is worthy of all acceptation" +or was, a good testimony. Because one can never see how bad the heart +is, until God sheds the light to see it. So many people are deceived, as +a blind man. They may be in filth, and do not know it. It is there, +but not seen, for lack of light. + +I was first condemned by reading the Psalms. I said: "If Christians +have impulses to "rejoice", clap their hands, and "shout", I do not +know what it is. I find no response of gladness in my heart." I trembled +with fear to think of God and the judgement day. This continued from +youth up to the age of forty. At this time I received from Christ the +"Gift of the Holy Ghost", the "Unction", that which "leads unto all +truth." There are many names for this; I call it the Bible name. "Hold +fast the form of sound words." Before this I had never spoken a word +for God or prayed in public. At one time I was called on to do so, and +was terrified and mumbled out something, that was no prayer. Now all +was changed: "I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the +house of the Lord." I was anxious for my time to come to tell how +good Jesus was to me. When I met my neighbors I would be heavy- +hearted, because they talked of servants, house cleaning, the new fashions, +and these seemed so vain, so frivolous. I liked to direct their minds to +speak of the Scriptures, and of the ways of doing work for God. I +soon found out I was not welcome, I was looked upon as an intruder, +was often avoided, I could see the frowns and glances of impatience at +my presence. These would cause me many a cry and mortification. My +best companion was the Bible. I then knew what David meant when he +said: "More to be desired are they, than gold, yea than much fine gold; +sweeter also than the honey and the honey comb." I often kiss and +caress my Bible; 'tis the most precious of all earthly treasures. + +I wonder how people can live any kind of Christian life without +reading the Scriptures and prayer. If I neglect this one day I feel +impatient, restless,--a soul hunger. Spurgeon is my favorite of all ministers. +I read where he said, "Being a Christian was something like taking +a sea bath. You go in up to the ankles and there is no pleasure, then +to the knees is not much better, but if you wish to know the pleasure of +a bath take a 'HEADER' and plunge. Then you can say, How glorious." +Christian life is like a journey. There are flowers and fruit and streams; +thorns, dark valleys and fires; rocky steeps from whose summits you +can see beautiful prospects. There is rest, refreshment, sleep and bitter +tearful watchings. 'Tis a great pleasure to me to be in a spiritual meeting. +To know by the testimony how far they have traveled. Some one +in the garden of delights; he wonders why that one tells of the dark +valley. One at the base of the hill cannot understand why others see +what he cannot. The young beginner tells of the beautiful sights and +songs; and maybe the one who has been on the road almost a life time +will tell of the "continual heaviness, hours of darkness, and the smoking +furnace, and the lamp." I have found that the warrior is never as bouyant +as the new recruit, in his dress parade. We humor children, and call +on men to labor. Few, comparatively, get to the place where they prefer +hard labor; to endure desolation of heart; to seek self in nothing; +to see all loved but himself; to see others exalted but only abasement for +self; to "endure hardness as a good soldier; to lay on the ground; to +eat hard tack; to make long, weary marches; footsore and still fight on; +to suffer traveling over rocks and thorns; to endure the loss of all +things." I will take this last for mine. 'Tis the best, Oh my God, give +me this! "He that goeth forth and WEEPETH bearing precious seeds shall +doubtless come again rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." I do +not ask this because I enjoy suffering but to prove my love and gratitude +to Him who loved me, and gave Himself for me. + +After we moved to Medicine Lodge the Free Methodists came there +and held a meeting. I had never heard the doctrine of the "second +blessing" or "sanctification" taught. It was very interesting to me. Three +women called to see me in my home, to ask me if I had ever "had the +Gift." I told them I had something peculiar given me from God in +Texas; asked them to pray to God to give this great blessing to me or a +witness that he had done so. These sisters were Mrs. Painter, Green and +Marvin. I also prayed for myself. In about ten days from that time I +was in my sitting room. It was raining. A minister and his daughter +were at our house (Mr. Laurance, a Baptist). We were all quietly reading +in the room. I was in meditation, praying and saying: "Just now, +blessed Father, give me the witness." Then a wonderful thing took place, +which it is not "lawful" or possible for me to utter. Something was poured +on top of my bead, running all over and through me, which I call divine +electricity. The two persons who were in the room, Mr. Laurance and +his daughter, were very much startled, for I jumped up, clapped my hands, +saying: "I have this from God, this divine Gift." I went below in the +basement that I might give vent to my gratitude, and under my breath +I walked up and down, thanking, praising, crying and laughing. + +Like the woman that found the piece of silver that was lost, I had +to tell my neighbors. I wrapped myself up to be protected from the +rain, and ran to Sister Painters, near by, then to Sister Dollars and Marvin's +and several others, to tell them of my great blessing. + +When I returned I opened my Bible. Every word and every letter +was surrounded with a bright light. I turned over the leaves, and I +saw the meaning on the pages at a glance. There was a new light and +meaning. I have never been able to express that experience in any other +way than to say I was "eating" the word of God. I could now understand +why we do not understand the figures and expressions used in the +Bible, because I have had several experiences, that were impossible to +explain by human language. + +I told Mr. Nation that the Bible was a new book to me, tried to +explain to him; told him I now saw the meaning of everything. He +said: "Explain Lazarus and the rich man." I turned to it instantly. +The divine light gave a new meaning to me. I commented thus as I +read it: "This rich man is the Jewish nation, with its gorgeous temple +service. The poor man is the Gentile nations called dogs, no temple, no +altar, no God, no healing; like a man with an incurable loathsome disease. +These begged from the Jews the crumbs that fell to their dogs. This rich +man had much goods. He could have shared to bless, but through lack +of charity he withheld. + +The beggar died, and angels took him to Abraham's bosom, the very +place the Jews thought was only for them. This is a figure of the +death to sin, and the life to righteousness. The natural must die before +the spiritual can live. The rich man died, and was buried. The Jewish +nation died as it is here predicted, and in hell, he lifted up his eyes, being +in torments. It is not said that the Gentiles, or Lazarus were buried. +The Jews as a nation are dead, never to be resurrected. They have been +scattered abroad in torments, a people without a land, a hiss and a by- +word, as God said. The Jew sees the Gentiles with the good things, he +once had. Has time and time again begged relief from them. The Jews +wish no companionship in their misery, have no missionaries. Five is +a number applied to humanity.--five senses, five fingers, five toes. The +gulf spoken of as being impassable, is the separateness of the Jews from +all others. + +The rich man wants one from the dead to go to his five brethren, or +humanity. Abraham or the Gospel reminds the Jew that Moses and +the prophets were as convincing; they would not believe them. Christ +said: "If ye had believed Moses, ye would have believed me for he +wrote of me. If ye believe not him, neither will ye believe, though one +arose from the dead." Christ in this parable prophesied of his own +death and resurrection, they did not believe when he arose from the dead. + +Scripture was given a meaning I had never heard of before. This +light continued for about three days. Oh! if I had devoted all my time +then to reading while I had this divine light! We never know the value +of any blessing, until it is gone. Persons almost universally say of me: +"You have studied and remember so much of the Bible," but this is a +gift from God. I know why God gave this to me. Because I have always +been a reader and a student of holy teachings, even when it was sealed, +and often to me, contradictory. "If any will do His will, they shall +know of the doctrine." Jesus said: "Search the Scriptures." "Study to +show thyself a workman well approved unto God, that needeth not to +be ashamed, rightly divining the word of truth." 'Tis a sweet love letter +by an independent God to a dependent people. "Oh! the depth of the +wisdom, both of the knowledge and power of God! How unsearchable +are his judgements and his ways past finding out." Yet His love can +be felt and known by all. Not one of the severe judgements of God but +they reflect this tender love of God, in destroying that which love hates, +because sin is the enemy of love, the bitter foe to the happiness of mankind; +therefore 'tis an evidence of the intensity of love to destroy sin. +Take for instance the destruction of the Amalekites. This people was a +curse to the earth and the enemy of all good. "Remember what Amalek +did unto thee, by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt." +"How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindermost of thee, even +all that were behind thee when thou wast faint and weary; and he +feared not God. Therefore it shall be when the Lord thy God hath +given thee rest from thine enemies, thou shalt blot out the remembrance +of Amalek from under heaven." God waited four hundred years from +this time. They still were murderers. Then he told Saul to utterly +destroy this cruel nation. The state kills a man now. This is not a +cruelty but a mercy, "And those which remain shall hear and fear and +shall henceforth commit no more any such evil." "'Tis a righteous +retribution to recompense tribulation to those who trouble you." + +Persons often argue that the books of the Bible are written by man +and cannot be said to be written by God. I illustrate the way God wrote +the Bible by this: You have a package of letters from your mother. +Some are written with red ink, some with black, some with a stub pen, +some with a fine point, some with a pencil, etc. You do not say, the pen +wrote me this letter and the pencil wrote me that. No, this is not spoken +of or considered. You say: "My mother wrote these letters to me." +Just so, Moses is God's pen, with which he wrote the five books of the +Pentateuch. Joshua was also a pen, and Ezra, Job, David, Solomon, and so +with the writers of the New Testament. God guided them as we do +our pen. The Bible carries within itself its own evidence of divinity. It +requires no proof. It but weakens its own evidence, to appeal to human +aid. The fulfilled prophesy, its inimitable poetry, is proof to the natural +man to KNOW it to be above the human mind, and to a child of God it +speaks with life, and love more potent than an earthly parent to their +child. The Holy Spirit only can interpret his own words: "'Tis foolishness +to those who perish, but unto us who are saved it is the power of +God." + +I have a great benediction on my work. Wherever I go the dear +mothers shake my hand and kiss my face, saying: "God bless you. I +want to help you. You did what I wanted to do." It is the heart of +motherhood running over with love. "The gentle are the brave, the loving +are the daring." + +I got a telegram from a man saying: "Your article in Physical +Culture on the use of tobacco has cured me of the vice." One man from +Omaha, Nebraska, wrote: "Three years ago I was a drunkard. I had a +drug store. I was losing business and going to ruin generally. When +I heard of what you did, I said: 'If that woman can do that to save +others, I ought to do something for myself.' So now I am a changed +man. My wife is a changed woman. I have to thank you and Almighty +God. My business is growing every day." + +Upon several occasions I have had people to put five dollars in my +hand. While I was lecturing in Pasadena, California, for the Y. M. C. +A. one young man put in my hand what I thought was a silver dollar, +but on looking it was a twenty dollar gold piece. I said: "I will lay +that up in heaven for you." And so I have. I never learned his name +but he will certainly find that twenty dollars in the bank of heaven with +interest. + +When I first started out in this crusade I was called crazy and a +"freak" by my enemies, but now they say: "No, Carry Nation, you are +not crazy, but you are sharp. You started out to accomplish something +and you did. You are a grafter. It is the money you are after." Jesus +said: "John came neither eating or drinking and ye say, Behold a wine +bibber and a glutton." So it is the world never did understand an +unselfish life. It is a small thing to be judged by a man that withers +as grass. "If I yet please man, I should not be the servant of Christ." + + + +CHAPTER XV. + +SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY FOR MY CHRISTIAN WORK. + + +There have been from the first time I started out persons who understood +that God moved me. These were students of the Old Scriptures. +Jesus told the people before the New Testament was written to "search +the Scriptures--these are they that testify of me. ALL Scripture is given +by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for correction, for +instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be thoroughly +furnished unto every good work." To be thorough one must know the +old as well as the new. In all the sermons of Paul, Peter and the rest, +they quote from old Scripture. So did Jesus. Read Peter's first sermon +on the day of Pentecost. There is a tendency to study the New +Testament more than the Old. It is not possible to understand the New, +unless we first study the Old. One of my favorite books is Deuteronomy, +the dying words of Moses. He here repeats the great mercy, consideration +and power of God's dealings with his people. Tells the kind of +characters God will bless. How God loves the pure and good. How He +hates the wicked. We here see that God creates good and evil, and holds +us responsible for the choosing. While God rules in all things we have +the power to bring on ourselves blessings or cursings. This book declares +the man or woman invincible that abandons himself or herself to do +God's will. + + "True merit lies in braving the unequal. + True glory comes from daring to begin. + God loves the man or woman, who reckless of the sequel, + Fights long and well, whether they lose or win." + +In the seventh chapter of Deuteronomy, God commanded the +children of Israel to "destroy the images," "break down" the altars +and "burn the graven images" of the Gods of the heathen. This was +smashing. Also said to them: "If you do not drive them out they shall +be thorns in your sides." God gave them power and ability to do this, +then he required them to do it. God supplies man's cannots, not his +"will nots." In Numbers twenty-fifth chapter, Phineas was given God's +covenant of peace and the priesthood, because he slew the woman and +man that were committing sin: "Because he was jealous for his God +and made an atonement for the children of Israel." This was smashing. +God himself smashed up Sodom and Gomorrah. In the seventeenth +chapter of Deuteronomy, God says: "The idolator and blasphemer shall +be stoned with stones till he die. So shalt thou put away evil from you." +This is smashing. I could write a book recounting the incidents recorded +in God's Word. + +"What is in thine hand, Abel?" + +"Nothing but one wee lamb, O God, taken from the flock. I purpose +offering it to thee, a willing sacrifice." + +And so he did. And the sweet smell of that burning has been filling +the air ever since, and constantly going up to God as a perpetual sacrifice +of praise. + +"What is it thou hast in thine hand, Moses?" + +"Nothing but a staff, O God, with which I tend my flocks." + +"Take it and use it for me." + +And he did; and with it wrought more wondrous things than Egypt +and her proud king had seen before. + +"Mary, what is that thou hast in thine hand?" + +"Nothing but a pot of sweet-smelling ointment, O God, wherewith I +would anoint thine only One called Jesus." + +And so she did; and not only did the perfume fill all the house in +which they were, but the Bible-reading world has been fragrant with the +memory of this blessed act of love, which has ever since been spoken of +"for a memorial of her." + +"Poor woman, what is it that thou hast in thine hand?" + +"Only two mites, Lord. It is very little; but then it is all I have, and +I would put it into thy treasury." + +And so she did; and the story of her generous giving has ever since +wrought like a charm, prompting others to give to the Lord. + +"What is it that thou hast in thine hand, Dorcas?" + +"Only a needle, Lord." + +"Take it and use it for me." + +And so she did; and not only were the suffering poor of Joppa warmly +clad, but inspired by her loving life. "Dorcas Societies" even now continue +their benign mission to the poor throughout the earth. + +"What is it in thine hand, Shamgar?" + +"Only an ox goad, a stick with which to drive oxen. I slew six hundred +enemies of God and man delivering from slavery God's people." + +"What is it in thine hand Samson?" + +"The jaw bone of an ass which was a power in the hand used by God, +to slay a thousand wicked cruel infidels." + +"David why do you lay aside the armor of Saul and meet the giant, +with only a sling?" + +"My God will give me the power to slay the foe to mercy and truth." + +"Carry Nation, what have you in your hand?" + +Sometimes a rock; sometimes a hatchet; God told me to use these to +smash that which has smashed and will smash hearts and souls. The +sound of this loving deed will stir conscience and hearts and while I +can not finish the smashing, the voter of this nation will use their ballots +that will, and this impulse will Carry A. Nation. + +God sent an angel from heaven to tell Gideon to smash up the altar +and image of Baal. By divine command Achan and family were smashed. +God would not give Joshua victory until this was done. Saul was commanded +by God (through his prophet Samuel,) to utterly destroy the +Amalekite's nation, and all their substance. He was disobedient and saved +the king. Samuel hacked or smashed up Agag, although Saul was the +regularly appointed one. This is a case directly in point. The officers +in Kansas were oath-bound to do what Carry A. Nation did. + +Our Savior's mission on earth was to "break (smash) every yoke +and set the captive free." Upon two occasions he made a scourge, of +small cords and laid it on the backs of wicked men who were doing unlawful +things. He came into this world "to destroy the works of the devil", +to "bruise" or crush the "head of the serpent". We are told to "Abhor +that which is evil", to "resist (or fight) the devil and he will flee"'. We +are not to be "overcome with evil but to overcome evil with good". +How? Resist the devil. God blessed the church at Ephesus, because +they "hated the evil workers, tried them and found them liars". The +hatred of sin is one mark of a Christian. Just in proportion to your love +for God will be your hatred of evil. I will here give you a Bible reading +on the subject. These are some instances of smashing. The ten plagues +of Egypt and the overthrow of Pharaoh, were smashing. The death of +of the first born also. + + +Gen. 19:24 30:15-19 6:25 9:5,6 +Josh. 7:25, 26 7:20 4:7-11 7:10,11 15:15 +Lev. 19:17 10:24-26 9:53 +Num. 33:55,56 23:7 +1 Sam. 15:33 +Deut. 7:2-5 7:10-13 +2 Chron. 34:4,5 21:1-9 19:20 +Neh. 13:8-25 21:18-21 +Judg. 2:3 +Isa. 28:21 13:12-18 3:10 54:16 17:5-7 3:31 +Matt. 21:12 19:13-20 4:21 +John 2:13-23 25:17-19 5:7 +Acts 13:8-11. + + +If I could I would turn the key on every church in the land, so as +to teach some preachers to go out, and not stay in, and compel poor sinners +to stay out. I yield no territory to the devil. Let us take every +saloon, every house of prostitution of men and women for God. "There +shall not a hoof be left behind." "The kingdom of heaven suffereth +violence, and the VIOLENT take it by force," which means that where the +evil is aggressive, we must be more so, and take, compelling surrender +by the determination never to yield. + +I feel that I have been peculiarly favored to go into these places, to +"cry aloud and spare not and show my people their sins." I find this +class so hungry for something better. These poor actresses, who dress +in tights and sing indecent songs, are a weary, tired, heart-sick lot of +slaves. I mingle with them as a sister. When I can say a warning word +I say it. I call them affectionate names and mean it. God will judge +both of us. He knows who loved much; he can forgive much. Christ +said to a lot of men who took the amen pews: "The publicans and harlots +will go into heaven before you." Why? They "repented when they +heard". "How are they to bear without a preacher?" I never see a man +or woman so low but as a sculptor said of the marble: "There is an +angel there." Oh, God, help me to bring it out! + +Jesus received sinners and ate with them. He left a command that +Christians should invite these to feasts in their homes. Oh! what a +revival of religion there would be if the homes of Christians were opened +to the lost and sinful, who are dying for some demonstration of love. +If the Son of God, the lovely, the pure, the blessed ate with sinners, +ought it not to be a privilege to follow Him. We are commanded to +"warn, rebuke, and reprove with all long suffering and doctrine." People +will work in a revival to get sinners saved, and will pass them day +after day on the street and not a word of Scripture, do they use to +remind them of God's judgements. Jesus said: "The world hateth me +because I testify that the works thereof are evil." I have had men to +swear at me, call me names and threaten to knock me down. At first +this caused me to feel mortified but that passed off. These very men +have afterward told me I was right and they were wrong. The devil +"threw some on the ground and they foamed at the mouth" before he +was cast out. I have often taken cigars and cigarettes out of men's and +boy's mouths. I wished to show them the wrong and that I was a friend. +Would you let one you love take a knife to open a vein or cut himself? +Oh! the sweetness and force of that promise: "Your LABOR is never in +vain in the Lord." This covers all cases, if you, for the love of God, do +anything. I often say to myself, after rebuking for sin: "You made a +mistake in the way you did this or that, and are you sure it was done +for the love of God and your neighbor?" "Yes." Then "your labor is +never in vain in the Lord". It is not WHAT we do that prospers, but what +God blesses.. "He that planteth is nothing and he that watereth is +nothing, but it is God that giveth the increase." And it matters not how +awkward the work, if it be done from love of God, it will prosper. Like +other things, the more you do, the better you can do. + +All the Christian work I ever did seemed to meet with severe opposition +from church members. This is a great stumbling-block to some. +The church crucified our blessed Christ, that is, it was the hypocrites; +for the church is the light and salt, the body of Christ. "If I yet please +men, I should not be the servant of Christ." There is no other organization +but the church of Christ that persecutes its own followers. The +hierarchy in the church told Christ "He had a devil," but they could not +meet the argument when He said: "A kingdom divided against itself +will not stand." "If I, by the spirit of Beelzebub, cast out devils, by what +kind of a spirit do your children cast them out." The devil never destroys +his own work. If the saloon is of the devil, the power that destroys it +is the opposite. If a mother should see a gun pointed at her son would +she break the law to snatch the gun and smash it? The gun was not +hers. It may have been worth a thousand dollars. The saloon is worse +than the gun which could only destroy the body. + +It is a great blessing to know your mission in life. I know why +Christians are waiting with folded hands, not being able to see their +mission. They are not willing to pay the great price for their commission. +The rich young man could have been a follower of Jesus, the greatest +honor in earth or heaven, and could have had eternal treasure in heaven +for the transient gain of earth. He would not pay the price. You must +give all, to get all. The effect of smashing has always been to cause +the people to arouse themselves. The Levite that severed his dead concubine +and sent parts of her body to the different tribes of Israel was +to cause the people to "consider, take advice and speak." Then they +acted and four hundred thousand men presented themselves to redress +this wrong. + +The smashing in Kansas was to arouse the people. If some ordinary +means had been used, people would have heard and forgotten, but the +"strange act" demanded an explanation and the people wanted that, +and they never will stop talking about this until the question is settled. +Let us consider the character of Moses. It is said this man disobeyed +God but once, and he was the "meekest of all men". We are first attracted +to him peculiarly because he "refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's +daughter, rather suffering afflictions with the people of God than to +enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season." Rather be counted with the poor +despised, afflicted slaves under the taskmaster's lash than be a king or +an absolute monarch. This brought out his characteristic prohibition of +sin,--the renouncing of every worldly ambition, He here made the choice, +at the time when the temptations were greatest, for all that the world +could offer was his. He gave all and paid the price it requires to get all. +On the banks of the Nile he sees one man oppressing another. That +spirit of prohibition of this great wrong caused him to strike (smash) +the oppressor. + +Here is a lovable trait of this great man. Moses, could not look on +and see the helpless suffer at the hands of another, even though it brought +death to himself. Forgetful of his own safety, defying the absolute power +and authority of this despot, so far as it lay in his power, against all +these odds he redressed the wrong of a fellow creature. God saw in +Moses a man whom He could use. From the golden throne he sought +a retreat, and for forty years was an humble shepherd, learning the lesson +of caring for the flocks of Jethro, before he should be called to take the +oversight of the flock of God. "He that is faithful in that which is least +is faithful also in that which is much." God called this man out of the +wilderness to go to the greatest court on earth as His ambassador. Not +one compromise would he make, still true to his prohibition principles. +God never used or blessed any man or woman that was not a prohibitionist. +Eli was one of those conservatives and said only, "Nay verily +my sons." And he got his neck broke and both of his sons killed in one +day, because he "restrained (or prohibited) not his sons in the iniquity +which he knew." Moses, although the meekest of all men, he said to +Pharaoh, "There shall not a hoof be left behind." True to the uncompromising +spirit of a great leader. When in the Mount, seeing the idolatry, +smashed the two tables of stone. Why? He would not deliver the +holy laws to a people who were insulting God. This smashing was a +demonstration of Moses jealousy for his God. After this I can see him +striding down to the place of this "ball" or "hugging". The round dance +of the present day is but a repetition of those lascivious plays, and with +his ax or hatchet he hacked up that malicious property, shaped into a +golden calf. This did not belong to Moses. It was very valuable but +he smashed it and ground it to powder and then to further humiliate these +rebels, he made them drink the dust mixed with water, then to absolutely +destroy and stamp with a vengeance this insult to God, he divided the +people and those who were "on the Lord's side" fought with these rebels +and slew (smashed) three thousand men. In one of the canonical books +of the Catholic Bible we have the story of the holy woman Judeth who +cut off the head of Hollifernese to save God's people. Esther the gentle +loving queen had the wicked sons of Haman hanged. Our supremest +idea of justice is a reward for the good and a punishment for the wicked. +We amputate the arm to save the body. David says: "I will not know +a wicked person; he that telleth lies shall not dwell in my sight." + +The devil has his agents in the churches, and among those who are +doing his work the best, are a class of professors who testify that you +must not speak ill of any one, not even the devil. They are the "non- +resistives". The devil is delighted to be respected, and not fought. He +gets his work in just as he wants to and he can imitate true conversion, +if he can place in the church those who hinder a warfare against sin. +Paul said: "I tell you even weeping they are enemies of the cross of +Christ." They are the devils in light. "But there must needs be heresies +among you that they who are approved may be manifest." Persons +often propose to do something. I may not see the advisability, but because +there is action in it, I never object. Oh! for somebody to "do with +their might what their hands find to do." "Well DONE" is the best +commendation. Faith is like the wind, we cannot see it, but by the quantity +of motion and commotion. There are workers "jerkers" and "shirkers"; +but through much tribulation and temptation must we enter into the +kingdom of heaven. The counterfeit proves the genuine dollar; counterfeits +are not counterfeited. So hypocrites prove the genuine Christians. +If there were not a genuine there would not be a hypocrite. Our mother +and grandmothers who went into saloons praying and spilling the poisoned +slop of these houses of crime and tears were blessed in their DEEDS. +Oh! that the W. C. T. U. would do as they did, what a reform would +take place. I love the organization of mothers. I love their holy impulses +but I am heart-sick at their conventionality, their red tape. This +organization could put out of existence every drinking hell in the United +States if they would demand it and use the power they have even without the +ballot. I intend to help the women of the Kansas W. C. T. U., but not +one that has any respect for either Republican or Democratic parties +shall ever be called on to aid me in my work, women who are not wise +enough to know that the rum voting parties are traitors, can be nothing +but a hindrance to the interests of mothers. One said to me, "You will +cause many women to leave the organization." I said: "Good riddance +to bad rubbish, the quicker they get out the better." As Nehemiah, that +grand prohibitionist, said: "What have you to do to build the walls of +our God." + + + +CHAPTER XVI. + +IN NEBRASKA.--WHAT I DID WITH THE FIRST MONEY I GAVE TO THE LORD.-- +AT CONEY ISLAND.--WHAT I SAID OF MR. MCKINLEY.--IN CALIFORNIA. +"CRIBS" AT LOS ANGELES.--ARREST IN SAN FRANCISCO.--CONDEMNED BY +SOME MINISTERS.--WHISKEY AND TOBACCO ADVERTISEMENTS, + + +I told my manager James E. Furlong, to give W. C. T. U. and Prohibitionists +the preference, and not to charge them as much. I tried to +get into churches, but only a few would open to me. I had many inducements +financially to go on the stage but I refused to do so for sometime. +Like a little child I have had to sit alone, creep and walk. I paid my fines +by monthly installments and in December, of 1902, I settled with the court +at Topeka for the "Malicious destruction of property," when, in fact, it +was the "Destruction of malicious property." + +In the spring of 1902, I went to Nebraska, under the management +of Mrs. M. A. S. Monegan. This woman had also made dates for J. G. +Woolley and other prominent prohibition lecturers. She was a thorough +prohibitionist and by conversing with her I for the first time found the +remedy for the licensed saloon. This is "National Prohibition". + +I held a debate in Lincoln with Bixbee, of the Journal, a rank republican, +who used only ridicule and satire, for he had no argument of course. +I lectured for and with the "Red Ribbon Alliance" there who were so +faithfully working and praying for the abolition of the saloon. The +spring election in Lincoln was for prohibition but lost by sixty votes. +William Jennings Bryan lives there and if he, the man who poses as a +friend of the people, had opened his mouth against the saloon he could +have made this great cause more than the sixty votes. From that time +forth I knew Bryan was for Bryan and what Bryan could get for Bryan. + +I lectured at the parks and chautauquas in the summer and fairs in +the fall, and at the end of the year of 1902, I had the sum of five thousand +dollars which I used to build a mission on Central Ave., Kansas City, +Kansas. In that vicinity were several dives and I told those poor criminals +that we would soon run them out. I had my brother, Campbell +Moore, to manage the erection of this brick building. The liquor men +tried to buy the ground to hinder the work, but at last the building was +finished. I was offered seventy-five dollars rent for the hall but refused +it. Then I went to the Salvation Army barracks in Kansas City, Mo., +and offered to give it to them free of rent if they would start a mission. +They did not see their way clear to accept it. My brother told me of a +property that would suit me better for the purpose of a "Home for Drunkards' +Wives and Mothers", which I was trying to arrive at through the +mission. I went to see this property, and found it to be about two acres, +with a twenty room brick house and a good brick stable on it, nice drives +and forest trees, and while it is in the city, it is on a high elevation and +as much retired from the dust and crowd as in the country. Mr. Simpson, +the owner, sent me ten dollars while I was in jail at Wichita, and he +was anxious to let me have this home of his that he had improved himself. +I purchased this with the money I got from the other place, paying +him five thousand five hundred dollars, owing the rest. This place +is situated on Reynolds and Grandview Aves. It was not possible for me +to begin this enterprise myself, and in speaking to Myron A. Waterman, +of the Savings Bank of Kansas City, Kansas, he suggested that the "Associated +Charities" of Kansas City, Kansas, would put it to the use I +intended. I liked the idea. The society became incorporated so they +could receive the deed, which was a trust, for should the property be +used for other than what it was given for, it will revert. + +The society took possession in December, 1903, and at this writing, +February, 1904, it is full, the Home of many poor and destitute, who now +have a good shelter, warmth and light free. They are expected to make +their own living. Mr. Simpson gave forty dollars to furnish one room. +The local W. C. T. U. have furnished their room and have their two +drunkards' wives in it. I here make a plea of help to enlarge this Home. +As stated there are two acres of ground and one who would give money +to this would fulfill the command to feed the hungry and clothe the naked; +these are the orphans and the widows; every dollar will be put in the +bank of Heaven. + +My motive for doing this was twofold. I wanted to furnish a home +for these, the innocent results of the saloon, whose sad condition is beyond +words to describe. The people burden themselves with taxes to build +jails, penitentiaries, alms houses, insane ayslums, and reformatories to +care for the guilty results of the saloon. They pay millions to prosecute +these criminals, the result of the saloon, but no one has ever thought +of a building, or shelter for these women who are worse than widows, +who are free from any fault in this matter, but are the greatest sufferers. + +I have been asked by my friends not to call it a "Home for +Drunkards' Wives and Mothers", for it would be a reflection on the +inmates. Not at all. The condemnation is on the party which makes +a demand for such a home, by voting for saloons. The question, Why? +will arise in the minds of all who see on the arch over the entrance to +this place, "Home for Drunkards' Wives and Mothers". Why? "Because +of the saloon. Let us smash the saloon and not these women's homes +and hearts." Miss Edith Short is the secretary and is at the home all +the time, and she is the right woman in the right place. + +There are many persons who would like to donate to such a place. +We are waiting for funds to enlarge the place, making rooms or flats +for these dear ones. A letter directed to "Drunkards' Wives Home", +Kansas City, Kansas, will reach the place, for there is no other of the +kind in the world. It was such a relief to me when I saw that what +means I could control was used in a manner God would bless, and it was +a great source of joy to me to do something for this class. I have been +a drunkard's wife myself and I know the desolation of heart they have. +This is a worse sorrow than to have one's husband die. A wife always +feels that she might have done something to cause her husband to drink +or to quit. I believe that some men have been led to drink by women, +but it is a cowardly resort, or excuse, and the man who would make this +as an excuse is as bad as the woman that caused him to drink, if not +worse. The thief, the murderer, or any other class of criminals could +just as well blame others for their own wrong doings. + +{illust. caption = +Mrs. Carry Nation's "Home for Drunkards' Wives and Children" +One of two fine properties in Kansas purchased by Mrs. Carry Nation with the +money she earned on her lecturing tours. In this way she believes she can +bring comfort into the lives now darkened and saddened by the saloon curse.} + + +When I was at Coney Island, I was asked, what I thought of William +McKinley's administration? I said: "I was glad when McKinley +was elected for I had heard that he was opposed to the liquor traffic. +I did not know then that he rented his wife's property in Canton, Ohio, +for saloon purposes, and after his election he had been a constant +disappointment to me; that he was the Brewers' president and did their +biddings; that we as W. C. T. U. workers, sent petitions, thousands of them +to Mr. McKinley to have him refuse to let the canteen run. That we +were willing to give our boys to fight the battles of this nation, to die +in a foreign land, but we were not willing that a murderer should follow +them from their home shores to kill their bodies and souls." This +was said at the time that he was thought to be convalescent from his +death-wound. I said: "I had no tears for McKinley, neither have I any +for his assassin. That no one's life was safe with such a murderer at +large." This roused hisses; some left the hall and there was a murmer +of confusion. One man threw a wad of paper at me, but I said: "My +loyalty to the homes of America demand that I denounce such a president +and his crowd." It was a common thing to be hissed. Once I +spoke in Sioux City, Iowa, in the church where the martyred Haddock +preached. The crowd was so large, the church was filled and emptied +three times. I had cheers and hisses at the same time. At the first +meeting I was talking at the top of my voice, the audience was clapping +and hissing and a good evangelistic brother by my side kept pounding +his fist of one hand into the palm of the other and shouting: "She is +right! She is right!" That was a great meeting, and I shall never forget +it, neither will anyone who was there. I spoke three times to audiences +that night. I have been hissed, and after giving the people time +to think, have been applauded by the same parties. "Oh, fools and slow +of heart to understand," Jesus said. + +Murat Halstead, who wrote the book called, "Our Martyred President +or the Illustrious Life of William McKinley", wrote some positive +falsehoods concerning me. This Halstead has always been a defender +of anarchy or the licensed saloon. + +William McKinley was no martyr. He was murdered by a man who +was the result of a saloon and could not tell why he murdered the President. + +I could tell of many amusing incidents, indeed. I could fill a book +of interesting anecdotes. Once when I was among the Thousand Islands +of the St. Lawrence, in the summer of 1902, a characteristic woman with +a very low dress, with a very long train, the whole a mixture of paint, +powder, lace, flashy jewelry and corset stays, with as much exposure +of person as she dare, came to me in an affected manner, handed me a +roll saying: "I am a temperance lecturer, here is one of my bills." I +replied: "If you are such, you had better make a practical application +of temperance and cover up yourself." The change of her countenance +was instantaneous and she with a queer almost startled look said: "You +go to He--l." + +Once in Elmira, N. Y. the streets were so crowded that we had to +leave the Salvation Army Hall. I climbed in a farmer's two horse wagon. +He came out of a saloon and gathered up the reins and laid the whip +to his horses, which were caught so as to let me out. + +Mr. Furlong, my manager, had a keen sense of the ridiculous and +would let me alone when I started out. He said he knew I could take +care of myself. Often when I would rise to speak to the thousands in +the parks, there would be yells and groans, and a manager at Youngstown, +Ohio, said to Mr. Furlong: "She will not get a chance to speak." +Mr. Furlong said: "You watch how she will handle them." I would +always quiet them for at least a time. Once they were determined not +to let me talk. I at last went to one side of the stage and began talking +very explanatory to some parties in front. The rest wanted to hear, +so they were quiet. Then I gave them the hot-shots of truth. I always +invited interruptions by questions. I had no set speech and these questions +would bring out what the crowd wanted to hear. I like especially +the questions from those who oppose me. I have bad men to shake their +fists at me saying: "You are an anarchist and ought to be in the lunatic +asylum." One agent of a brewer in Hartford, Conn., kept on disturbing +the meeting; at last he said: "Why did Christ make wine?" I said: +"the wine that He made did not rot. His was the unfermented juice of +the grape. God made healthy fruit and grain. The devil rots them and +makes alcohol, which rots the brain, rots the body and rots the soul, and +that is what is the matter with you." + +When I first began my lectures I was not taken seriously by the +people. They did not see the great principle back of the work. My +manager said: "We must make all the dates this year, for next year +it will not be so easy." I said: "You will find it easier, for I will be +more popular." He shook his head, but sure enough it was easier. We +could not fill the dates, and now the calls are more and more all over +the country. + +In the winter and spring of 1903, I was in California. I was employed +by the theatrical manager of the "Chutes." Beer was sold at this resort. +Some W. C. T. U. were very much horrified that I would go to such a +place. Mrs. Hester T. Griffith, the president of the Federation of Unions +in Los Angeles, came to see me. She had been a staunch friend of mine +from the first and she went with me to the "Chutes" and introduced me. +This she did time and again saying: "If she had the opportunity to +speak at the "Chutes" she would do as Carry Nation does." This woman +was a blessing to me. She helped me to see that the stage was a mission +field. I was severely criticised by the newspapers, and especially by some +of the ministers. One from Rockford, Ill., a Rev. Dr. Van Horn wrote +a very slanderous article which I heard of through my friends there. +I was arrested in Los Angeles for some advertising my manager did +which was contrary to a city ordinance. + +In Los Angeles I saw what was called the "Cribs", one of the most +disgraceful conditions. No one stayed there during the day; they were +there just for the night only. These poor degraded girls would pay two +dollars a night to the owners. I said to the women: "These city officials +are at the bottom of this. Let us go to the Chief of Police," whose +name was Elton. He would not talk to me at first. He said: "If we +close these places, these degraded girls will be over the town," when in +fact the girls only stayed there at night. I have seen so much of the +corruption of the officials that when conditions are bad in any place I +know it to be their fault. + +We went as a band of missionaries to these dens of vice. At first +an officer would go before us and have the girls pull their blinds down +to prevent us from seeing or speaking to them. We found hundreds +of them who could not speak the English language, they had been brought +over by procurers for the purpose of swelling the ranks of this vice. +Mrs. Charlton Edholm who wrote "Traffic in Girls", was there helping +to rid the city of this disgrace. Her book should be in the hands of every +girl in the world. This grand woman has devoted her life work to the +rescue of girls. She is in Oakland, California, where she has a "Rescue +Home". Any one can get the book by writing her. I also met Mrs. +Sobieski, wife of Col. John Sobieski. Sister Sobieski is one who never +tires in the work for God. She is a terror to evil doers. God bless these +women for their zeal. I found some of the most aggressive christian +W. C. T. U. women I have ever seen in Los Angeles, California. I am +glad to say that in less than a year from the time I was there the "Cribs" +were closed. + +I was arrested in San Francisco and spent most of the night in jail, +was put in for destroying a bottle of whiskey on this wise: A certain +saloon-keeper had just finished a very fine "criminal factory" and he +wanted to advertise it. He sent me word by my manager to call and +smash this place up. He had a fine mirror he paid one hundred and fifty +dollars for that he wanted me to smash. I knew that all he wanted was +an advertisement, but I went, not saying what I would do. He had +reporters and the house was crowded. I got up on a table to make a +speech, which, I did in this fashion: "This man has opened a place to +drug and rob poor victims. There are no clothes, no food, no books here, +nothing but what degrades men and women." Some one handed me a +large empty bottle. I said: "No I want a bottle that has some of that +fiery poison in it." I was given a quart bottle of whiskey. I held it up +and said: "None but God knows the sorrows in this bottle, the headaches, +the heartaches, the desolation, but there is no blessing or happiness +connected with it. I will do with this what ought to be done with all +its kind." So I threw it as quickly as I could behind the bar on the floor. +It fell in with some others and made a great smash. I said: "The man +wished me to make a hole in that large mirror so that curiosity would +draw others into this snare to catch our boys." I gave the best rebuke +for the occasion I could, then I went to my hotel, retired, and about +twelve o'clock an officer came to my door. I dressed and went with him +to the station. I stayed there until nearly three in the morning. While +there I saw one continual stream of poor, drunken wretches, men and +women, brought in. My manager came and took me out on bail. Next morning +I appeared in court, was my own lawyer. The case was put off two +days, then I was discharged. The saloon keeper withdrew the charge. +This was done, to advertise this man but the way that I advertise has +never done the whiskey business any good. + +There is a great art in advertising. Jacob was the first one I read +of in the Bible who was aware of this art and science, when he placed +the rods before the cattle. The eye is the window by which the inner +man, who does not think, is mostly taught. There is no business in +America so much advertised as the whiskey and tobacco business. Both +are destructive in their influence on the morals and the health of the +people. We would be better off without these articles. The interest of +these manufactories are built up in proportion as they can catch the +unwary who see these signs that are suggestive. One of the most notorious +signs is "Wilson's Whiskey That's All". Yes that is ALL it takes to +ruin your homes. That is all it takes to break a mother's heart. That +is all that is needed to build houses of prostitution and that is ALL that +it requires to break up every impulse of justice and love and happiness. +That is ALL that it takes to fill hell. How my heart is stirred when I see +this: "Remember me, Oh, my God!" + +Whiskey or tobacco never introduce their products by reason or +arguments, they never appeal to thought, but suggestion or temptation, +and as oft as the eye is lifted, as one walks up the streets of our cities +there are hundreds of advertisements to meet the gaze; most every one +has a false basis. For instance there is a sign: "Old Crow Whiskey." +This is slandering the crow, for there is not a crow or vulture that will +use a drop of this slop. There is: "Chew Bull-dog Twist," and "Bull +Durham Tobacco." There is not a dog or bull that uses tobacco. There +is the, "Royal Bengal Tiger Cigarettes." This is taking advantage of these +animals because they can not defend themselves. There is the: "Robert +Burns and Tom Moore cigars." There was not a cigar in England when +Burns or Tom Moore lived. I have seen a life-size picture of Abraham +Lincoln advertising cigars, when Lincoln was a teetotaler from cigars or +any intoxicating drink. He promised his mother that he would never +use them and kept his promise to his death. This is slandering the dead. +I never remember seeing the "Grant Cigar". He died with tobacco cancer. +It is said that Mr. McKinley would have recovered but his blood +was bad from nicotine. + + + +CHAPTER XVII. + +MY VISIT TO WASHINGTON, D. C.--ARRESTED IN THE SENATE CHAMBER.-- +TAKEN OUT BY OFFICERS.--THE VICES OF COLLEGES, ESPECIALLY YALE-- +ROOSEVELT A DIVE-KEEPER. + + +In February, of 1904, I went to Washington, purposely to call on +Mr. Roosevelt, the President. Was refused an audience. While in the +office of Secretary Loeb, a delegation of politicians, republicans and +democrats, came out of the president's apartments with their mutual +admiration compliments and suavity of political tricksters. + +I asked them what difference there was in their parties? They +looked silly and said nothing. Mr. Loeb said: "We do not wish any +questions on the subject." I said: "It is a civil question, it ought to +have a civil answer." Mr. Loeb called to a police to take me out. I +said: "If I was a brewer or distiller I could have an interview. As a +representive mother, I ought to be received. I wished to ask him why +he practiced the vice of smoking cigarettes? Why he has never said a +word against the licensed saloon when it is the greatest question that +ever confronted the homes of America? Why he had a coat of arms on +his flag? Why he brought a dive into Kansas? I was taken outside +in a very orderly manner by two policemen, something unusual, for I +am hustled and dragged generally. + +Then I went to the Capitol. I called to see Senator Cockrell from +Missouri. I asked him his opinion on the liquor traffic. He got excited +immediately. He said: "I want no one to mention that subject to me." +I said: "It is strange to me that you do not want to converse on the greatest +subject before the American people." He became so indignant that +he stamped his foot and threatened to have me put out of the building. +I also became indignant, and stamped my foot, and said: "Down with +your treason! Down with your saloons! You are sent here to represent +the interest of the mothers and their children, and you insult a +representative mother because you are representing the interest of the +brewers and distillers." During this speech of mine he was making +tracks up the corridor. Then I went to the House of Representatives +and the Senate Chamber. My "spirit was stirred within me", to see at +the head of the American people the bitterest enemies to the defense of +the homes of America, the very thing our forefathers intended to secure +to this people. I wanted to do some "Hatchetation", that not being possible, +I thought I would do some agitation. I took a position in a lobby +near a door. I rose to my feet, and with a volume of voice that was +distinctly heard all over the halls I cried aloud: "Treason, anarchy and +conspiracy! Discuss these!" I knew that I would be put out, but I +selected these three words to call the attention to the fact that these were +more necessary to be discussed than any other subjects. And these were +the very ones they were avoiding most. I was taken down to the police +station. Court was in session. I had my trial and was fined twenty-five +dollars. I made my own plea before the judge, as I had no lawyer. I +justified myself upon the same principle that a man would to give a fire +alarm. The judge said that he sympathized with my cause but he gave +me the maximum fine. I have had just such sympathy as this from all +republican judges. The kind of sympathy that a cat has for a mouse +when she crushes the bones between her teeth. + +I am a loyal American. We want true Americans to represent the +principles of Americans. I had my prejudice increased against Mr. +Roosevelt when I heard of the "coat of arms" on his flag, in violation of +every principle of American citizenship. We have no "my lords" in this +country. The people rule here and not the president, for he is the servant. +The brewers of America are mostly German and Dutch, and of +course the Dutch president is their friend. Roosevelt is also a member +of the Order of Eagles, the strongest liquor organization in the United +States. Oh, shade of American heroes look down and condemn this outrage +to your ashes. I have it from three eye witnesses that Roosevelt +smokes and did smoke cigarettes. His secretary, Mr. Loeb, denied this +to Mrs. Dye Ellis, but Mr. Roosevelt dare not deny it. The minister for +Mr. McKinley denied he rented his property for saloon purposes, but +the Chicago New Voice proved he did. I am so true a Daughter of the +Revolution that such a president as Theodore Roosevelt is an insult to +my sires. And last March when he came to Topeka, Kansas, he outraged +every loyal citizen of the state by bringing into it a dive and all +who wished an intoxicating drink could get it by tipping the waiter. Let +his ministers deny this for him also. He ought to have been arrested +as any other dive-keeper. + +This President who enjoys the sport of killing innocent animals, +this man who costs the people more than any other president, who has +so little regard for the people's treasury that he spent a quarter of +a million to look at the American fleet and took the treasured relics +of the people and sold them to a junk shop, vandalism! + + +MY VISIT TO YALE UNIVERSITY. + +I have been to all the principal universities of the United States. +At Cambridge, where Harvard is situated, there are no saloons allowed, +but in Ann Arbor the places are thick where manhood is drugged and +destroyed. Also Yale, the latter being the worst I have ever seen. I will +insert two letters which I got on March 1st, 1904, and have received several +more of the kind from the students: + +"Dear Mrs. Nation:--As an ardent prohibitionist and an enemy of +the liquor traffic, I feel obliged to bring to your notice some of the things +that are served to the young men at Yale Dining Hall by the college +authorities." (In this letter were several bills of fare.) "You will see +how many of the dishes are served with intoxicating liquors as sauces. +Yale is supposed to be a christian college, but to give boys these poisons +by consent of the college authorities is nothing more or less than starting +them on the road to hell! Please give this matter your earnest attention +and see if you can not stamp this serpent out." + +"Dear Mrs. Nation:--Although it pains me deeply, I feel it my duty +to inform you that even after your soul-stirring address of warning and +reproof, the Devil still grins at Yale Dining Hall. The enclosed menus +tells the story. The hateful practice of serving intoxicating liquors has +not ceased. Capt. Smoke holds open wide the gates of hell. Oh, this +is terrible! Satan loves to shoot at brightest marks. + +"Here are eight hundred shining young souls, the cream of the +nation's manhood, on the broad road which leadeth to destruction. God +help us. Assist us, Mrs. Nation; aid us; pray for us. Let the world +know of this awful condition and rouse the public indignation until it +has ceased. Publicity will do it. Let the world know that Yale is being +made a training school for Drunkards, and Capt. Smoke will never dare +to serve liquors again. A LONE BUT TRUE FRIEND OF THE TEMPERANCE +CAUSE." + +I spoke to the students at the entrance of their dining hall. They +spoke up and told me that "Champagne" was served on their ham three +times a week. They gave me the menus, and on them were: "Claret +Wine Punch", "Cherry Wine Sauce", "Apple Dumpling and Brandy +Sauce," "Roast Ham and Champagne Sauce," and "Wine jelly". While +I was talking to the young men, many were smoking cigarettes in the +entrance of the dining hall, which was contrary to rules, but Capt. Smoke +only laughed at this practice of vice. There should be an investigation +and that quick. Students are crying for it. Faculties should demand +of students a high standard. At Yale the students are pleading for a +moral faculty. + +I then went to the Y. M. C. A., and found on the first floor, billiard +tables, cigars and cigarettes; they also have a "smoking room." A poor +mother wrote to a friend of mine in New Heaven to please use her +influence to save the boys. That her boy wrote her that the brandy was +so strong on the food that it made his head dizzy. One poor boy said +that he did not wish such food but that he had no other to eat. Students +are crying out against this outrage. While I was there a "Smoker" was +advertised to be held by the law students. A student told me that a +beer wagon was engaged by the Seniors of Sheffield School of Yale for +their wrestling match procession. These Seniors upon application can +get a tin cup and help themselves to this rotten slop that will destroy +their willpower and make them slaves of the drink habit. What can be +expected of Freshmen if Seniors set such an example? This will show +what it leads to: + +The demoralization of the students is talked of universally. They have +what is called Freshman "Games", which are as follows: Upon appointed +evenings they will meet at a select hotel (saloon). They take their +places at the table, then, each one at the table, "sets them up" to all the +rest. If there are twelve at the table each one gets twelve drinks. You +can imagine the "games" after such a debauch. I saw some young men +there from Kansas and I asked them: "Why do you come to Yale?" I +would never send a boy of mine to Yale. If I had a hundred I would +send them to a state, that made such things a crime. Here is a college +that has received donations of millions lately, that young men may be +prepared and fitted for stations of moral, mental and physical eminence +and it is a school of vice to a great extent. The distillers and brewers +dominate the republican party and they are the controlling party at +Yale and will desolate and enslave our darling boys. I went to see the +president of Yale, Professor Hadley, and I asked him about these things. +He said he thought the intoxicants were "fruit juices". I spoke of the +smoking. He said he used to think it was wrong but when he went to +Germany he saw they smoked there. He was taught it was wrong in +America but when he saw it in Germany he thought better of the vice +and is now teaching it to our boys. People ought to demand another +faculty or refuse to patronize such a school. + +While I was at Harvard I saw Professors smoking cigarettes. Parents +should demand that the teachers in these colleges and schools should +be free from the practice of the vices of drinking intoxicating liquors +and the use of tobacco. I hope we will have some generous hearted man +who will donate to build a college in Kansas with the capacity of Yale. +What a shame to have professors in our schools aping the vices of +foreigners. + +These same professors are the followers of Huxley and Herbert +Spencer, who did far more to make the world ignorant than wise. Huxley +saw in man only the elements of a weed. Herbert Spencer would +have destroyed all family life. Such men as these degrade thought and +see only the animal. "For after that in the wisdom of man, the world +by wisdom knew not. Yet it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching +to confound the wise" (as a fool would determine wisdom). + +The great controversy between Yale and Harvard now, is, which shall +excel in brute force, and foot-ball seems to be the test. Colleges were +founded for the purpose of educating the young, on moral, intellectual, +and spiritual lines. The test of these is oratory, debate, intellectual +contests. It used to be conceded, that the mind made the man, now the +forces of the mule and ox are preferred. + +Taft, of the noted 'Taft' Cigar has position of lecturer, and the +inference is, there will be more vile cigars smoked than ever, under such +patronage. + +Oh, mothers and fathers! Rise in protest against these outrages, +slaughter, bloody anarchy, and treason. + + + +CHAPTER XVIII. + +PROHIBITION OR ABOLITION.--WHAT IT MEANS.--THE FREE METHODISTS AND +OTHER MINISTERS ENDORSE THE WORK.--A CATHOLIC PRIEST'S ENDORSEMENT.-- +MODERN DEBORAH.--JOHN P. ST. JOHN. + + +God is a politician; so is the devil. God's politics are to protect and +defend mankind, bringing to them the highest good and finally heaven. +The devil's politics are to deceive, degrade and to make miserable, finally +ending in hell. The Bible fully explains this. The two kinds of seed +started out from Abel and Cain, then Ishmael and Isaac, Esau and Jacob. +There are but these two kinds of people. God's crowd and the Devil's +crowd. The first law given and broken in Eden was a prohibition law. +God said: "Thou shalt not." The devil tempted and persuaded the first +pair to disobey. He did it by deceiving the woman. The fact of redemption +now is to bring them back to the law of God. What is law? God +says that sin is a transgression of law. Blackstone says: "Law commands +that which is right and prohibits that which is wrong." Law is +one, as truth is one. It is not possible to make a bad law. If it is bad, +it is not a law. We have bad statutes. Law is always right. Nothing is wrong +that is legal, and wrong may be licensed, but never legalized. I find lawyers +who do not understand this. I often hear the term "legalized saloon". +When I was passing the building of the supreme court in New York City, +on Madison Avenue, I read an inscription on one of the marble statues +representing a judge with a book on either side of the door: "Every law +not based on wisdom is a menace to the state." This is a false, misleading +sentence for all law is wisdom. It might have read: "All statutes not based +on wisdom, are a menace to the state." Then at the base of the statue +of a soldier, on the other side of the entrance, was this statement: "We +do not use force until good laws are defied." Which ought to read: "We +do not use force until laws are defied." Such ideas as these are corrupting +courts, and biasing the public mind, and the injury is more than apparent +to the observer. If law is not a standard, what standard can we +have? We must have one. We repeat again: "Law commands that +which is right and prohibits that which is wrong." Any statute that does +this is lawful. Any that does not, is anarchy. + +God is truly the author of law. The theocratic form of government +was perfect and the only perfect government that ever existed, we need +no other statutes than those that God gave. He said: "We must not +kill a bird sitting on her young; must not see our enemy's beast fall under +his burden and not help him rise." And the refinement of mercy was +taught in the statute that said: "You must not kill the mother and lamb +in one day; must not seethe a kid in its mother's milk; must not muzzle +the ox that treadeth out the corn." The use, and the only use, of law is +to prevent and punish for sin. All law has a penalty for those who violate +it. Governments that are the greatest blessing to its citizens are those +who can prohibit, or abolish the most sin or crime. Crime is not prevented +by toleration, but by prohibition. Nine of the ten commandments +are prohibitive and begin with: "Thou shalt not." + +The success of life, the formation of character, is in proportion to +the courage one has to say to one's ownself: "Thou shalt not." It is +not the man or woman who has no temptation to sin, who has the strong +character, but the man or woman who has the desire but will not yield +to sin. Some people ask: "Why did God make the Devil?" The Devil +is God's fire. Like an alchemist God is purifying souls. The Devil is +an agent in salvation. "Every Devil in hell is harnessed up to push every +saint into heaven." + +Those who are counted worthy to enter into the delights of that +heavenly land are those who have had their "fiery trials," tried and made +white. Man would have no credit and could not hear: "Good and faithful +servant;" if he had no temptations to do otherwise, man would be +but a mere machine. + +God has never used for his work, any but those who prohibit evil. +The pilgrim fathers were forced from the mother country because this +principle of prohibition burned in their hearts. When England would +oppose the colonies, it was prohibition that smashed the tea, over in Boston +harbor. George Washington was put at the head of the colonial +armies that prohibited, by much bloodshed and suffering, the oppression +from the mother country. Our Civil War was the result of the principle +to abolish or prohibit the slavery of the colored race. Now we have a +worse slavery than England threatened us with or the poor blacks suffered +at the hands of their taskmasters. This slavery of soul and body, +is one that leads to eternal death. The forces of God are with the abolition, +or prohibition of wrong. The forces of darkness and death are with +those who are willing to be led captive by the Devil at his will, and to +lead others under this grievous yoke of those who are trying to perpetuate +the cause of evil. + +There are men who desire to be loyal, who are voting for license +or in license parties, because they do not stop to think. The people are +generally right on all questions. They go wrong more for lack of thought, +than for lack of heart. Edmund Burke, the greatest English stateman, +said: "The people have as good government as they deserve." Because +the people have always had the power, and in America especially, they +are sovereign. The president and all others in office, are but servants +of the people. In another chapter I have given what the supreme court +says about the impossibility of licensing wrong by law, or according to +law. + +Hear the language of the Declaration of Independence: "We hold +these truths to be self evident, that all men are created free and equal, +that they are endowed by their creator, with certain inalienable rights, +that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to +secure these rights, governments are instituted among men deriving their +just powers from the consent of the governed." The licensing of intoxicating +drink results in suicide and murder, whether or not the saloon- +keeper or state be held responsible. Some one is. Who? The man who +consents to or aids by his vote is most criminal. It is said that drink +kills a man a minute. Suppose that we had a war that killed a man every +five minutes. Would there not be howling for an end of bloodshed. This +is more than ten times worse, for the soul is more valuable than the +body. + +Freedom or liberty in animals is following instinct and underlying +appetite. Not so with man; to the reverse. It is the freedom of conscience +and will, from the bondage of ignorance of the person, the gratification +of appetite and passion. The body is a good servant, but a tyrant +when it is master. A man must be master or slave. One must first, like +Daniel, "purpose in his heart that he will not defile himself". Liberty +or freedom is only attained by prohibition of opportunity to do wrong +to ourselves or allow any one else to do so. Citizenship not only requires +one to obey law but must see that others do so also. + +The principles of government are founded on liberty and self-control. +Drunkenness is a loss of self-control. Anything that animalizes men, +is a menace to the life of the state and prevents the purpose of government. +Thus replacing the weapon of destruction in the hands of its foes +and the danger is great, because so many citizens are under the domination +of their own will and passion. This class is being multiplied by +this licensed crime. These willing classes are an integral part of the +nation. By licensing rum, we are fostering a power that is increasing +the weakness, and preventing the self-control of its citizens. This is +conspiracy, treason, black as night. Some plead the revenue of our +wealth. Our wealth is in our citizens. The state can not add to its +treasury at the expense of its manhood without punishing herself. The +state must guard the character of its citizens. It can not make them +honest but it must punish dishonesty; can not make them humane, but +it must prohibit an act of inhumanity; and should oppose and forbid +every license that man would desire or try to obtain that which would +allow such gratification of the animal over the moral. + +The nation is what its homes are. The family first, then the nation. +Nothing can injure an individual or a family that is not an injury to +the state. The fight for firesides means a fight for our national life. +Our revolutionary sires fought for this. This is the fight that Carry A. +Nation is making. It is the heart of love, liberty and peace. Some of +these thoughts I have copied from an article I read on a few leaves of a +torn pamphlet, no name. But the writer has the true meaning of government. +I am a prohibitionist because I am a christian. I want to get +to heaven. None but prohibitionists ever do. Hell is made for those +who take license to sin. + +HELL'S CONSPIRACY. + +England has the same struggle that we have. The government conspiring +against the people. This article from the pen of Lady Carlisle +tells of the same vile plot the Prime Minister of England sustains, the +brewer against the people, just as Roosevelt and his crowd here: + + THE PEOPLE'S STRUGGLE AGAINST THE LIQUOR TRADE. + (Spirited appeal by Lady Carlisle.) + +Throughout the past year we have been face to face with a grave +crisis in the history of our temperance movement, but the present Session +of Parliament is the moment of our most imminent peril. + +In March, 1903, the Prime Minister, surrendering to the threats of +the liquor trade, recklessly attacked the Magistrates because in the public +interest they had here and there reduced the number of licensed houses, +and he declared to the Brewer's Deputation that in so doing the Magistrates +had been guilty of "gross injustice," and that "to such unjust confiscation +of property the Government could not remain indifferent." In +April the Government supported Mr. Butcher's Compensation Bill, and +in August Mr. Balfour gave a pledge in the House of Commons that the +Government would introduce legislation "at the earliest possible moment +in the following Session," which would put an end to the present "wide- +spread feeling of insecurity on the part of English license-holders." + +Since the Prime Minister made these pronouncements, our forces +have everywhere set themselves in array to fight the impending legislation, +by which the 'Trade' is to be endowed at the expense of the nation's +welfare, and is to have its privileges and its powers greatly increased. +The government, having yielded to the dictation of the Publican interest, +indicated that either the Magistrates must be hindered from exercising +their ancient power of not renewing annual licenses when in their +discretion they deem such renewal to be against the public good; or else +that some measure of compensation must be enacted, whereby this wealthy +liquor monopoly should have its huge financial profits made permanently +secure by the grant from Parliament of a vested interest in their +licenses. If after the passing of such a measure the Magistrates should, +for the protection of the people, refuse the renewal of a license, the holder +of that speculative public-house investment would be by law guaranteed +against loss. He would thus no longer need to insure himself against +the risk of non-renewal, for the State would have turned this annual +license into a freehold property. Then for the first time this dangerous +'Trade' would have obtained that fixity of tenure which it has so long +coveted, but which Parliament in its wisdom has always vigorously refused +to grant; and the nation, which has already too long suffered under the +oppression of the Liquor Traffic with its terrible licensed temptations, +would then be permanently crushed under one of the most perilous of +all the political tyrannies that ever sapped the strength and the freedom +of a great people. For these Liquor Traffickers have proclaimed cynically +their anti-social aloofness, from the ideals of good citizenship; "they +know no interest but their own," and their defiant boast is heard at all +elections, "Our Trade our Politics." + +Today the people and the 'Trade' have come to close quarters in +their conflict; and all Temperance workers must join with dedicated +fervour in unremitting and widespread agitation, till the danger is past. +Deep and living must be the zeal and the faith that inspire our work. +The campaign of protest and of "active resistance" has started vigorously, +and it must never slacken till victory is won. Day by day the pressure +of public opinion must increase, till the impression made on Parliament +by resolutions and petitions shall be overwhelming. The struggle against +the 'Trade' and its Government backers is hard, but we must fight straight +on, for the issue is of vital importance and we should be ready to make +a determined and triumphant resistance to the Prime Minister's sinister +and unashamed attempt to sell our immemorial rights to England's +most dangerous foe, that gigantic Drink Trade, which lives and thrives +on the sorrow and degradation of our people. + +The worth of our temperance party as a fighting force is once more +being tested, and I trust that we shall not be found unworthy servants +of the great cause which is in our keeping. It rests with the Temperance +stalwarts, leading the conscience of the nation, to win the day. They +fought and they won the same battle in 1888, and again in 1890, and the +achievement of those years can assuredly be repeated today, if we rightly +grip the principles that underlie our old Temperance beliefs, holding fast +to them without wavering or losing heart, and if we work ever zealously, +glowing with the cheerful faith which belongs to those who know that +Right will win in the long run, if only reformers are patiently steadfast +in their task, even when the ultimate goal is not yet in sight. We must +spend ourselves, still marching with our faces set. + ROSALIND CARLISLE, + President North of England Temperance League. + President British Women's Temperance Association. + + THIS ARTICLE IS FROM THE TEMPERANCE WITNESS OF NORTH OF ENGLAND. + + +This explains the danger to honest trade. The reason why we have +capital against labor. The concentration of money without compensation +to labor. The funds that accumulate corrupt the government and enslaves +the people: + + THE CAUSE OF BAD TRADE. + +"Every shilling invested in the liquor traffic inflicts a distinct injury +to the cause of labor, for there is no trade which pays less wages in +proportion to its receipts than the traffic in intoxicants. If therefore the +capital which is now invested in the manufacture and sale of these liquors +could only be turned into other channels there would be no difficulty in +finding an honest wage for an honest day's work for every unemployed +laborer in the land. Let us illustrate this. In a blue book on wages and +production, issued from the Board of Trade in 1891, it was stated that +for every L100 received in mining, L55 went in labor; of every L100 in +shipbuilding, L37 went in labor; of every L100 in railways, L31 went in +labor; of every L100 in cotton manufacturies, L29 went in labor; but of +every L100 in brewing, L7 only goes into the pocket of the workman. The +same result was shown in another way by Mr. W. S. Caine, M. P., when +he said: 'He was in Scotland, in the neighborhood of a very large soap +factory. He was shown in the locality twelve old cottages and one hundred +new ones. A short time ago the soap factory was a distillery, and +then the twelve old cottages sufficed for all the men the industry employed; +but when it was turned into a soap factory it became necessary to build +one hundred cottages to accommodate the extra hands which the manufacture +of soap required.' + +The shutting up of the distillery and the building of these hundred +cottages meant increased trade to all the local shopkeepers, and in turn +this benefited the wholesale trade and caused increased employment. The +way in which labor is starved by the liquor traffic is further illustrated +by the following facts:- + +The Publicans' Paper says: "Two breweries in Sheffield turn out +50,000 barrels of beer a year each, but they only employ 660 men. An +Edinburgh Distillery with a turnover Of L1,500,000 a year only employs +150 men. An Iron Ore Company in Cumberland, with a turnover of +L250,000 a year, employs 1,200 men. Our largest ironworks employ 3,000 +men each for the same turnover that the distillery employs 150." + +Say She Is Insane. From a minister, Rev. William Ashmore, D. D.-- +"They say Mrs. Nation in insane. The wonder is that tens of thousands +of mothers and widows are not insane along with her. The wonder is +that instead of one hatchet slashing away among the decanters there +are not ten thousand of them all over the land. To stand by the grave +of a husband or son ruined by drink is enough to drive a woman crazy. +Instead of criticising Mrs. Nation, let us turn on those heartless saloon- +keepers and the negligent and responsible judiciary and that indifferent +and callous community. They are the ones who put the edge on Mrs. +Nation's hatchet. The Master said: 'If these should hold their peace +immediately the stones would cry out.' It is because those pledged to +public order hold their peace that Mrs. Nation's hatchet is flying about." + +A Catholic Priest. Mendota, Minn.--"Mrs. Carry Nation. Dear +Sister:--These days back the season's routine duties of a Catholic priest +have prevented me from expressing to you my sympathy and my admiration +for your pluck. You are the John Brown of the temperance cause. +Your smashing of saloon fixtures has been but a very little thing beside +the effect it had, and was bound to have, all over the country, and the +world, in building up backbone and courage and holy emulation in hundreds +of thousands of those reading of it. You are a credit to womankind +and humanity; you are infinitely more deserving of the gratitude +of the country than are the men at the head of our armies and fleets +in needless and demoralizing war. I want to send you $2.00 but have +some fears it may not reach you safely if I enclosed it herein. Praying +that the Lord may comfort and sustain you, I am yours very respectfully, +MARTIN MAHONY. + +Trinadad, Colorado, Feb. 28, 1901.--Dear Carrie Nation:--Go on +save all you can. If it had not been for the drink and dance halls I +would not be at deaths door at the age of 28. I am thankful to have +enough life to repent, MINNIE MAY. + +Mrs. Nation a Modern Deborah.. Thus Saluted by the Boston, W. C. +T. U., at Memorial Service in Honor of Francis Willard. Boston, Mass.-- +Mrs. Carry Nation, the strenuous Kansas temperance reformer, was +hailed as a "modern Deborah" at a meeting of the local W. C. T. U. +yesterday afternoon in the vestry of Park Street Church. Not a dissenting +voice was heard from among the gathering of perhaps 200 +women, but all over the room there was audible expressions of approval +of the Characterization, which was applied by Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, a +prominent member of the local branch of the union. Mrs. Hunt said +that Mrs. Nation is like Deborah of the Book of Judges, who led an +army of 10,000 men to victory against her country's enemies, when not +a man could be found to lead the enterprise. She aroused unmistakable +evidences of indorsement from her audience when she remarked that +the lady with the hatchet can truly say, "Until I arose, there was no +man to punish unpunished rebellion against the law." Mrs. Hunt concluded +by saying that thoughtful reformers are waiting with much interest +to see what will be the result of Mrs. Nation's cyclonic campaign. + +A Son Wrecked By Liquor. "Some day the mothers of this country +will burn all the saloons and never a man in all the land will dare to +check them."--New York Journal. + +DEAR MRS. NATION:-I am one of these mothers and would be willing +to help you to wreck or burn these saloons. I have a son who is a +wreck from the accursed stuff. Oh! 'tis a dark blot on this republic. Even +Mohammedans do better than we, a Christian people, for in all Turkey +one can not purchase strong drink. But it follows our flag wherever +it is planted. Let me know if I can help you. MRS. P. D. OLIVER. + +Helen M. Gougar, Lafayette, Ind., writes: "I want to thank the +editor of the SMASHER'S MAIL for the good she has done by her unique +method of campaigning against the liquor traffic. Her message has gone +around the globe for everybody has heard of Carrie Nation and her +hatchet. By the way I think the funniest thing on the pages of history +is the scare that has caused men (God save the mark!) to bolt and bar +their doors and turn pale with fright, because one little, old enthusiastic +lady was headed their way!! Oh, ye braves!! You are almost as brave +as if you used your opportunities to protect your offspring from the +accursed liquor traffic. Let the smashing go on." + +Far Away New Jersey. Camden, N. J.--"Mrs. Carry Nation: DEAR +SISTER:--When our New Jersey Prohibition Conference was held at +Trenton February 14, we sent a telegram to you endorsing your work +in Kansas, a prohibition State. It was signed by our former candidate +for governor, Rev. Thomas Landon, Rev. James Parker, a former state +chairman, and myself, who offered the resolution. Not having received +an acknowledgement, I do not know that you received it; if so, will you +kindly let me have a word from you to give to our State Convention +that will be held May 7? I wish New Jersey had either statutory or +constitutional prohibition, there would be some smashing done here, +too. Yours for the extermination of the liquor traffic, D. W. GARRIGUES." + +What St. John thinks of my work in Kansas: John P. St. John, +who was governor of Kansas twice and once headed the National Prohibition +ticket as candidate for President of the United States, warmly +indorses the acts of Mrs. Nation in her crusade against the liquor traffic. +In a letter written to Judge W. J. Groo from Olathe, Kans., he likens +her crusade to that of John Brown against slavery. The letter was not +written for publication, but Judge Groo secured permission to give it +to the World. It says: "My dear Judge: It was almost like grasping +the hand of an old friend to receive your letter of the 31st ult. Mrs. +Nation is all right. She is engaged in the very laudable business of +abating what our statute declares to be a common nuisance. She is not +crazy, nor is she a crank, but she is, a sensible Christian woman and has +the respect of our best people. Her crusade is much like that of John +Brown's, and I hope and pray that it may terminate as disastrously to +the liquor traffic as John Brown's did to human slavery. How much +more in accord to Christianity it would be if our government would use +its soldiers to protect our own homes in our own country, instead of +sending them 8,000 miles away to destroy the homes of a people who +wanted to be our friends and whose only offense is their love of human +liberty, the same that actuated our Revolutionary fathers four generations +ago. Yes, the Leavenworth mob was an awful affair and a burning +shame and disgrace to Kansas. But it seems that under the reign of +William of Canton the burning of negroes at the stake and the killing +of Filippinos has become a very popular source of amusement. Very +truly your friend, JOHN P. ST. JOHN." + + + SOME OF THE RESULTS OF THE MRS. NATION TEMPERANCE CRUSADE IN KANSAS. + (By Rev. H. A. Ott, in Lutheran Observer.) + +Since sending my last article on the Nation temperance crusade, +the writer has received a large number of letters thanking him for the +article, many of which asked for a second article giving the results of +the movement after it had spread over the State. This is the only +apology for my intruding a second time on your columns. From these +letters I find that the good people of the East do not and can not understand +the situation here, because the laws and public sentiment here are +so different from what they are in eastern States. It seems strange to +us to find many good people in the East indirectly supporting the saloon +by their wholesale condemnation of a woman who has had the courage, +nagged on by what she has suffered from the drink devil through a former +drunken husband, to go right into the drink dens and smash their bottles and +fixtures with a hatchet. The smashing of joints and joint fixtures +is at an end without doubt as far as Kansas is concerned, although +Mrs. Nation still believes that that method of suppression of a public +nuisance is the very best. However, the effect of that smashing has been +to marvelously stir up the officers of the law, our legislature, and +public sentiment all over the State. Mrs. Nation was let out of jail on +the bond signed by Rev. J. B. McAfee, an esteemed member of my +congregation here. Her bond now is a bond to keep the peace, and her +smashing is at an end. + +The times were ripe for just such a movement. The people of Kansas, +through the indifference and neglect of her officers of the law, saw +the jointists getting bolder every day, having their fines paid by the +breweries and distilleries of other States, until they started in to give +the State "open" saloons, with all the brazen ways in the East, Then +Mrs. Nation came. Everything was ripe for a reaction against all this. +The coming of this woman was simply the lighting of the match which +set off a temperance pyrotechnic display which has lighted up the temperance +horizon all over the Union, and has created an unparalleled +degree of temperance sentiment and activity. The writer has had Mrs. +Nation at his table; has discussed with her her ideas; has differed +with her as to the final utility of the "hatchet" as a cure for the disease; +has one of the hundred of hatchets and axes sent her from all over the +country, this a fierce broad-axe sent her from Hartsel, Col., and which +he keeps as a souvenir; has investigated the charges as to her sanity, +finds her entirely sane, though possibly somewhat of a crank because +of her ultraradical methods in furthering reform against strong drink, +tobacco, and other social evils; yet he feels that the temperance cause, +despite all her faults, has much for which to thank Mrs. Nation. It +needed just such severe movements to arouse the easy-going masses +of our State, and awaken public sentiment along these lines, and Mrs. +Nation was the "John Brown" for the movement. + +The movement in the city of Topeka, a city of 35,000 population, +brought out a meeting of 3,000 men who demanded that liquors no longer +be sold contrary to law, and that all joint fixtures be removed or they +would be smashed. This was promptly done. It was a grand sight to +see a dozen men carry down, from upstairs back rooms, long bars to +be stored or sent out of the city. What brought them down? Public +sentiment, the education resulting from twenty years of constitutional +prohibition. To-day the city of Topeka is absolutely free from joints, +as far as the writer can see. Of course, liquor can be bought secretly, +and always will be, but our boys do not know where it can be bought. +You might as well try to absolutely bind the devil as to absolutely bind +the liquor traffic in one State with all the brewers and distillers in a +dozen surrounding States seeking with determined and cunning methods +to extend their business within its borders. + +It is like heaven to live in a city where there are no open saloons. +There are thousands of public school children here, now nearly of age, +who have never seen here a beer-wagon or a beer-keg! Recently a child +who had never been out of the State, on going to Kansas City, Mo., +looked out of the car window and saw a sign on a building, and spelled, +"S-a-l-o-o-n, saloon," and then exclaimed, "Mamma, what is that?" +There is no better city in the world in which to bring up a family of +boys than Topeka, and many fine eastern families are coming here for +that very reason. It amuses me to see the comments made on Kansas +in the East. To some it is truly, "The wild and woolly West." One +pastor writes: "Is it safe for the next General Synod to go out there?" +Let me tell your readers just two or three things about Kansas. Her +educational exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair took the highest prize; +her per cent of illiteracy is the lowest of all the States of the Union; +her regiment, the 21st of Kansas, was the only regiment of the 65,000 men +at Chickamauga Park during the late war with Spain in which every +man could write his own name on the muster roll; and this same regiment +voted unanimously not to have the infamous "canteen" in their +regiment, and they would not have it. This is the result of the influence +of twenty years of constitutional prohibition. Topeka has far better +paved streets and more of them than most other cities of its size in the +United States, its sidewalks are all brick, and this without a dollar coming +from bleeding the saloon in the shape of a license! Prosperity without +the saloon is seen on every hand. True, some people stay away from +Kansas because of its stringent liquor laws. That, however, largely +accounts for the general intelligence here. Let them stay away. The +West is all right educationally and morally. Your readers may not +know it, but the State which has the largest per cent of her population +in her colleges is a western State. + +The influence of the Nation crusade has spread all over our State, +and as a result the joints have been suppressed on all sides. Our legislature, +just adjourned, gave us the most drastic legislation against the +liquor business in her history, and with tremendous majorities. The +result of the movement started by this brave woman, who is roundly +condemned in the East, is best summed up in the words of a Kansas +wholesale liquor dealer, who said recently, "A few weeks ago we had a +very fine trade in Kansas, shipping out many car-loads of liquor, but +just now they are coming back as fast as they went out." Our city, +Topeka, has had considerable notoriety all over the country as the center +of the Nation temperance crusade, and because of the presence of Mrs. +Nation. However, we think your readers will quite agree with us when +we say their eastern cities could well afford such notoriety if thereby +they could be rid of their debauching and terribly corrupting saloons.-- +Pastor, Topeka, Kansas. + + TRIBUTE TO MRS. NATION.--CORRESPONDENT OF THE STATE JOURNAL GROWS + + ELOQUENT ABOUT HER. + + +A correspondent of the State Journal who is evidently an admirer of +Mrs. Nation has written the following tribute the famous smasher of +joints: + +"Carry A. Nation, prophetess of God and prohibition, came suddenly +like the furious driving Jehu. Her cyclonic joint smashing shook +the rum power of the United States from apex to foundation-stone. +The great American god Bacchus turned pale on his throne. Gambrinus +and his thirty thousand white-aproned priests of debauchery and licentiousness +trembled in every saloon and bagnio throughout the union. +No whirlwind, tornado or simoon of the desert ever startled a nation +as her volcanic career. From ocean to ocean, from Canada to Texas. +she faced a storm of relentless criticism and bitter sarcasm from political +curs, clerical hirelings and editorial henchmen of the murderous liquor +traffic such as no mortal ever faced before. A star of hope to the one +hundred thousand despairing drunkards, already in the death-grasp of +this licensed Moloch of perdition; volunteer liberator of the hundreds +of thousands of hapless slaves of this greater "curse of curses" and +more than "sum of all villainies;" precursor of emancipation of the +millions of sad-faced women and children whose lives are blasted and +crushed beneath the wheels of this cruel Car of juggernaut; betrayed by +false friends, imprisoned by the courts, and manacled; no martyr of old +ever ran the gauntlet of hotter persecution, yet like Banquo's Ghost and +the Man of Galilee she will not down. Denounce her as you may, she +is such an one as heroines and world-wide characters are made of. +Every one will want a copy of her "Life," forthcoming publication. +The boys and girls will find the Old Kentucky Home plantation scenes, +interesting as Uncle Tom's Cabin and well worth the price of the book. +The pictures and portraits of the noted Smasher of joints are more than +worth the nominal sum. To every citizen, student and philanthropist +the legal citations for reference are worth it. No temperance person +or prohibitionist can afford to be without a copy.--RAY RAND. + +WORDS PROPHETIC. + +The liquor traffic will never see another hour of peace in this +country. Mrs. Carrie Nation has sounded the alarm. There's a growing +hatred of the saloon. The speaker has sworn hostility to an +institution that feeds on the bodies and souls of men. I will pay my +taxes like an honest man and not saddle by my vote, the burden on the +tempted and weak, who will pay them over the bar and throw his wife +and children on the charity of the public. + +What shall the harvest be? + +As a people for years we pressed to our hearts the evil of human +slavery. It was profitable, we thought, but every drop of blood let by +the slaver's lash, God made us pay back with blood of our own upon the +altar. Many fortunes were built up by slave labor, but how many of them +were left after the war? "Whatsoever a nation soweth that shall it +also reap." What shall the harvest be from the wild sowing of the +legalized saloon? Our own country is a partner in the business for the +of revenue. I pray God that the liquor traffic may be abolished from +America, without bloodshed, and yet who dares prophesy that it shall +be so. Much blood has been let in these long years by drunken husbands +and fathers. Many fortunes have been built up by the traffic. What +shall the end be? + +Right shall prevail-- + + "For right is right, as God is God; + And right the day will win. + To doubt would be disloyalty, + To falter would be sin." + + +Listen to the voice of the 20th century prophet as it comes ringing +down the grooves of change: "The saloon is going! Perhaps not by +your political party or mine, your church or mine; but God reigns and +his people will awake. And as it lies dying at last amongst its bags of +gold, and we stand over it, as I pray we may, if it shall look up into +our faces and whisper: "Another million of revenue for a single breath +of life!" You will say, as I will: "NO! Down, down to hell and say +I sent thee thither." + + + +CHAPTER XIX. + +DR. MCFARLAND'S PROTEST.--KICKED AND KNOCKED DOWN BY CHAPMAN OF +BANGOR HOUSE.--MEDDLING WITH THE DEVIL.--TIMELY WARNING TO OUR +BOYS AND GIRLS.--BRUBAKER OF PEORIA.--WITCHCRAFT.--LAST TIME IN +JAIL. + + +The determination of that rum anarchy in Topeka, Kansas, was such +that three consecutive times I was put in jail because I went into these vile +dens. Dr. McFarland, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church of +Topeka, came down at my last trial to see what the trouble was. The +police, when put on the witness stand, swore positive falsehoods and +Judge Magaw, the republican police judge, appointed there by the democratic +Mayor, Parker, that these two might unite their force of corruption, +knew that these police were swearing falsehoods but were winking +at the crime. I saw that the Doctor was getting ready to offer his +protest when the time came, and it came when I was sentenced to jail for +contempt of court, because I insisted on asking what kind of business +these dive-keepers were carrying on, which the judge wanted to keep out +of the witnesses mouths. Dr. McFarland arose and said: "I suppose you +want to fine me judge. I say this is an infernal outrage," repeating it +the second time. Judge Magaw said: "Yes I will fine you twenty-five +dollars." "You may make it a hundred." "Well, I will make it a hundred," +said Judge Magaw. I was taken to jail. Dr. McFarland was +not, but walked out and said it was worth a hundred dollars to tell them +what he thought of such travesty on justice. Dr. McFarland had plenty +of friends who offered to pay the amount but I believe he paid it himself. +Then he began some investigation of the corruption at the police station. +He preached a sermon telling of this. It was published. I was in jail +next door to the room in which the mayor, Parker, and the police gathered +to discuss a suit for slander against Dr. McFarland, but it was only +a bluff. Before this all night long there was loud talking and swearing +in the room under mine as if around a card table. After Dr. McFarland's +sermon I heard no more of it. There were several of these poor degraded +girls in jail. I knew of actions and words that were not decent between +the officers and these girls. This exposure of Dr. McFarland's was very +salutary. Before that, officers would come into my room without knocking +and address me in a rough manner. After this they knocked at the +door and were respectful and even kind. The Reverend Doctor did a +great work by that sermon which was to the point and effective. + +I went to Bangor, Maine, to lecture once. Stopped at the Bangor +House, run by one Chapman. Roosevelt had stopped there just two +weeks before. I heard this hotel had one of those traps, called "dives." +When I went into the dining-room I asked a young lady waiting on me, +if she could get me a bottle of beer? She said they kept it and that she +would ask the head waiter to get it for me. She spoke to him. He left the +dining-room and in a few minutes the man Chapman came out of the +winding way to his dive; the proprietor rushed up to me in a drunken +rage. He threw me against one of the pillars, then literally knocked me +out into the hall in the presence of the guests, perhaps a hundred; then +he kept knocking me down every time I rose to my feet. He would not +allow me to get my things. I was invited to go home with a prohibitionist, +Dr. Marshall. This Chapman was a noted dive-keeper, a rummy, and +ran a representative rum-soaked republican hotel. He was angry, because +I dared to expose him, in his sneaking way of drugging and robbing +his guests. It was marvelous what rages these law-breakers used +to have when I came around at first. It is not so now. Their bands +have been smashed and they are not as bold; and more marvelous that +I was not seriously hurt. + +Once in Nebraska City, Neb., I was knocked in the temple by a +saloon-keeper. I reeled and fell and while I knew he struck me with his +clenched fists as hard as he could, so it seemed to me, I did not have a +bruise. + +I always prayed to God to take care of me, but to lead me into these +tumults to rouse the people to think and to talk. + + THE BEGINNING OF THE GRAVEYARD ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE LODGE. + + +I never saw anything that needed a rebuke, or exhortation, or warning, +but that I felt it was my place to meddle with it. I have been called a +"meddler". Yes I say: "It is my place to meddle with the devil's +business. Jesus meddled with the law-breakers in the temple." + +I will give you a few facts to prove what I mean and hope it will +inspire my readers to do likewise. What injures one is the interest of +all. We are personally responsible for all wrong that we neglect to make +right, when it is in our power to do it. If anything injures my neighbor +it injures me. If my neighbor is blessed so am I. + +I used to ride out north of Medicine Lodge past the graveyard. It +was situated on an elevated place, barren of trees, for trees could not +well grow where it was so dry. Grave-yards are not pleasant places at +best, but to see one barren of trees or flowers, just the graves, the white +marble, the sunshine, rain, and prairie grass, in sight of the pleasant +yards and homes of the living, I feel a sense of reproach, as if the dead +were complaining of this neglect. The only ground Abraham ever bought +was a piece of ground to bury his dead and it had trees on it. I wanted +to see a better condition of things. I knew this neglect was because no +one would make a move. I felt I was not the one, but I wrote an article +for the papers, "Index and Crescent", of Medicine Lodge, and I took it to +a widow, Mrs. Young, who had recently lost a husband who was very +dear to her. I told her she was the one to organize a grave-yard association. +That this letter would call the ladies together. After making a +few changes in the language she published the letter, and the ladies met, +organized, and in a few months all was changed. One will rarely find +a more attractive resting place for our beloved dead than in the cemetery +of Medicine Lodge. I could not have effected what Mrs. Young did, +but there are more ways of doing things than one, and when people +say: "I can never carry out any plans", I know they have not tact or +perseverance. + + + MEDDLING WITH THE DEVIL. + +A friend who lived a few miles in the country came to my house +in Medicine Lodge, threw her arms around my neck and said: "Oh, +Sister Nation, Matt has gone to Wichita for a bad purpose. I am almost +wild; can't you help me? She is in love with Will, and he does not care +for her but he has gotten her into trouble and does not intend to marry +her." She told me that Will wrote her a note to go to the Goodyear +Hotel. I wrote to Matt and told her if she became the murderer of her +child that a fearful judgement was in store for her. I also wrote to +Will and told him to marry Matt or I would expose him. Will's father +got the letter, as it was directed to Medicine Lodge. His father came +down to see me, weeping as if his heart would break; told me of the +trouble this boy had given him; said that he was preparing to marry +another girl and could not marry Matt; but that he had forwarded the +letter to Will, as he had gone to Wichita. Will and Matt got their letters +at the same time and were filled with terror. Both came back to +Medicine Lodge and in a few months poor Matt was the mother of a +little girl. Her mother, sent for me. I stayed until the little angel died. +From the time Matt looked on the face of the little one she loved it +with all the intensity of a true mother and grieved so when it died. In +a few hours I went to the grave-yard With the little coffin. This Will +or his father never spoke to me again. He married the other girl. In +a few years father and son were both killed. The sister of Will, who also +treated me coldly, wrote me a letter and told me to tell Matt it would +have been a blessing if he had married her. That he loved her the best +and that she felt quite differently towards me. + + + TIMELY WARNING TO OUR GIRLS AND BOYS. + +I was going down to a neighbor's one dark night. I heard voices, as +if some parties were sitting by the roadside. I went into the neighbor's +house and got a lantern. I came up to these parties, they were a young +man of Medicine Lodge and a young lady visiting there. I told them +that such actions would lead to mischief. Told the young boy to act +towards a girl as he would wish his sister treated. Told the girl that +ruin would be her fate and she hid her face and soon both of them ran +down the alley. I knew they would think that I would expose them, so +I wrote a letter to the young man and told him the injustice to himself +and the girl, that would follow such actions, told him that no one would +hear it from me. That it was not my desire to expose them only to warn +and prevent trouble. That young man is in Medicine Lodge now and is a +good friend of mine. + +I often see actions, especially with the young, that I know will end +in heartaches and woes. I get these parties out of hearing of others and +speak to them. So often in traveling I see silly girls being led astray +by men who for a vile purpose will fawn and flatter. I never let such a +thing pass my eye now without a little wholesome condemnation: "Thou +shall not in any wise suffer sin upon thy brother but shall rebuke him." + + + SOME OF MY TRIALS WITH MR. BRUBAKER OF PEORIA. + +When I visited Chicago for the first time after the smashing a Mr. +Brubaker called to see me. He was from Peoria and was hired by the +Peoria Journal men to get me to edit that paper for one day. The +arrangements were satisfactory to both parties. I went to Peoria. Mr. +Brubaker met me, took me to a hotel run by a woman who owned one +or two saloons, but had none in the hotel she kept. I had not one line +of copy for the paper but I got up at four in the morning and wrote +continuously that day. I know God helped me. Mr. Brubaker took the +copy. I never saw any of the Journal men until after the paper was out. +I went to see them, told them that only a small part of my copy that I +wrote was in the paper. They said that several times they asked for my +copy but Mr. Brubaker gave them his own. So he destroyed a great +deal of my copy, supplying only what he wanted put in. + +I spoke in the Opera House and this Mr. Brubaker was to give me +fifty dollars for my lecture that night. After I had spoken I was asked +to go into a noted saloon, Pete Weise's place. Mr. Brubaker said: "If +you go I will not give you your fifty dollars," as the contract said I was +to speak at no other place in the city. But as I had already spoken for +him I did not feel bound. This man was posing as a prohibitionist but +he was as loyal to the cause as Judas was to Jesus. I went to Pete +Weis' place, one of the most expensive dance halls I was ever in. I spoke +for the hundreds of poor, drugged and depraved men and women. There +was a large picture or rather statuary of naked women among trees +which I said must be smashed, Mr. Weis treated me very kindly and +said: "I will have that boarded up," and so next day he did. + +This Mr. Brubaker would not pay me a cent for my lecture and +tried to garnishe the $100, the Journal was to pay me, and had it not been +for a stroke of policy on the part of the Journal he would have taken +every cent from me and left me to pay my expenses there and back. +Jesus said: "Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing." In a month from +this time the saloon keeper sent me $50. The prostitute loved more than +Simon. + +I saw in Peoria the largest distillery in the world. Not one of the +hands are allowed to drink what they make. What would you think of +a dry goods concern that would not allow its employes to use what they +make? Mr. William McKinley was entertained here by Joe Greenhut, +president of the "Whiskey Trust." + +I was in Peoria when the prohibitionists held a convention there and +was astonished that they would put up at a saloon or a hotel that run one. +I never eat or sleep in one. My conscience will not allow me. I never +saw so many ragged children or dirty streets, as in Peoria. + + WITCHCRAFT. + +I heard so much of the "Weltmer treatment" for disease. I sent +twenty-five dollars for a "mail course" so I could see for myself. This +man Weltmer had a large institution in Nevada, Mo., for humbugging +the people. I always like to investigate these things myself, as I did +Dowie, who I found out to be a false prophet. This Weltmer's papers +were a complete treatise on witchcraft, spiritualism and hypnotism. I +exposed this in every way I could. The Bible fully prepares people to +expect such "lying wonders and miracles." The "Christian Science" is +a witchcraft but very subtile. The most dangerous counterfeit bill is +nearest like the genuine. + + IN JAIL IN PHILADELPHIA. + +The last jail I was in was in Philadelphia. I went down to lecture +between the acts of "The Heart of a Hero." There was a very vile +saloon kept by a Mr. Donoghue. This man stationed police to arrest +me if I went in his place. In going home from the theatre at night I +would look in and call to the poor victims not to be drugged and robbed. +This man had five or six bartenders handing out this poisonous drink to +our boys, our mothers treasures. This man has amassed a fortune at +this vile business and tries to pose as respectable, because he has a lot +of this blood money. I was passing there on the 14th of January, 1904. +I just opened the door when a two legged beer keg in the form of a +policeman grabbed me and almost dragged me over the streets to the +station. I was locked in and I spent the night in jail. Next morning I +was discharged. + +The next day when I went to the Pennsylvania railway depot to +take the train a little ragged boy came to me and asked for a hatchet, the +depot police shook the little fellow and hurled him away. The little boy +began to cry and I said to the police: "Let that child alone! he is doing +no harm to any one." He told me in a very angry tone to mind my business, +and would not let the little boy take the hatchet from me. After +this I was sitting on the bench waiting for my train, and a person came +to me saying: "Let me see one of your hatchets." I opened my grip +to show the little souvenirs, several came up to look at them. This same +policeman was watching his chance to arrest me. He came up and said: +"You will have to stop that." I said: "I am making no trouble, I have +a right to meet people and talk to them and show my souvenirs too. You +are the only one, making a disturbance here." Two policemen came up +and caught me one by each arm, dragging me through the depot and +down the elevator, and I was carried to the police station in a "black +maria". This was done for spite and to show his authority. I spent a +night in prison, and next morning I was fined ten dollars. I was my own +lawyer. The magistrate before whom I was tried would not compel the +officer to answer the questions I asked him. + +In a few days I returned to Pittsburg and was invited by the Providence +Mission to go out on the streets. Quite a crowd gathered and +while I was speaking, I was arrested again by an officer who refused to +tell me what I was arrested for. I was taken to the police headquarters. +The kind hearted matron wanted to give me a pillow and some bedding +for I had nothing but a hard board in the cell. The Chief of Police forbade +the matron to give me anything to make myself comfortable. He +said: "That woman is giving us a great deal of trouble and we want +to get rid of her." The matron came to me when no one was looking +and advised me to give a bond of thirteen dollars and get out so that I +might have a bed. I did this and went to my boarding house. I secured +the services of a lawyer, Mr. Buckley. I was fined ten dollars which was +afterwards remitted. This republican, rum-soaked police force make it +a point to arrest me on every pretext. They have told me that if I win +they will lose their jobs. Eighteen months before this I had been put in +jail at Pittsburg, making three times all for doing my duty in that city. + + + +CHAPTER XX. + +WHY I WENT ON THE STAGE.--THE VICE OF TOBACCO. + + +I got hundreds of calls to go on the stage before I did. Gradually +I got the light. + +This is the largest missionary field in the world. No one ever got +a call or was ever allowed to go there with a Bible but Carry Nation. +That door never was opened to any one but me. The hatchet opened it. +God has given it to me. My managers have said: "This is a variety +house at, Watsons and the Unique, of Brooklyn, or the Boston on the +Bowery. You do not wish to go there." Yes, those need me more than +the rest; never refuse a call even from the lowest. If Jesus ate with +publicans and sinners I can talk to them. Francis Willard said the pulpit +and stage must be taken for God. + +Persons often say: "Why do you take the money of such?" I say +"I can do more good with the money than they can." After the battle +the victor takes the spoils and is entitled to them. I will take all I can +get in a good way. Money is a blessing, if used as such. I go on the +stage to do good, I take their money for the same reason. The curse of +it is when it is desired above the good of humanity. I am fishing. I go +where the fish are for they do not come to me. I thank God for this +unspeakable gift. I take my Bible before every audience. I show them +this hatchet, that destroys or smashes everything bad and builds up everything +that is good. I tell them of their loving Deliverer who came to +break every yoke and set the Captive free. When I look upon the hundreds +of faces before me, I say: "Oh, these poor aching hearts! God +give me a loving message." Words can not tell of the love I would like +to bestow upon them. I often weep. "Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft +would I have gathered you as a hen gathereth her chickens under her +wings." Then I say: "There is one that loves more than you. He can +make all things right." + +There are but a handful comparatively that try to obey the commands +of Jesus: "A remnant shall be saved." Caleb and Joshua were only two +in six hundred thousand but they alone of this great multitude lived to +see and inherit the promised land. Christ said. "Go out into the highways +and hedges and compel them to come in that my home may be full." +Where are the highways and hedges: They are places where men and +women are the most lost. How can they be compelled to come in? Love +is the only compelling influence. If no one goes with love, how are these +lost ones to know they are loved. Christ brought love down to us; He +came down to do it. We must take His love to the low places--"Condescend +to men of low estate." I praise my God for opening a door to +me never opened to anyone else. I find the theatre stocked with boys +of our country. They are not found in churches. I have not sought to +get into the so-called "respectable set" but I have told my managers to +get me into the worst class. They need me most. They are as brands +snatched from the burning. + +I am not only a reformer on the line of the licensed or unlicensed +saloon, but on other evils. I believe that, on the whole, tobacco has done +more harm than intoxicating drinks. The tobacco habit is followed by +thirst for drink. The face of the smoker has lost the scintillations of +intellect and soul it would have had if not marred by this vice. The odor +of his person is vile, his blood is poisoned, his intellect is dulled. + +A smoker is never a healthy man, either in body or mind, for nicotine +is a poison. Prussic acid is the only poison that is worse. Nicotine +poisons the blood, dulls the brain, and is the cause of disease. The lungs +of the tobacco user are black from poison, his heart action is weak, and +the worst thing to contemplate in the whole matter is that these tobacco +users transmit nervous diseases, epilepsy, weakened constitutions, depraved +appetites and deformities of all kinds to their offspring. + +Deterioration of the race is upon us, and unless there is some reform, +idiocy, imbecility and extinction will be the legacy of the future +generations. + +A man that uses tobacco cannot have the nice moral perceptions on +any point that he should have. I find him to be dulled and sluggish. The +Bible says: "If thine eye be single, thy whole body is full of light. If +thine eye be evil, thy whole body is full of darkness." The use of tobacco +is a vice, and to the extent of that one vice, it degrades a mail. It opens +the gate for other vices, for it is the gratification for one form of lust. +It is a filthy habit, and I care not how often the smoker changes his +clothes or washes his person, he is filthy. The stench from his breath +indicates that his body repudiates such uncleanliness. + +The tobacco user can never be the father of a healthy child. Therefore +he is dangerous for a woman to have as a husband. If I were a +young woman, I would say to the men who use tobacco and who would +wish to converse with me: "Use the telephone; come no closer!" I +would as soon kiss a spittoon as to kiss such a mouth. When a man +begins to smoke he is taking his first lessons in drink. The two habits +travel together. + +A man never can attain his majority and use tobacco. He never can +realize his full capabilities or his possibilities. He can always attain to a +better standard without nicotine. + +There is one objection that, from a business standpoint, every business +man ought to make to tobacco. When he employs a man that uses +tobacco he gets only a certain per cent. of his employee's time and of his +brain, because the employee must serve his tobacco master part of his +time and when he is not smoking his mind is preoccupied because he is +thinking of smoking. Consequently, he cannot concentrate his mind upon +his business. + +I have heard poor, silly, empty-headed women say that it is manly +to smoke. If it is manly to smoke, why isn't it womanly to smoke? The +tobacco habit is the reverse of manhood and destroys manhood, for manhood +means strength of character, not the gratification of lust. + +If tobacco is good for men, it is also good for women. I do not +suppose that one could find a man so low and degraded as to walk down +the street with a woman who had a cigarette or cigar in her mouth. +Women should make the same standard for men that men do for women. +Many women would smoke in public if men did not denounce it. MEN +WOULD QUIT SMOKING IN PUBLIC IF WOMEN DENOUNCED +IT AS MUCH. + +I have heard some women say, "I like the smell of a good cigar." +I never smelled a good one. It is not made. They are like snakes; they +are all bad. I never knew of but one good use that tobacco was put to, +and that was to kill lice on cows. My father used it for that purpose on +his farm. It does kill that kind of germs. + +The evil has become so common that whenever you go abroad you +are compelled to breathe the contents of somebody else's month. It +would be rude of me to take a piece of fruit out of my mouth and throw +it into somebody else's mouth, but anyone may throw his poisonous +breath and smoke into my mouth and I have no defense. Spitting is +forbidden in the cars. Smoking is a great deal worse, but the reason why +it is not denounced is that people can get a revenue from men's smoking, +while they have to clean up after spitters, and there is no money in that. + +I can prevent a man spitting into my mouth, but I cannot avoid his +smoke. A man seems to think that he is free to project his stinking +breath in my face on the street, in hotels, in sleeping cars, coaches--indeed, +in every public place. Now I would as soon smell a skunk. There is +some excuse for a skunk; he can't help being one. But men have become +so rank in their persons from this poisonous odor that they almost knock +me down as they pass me. And when I say, "Man, don't throw that awful +stench in my face," he answers, "You get away." I reply, "If I smelled +as badly as you do, I would be the one to get away." + +Oh, the vile cigarette! What smell can be worse and more poisonous? +I feel outraged at being compelled to smell this poison on the street. +I have the right to take cigars and cigarettes from men's mouths in +self-defense, and they ought not to be allowed to injure themselves. +"Liberty is the largest privilege to do that which is right, and the +smallest to do that which is wrong." Governments are organized to take +care of the governed. I believe it ought to be a crime to manufacture, +barter, sell or give away cigars, cigarettes and tobacco in any form. + +Oh, for the success of the Prohibition Party that will bring in reforms +along these lines--and this is the only party that will do it! Tobacco +degenerates body and mind. Physical and mental culture demand its +discontinuance. + +Dr. Jay W. Seaver, associated physical director of Yale University, +says: "Among college students, the gain of growth, in general, is 12 per +cent. greater among those who do not use tobacco than those who smoke. +It has also proven by tests in the laboratory that the nicotine in a fairly +mild cigar will reduce a man's muscular power from 25 to 40 per cent." + +Were it not for the tobacco habit, we would need no smoking car. +Suppose women had a vice that required them a separate apartment from +the men when they travel. Even in the cars where the women travel +there are rooms fixed up in luxuriant style while poor mothers with their +babies have to sit upright and smell this rank and poisonous odor. But +of course women have no redress, or are made to think they have none. +Shame to you men, a decent dog will not bite a female, while men the +impulse of protecting their females they are lower than a decent beast. + +While I was in New York City last week April the 2nd a Mr. Thomas +McGuire, treasurer of the Fourteenth Ave., Theatre had his tongue cut +out to prevent tobacco cancer from spreading. This was from smoking +cigars. General Grants' tongue rotted from the same cause. + +This is one of the best poems on the vice I ever read. Author +unknown. + + + HE SMOKES. + "In the office, in the parlor; + On the sidewalk, on the street; + In the faces of the passers, + In the eyes of those he meets, + In the vestibule, the depot, + At the theatre or ball; + E'en at funerals and weddings, + And at christenings and all. + + "Signs may threaten, men may warn him; + Babies cry and women coax; + But he cares not one iota, + For he calmly smokes and smokes. + Oh, he cares not whom he strangles, + Vexes, puts to flight, provokes; + And although they squirm and fidget, + He just smokes and smokes and smokes. + + "Not a place is sacred to him; + Churchyards, where the flowers bloom; + Gardens, drives, in fact the world is + Just one mighty smoking room, + And when once he quits this mundane sphere, + And takes his outward flight, + From the world he made a hades, + Day he's turned to murky night. + + + "When he reaches his destination, + Finds 'tis not a dream or hoax, + And the Judge deals out his sentence, + + Then I'll wager that he smokes; + Oh, he'll care then whom he has vexed, + And their mercy he'll invoke; + But although he squirms and fidgets, + They'll just let him smoke and smoke and smoke." + + + +CHAPTER XXI. + +TRIP ON FALL RIVER STEAMBOAT, FROM BOSTON TO NEW YORK--OFFICERS TRIED +TO LOCK ME IN MY STATE ROOM--SEQUEL SATISFACTORY, MADE PLEASANT +TRIP AND MANY FRIENDS. + + +In the summer of 1903 I took a Fall River boat from Boston to New +York. These boats are said to be the finest in the world. There was +quite a commotion among the several hundred passengers when I went +aboard, and the door was blocked in the women's cabin to get a look at +the Crazy Smasher from Kansas. + +Men were smoking pipes, cigars and cigarettes. I said: "Men, get away +from the door with your smoke, you make me sick." They paid no attention +to me. I went to the clerk and complained of being compelled to +submit to the outrage of being subject to the poisonous fumes, in such +a manner as to attract the attention of all to the matter. The Clerk told +me to be quiet and sit down. I said, "I will, if I have a decent place to +stay, why do you not have these men get away from the door?" But +they were men, we were only women and children. Oh, the outrage on +poor mothers in delicate condition, to be subject to such treatment by +selfish, dirty men. I believe every one who smokes in a public place +should be fined. If men will smoke or commit nuisance, let it be where +others are not injured. I have no right to bring a skunk into any public +place. People should be taught that others have the right to object to +anything done that is wrong. + +While I was still persisting in my request to the men to leave the +door, I was shown my state room; to which there were two doors, one +leading from the corridor and the other opening out next the water. The +captain, accompanied by the First and Second mate appeared at the former, +saying. "Madam, you are to keep your room this evening." I replied, +while eating a sandwich, "I do not feel like this, and neither will I." Said +he, "I will see that you do" at the same time telling the officers to lock +the doors. I said: "You can lock the doors to restrain me of my liberty, +but having paid my fare for the service of this company, I will tie up +this boat, when we reach New York, and you will learn that I can turn +a lock as well as yourself." I saw his countenance change. Mr. Furlong, +my manager, who was on the boat, and almost shaking with fear, began +to make excuse for me, etc, etc, but I said, "Never mind, Mr. Furlong, +I can attend to this little captain and myself too." He said no more. The +three men walked out of the corridor, shutting the door after them, but +did not lock it, in a few moments, they returned and opened both doors +for fear I would think they were locked. This was about supper time. +When I finished my lunch, and, having put on a clean tie and fixed my +hair, I took from my valise a lot of little hatchets and put them in a little +leather case I carry by a strap over my shoulder. Thus equipped I entered +the ladies cabin, where there were perhaps fifty people sitting. When +I went in, they began to look at one another, some smiled, I knew they +had heard of the captain trying to prevent my coming out. Taking my +seat on a sofa in the middle of the room, I was listening to the lovely +string band when some one came up and opened a conversation with me. +After a while I was quite surrounded and the cabin soon becoming crowded +some one asked to see a little hatchet, so I opened my satchel to show +them. One of the officers who had come to the State Room with the +captain, had been standing near the stairway, and when he saw the people +begin to press to me to get the hatchets, he came up saying, "Madam, +you are not allowed to sell these here." I replied, "You sell wine, beer, +whiskey, tobacco, cigarettes and anything that will drug these people. +Now these are my own little souvenirs, and they will advertise my cause, +help me, and be a little keep sake from the hand that raised the hatchet, +so I claim the right to sell them, where you have no right to sell bad +things." He went up to see the captain, who said, "I am too busy to fool +with that woman." So he came down, and called up Mr. Furlong, asking +him to compell me to stop selling hatchets, but he told him he could +not prevent Mrs. Nation doing anything she had set her head to. We +had a nice time. I repeated poetry on the evils of drink and smoking, all +were happy, and at ten o'clock, I bade good-night to many friends who +regarded me not as the wild vicious woman, but one who meant well. + +Next morning when we went ashore in New York, and were identifying +our baggage, a small man was passing, Mr. Furlong remarked in an +undertone, "Our captain." He had changed his uniform to go ashore, +and I had not recognized him. I extended my hand which he took, and +I said, "Captain, I know you were told I was a nuisance," "Yes, they +said you would raise the devil, but if anyone thinks you are a fool they +are very much mistaken." We parted in a very pleasant humor. Thus +it is, my life is a constant contention, but there have been many laughable +circumstances and none hurt. I can truly say that there is no ill will in +my heart toward a creature God has made, but it is a hatred for the enemy +of mankind for I have an intense hatred for the enemies of those I +intensely love. + + + +CHAPTER XXII. + +TRIP TO CANADA, CORDIAL RECEPTION--RETURN TO CHICAGO TO FILL ENGAGEMENT-- +SECOND VISIT TO CANADA--TRIP TO MARITIME PROVINCES--VISIT +CLUB IN CHARLOTTE TOWN--PREJUDICE AGAINST ME OWING TO MALICIOUS +REPORTS--SPOKE IN PARLIAMENT IN FREDERICTON--VISIT TO SIDNEY-- +SCOTT ACT--MY ARREST AND RELEASE--EPISODE IN JAIL. + + +Having a spare month in May of 1904 I made a trip to Canada, and +never was so cordially received in my life, selling all the hatchets I had +in three meetings. + +I returned to fill a Chicago engagement of six weeks, which was made +by my manager, with Mr. Houseman, one of the Editors of the Chicago +Inter-Ocean, who owned a theatre with which a museum was connected. +Realizing that this would provide an excuse for the papers to lie about +me, I wrote my manager if possible, to cancel the engagement. I was, +however, persuaded to stay one week, with the result, that it was published +all over the country that Carry A. Nation was in a Museum getting +$300 a week just to be looked at, when in fact, I spoke in the theatre, +not in the museum. I would not object to going into a museum or any +place to bring my cause before the people, but resented the idea of being +placed on exhibition. + +As I had promised to return to Canada, I did so in the month of June, +visiting the Maritime Provinces, where I was very much delighted with +the people, finding in Prince Edward's Island the most intelligent and +moral people, as a body, that I have ever met. + +That Island has a Prohibition Law similar to Kansas, but the primier, +Peters, told the former premier, Mr. Farguason, that the Club in Charlotte +Town, the Capitol, had to be an exception to the prohibitive amendment +or he would vote against and ruin it. This condition is similar in our +own government-conspiracy and treason. I visited this club, strange that +I should get in, God opened the way. It was fitted up like other drinking +clubs, where men congregate together to act in a manner and talk of subjects +they would be ashamed for their wives to see and hear. The back +room was stacked with empties and imported liquors of different brands. +I went up into the parlor about nine o'clock in the morning, where I met +one of these beer-swelled outlaws, I asked him, "Will you object to +answering some questions about this place." His pompous and indignant +reply was, "No, I will do nothing of the kind." I said, "I will tell you +some things about it. You are a set of traitors, you pose as being the +elite, but you are criminals, shame on such villainy." He held his paper +up before his face. I had the satisfaction of telling him the truth in plain +language, such men are well dressed, gold fobbed, diamond studded rummies that +are more hateful than those behind the prison bars, their bodies +a reeking mass of corruption. + +Prince Edward's Island is a large farm, one hundred miles long, by +forty broad. Can only be reached by boat. A very high grade of cheese, +milk, butter, oats and turnips are raised there. Instead of weather-boarding +the houses they have the sides shingled. They have the nicest, small, +fat horses, fine travelers. + +On this, my second visit to Canada, the people did not receive me as +cordially as before, owing to a report that I had been in a museum in +Chicago on exhibition. In order to counteract this prejudice against me, +I offered a reward of $50.00 for any one who had ever seen me in a +museum or on exhibition, which had the desired effect. There are rum +bought papers in Canada as there are in the States. + +I was asked to speak in Parliament in Fredericton. There was a +great laugh when I said that governments like fish stink worse at the +head. + +On my visit to Sydney, Cape Breton, I found that, although they have +the Scott Act, which makes it a misdemeanor to sell intoxicants there are +dives there just like in Kansas, the officers and political wire pullers +defending them just in the same way. + +I went into a vile den, the Belmont Hotel. There was a crowd gathered +around the place. When I went out in front an officer came to me, +saying, "You will have to get off the street, you are collecting a crowd." +I said, I am not disturbing anything, if you object to the crowd, disperse +them, let me alone. He insisted, and so did I. He said nothing to the +crowd no one was doing anything, but standing around when he walked +up to me and arrested me in the King's name--Two got on either side of +me and carried me to jail--When I was there, I found a young boy of +about 14 or 15 years of age. I asked, "Why are you here?" He began to +cry bitterly, said, he was put in for calling names. "Oh, if I had a father +or mother to help me out, but they are dead, and I have no friends." +"What is your fine?" I asked, "Only a dollar." "My dear boy, I will +do what mother would do, if she were here, kneel down here and let us +pray." He did, weeping so bitterly all the time. I asked God to make this +a means of saving that dead mother's precious one. I said to him, "Now +my boy, mother would say my darling son, don't use bad language. Be +good and love God. Now I will pay your fine just as mother would do." +So I called the jailer, who seemed to be a kind man, and paid the dollar. +The boy with his face glowing with happiness, fairly flew out. In +a few minutes the door was opened, a friend went on my bond, and I +left to fill my appointment. There were as many as twenty-five men who +volunteered to testify to the unfair arrest. The case was tried the next +day and I was acquitted, the judge saying that. "All Carry Nation wanted +was advertising. Man's inhumanity to woman." I was glad to open +the prison door to the boy, and give him advice at a time when he would +take it, for he promised me to be a good boy and serve God. I expect +God sent me there for that purpose. + + + +CHAPTER XXIII. + +COWARDLY ASSAULT BY SALOON KEEPER, G. R. NEIGHBORS OF ELIZABETHTOWN, +KY.--APATHY OF OFFICERS, BUT PEOPLE MUCH MOVED BY OUTRAGE, LECTURED +AFTERWARDS, THO' VERY FAINT AND WEAK FROM LOSS OF BLOOD.-- +CIGARETTE SMOKING IN HIGH PLACES DISCUSSED WITH MISS GASTON, +PRESIDENT NATIONAL ANTI-CIGARETTE LEAGUE. + + +A saloon keeper, G. R. Neighbors, of Elizabethtown, Ky., struck me +over the head with a chair, July 23, 1904. In going up to the hall to fill +an engagement. I passed this man and walking into his saloon, said, why +are you in this business, drugging and robbing the people? "Hush! You +get out." I replied, "Yes you want a respectable woman to get out, but +you will make any woman's boy a disgrace, you ought to be ashamed." +I then passed out going to the hall. After the lecture I passed by his +place again. He was sitting in a chair in front of the saloon, and I said, +"Are you the man that runs this business?" and in a moment with an oath +he picked up the chair and with all his strength, sent it down with a +crash on my head. I came near falling, caught myself, and he lifted the +chair the second time, striking me over the back, the blood began to cover +my face, and run down from a cut on my forehead. I cried out, "He has +killed me," An officer caught the chair to prevent a third blow. + +There were two officers in the crowd. I cried out, "Is there no one +to arrest this man?" No one appeared to do it. He went back in his +saloon. I to the hotel. Some one sent for a doctor who came and dressed +the wound on my forehead, my left arm was badly bruised, also my +back. Had it not been for my bonnet, I should have suffered more. +This outragous act roused the people. The women and men came to see +me indignant, saying this outrage would not be tolerated. The Methodist +minister especially was deeply moved. There were two officers who saw +this outrage, but there was no arrest. + +Next morning, Mrs. Bettie James, came in two miles from the country, +and had a warrant sworn out against Neighbors, but the case was laid +over to await the action of the "Grand jury," in November, saloon keepers +going on his bond. + +I intended to go to Mammoth Cave but remained over on account of +trial, and spoke again that night. Elizabethtown is one of those bad rum- +towns in Kentucky, but there is a fine prohibition sentiment, and great +indignation was felt and expressed that a saloon-keeper even so low and +cowardly as to strike a woman, should be tolerated. I was in bed most +of the day and nearly fainted during the lecture, but I thanked God that +I was counted worthy to suffer, that others might not. I felt some mother +might receive fewer blows--that while my head was bruised and bleeding +to prevent hearts from being crushed and broken, souls were going +to drunkards graves, and drunkards Hells, and this outrage would reveal +the enormous brutality of this curse, bringing a speedy remedy. + +In the Spring of 1904, I was in the office of Miss Lucy Page Gaston, +the National President of the Anti-Cigarette League. I saw on the walls +of her room Mr. Roosevelt's picture. I said, "My dear Miss Lucy, why +do you have that picture in here? Don't you know, he is a cigarette +smoker?" She said, she did not know it. I said, "let me tear that up. +Did this man who is at the head of affairs in this nation ever say a word +against this vice? Although he is sworn to protect from just such. This +brave, good woman, whose heart, soul, and body is dedicated to saving +the young men of our land did not seem to recognize the fact that Democrats +and Republicans (so-called) were the head and front of all the +corruption we have. At last, I said, "If you will write to Mr. Roosevelt +and get his statement that he does not, nor ever did smoke cigarettes I +will give You $50 for your work, she said she would. She wrote to the +President, got no response from him, but Mr. Loeb, his secretary wrote +that the President, did not nor ever had used tobacco in any form. She +sent this to me, of course I was not to be caught with such chaff. I wrote +her so, telling her of the time when Mr. McKinley wished to deny the +fact, that he rented his property in Canton, Ohio, for saloon purposes, his +minister denied this, but the 'Chicago Voice' proved that he did. I suppose +Mr. Roosevelt got his minister to write what he dared not. I wrote +her that old birds were not easily fooled with chaff, also stating, that if +she would get a statement that Mr. Roosevelt was not a beer drinker, I +would give her another $50.00. Of course she could not do this, but the +Republican Press published all over the country that Miss Gaston got the +evidence and I paid the $50.00, but not one word of this was true. + + + +CHAPTER XXIV. + +SISTER LUCY WILHOITE'S VISION.--WRITES TO ME FOR CO-OPERATION IN MAKING +RAID ON MAHAN'S WHOLESALE LIQUOR HOUSE.--HESITATE ON ACCOUNT +PRESSING ENGAGEMENTS AHEAD.--ANSWER THE CALL.--RAID SET +FOR 29TH.--W. C. T. U. CONVENTION IN SESSION.--FOUR SISTERS AND MYSELF +START FROM M. E. CHURCH.--A CALL FOR THE POLICE BEFORE WE +COULD EFFECT AN ENTRANCE.--TAKEN TO JAIL IN HOODLUM WAGON.-- +UNHEALTHY CONDITION OF CELL.--IN JAIL FROM FRIDAY TO MONDAY.-- +GOOD OLD PENTECOSTAL TIME ON SUNDAY--COUNTY JAIL MONDAY--TRIAL +WEDNESDAY--JAIL SENTENCE AND FINES--APPEAL TO DISTRICT COURT. + +In the Fall of 1904, I received a letter from Sister Lucy Wilhoite of +Wichita, telling me of a vision, which I will relate here in her own words: +"During a severe illness, last July, the Lord appeared unto me and +revealed many wonderful things concerning our work in which I have been +engaged for seven years. Temperance and Prohibition. + +My life was despaired of by my friends and I knew I was very near +the borderland, and as I lay on my bed of suffering in the still hour of +midnight, God showed me the awful desolation which our thirty eight +saloons and five wholesale houses were making in the homes of Wichita +and surrounding country, The sight so overwhelmed me, I cried unto +the Lord and said, "Oh my God! Have I done all I could during this life +of mine to dam up this fearful tide? Then I said, show me Lord, what +this means. Immediately a great cloud of human souls came rolling down +a steep decline and as my eyes followed them, saw them rolling on and +on until they finally fell into a pit from whence fire and smoke were +ascending. Then my eyes were turned again up the ascent from whence +the souls were coming. When, Lo! I saw the National Capitol, with her +Senate and Congressmen. I saw the Legislative Halls, and our Educational +Institutions. I saw our churches with her educated ministry, and +her secret societies, our public libraries and reading rooms, our National +State and Local W. C. T U's, all of them right in the track of this awful +tide of human souls, yet they still rolled on and on until they reached the +pit. Then I cried again unto the Lord and said, "Oh, Why do you show +me these horrible things, when I am on the brink of the grave? And +still the picture or vision remained before me, growing more and more +vivid every moment until I struggled to my knees, and said, 'O God, if +I can do anything to dam up this fearful tide, just heal this body, and +let the healing be the seal that I can do something to help, and I shall +do it if it costs my life. Then a deep calm and soul rest settled over me +and I sank into a deep sleep, when I awoke I realized the pain was gone +and also the fever. I lay there, looking up to God and I said, "Now, +Lord, show me what you want me to do. Immediately, like a great scroll +reaching across the sky, these words appeared, written in letters of gold. +"Spill it out!" Then he showed me the very place I was to attack Mahan's +Wholesale Liquor House. + +"For many weeks I pondered upon this vision and prayed about it +most earnestly, that I might not be mistaken and know of a truth that it +was God's will. I never found any soul rest until I wrote to Mrs. Nation, +and told her the time was ripe for God and that we must attack +Mahan's Wholesale Liquor House, that was helping to degrade so many +women and debase so many men. This resulted in an attempt to carry out +God's purpose on Sept. 30, 1904. + +I was true to the "Heavenly Vision," which is only the beginning of +the fulfillment, for there are yet many things to be spilled out, not only +the liquor, but also the hypocrites in the church, and the false prophets +with sin of every kind, and our lives also. + +The Wichita Eagle Reporter, uttered a profound truth, whether he +intended to or not, when he said, we walked into the Court Room like a +poem, a sort of a 'Lead Kindly Light' poem, for we were lead of God, +who is the Light of the world. And we intend to follow on until this +vision is fully realized." + +Yours for God's love for Him and suffering humanity, + MRS. LUCY WILHOITE. + + +I had dates ahead that I disliked to cancel, because of disappointing +the people and entailing a great financial sacrifice. Sister Lydia Muntz, +also wrote me to come to Wichita immediately. I knew it meant smashing +and imprisonment, possibly, loss of life, for I wrote Sister Wilhoite, "I +am coming to do all I can to destroy the works of the devil, and if need +be to die." At first, I told her to keep things quiet. Then I thought it +best to give all an opportunity to have a part in this great work of saving +life here and hereafter, so I wrote a letter to the Topeka Journal making +a call for helpers setting Sept. 28 as the day. When I arrived in Topeka +I learned that the W. C. T. U would be in convention session on that day +in Wichita, and also that there was a carnival going on in the place, and +thought it providential to have a crowd. I arrived in Wichita the 28th, +the raid was postponed until the 29th. I took hatchets with me and we +also supplied ourselves with rocks, meeting at the M. E. church, where +the W. C. T. U. Convention was being held. I announced to them what +we intended doing and asked them to join us. Sister Lucy Wilhoite, +Myra McHenry, Miss Lydia Muntz, and Miss Blanch Boies, started for +Mahan's wholesale liquor store. Three men were on the watch for us, +we asked to go in to hold gospel services as was our intention before +destroying this den of vice, for we wanted God to save their souls, and to +give us ability and opportunity to destroy this soul damning business. +They refused to let us come near the door. I said, "Women, we will have +to use our hatchets," with this I threw a rock through the front, then we +were all seized, and a call for the police was made. There was of course, +a big crowd. Mrs. Myra McHenry was in the hands of a ruffian who +shook her almost to pieces. One raised a piece of gas pipe to strike her, +but was prevented from doing so. We were hustled into the hoodlum +wagon, and driven through the streets amid the yells, execrations and +grimaces of the liquor element. I watched their faces and could see that +Satan was roused in them beyond their control, making the most diabolical +faces sticking out their tongues! at what? Just five women, who were +doing with their might what their hands found to do, Just five living +hearts that dared to give their lives to save them. Just gray-haired women, +mothers, and grandmothers, who, for love they could not contain, +rushed in to save their loved ones, from ruin. + +There never was such a sight. Angels wept and devils yelled with +diabolical glee. We were taken to Police Headquarters, that is, four of +us, the Police had not taken Blanch, who dodged them, and with her axe +smashed out two windows, after which she went to Sister Wilhoite's +home, and would not have been arrested had she not called to see us +next day, and giving her name was immediately arrested and shut in with +us. Water was standing in the low places in the cell we occupied, caused +by a leakage in the pipes, I don't think this neglect was intentional, but +it was none the less dangerous as it was below ground. The beds were +shelves in the wall, very hard of course, but we might have had some degree +of comfort if it had not been for the dirt and rats which seemed to +delight in having some one to run around and over. It was so ordered +that there was a bible in the crowd, and as we were not in stocks we had +far more to rejoice over than Paul and Silas, holding a continuous praise +and prayer service, reading and repeating the word of God. We were +kept there from Friday till Monday morning without a charge against +us. Sunday morning we squeezed the juice out of some grapes, some kind +friends had sent us, and reading for our lesson where Jesus washed the +disciples feet and partook of the sacrament, sister McHenry sprang to +her feet after partaking of the emblems, said she saw the most beautiful +cross on the wall, surrounded by a divine halo, exclaiming, "Now I know +what it is to have a vision, I thought it might be imagination." We had +quite a time one way and another. Our friends were not permitted to +come into the jail or even to the door, so many of them came to the railing +on the outside, where some of the officials threw water on them from +the upper windows to keep them away. We were taken to the county +jail on Monday and had a trial for malicious mischief on Wednesday. +We plead our own cases, and never in the history of the world did a nation +or people see mothers tried for trying to save their loved ones from +the slaughter of a government whose business is to protect women and +their children. Tears were in the eyes of many when sister Lucy Wilhoite +and sister McHenry told of their boys being led into vice by the +officials of Wichita. Poor degraded Wichita with her corrupt officials and +that vile "Wichita Eagle," and its Murdocks. But God has a people there +and they will be victors in this fight. We were convicted of course, I got +thirty days in jail and $150, the rest $150, except sister Muntz who only +got $50. We employed Judge Ray to take our cases to the District Court. +At the present writing I am out on bail and so far as the jail is concerned, +I do not dread it. God will liberate some when I am in bonds. Poor +women, Poor Mothers. God who "tempers the wind to the shorn lamb" +will come to her relief from a degradation worse than death. + + + AFTER TRIAL IN THE DISTRICT COURT. + +I am out on parole under a jail sentence of four months and a fine +of $250.00. This man Wilson who is in the place of a judge knows that +it is a lawless outrage, but true to his party or trust he stands by the +combine for as long as the Republican Liquor Power controls office motherhood +is sacrificed to the greed of this boa constrictor that coils its huge +body crushing out the life and soul of man, woman and child. + +If Roosevelt had a sincere interest in increasing the population by +urging women to bear children he would say something about what makes +it a terror to do so. + + + +CHAPTER XXV. + +CLOSING REMARKS WITH PLANS FOR THE FUTURE--PROHIBITION CLEARLY +DEFINED. + + +At the close of writing this book, I am in Oklahoma organizing Prohibition +Federations. I am now nearly 60 years of age, I find it necessary +to reserve my strength as much as possible in order to put to the +best use my remaining years of service. I expect to remain in Oklahoma +until the constitution is made, the field is ripe for action, we want the +constitution to be an ideal one. + +The Federation will not have as a member, any one voting in a license +party--Anhauser Busch will effect prohibition as soon--We will not waste +time and money in fighting Brewers and Distillers but the cause of them. +We want to prohibit the tyranny and unlawfulness in preventing woman +from a voice in the Government, Compulsory education, no games on +Lord's Day, no profanity on the highways. + +There are good, loyal prohibitionists in the Anti-Saloon League, but +those who control it are generally there for the salary. Being usually +Republicans who by their ballot prove themselves to be the strongest +advocates for license, they are hindering the true principle of +prohibition. Their votes combine to perpetuate the saloon. + +The great thing to be accomplished is to elect a Prohibition President, +as long as we have one in favor of license it is useless to expect +prohibition by the government. The Anti-Saloon League tacitly effects +the perpetuation of a license government and in that they have been traitors, +we warn the people against them. If anyone is a real prohibitionist +they will vote it. The Prohibition Party is really the only party that is +loyal to Republican principles, protecting and saving the home from this +onslaught. There is not a saloon vote in our party, which can be said of +no other. 'Tis the only deliverance from this bloody slaughter. This "covenant +with death, and agreement with Hell and refuge of lies." I took +on a Republican voter as a man with bloody hands as Benedict Arnold +carried in his boot the paper of treachery, so is a licensed vote in the +hand of a voter. + +We will so far as possible perfect this organization in all the States. +I am owner and Editor of the 'Hachet' of Guthrie. A paper on straight +lines. The paper is only 25c a year. I ask all my friends to subscribe for +this paper, by sending to 'Hatchet', or office of Prohibition Federation, +Guthrie, Oklahoma. I will publish full instructions in the Hatchet so +that any prohibitionist so desiring, can perfect an organization in any +vicinity. This is in perfect harmony with all efforts for annihilation of +the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors for any purpose. The +constitution gives all the largest liberty to do that which is right and none +at all or the smallest to do that which is wrong. I feel much relieved to. +get into more definite work, rather than going hither and thither completing +nothing substantial. + +Almighty God and His people help this breaking heart. "Give us +Oklahoma or we die," or are willing to die to save this land of the beautiful. +Oklahoma will be a leader. We want a strait path to the election of +a Prohibition President. If we can make our efforts a success, in the +territories, then this will be the greatest impetus all over. We will not +hinder any prohibition movement, we only go to the bottom, laying the ax +(or hatchet) at the root of the tree, for we can not succeed by prohibiting +intoxicants as a beverage alone, which is what the prohibition party up to +this time propose to do. ANNIHILATION is the only principle or true definition +of prohibition. 'Tis dangerous to let any of it survive. The advantages +of being a resident of Oklahoma will be so great, that, like the promised +land to the children of Israel, there will be an exodus from the +Egyptain bondage. The degraded and vicious will then leave the place +where their facility of engaging in all villainy and corruption is gone, +Mothers and Fathers often say, "O for a place where I can raise my children +where there is no saloons!" Oklahoma will answer the cry. What an +outrage is perpetrated by this Rum-soaked government in not allowing us +to have statehood! There is a cause and the people will find it out +Republicans know, that, when we do get statehood their allies the Trusts +will not be allowed to rob us and that we will not be at their mercy and +their appointees. I beg the financial aid of all, with plenty of money we +can publish literature showing up the horrors of a rum president. Roosevelt's +strong hold is his duplicity and schemes. He has signed the bill +licensing the curse on the poor Alaskan. This wholesale murder with the +awful lie that it is to build schools and roads. Oh, this gigantic murder +Nero was not worse. + +I went to Medicine Lodge Feb. 15th, to see my friends, and lecture. +No one knew I was coming, got there between twelve and one at night, +train late. I got in the buss saw no one, was the only passenger, the +chimneys were off the lamps from the jolting and there was danger. I +tried to fix them. The driver had not made his appearance up to this +time. A man rushed in at the door, cursing, took my head in his two +hands, threw me out of the door, using profane and indecent language. +He was reeking with the smell of liquor. I was surprised and terrified, +not knowing any reason for this. The conductor, Mr. Knight, took me +in his carriage up to Mrs. Martin's. My friends said the outrage +was such that I ought to make complaint, which was done. Sam +Griffith, that was my old enemy, was still prosecuting attorney. He refused +to prosecute Bill Hall, the buss driver, one of the most disreputable +infidel vulgar character in the town, if not the worst, a tool of Jim Gano +the one who was republican sheriff when I was smashing in the county, +and the manager of the buss line. Bill Hall's lawyer was Poly Tincher, +the son-in-law of Southworth, the drug-store jointist here, who at this +time had an injunction served against him for selling liquor. There were +six jurymen called, mostly of the caliber, that suited this lawless, rum- +defending class of Medicine Lodge. They said Bill Hall was right, because +I snatched a cigar out of his mouth. I did not even see one. This +reminds me of a case where one would bring suit for injury in hell where +the devil was the judge, and expect to get a verdict for the defiance. The +indignation of the people at this insult has resulted in the election of other +officers. Jesus went to Nazareth and they tried to throw him over the +brow of the hill, still he had followers from Galilee. + +This Republican rum God defying set of Medicine Lodge, were glad +to resent my exposure of them in my book and they would inflict any outrage +on me or my cause. I was glad to see that this was opening the +eyes and mouths of the best element. I can suffer if the people wake up. +I am appointed for this. "The world hateth me because I testify of it +that the works thereof are evil. Marvel not that the world hates you ye +know that it hated me before it hated you." + + + FINALE. + +I again ask that as you read my book you will often pray for me +and this great cause of humanity. We are organizing Prohibition Federations +and I here give the Constitution and By-Laws of this movement. +Annihilation is the only method of dealing with intoxicating drinks and +never will this question be settled except by prohibiting it for any purpose. +Any one can send to our office in Shawnee and get the necessary literature +to organize. This is not to cause any friction in the prohibition party +for we are in hearty cooperation with all thorough workers. + + + CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE PROHIBITION FEDERATION. + + PREAMBLE. + +Trusting in Almighty God and our Savior Jesus Christ as the source +of all true government, and seeing the necessity of an organization that +will materialize votes and secure the election of officers who will pledge +themselves to the utter annihilation of the liquor traffic, we call on all +men, women and children to join this organization, which shall be known +as the "Prohibition Federation." We exclude from our organization any +person who will not vote for the total annihilation of intoxicating liquors +for any purpose. We co-operate with the Prohibition Party, but go a +step further, making it a crime to manufacture or sell intoxicating liquors +for any purpose. + +ARTICLE 1.--OBJECT. The objects of the organization shall be: To +oppose in every way the use of intoxicating liquors, making it a crime +to manufacture, barter, sell, give away, export or import the same into +the United States for any purpose. To take charge of the local elections, +seeing that only those who will oppose the liquor traffic in such manner +as stated above, shall be nominated. To demand constitutional prohibition +and woman suffrage, and to secure the election of a prohibition President. To +recommend compulsory education. To see to the strict enforcement of all laws +relating to Sabbath observance, making it a misdemeanor to play any public +games on the Lord's Day. That the use of blasphemous language in any public +place be considered a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment. To +make it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment, to manufacture, +sell, or use cigarettes. To examine the petitions of all saloon keepers as to +their compliance with the statutes, seeking to revoke those that have not +complied, and in every way seeking to prevent them from obtaining license. + +ART. 2.--MEMBERSHIP. Any person may become a member by pledging +their loyalty to this constitution. + +ART. 3.--OFFICERS. The officers shall consist of a President, four +Vice-Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer. They shall be elected at the +first regular business meeting in January and serve until their successors +are duly elected and qualified. + +SEC. 2. The officers shall constitute the Executive Committee, which +shall have oversight of all the work of the Federation. The Executive +Committee shall have power to fill all vacancies occuring between the +annual elections. + +ART. 4.--DUTIES OF OFFICERS. The President shall perform the duties +usually assigned to his office. He shall be a member ex-officio of all +committees. + +SEC. 2. The first Vice-President shall be chairman of the Membership +Committee. This committee shall devise ways and means of securing +members and pledges for the support of the Federation. + +Sec. 3. The second Vice-President shall be chairman of the Program +Committee. This committee shall arrange for all social and literary meetings. + +Sec. 4. The third Vice-President shall be chairman of the Press and +Literature Committee. This committee shall see that all meetings are +duly announced by the local press and otherwise and report such meetings +to the local papers and also to the national organ. It shall secure +and distribute literature for the aggressive work of the Federation. + +Sec. 5. The fourth Vice-President shall be chairman of the Law +Enforcement Committee. This committee shall report to the Federation +the non-enforcement of all statutes, suggesting means to secure the +enforcement of such statutes. It shall also investigate all lines of +law enforcement, instructing the Federation in statutory law. + +Sec. 6. The Vice-Presidents, by and with the advice of the President, +shall select the persons to assist them in their several departments. + +Sec. 7. The Secretary shall keep an accurate record of all business +meetings and a complete register of all members. The Secretary shall be +the authorized collector for the local Federation and shall be entitled to +a commission of ten per cent of all collections. + +Sec. 8. The Treasurer shall be chairman of the Finance Committee. +This committee shall devise ways and means of securing pledges, and raising +money in any other way deemed advisable to further the interests of +the Federation. He shall report to the Secretary all pledges that have +been paid by members and others, so that the Secretary's book shall show +correctly all money received and paid out. + +Sec 9. It shall be the duty of the Membership and Finance Committees +to take pledges from the members of the Federation, and any others, +to further its work. These pledges shall be for the month and payable +quarterly. One-third of such money secured shall be retained by the local +organization and the remaining two-thirds shall be sent to the Treasurer +at the home office in Guthrie, Oklahoma. + +ART. 5.--REPORTS OF OFFICERS. At the annual meeting, each of the +officers shall present a full written report of the year's work. + +ART. 6.--SPECIAL COMMITTEES. At the regular monthly business meeting +preceding the annual meeting, the President shall appoint from the +membership the following special committees: An Auditing Committee +of three. This committee shall examine all accounts and render a report +at the annual business meeting, a record of such report to appear upon +the Secretary's book. A Nominating Committee of five. This committee +shall report at the annual meeting the name of one candidate for each +office. + +ART. 7.--MEETINGS. Two meetings a month shall be held. One to +transact the business of the Federation, the other for literary and social +purposes, conducted under the direction of the Program Committee. This +second meeting shall consist of oratorical contests, debates, recitations, +songs, or any other educational features. + +The regular business meeting in January shall be the annual meeting. + +ART. 8.--PAYMENT OF BILLS. No money shall be paid except upon an +order signed by the President and Secretary. + +ART. 9.--OFFICIAL ORGAN. The official organ of the Federation shall +be "The Hatchet," published in Guthrie, Okla., (16-page monthly, 25 +cents a year.) The Press and-Literature Committee shall solicit subscriptions +to the official organ. + +ART. 10.--ORDER OF BUSINESS. The following order of business shall +be observed at all regular business meetings: + Devotional exercises. + Reading of previous minutes. + Report of Treasurer. + Report of Vice-Presidents. + Unfinished business. + New business. + Adjournment with prayer. + +ART. 11.--AMENDMENTS. This constitution may be amended by a two- +thirds vote of the members present at any regular business meeting (ten +being a quorum), provided such amendment shall have been proposed in +writing at the previous regular business meeting. + + + +CHAPTER XXVI. + +CARRY NATION CLOSES CRUSADE IN DAYTON, OHIO--HOLDS THREE LARGELY +ATTENDED MEETINGS--SPEAKS TO LARGE AUDIENCE IN ARMORY--HAD +ENGAGED NATIONAL THEATRE, BUT INSPECTION OF AUDITORIUM INTERFERED-- +REVIEW WEEK'S WORK. + + +Mrs. Carry Nation closed her crusade in this city, Dayton, Ohio, yesterday +by holding three remarkable meetings. + +In the morning she filled the pulpit of the Home Avenue U. B. church +and as usual the church was not large enough to hold the crowd and +many had to stand outside. + +Mrs. Nation was afterwards entertained at dinner by Rev. H. A. +Thompson at his residence, opposite the U. B. seminary. + +The National theatre had been engaged for Mrs. Nation's Sunday +afternoon meeting, though Broadway M. E. church wanted her, but Mrs. +Nation desired to hold that meeting in as large a place as possible, as +she anticipated that there would be a large attendance. At the last moment +the National theatre management decided they could not permit the +house to be used Sunday, as they expected an inspection of the auditorium, +so Mrs. Nation's committee secured the big Armory around the corner +from the theatre at Sixth and the canal. Mrs. Nation had especially invited +the saloonkeepers, sports and unmarried young men and ladies. The +meeting was announced for 2:30, but at 1 o'clock the crowds began to assemble. +The large choir from McKinley M. E. church, under direction +of Rev. C. T. Lewis and his wife, arrived about 1:30 and rendered a fine +lot of selections until Mrs. Nation opened the meeting at 2:30. There +were only seats for about 3,000, but Captain Hooven estimated the crowd +as about 3,800 people. The galleries were crowded and nearly the entire +auditorium. All sorts of people were present--business and professional +men, saloonkeepers, and preachers, while W. C. T. U. ladies were in evidence +by their white ribbons. Representatives from probably every church +in Dayton were present and it is safe to say that it was the greatest +gathering of its kind ever held in this city. A collection box was at the +door and a splendid offering was obtained as everybody contributed--many +liberally, among whom was Dr. L. T. Cooper, who handed in a silver dollar, +stating: "I don't agree with her in all things, but she means well." + +Mrs. Nation made a characteristic talk of over an hour, giving much +advice in a kindly way and, as usual, backing up all her arguments with +Scripture. + +Mrs. Nation held her last meeting at 7 o'clock at Summit Street U. +B. church, and a thousand or more people stood around the outside of the +church unable to get in. + +Mrs. Nation answered many questions put to her at this meeting and +from the view of the radical temperance advocates this was probably the +strongest talk she made. In every respect the meeting was a success. + +Mrs. Nation left for Chicago on the Panhandle at 9:30 last night. + +Saturday was also a busy day with Mrs. Nation. In the morning she +was a visitor at the U. B. Publishing house, and after dinner she held a +meeting at Christ's mission, Soldiers' Home. At 5 o'clock, accompanied +by some of her committee, she went to Salem, O., where she was entertained +by Rev. Baker, of the U. B. church, and afterwards held the usual +crowded meeting in his church, leaving there at 8 o'clock for Brookville, +O., where she held another big meeting at the U. B. church. + +Mrs. Nation has certainly worked hard here and proven herself in +possession of wonderful energy and capacity for work. The following is +a list of appointments here in ten days, every one of which she filled and +not once could she fully accommodate the crowd: Friday night, October +21, street meeting corner Main and Fourth streets; afterwards to wedding +anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Bennett, where many congenial +spirits were present. This took on the nature of an entertainment to Mrs. +Nation. Saturday night, October 22, U. B. church, Miamisburg; Sunday, +October 23, the Dunkard church, Dayton; Sunday, October 23, afternoon +at Bellbrook, O., mass meeting of the three churches at town hall; Sunday +night, October 23, St. Paul's M. E., Dayton; Monday night, October +24, Riverdale U. B.; Tuesday night, First United Presbyterian; Wednesday +night, Trinity M. E.; Thursday afternoon, Free Methodist; Thursday +night, mass meeting of colored churches at McKinley M. E.; Friday +afternoon, 2 o'clock, U. 13. seminary; 4 o'clock, W. C. T. U. meeting, +Broadway M: E.; Friday night, Second United Presbyterian, and balance +appointments as given above. + +The committees of the various churches, the Citizens' League and +Prohibition party are much pleased with the work Mrs. Nation did here +and predict great results from it.--Dayton Daily. + + + + +CHAPTER XXVII. + + (Sketch by WILL CARLETON, in his Magazine EVERYWHERE.) + +Some years ago, the American public--always longing for "something +new," was treated to an absolutely unique sensation. A woman armed +with a hatchet had gone into a Kansas liquor saloon and smashed up its +appurtenances, in a very thorough and unconventional manner. After +this, she went into and through another, and another: and it began to took +as if all the bibulous paraphernalia of Kansas were about to be sent into +the twilight. + +When the smoke had somewhat cleared away, and time elapsed sufficient to +garner these circumstances into authentic news, it transpired that +the woman who had done this was Mrs. Carry A. Nation--utterly obscure +and unknown until that week. + +This raid among decanters was a very singular and startling act, for +a woman: but, somehow, people found it refreshing. It represented precisely +what many had imagined in their minds, what thousands of women +had wished they themselves could or dared do, what myraids of confirmed +drinkers, even, had wished might be done. News of Mrs. Nation's +swift and decided action went all over the country, like a stiff, healthy +gale. She was sharply criticised--but there lurked very often a "dry +grin" behind the criticism. This smashing was all very direct and unique +and Americans are in general fond of directness and uniqueness. It was, +technically, illegal; but, even so, it was remarked that the saloons which +Mrs. Nation wrecked, were themselves in brazen defiance of the laws of +the state of Kansas--unenforced on account of the fear or venality of +public officers. + +The work of this determined woman went on with a thoroughness +and promptness that made it ultra-interesting. She was imprisoned again +and again, and became an inmate, at one time and another, of some nineteen +different jails. She had trial after trial--in which was developed +the fact that her tongue was as sharp as her hatchet; she often addressing +even the judge presiding, as "Your Dishonor," while prosecuting +attorneys she treated with supreme scorn. Not much mercy was shown +her in the county bastiles: she was often bestowed in cells next to insane +people--in the hope, she thinks, that she might become really crazy, as +well as reputedly so. One sheriff, finding that the fumes of cigarette- +smoking made her ill, treated all her follow-inmates to the little white +cylinders, and set them at work puffing vigorously. Chivalry and humanity +seemed, for the time being, to have faded from men's minds. + +In these different immurments, she had time to write her friends and +even published a paper, called, "The Smasher's Mail." She told how she +came to do this work: it was, she claimed, by the direct command of God. +She had promised Him that if He would forgive her many sins, she +would work for Him in ways no one else would; and He took her at her +word--ordering her to go and smash saloons. This, of course, provokes +a smile, among most people, but Mrs. Nation is not the first one that has +worked under God's command--whether real or supposed. + +At last, so many fines were heaped up against her, which must be +paid before she could be liberated, that it seemed to her as if she would +never get free; but in this dark hour, a lecture agent appeared, and said +he would pay the amount if she would give him some "dates." She +laughingly says now, that she did not know what she meant: and actually +wondered if he thought she was a fruit dealer. But when he explained +what he meant by "dates," a chance to go on the platform and give the +people a reason for the hatchet that was in her hand, she saw the gates +were opened; and enthusiastically went from jail to the lecture platform. + +She became immediately a drawing card--in assembly halls in some +churches, and even at county fairs. She often made "big money" by selling +miniature hatchets as souvenirs. She worked, tirelessly and industriously, +to pay back the lecture agent for the sums he had advanced; +and after a time found surplus amounts on hand. + +She did not hesitate very long as to the purposes for which they were +to be applied. Her personal expenses were very small; she dresses plainly; +and believes that God is entitled to her financial gains. + +"A home for drunkards' wives," was her first thought, after paying +the fine money, and she set about it, and is working for it now. + +After her platform work had proceeded for a time, it was decided that +she should star in the play, "Ten Nights in a Bar-room." As all know, +who have witnessed this simple but powerful drama, every act of it is +a prohibition lecture, and Mrs. Nation's part, that of the mother of the +murdered boy, was a lecture of itself. In one scene, she was represented +as smashing a saloon, most thoroughly; and this business was the most +popular of anything in the play--even at theatres that drew most of their +patronage from habitues of saloons. + +Mrs. Nation's reasons for stepping from the churches to the footlights, +is not without its logic, in these days. "People go to the theatres +more than they do the churches," she says, "and I want to go where there +are plenty of people to hear me, and where they need me." + +From the regular theatre she passed, and for the same reasons, to the +vaudeville, and did her regular "stunts" along with the singers, the dancers, +the harlequin's, acrobats, and the burnt cork humorists. The writer +of this has seen her in one of these performances, and considers it entirely +unique and unmistakably commendable. + +It was in one of the most "free and easy" vaudeville shows in Greater +New York, and the audience, composed of men and boys, was a hilarious +one, and could have even become a turbulent one, if anything had occured +that did not please them. Many were half drunk, or nearly so. +"Smoke, if you want to," was lettered on a conspicuous sign, and most +of this audience wanted to. In the midst of the exercises, an interlude +occurred, in which the audience was invited to a saloon down stairs, where +they could proceed still farther in the liquid burning out of their bodies. +On the same stage of this same vaudeville theatre, John L. Sullivan, the +retired prize fighter, had, only a week before, appeared "in monologue," +and had sometimes been so drunk that he could not go through with his +part. + +In the midst of all this, Carry Nation was announced, and she stepped +upon the stage, unattended by any glare of colored lights or fanfare +of music. A quiet, motherly looking woman, plainly dressed, with a Bible +in her hand, she commanded almost immediately the respect of that large +crowd--from the men in the orchestra stalls to the gallery gods. One +half intoxicated fellow began to scoff at her, but was almost immediately +hushed by the scarcely less drunken ones around him. It was a sight +that hushed them all into respectful silence, for a respectable, earnest +woman, with the Holy Book in her hand, will have a subduing effect upon +almost any company of people. + +Mrs. Nation announced her text, and preached a sermon, and delivered +a temperance lecture, both within the half-hour. (The latter she calls +a "prohibition lecture"--hating the word temperance, as applied to drink.) + +She said words, such as had probably not been heard by most of those +there, for a great many years. She told them what sots they were making +of themselves, and made her points so emphatic that they cheered her +--almost in spite of themselves. She commenced her speech as an experiment, +so far as that day's audience was concerned; she closed a +heroine. She did not remain idle during the time between her appearances +on the stage, but cultivated the acquaintances of the actors and actresses, +and, it is said, to their good. + +That is what Mrs. Nation is doing now, on what is called the eastern +vaudeville circuit; and it would be hard to see how one woman could do +more good in half an hour, than she does; and that among those that +need it most. + +Mrs. Nation's whole name is Carrie Amelia Nation, but having noticed +from old records that her father wrote the first name "Carry," she +now does the same, and considers the name portentous as concerns what +she is trying and means to do. She believes, she says, that it is her mission +to "carry a nation" from the darkness of drunken bestiality into the +light of purity and sobriety; and if she can do this, or in any great measure +contribute to it, there are millions of people in the world, that will +bid her Good speed. + + + +CHAPTER XXVIII. + +A scientific article on the effects of alcohol on the human system. +If any doctor should try to deceive you here is the proof of his malicious +intent to drug you. + +LIQUOR DRINKING IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. + +REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE UPON THE PROGRESS MADE IN MEDICAL SCIENCE +IN FAVOR OF TEMPERANCE DURING THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 1, 1902--A. W. +GUTRIDGE, CHAIRMAN. READ AT THE THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION +OF THE CATHOLIC TOTAL ABSTINENCE UNION OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST. +PAUL, AND ORDERED PUBLISHED BY THE CONVENTION. + + +In order to understand what progress has been made during the year, +it is necessary to note the condition of affairs at the commencement of +the period. + +Long before this committee began work the leading physicians of +every enlightened country, the men to whom the entire profession looks +for guidance, had declared against the use of alcohol both in health and +in disease. + + IS ALCOHOL A DRINK! + +One reason why all the greatest physicians believed it harmful was +because it had been found that alcohol was not a drink. The most abundant +substance found in the human body, is water. About 130 pounds of +the weight of a 160-pound person is water, "Quite enough if rightly +arranged to drown him." Man has been irreverently described as "about +30 pounds of solids set up in 13 gallons of water." So it is quite natural +for us to hunger for water; "death by thirst is more rapid and distressing +than by starvation." "It is through the medium of the water contained +in the animal body that all its vital functions are carried on." +Dr. W. B. Richardson of England has pointed out more than fifty +characteristics of the action of a natural drink upon the system. The action +of alcohol is the opposite of these in every particular, and therefore it +is not a real or natural drink. Of course the water which is found in +mixture in all alcoholic liquors serves to quench thirst, even though it +is often foul water. + + IS IT A FOOD! + +We also found, upon taking up the work imposed upon us, that +alcohol had been demonstrated not to be a food. Many classifications +of foods have been made, but about the best is that which divides them +broadly into two classes: to use homely language, flesh formers and body +warmers; those which build up or repair the bodily waste, and those +which sustain the animal warmth. The slow fire within us being necessary +to life we hunger for that only which will replace the substance +destroyed by the burning. "To the child of nature all hurtful things +are repulsive, all beautiful things attractive," As to flesh formers, it had +been noted that all foods useful in repairing bodily waste contain the +element nitrogen. Alcohol contains no nitrogen, and so could not be +classed among body builders. The chief body warmer is sugar. Alcohol +being a product of sugar, people were all misled for years into thinking +that it does in some kind and degree feed the system. The mistake +was easy, since after taking alcohol there is a temporary increase in +vivacity of mind and manner and in surface temperature, and a lessened +requirement for regular foods. These opinions had been tested in the +light of truth and proved erroneous. Axel Gustafson, in his Foundation +of Death, considers this subject at length. As early as 1840 French +physicians discovered that alcohol actually reduced the temperature of +the body. Prominent German and English medical men soon confirmed +the statement, and in 1850, Dr. N. S. Davis of Chicago, the founder of the +American Medical Association, in speaking of a number of observations +during the active period of digestion after ordinary food, whether nitrogenous +or carbonaceous, the temperature of the body is always increased, +but after taking alcohol, in either the form of the fermented or the distilled +drinks, it begins to fall within half an hour and continues to +decrease for from two to three hours. The extent and duration of the +reduction was in direct proportion to the amount of alcohol taken." The +most prominent physicians in Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Scandinavia +and Russia reached similar conclusions shortly after this. In explorations +in the Arctic regions where the cold is intense, no alcoholic drinks +are permitted. Dr. Nansen, the great Norwegian, attributes the fatalities of +the Greely expedition to the use of liquor, and this is the only +expedition of recent years which permitted the use of alcoholic drinks. +As a matter of fact it was long ago proved that "Alcohol does not warm +nor cool a person, but only destroys the sensation and decreases the +vitality." Superficial observers, however, have upheld the use of alcohol +as a food, saying, "See how fleshy it makes people." Well, healthy fat +is not always an advantage, but beer drinkers' fat is not the genuine +article. Healthy fat represents a stock of body warming food laid up +for a time of need and is formed only in health. The "fat" usually exhibited +by beer drinkers is not a fat at all; oil is not its chief factor. It +consists of particles of partly digested flesh forming food which the +system required, but which it was unable to assimilate owing to the presence +in the body of the alcohol which the beer contained. This sort of fat +instead of indicating health points to disease. This general teaching as +to the worthlessness of alcohol as a food had been set forth by the leaders +in medical profession, and accepted largely by the rank and file of +practitioners for about twenty-five years. An occasional cry came from +the other side, however, and late in 1899 Dr. W. O. Atwater, professor +in Wesleyan University, announced that he had, by an extended series +of experiments, proved the truth of the claims of those experimentors +who believed alcohol to have value as a food. Dr. Atwater's reports were +widely published by the whiskey press, and a state of some unrest +amongst thinking physicians followed, which had not been wholly quieted +when this committee began work. + + IS IT A MEDICINE? + +At the time we began work, however, it had been demonstrated that +alcohol is not a medicine. Many years ago Dr. Nottinghham, a great +English physician, said: "Alcohol is neither food nor physic." Dr. +Nicols, editor Boston Journal of Chemistry, long ago wrote, "The banishment +of alcohol would not deprive us of a single one of the indispensable +agents which modern civilization demands. In no instance of +disease in any form, is it a medicine which might not be dispensed with." +Dr. Bunge, professor of physical chemistry in the University of Basle, +Switzerland, said: "In general let it be understood that all the workings +of alcohol in the system which usually are considered as excitement +or stimulation are only indications of paralysis. It is a deep-rooted error +sense of fatigue is the safety value of the human organism. Whoever +dulls this sense in order to work harder or longer may be likened to an +engineer who sits down on his safety valve in order to make better speed +with his engine." Dr. F. H. Hammond of the U. S. army said: "Alcohol +strengthens no one. It only deadens the feeling of fatigue." Dr. Sims +Woodhead, professor in Cambridge University, England, had given the +following list of conditions in which alcohol should not be used: In +those (1) who have any family history of drunkenness, insanity or nervous +disease. (2) Who have used alcohol to excess in childhood or youth. +(3) Who are nervous, irritable or badly nourished. (4) Who suffer +from injuries to the head, gross disease of the brain and sunstroke. (5) +Who suffer from great bodily weakness, particularly during convalescence +from exhausting disease. (6) Who are engaged in exciting or +exhausting employment, in bad air and surroundings, in work shops and +mines. (7) Who are solitary or lonely or require amusement. (8) Who +have little self-control either hereditary or acquired. (9) Who suffer +from weakness, the result of senile degeneration. (10) Who suffer from +organic or functional diseases of the stomach, liver, kidney or heart. +(11) Who are young. + +Much has been said concerning the stimulating effect of alcohol upon +the heart, and this had been treated at length. There is an increased +action of about four thousand beats in twenty-four hours for every +ounce of alcohol used. This fact still misleads some physicians into +prescribing it to strengthen the weak heart, but the increase is not due to +new force. The heart action normally is the result of arterial pressure +and nervous action, two forces mutually balancing each other. The +nervous action is diminished by the introduction of the alcohol; this +destroys the balance and deranges the arterial pressure. Dr. James +Edmunds, a great English physician, years ago said: "When we see a +man breathing with great vigor, does it occur to us that he must be in +good health? Is it an indication that he gets more air? We all know +better. It simply shows that he has asthma or some such disease, and +that his breathing is strained and imperfect. He is making use of less +air than the person who breathes quietly. This is the case with the blood, +work, so it plunges and struggles in the effort. And the cause of both +cases is the same. There is more carbonic acid in the blood than either +the heart or the lungs can handle. If for example I were suffering from +general debility and milk were the food best suited to my needs, and if I +should discover a tramp in my apartments drinking of my already too +limited supply, would it be reasonable to assert that the exhibition of +strength which I made in forcing him to desist is an indication that the +entrance of the vagrant bettered my enfeebled condition? The greater +activity of the heart is not due to the added strength resulting from +recruits of friends but to a desperate struggle to beat back a reinforced +enemy." + +That alcohol does not allay pain had been established when this committee +was organized. The only proper method of allaying pain is to +remedy the disorder which produced it. It is no remedy to deaden the +nerves so that we cannot feel it. This reasoning had been found good +in the case of alcohol as a remedy in "colds." Whiskey does not relieve +the uneasiness and oppression we experience when ailing from a cold, +it only benumbs the nerves so we do not feel the trouble. The cure is +not hastened but delayed in this way. + + IS IT THE CAUSE OF DISEASE? + +Besides the fact that alcohol had, before this committee's existence, +been proved to be neither a drink nor a food nor a medicine, it had also +been shown to be the cause of disease. Over five thousand of the most +prominent physicians in this country had so stated it, and the proportion +was equally great in all the enlightened countries of Europe. The most +pronounced in this way, perhaps, have been the great leaders in medical +science in Austria, Germany and France. Some of the points made +against the use of alcohol were that it interferes with digestion by rendering +insoluble the active principle of the gastric juice, and especially by +preventing the solution of body-building foods. The natural action of +various organs of the body is more or less arrested by alcohol, thus reducing +the temperature. This from Dr. Edmunds already quoted: "The +blood carries certain earthy matters in it in a soluble state, these earthy +matters being necessary for the nutrition of the bones and other parts of +the body. You all know that when wine is fermented and turned from +a weak sweet wine into a strong alcoholic wine, you get what is called +a 'crust' formed on the inside of the bottle. What is that crust? That +crust consists of saline or earthy matters which were soluble in the +saccharine grape juice, but which are insoluble in the alcoholic fluids. +We find in drunkards that the blood vessels get into the same state as +the wine bottles from the deposit of earthy matter which has no business +to be deposited, and forms the 'beeswing' or crust in the blood vessels +of the drunkard, in his eye and in all of the tissues of the body." Alcohol +had been found to prevent the elimination of waste, thus the body is +loaded with worn and decaying tissues, leaving the system an inviting +field for all sorts of diseases. Life insurance companies, influenced by +business interests wholly, make a distinction between liquor users and +non-users. Nelson, a distinguished actuary of England, employed as an +expert by life insurance companies, found after investigating over 7,000 +cases, none of which were drunkards, that between the ages of 15 and +20 the proportion of deaths in total abstainers to those in moderate drinkers +is as 10 to 18; between the ages of 25 and 30, as 10 to 31; between +30 and 40 as 10 is to 40. + +With reference to the effect on the offspring of drinking parents, the +medical profession had accepted the teaching of the French specialist, Dr. +Jaccound, that "of the children of drinkers some of them become imbeciles +and idiots; others are feeble in mind, exhibit moral perversion, and sink +by degrees into complete degeneration; still others are epileptics, deaf +and dumb, scrofulous, etc.," and of the English teacher, Dr. Kerr, that +"long continued habitual indulgence in intoxicating drink to an extent far +short of intoxication is not only sufficient to originate and hand down a +morbid tendency, but is much more likely to do so than even repeated +drunken outbreaks with intervals of sobriety between." + +Thus the men who have been of the greatest honor to the profession +in every land were a unit in opposing the use of alcohol in health or +disease and in holding that if people are determined to use it there is less +danger in health, as then the system is in better condition to throw off +its evil effects. + + + + PROGRESS DURING THE PAST YEAR. + +Now as to the progress made during the past year. In June, 1901, +the American Medical Association met in St. Paul. The branch of it +giving special study to the temperance question held several sessions, +about one hundred of the most distinguished physicians in the country +attending. Much time was given to considering Dr. Atwater's teaching +to the effect that he had proved alcohol to be a food. During the previous +year he had published the details of his experiments, and at the convention +it was shown that his own experiments upset his conclusions. It +had been held that except in rare instances alcohol taken into the system +passed away from it as alcohol without change. Dr. Atwater's experiments +strengthened somewhat the position of those who held that change +is not infrequent, but he concluded that the portion broken up while in the +body served as a food. A closer examination of his own experiments +showed that the portion oxidized had gone to form other compounds in +the system which were possibly more harmful than if it had all passed +off unchanged. Dr. Max Kassowitz, professor in the University of Vienna, +said, after Dr. Atwater's statement had been published: "For the animal +and human organism, alcohol is not both a food and a poison, but a +poison only, which like other poisons is an irritant when taken in small +doses while in larger ones it produces paralysis." In connection with +the fact that alcohol is simply a poison, it may be worth stating, that the +original meaning of the word "intoxicated" was "poisoned." After reading +Dr. Atwater, the Russian Commission for the study of alcoholism, +after two years' work, said: "The claim that alcohol is a food in any +proper sense of the term is not sufficiently proved." In the St. Paul +convention spoken of, politics obtained a foothold, and some weak resolutions +in favor of the army canteen were adopted but not even the champions +of the canteen were willing to subscribe to the statement that alcohol is +ever a real food. + +Just previous to our last convention much noise was made through +the daily press concerning a finding of some English scientist to the effect +that an acquired tendency cannot be transmitted to offspring. We were +told that this would upset the theory that children inherit a craving for +intoxicants from intemperate parents, and "the moralists and reformers +would have to readjust this logic on these points." In the annual report +of the president of the Union a year ago, attention was drawn to the fact +that those who indulge in this sort of sophistry have not read what the +teachings of temperance workers have been on the subject. Such was not +the opinion of the scientists making the report, for it says "Children of +drunkards are liable to be mentally and physically weak and tend to +become paupers, criminals, epileptics and drunkards." It will be seen +from what has been said that this is the position we have held all along. +Dr. Davis, the dean of American physicians opposing the use of alcohol, +has published during the year a number of articles showing the impossibility +of alcohol's being of service as a medicine, and has dwelt especially +upon its harmful effects in fevers, diseases in which it is still much +prescribed. The two influential temperance societies composed of American +physicians have, during the past year, kept up the agitation against +alcohol as a medicine, and good is coming from it, as gradually medical +journals are giving more and more space to the question. The following +international manifesto has been issued by the leading physicians of the +world: + + + INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL MANIFESTO. + +"The following statement has been agreed upon by the Council of +the British Medical Temperance Association, the American Medical Temperance +Association, the Society of Medical Abstainers in Germany, the +leading physicians in England and on the continent. The purpose of this +is to have a general agreement of opinions of all prominent physicians +in civilized countries concerning the dangers from alcohol, and in this +way give support to the efforts made to check and prevent the evils from +this source. + +In view of the terrible evils which have resulted from the consumption +of alcohol, evils which in many parts of the world are rapidly increasing, +we, members of the medical profession, feel it to be our duty, as +being in some sense the guardians of the public health, to speak plainly +of the nature of alcohol, and of the injury to the individual and the +danger to the community which arise from the prevalent use of intoxicating +liquors as beverages. + +We think that it ought to be known that: + +1. Experiments have demonstrated that even a small quantity of +alcoholic liquor, either immediately or after a short time, prevents perfect +mental action, and interferes with the functions of the cells and +tissues of the body, impairing self-control by producing other markedly +injurious effects. Hence alcohol must be regarded as a poison, and ought +not to be classed among foods. + +2. Observation establishes the fact that a moderate use of alcoholic +liquors, continued over a number of years, produces a gradual deterioriation +of the tissues of the body, and hastens the changes which old age +brings, thus increasing the average liability to disease (especially to +infectious disease,) and shortening the duration of life. + +3. Total abstainers, other conditions being similar, can perform more +work, possess greater powers of endurance, have on the average less sickness, +and recover more quickly than non-abstainers, especially from +infectious diseases, while altogether escape diseases specially caused by +alcohol. + +4. All the bodily functions of a man, as of every other animal, are +best performed in the absence of alcohol, and any supposed experience +to the contrary is founded on delusion, a result of the action of alcohol +on the nerve centers. + +5. Further, alcohol tends to produce in the offspring of drinkers an +unstable nervous system, lowering them mentally, morally and physically. +Thus deterioration of the race threatens us, and this is likely to be greatly +accelerated by the alarming increase of drinking among women, who +have hitherto been little addicted to this vice. Since the mothers of the +coming generation are thus involved the importance and danger of this +increase cannot be exaggerated. + +Seeing, then, that the common use of alcoholic beverages is always +and everywhere followed, sooner or later, by moral, physical and social +results of a most serious and threatening character, and that it is the cause, +direct or indirect, of a very large proportion of the poverty, suffering, +vice, crime, lunacy, disease and death, not only in the case of those who +take such beverages, but in the case of others who are unavoidably associated +with them, we feel warranted, nay, compelled to urge the general +adoption of total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors as beverages, +as the surest, simplest, and quickest method of removing the evils which +necessarily result from their use. Such a course is not only universally +safe, but it is also natural. + +We believe that such an era of health, happiness and prosperity would +be inaugerated thereby that many of the social problems of the present +age would be solved." + +The year has been marked by more detailed examination of the +effects of alcohol upon the human system, with the result that progress +towards its eventual overthrow as a medicine has been distinctly made. +The greatest reforms are brought about quietly, but truth is mighty and +does prevail. It will take time but gradually all will come to feel the +suggestive power in the fact that "The table of nature is spread, and +bountifully spread, for all its millions upon millions of guests, but wine +and strong drink are not on the table." + + + SCIENTIFIC TESTIMONY ON BEER + (From speech by SENATOR J. H. GALLINGER, M. D., January 9, 1901.) + OPINIONS OF LEADING PHYSICIANS. + +The alarming growth of the use of beer among our people, and the +spreading delusion among many who consider themselves temperate and +sober, that the encouragement of beer drinking is an effective way of +promoting the cause of temperance and of aiding to stamp out the demon +rum, impelled the Toledo Blade to send a representative to a number of the +leading physicians of Toledo to obtain their opinions as to the real damage +which indulgence in malt liquors does the victim of that form of intemperance. + +Every one is not only a gentleman of the highest personal character, +but is a physician whose professional abilities have been severely tested, +and received the stamp of the highest indorsement by the public and their +professional brethren. More skilful physicians are not to be found anywhere. +We have not selected those of known temperance principles. What +they say of beer is not colored by any feeling for or against temperance, +but is the cold, bare experience of men of science who know whereof they +speak. + +A BEER DRINKING CITY. + +Toledo is essentially a beer drinking city. The German population is +very large. Five of the largest breweries in the country are here. Probably +more beer is drank, in proportion to the population, than in any other +city in the United States. The practice of these physicians is, therefore, +largely among beer drinkers, and they have had abundant opportunities to +know exactly its bearings on health and disease. + +Every one bears testimony that no man can drink beer safely, that +it is an injury to any one who uses it in any quantity, and that its effect +on the general health of the country has been even worse than that of +whiskey. The indictment they with one accord present against beer drinking +is simply terrible. + +The devilfish crushing a man in his long, winding arms, and sucking +his blood from his mangled body, is not so frightful an assailant as this +deadly but insidious enemy, which fastens itself upon its victim, and daily +becomes more and more the wretched man's master, and finally dragging +him to his grave at a time when other men are in their prime of mental +and bodily vigor. + + +BEER KILLS QUICKER THAN OTHER LIQUORS. + +Dr. S. H. Burgen, a practitioner 35 years, 28 in Toledo, says: "I +think beer kills quicker than any other liquor. My attention was first called +to its insidious effects, when I began examining for life insurance. I +passed as unusually good risks five Germans--young business men--who +seemed in the best health, and to have superb constitutions. In a few +years I was amazed to see the whole five drop off, one after another, with +what ought to have been mild and easily curable diseases. On comparing +my experience with that of other physicians I found they were all having +similar luck with confirmed beer drinkers, and my practice since has heaped +confirmation on confirmation. + +"The first organ to be attacked is the kidneys; the liver soon sympathizes, +and then comes, most frequently, dropsy or Bright's disease, both +certain to end fatally. Any physician, who cares to take the time, will +tell you that among the dreadful results of beer drinking are lockjaw and +erysipelas, and that the beer drinker seems incapable of recovering from +mild disorders and injuries not usually regarded of a grave character. +Pneumonia, pleurisy, fevers, etc., seem to have a first mortgage on him, +which they foreclose remorselessly at an early opportunity. + + +BEER WORSE THAN WHISKEY. + +"The beer drinker is much worse off than the whiskey drinker, who +seems to have more elasticity and reserve power. He will even have delirium +tremens; but after the fit is gone you will sometimes find good material +to work upon. Good management may bring him around all right. +But when a beer drinker gets into trouble it seems almost as if you have +to recreate the man before you can do anything for him. I have talked +this for years, and have had abundance of living and dead instances around +me to support my opinions." + + +WRONGS WE CAN NEVER UNDO. + +(By Delle M. Mason.) + + I have come home to you, mother. Father, your wayward son + Has come to himself at last, and knows the harm he has done. + I have bleached your hair out, father, more than the frosts of years; + I have dimmed your kind eyes, mother, by many tears. + + Since I left you, father, to work the farm alone, + And bought a stock of liquors with what I called my own, + I've been ashamed to see you; I knew it broke you down, + To think you had brought up a boy to harm his native town. + + I've given it all up, mother; I'll never sell it more. + I've smashed the casks and barrels, I've shut and locked the door. + I've signed the temperance pledge--the women stood and sang, + The clergymen gave three hearty cheers, and all the church bells rang. + + But one thing seemed to haunt me, as I came home to you; + Of all the wrongs that I have done not one can I undo. + There's old Judge White, just dropping into a drunkard's grave; + I've pushed him down with every drop of brandy that I gave. + + And there's young Tom Eliot--was such a trusty lad, + I made him drink the first hot glass of rum he ever had. + Since then, he drinks night after night, and acts a ruffian's part, + He has maimed his little sister, and broke his mother's heart. + + And there is Harry Warner, who married Bessie Hyde, + He struck and killed their baby when it was sick, and cried, + And I poured out the poison, that made him strike the blow, + And Bessie raved and cursed me, she is crazy now, you know. + + I tried to act indifferent, when I saw the women come, + There was Ryan's wife, whose children shivered and starved at home, + He'd paid me, that same morning, his last ten cents for drink, + And when I saw her poor, pale face, it made me start and shrink. + + There was Tom Eliot's mother, wrapped in her widow's veil, + And the wife of Brown, the merchant, my whiskey made him fail; + And my old playmate, Mary, she stood amid the band, + Her white cheek bore a livid mark, made by her husband's hand. + + It all just overcome me; I yielded then and there, + And Elder Sharpe, he raised his hand, and offered up a prayer. + I know that he forgave me, I couldn't help but think + Of his own boy, his only son, whom I had taught to drink. + + So I have come back, father, to the home that gave me birth, + And I will plow and sow and reap the gifts of mother earth. + Yet, if I prove a good son now, and worthy of you two, + My heart is heavy with the wrongs I never can undo. + + +SHE'S COMING ON THE FREIGHT. + +Or, The joint Keeper's Dilemma. + + Say, Billy, git ten two-by-four + 'Nd twenty six-by-eight, + 'Nd order from the hardware store + Ten sheets of boiler plate, + 'Nd 'phone the carpenter to come + Most mighty quick--don't wait, + For there's a story on the streets + She's coming on the freight. + + O, many years I've carried on + My business in this town; + I've helped elect its officers + From mayor Dram clear down; + I've let policemen, fer a wink, + Get jags here every day; + Say, Billy, get a move on, fer + She's headed right this way. + + I don't mind temp'rance meetin's + When they simply resolute, + Fer after all their efforts bring + But mighty little fruit; + But when crowbars and hatchets + 'Nd hand axes fill the air-- + Say, Billy, git that boiler iron + Across the window there! + + It beats the nation--no, I think + The Nation's beatin' me, + When I can pay a license here + And still not sell it free; + Fer I must keep my customers + Outside 'nd make 'em wait, + Because the story's got around + She's comin' on the freight. + + There, Billy, now we've got her-- + Six-eights across the door, + 'Nd solid half-inch boiler iron + Where plate glass showed before; + But, Bill, before that freight arrives + Ye'd better take a pick + 'Nd pry that cellar window loose, + So we can git out quick. ED. BLAIR. + +A. WOMAN. + +(Dedicated to Mrs. Carry Nation.) + + When Kansas joints are open wide + To ruin men on every side, + What power can stem their lawless tide? + A woman. + + When many mother's hearts have bled + And floods of sorrow's tears are shed, + Who strikes the serpent on the head? + A woman. + + When boys are ruined every day + And older ones are led astray, + Who boldly strikes and wins the fray? + A. woman. + + When drunkenness broods o'er the home, + Forbidding pleasure there to come, + Whose hatchet spills the jointist's rum? + A woman. + + When rum's slain victims fall around, + And vice and poverty abound, + Who cuts this up as to the ground? + A woman. + + When those who should enforce the law + Are useless as are men of straw, + What force can make saloons withdraw? + A woman. + + When public sentiment runs low, + And no one dares to make them go, + Whose hatchet lays their fixtures low? + A woman. + + Who sways this mighty rising tide + That daily grows more deep and wide, + Until no rum shall it outride? + A woman. + + Who then can raise her fearless band + And say 'twas "Home Defender's" band + Who drove this monster from the land! + A woman. + --DR. T. J. MERRYMAN. + +THAT LITTLE HATCHET. + + The world reveres brave Joan of Arc, + Whose faith inspired her fellowman + To crush invading columns dark. + So, modern woman's firmer will + To conquer crime's unholy clan, + Crowns her man's moral leader still. + + A century was fading fast, + When o'er its closing decade passed + A matron's figure, chaste, yet bold, + Who held within her girdle's fold + A bran' new hatchet. + + The jointists smiled within their bars, + 'Mid bottles, mirrors and cigars-- + The woman passed behind each screen, + And soon ocurred a "literal" scene-- + Rum, ruin, racket! + + At first she "moral suasion" tried, + But lawless men mere "talk" deride:-- + 'Twas then she seized her household ax + And for enforcing law by acts, + Found nought to match it. + + The work thus wrought with zeal discreet, + Has saved that town from rum complete; + Proving that woman's moral force + Like man's, is held, as last resource, + By sword or hatchet. + + And following up that dauntless raid, + The nation welcomes her crusade; + All o'er the land, pure women charmed, + Are eager forming, each one armed + With glittering hatchets. + + Talk of "defenders of the nation!" + Woman's slight arm sends consternation + 'Mong its worst foes, on social fields, + Worse than the "Mauser," when she wields + The "smashing" hatchet. + + Mahommed sought by arts refined, + To raise his standard o'er mankind; + But found success for aye denied, + Until at length he boldly tried + The battle-hatchet. + + When soon his power imperial, shone + O'er countless tribes, in widening zone; + And wine was banished from the board + Of Moslem millions, by the sword + And victor's hatchet. + + So may it be with this great nation, + When woman tests her high vocation; + Persuasion proves a futile power + To quell the joints, but quick they cower + At the whirling hatchets. + + True chivalry must come again, + And men, more noble, but less vain, + Responding to its modern sense, + Guard woman, while in self-defense + She plies her hatchet. + + When honor bright appeals to men + "The weak confounds the mighty," then + Side doors and slot-machines must close + And such games hide, when women pose + With sharpened hatchets. + + 'Else are men brutes, and all their pride + And gallant valor, they must hide + In coward shirking. This shameful end + They must accept, or else defend + The "home-guard" hatchet. + + 'Tis woman's crucial, fateful hour, + Her fine soul's test, 'gainst man's coarse power. + In war, she can not be man's peer, + But for home's weal, all men sincere + Bow to her hatchet. + + Man's "Vigilance" is oft condoned, + When Vice and Crime has been enthroned. + Shall women then, be more to blame, + When she In Virtue's sacred name + Raises her hatchet? + + 'Tis she must grasp the nation's prize-- + A pure, proud home, earth's paradise. + The joints must go, but, never till + Woman exerts her potent will + And holy hatchet. + + As men, once slaves, their freedom gained + By force, and power at length attained; + So, cultured brains and force combined, + Shall mark the sphere of womankind + And surely reach it. + + In valor, more Joan d'Arc's are needed, + Woman's high social power's conceded, + But she herself, must blaze the path + To public morals, by her own worth + And "Little Hatchet." + --C. BUTLER-ANDREWS. + + + +Dr. Howard Russell told in his address at Kokomo, Sunday, March +24, how when Mrs. Nation was on her way from Topeka to Peoria +recently, a passenger on the same train came into the car where she +was and sang a song of his own composition. He was evidently a farmer +with a large stock of mother-wit. He was lame, and limped into the +car, and hopped up and down while he sang. A great deal of merry +enthusiasm was aroused, and the car, packed full of people, expressed +their appreciation by round after round of applause. It is evident that +Mrs. Nation is quite popular in that part of the country. + +The song is as follows: + + Hurrah, Samantha, Mrs. Nation is in town! + So get on your bonnet and your Sunday-meeting gown. + Oh, I am so blamed excited I am hopping up and down, + Hurrah, Samantha, Carrie Nation is in town! + + Get you ready, we are going to the city, + Where the "Home Defenders" are all feeling gay, + And the mothers all exclaiming, "Its a pity + That Carrie Nation does not come here every day." + + I want to hear that mirror-smashing music, + And to look in Mrs. Nation's blessed face, + And to see the saloon men all cavorting + With that hatchet bringing sadness to their face. + + Hurrah, Samantha, Mrs. Nation is in town! + So wear your brightest bonnet and your alapaca gown. + Oh, I am so jubilated I'm a-hopping up and down, + Hurrah! hurrah! Samantha, Mrs. Nation is in town. + +OUTCAST. + +(Found in manuscript among the personal effects of a prostitute, 22 +years of age, who died in the Commercial Hospital, Cincinnati, O.) + + Once I was pure as the snow, but I fell, + Fell like the snowflakes from heaven to hell; + Fell to be trampled as filth on the street + Fell to be scoffed, to be spit on and beat; + Pleading--cursing--dreading to die, + Selling my soul to whoever would buy, + Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread, + Hating the living and fearing the dead. + Merciful God, have I fallen so low? + And yet I was once like the beautiful snow. + + Once I was fair as the beautiful snow, + With an eye like a crystal, a heart like its glow, + Once I was loved for my innocent grace-- + Flattered and sought for the charms of my face! + Fathers,--mothers,--sisters,--all, + God and myself have I lost by my fall; + The veriest wretch that goes shivering by, + Will make a wide sweep lest I wander too nigh; + For all that in on or above me I know, + There is nothing so pure as the beautiful snow. + + How strange it should be that this beautiful snow + Should fall on a sinner with nowhere to go! + How strange it should be when the night comes again, + If the snow and the ice struck my desperate brain. + Fainting,--freezing,--dying alone, + Too wicked for prayer, too weak for a moan, + To be heard in the streets of the crazy town, + Gone mad in the joy of the snow coming down; + To be and to die in my terrible woe, + With a bed and shroud of the beautiful snow. + + Helpless and foul as the trampled snow + Sinner, despair not! Christ stoopeth low + To rescue the soul that is lost in sin, + And raise it to life and enjoyment again. + Groaning--bleeding--dying for thee + The crucified hung on the cursed tree, + His accent of mercy fell soft on thine ear, + "Is there mercy for me? Will He heed my weak prayer?" + O, God! in the stream that for sinners did flow, + Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. + +THE LIPS THAT TOUCH LIQUOR MUST +NEVER TOUCH MINE. + + You are coming to woo me, but not as of yore, + For I hastened to welcome your ring at the door, + For I trusted that he, who stood waiting for me then, + Was the brightest, the noblest, the truest of men. + + Your lips on my own when they printed "Farewell," + Had never been soiled by the "Beverage of Hell," + But they come to me now with the bacchanal sign, + And the lips that touch liquor must never touch mine. + + I think of that night, in the garden alone, + When whispering you told me your heart was my own, + That your love in the future should faithfully be, + Unshared by another, kept only for me. + + Oh sweet to my soul is the memory still, + Of the lips that met mine when they murmured "I will," + But now to their pleasure no more I incline, + For the lips that touch liquor must never touch mine. + + O, John! How it crushed me when first in your face, + The pen of the "Rum Fiend" had written "Disgrace," + And turned me in silence and tears from that breath, + All poisoned and foul from the chalice of death. + + It shattered the hopes I had cherished to last, + It darkened the future and clouded the past, + It shattered my Idol and ruined the shrine, + For the lips that touch liquor must never touch mine. + + I loved you, O! dearer than language can tell, + And you saw it, you proved it, you knew it too well; + But the man of my love was far other than he + Who now from the "tap room" came reeling to me. + + In manhood and honor, so noble and right, + His heart was so true and his genius so bright, + And his Soul was unstained, unpolluted by wine, + But the lips that touch liquor must never touch mine. + + You promised reform; but I trusted in vain; + Your pledge was but made to be broken again, + And the lover so false to his promises now, + Will not as a husband be true to his vow. + + The word must be spoken that bids you depart, + Though the effort to speak it would shatter my heart, + Though in silence with blighted affections I pine, + Yet the lips that touch liquor must never touch mine. + + If one spark in your bosom of virtue remain, + Go fan it with prayer, till it kindle again, + Resolved, "God helping," in future to be + From wine and its follies unshackled and free. + + And when you have conquered this foe of your Soul, + In manhood and honor beyond its control, + This heart will again beat responsive to thine, + And the lips that touch liquor must never touch mine. + --Unknown. + + +WAR AMONG THE POETS. + +From the Royal Arch News, the warhorse of the booze hoodlums, +the snapdragon of the jungle, the siren of Hades. + +"The Lips that Touch Liquor Shall Never Touch Mine," so sings-- +Miss Cora Vere, who writes jingle for the Anti-Saloon press, and this is +the reply that the R. A. News would make: + + The lips that touch liquor don't hanker to touch + The lips of a maiden like you--not much! + If a man--not a milksop--should happened to wed + A creature like you, he had better be dead; + For never a moment of peace would he see + Unless he would bow to your every decree, + If he smoked a cigar, or drank beer, you would make + A hell of his home, and perhaps you would break + Into court and denounce him, in search of divorce, + And fools would uphold you, as matter of course. + Perhaps, like the Nation, a hatchet you'd take + And his bottles of beer and cigar-boxes break, + And get your name blazoned in all of the papers, + By your rowdydow talk and unwomanly capers, + No! the lips that touch liquor don't hanker to touch + The lips of a female like you are--not much! + + +I am not a poet myself but I am fortunate in having a friend that +is, so I called on him to meet this antagonist with a nobler steel, and +behold the defeat of this champion of a dying cause: + +AN AMERICAN COUNTESS, OR LADY VERE. + "The lips that touch liquor, shall never touch mine;" + The meaning is clear, the sense is divine, + Bespeaks a clear head, an unsullied heart-- + A fortune from which no sane man would part. + O, God! give us more of such women, we pray, + Then slop-pots of whisky we'd urge to the fray. + The hatchets of "Carrie," and Cora Vere, + Would knock out the spigots and bungs of whisky. + + An army like those would drive them pell-mell; + For safety they'd Hazen, and think they did well + To escape from the jury of women turned loose + Who have drank to its dregs the damnation of booze. + + The idea that women would "hanker" to touch, + The lips of a demijohn; I guess not--"not much;" + A forty-rod pole should line up between, + No nearer than that a fair lady be seen. + + So now, "Indiana, of Royal Arch News," + You've taken great pains to give us your views; + I take up the gauntlet, and venture reply; + I stop not to argue, but simply defy. + + You say in one case one had better be dead + Than with a good woman in wedlock be wed: + But somewhere I've read your kind do not die; + But passing from earth, 'are hung up to dry." + + Besotted with whiskey,--unfitting to tell, + Even Satan himself avoiding the "smell;" + Before then we part, I would bid you adieu, + Reform while you may--begin life anew. + + If you have a surplus--like Lady Vere, + Please pass them around, turn them over to me; + "A la Hobson"--I'd venture to sample the store, + And look o'er the field--yes! and "hanker" for more. +Sparta, Mo. D. E. GRAYSTON. + + +"GOD BLESS OUR CARRIE NATION." + + May she live to see the day, + When the liquor traffic will be no more, + When the traffic of the devil + Will all be swept away + And God's peace remain supreme from shore to shore. + + God bless the hatchet wielder, + May it never cease to strike, + Till it drives the cursed intemperance from our land + Let us stand for God and duty, + Till we gain the Eden of beauty + And be what God designed for us, + A happy union band. + + God bless our Carrie Nation, + Give her courage, strength, and might, + To go forth in former battlements arrayed. + Till this cursed intemperance, + Will be driven from our shore, + From every village, hamlet and the glade. + + O, God raise up a million, + Of our Carrie Nation minds, + That they may fight for freedom, from the thrall. + Let's join our hands with Carrie + And do not let us tarry, + Oh, let us toil for Jesus one and all. + + +AMERICA'S HISTORIC HATCHET. + + Ere Yankee Doodle came to town, + And routed king and tory, + Three words sublime were writ by time + To live in song and story; + "George Washington"--immortal name + There's few or none can match it; + His father's favorite cherry tree, + And "George's little hatchet." + + In Boston's harbor next we trace + The little hatchet's story; + In smashing up the Crown's tea-chests, + It won a crown of glory. + And every time Wrong shows his head, + That weapon "bald doth snatch it, + For patriot hands are ever found + To wield the "Yankee hatchet." + + A century and more has passed, + With blooms and blizzards blowing + O'er Kansas' plains--where corn and grains, + 'Round happy homes are growing; + Where statutes pure close each "joint" door, + Forbidding to unlatch it, + There, in the fight, defending Right, + We find our "loyal hatchet." + + The boy who 'could not tell a lie," + The flag of freedom planted, + He shelled "Corn"--wallis to the "cob" + On Yorktown's field undaunted. + Since then, our tea is duty free + No Briton dare attach it; + While the new woman in the case, + Now poses with the hatchet. + + She dares to fight a gorgon fight! + A cruel monster hell-born, + Whose hungry maw, ignoring law, + Mocks misery's tears to scorn. + She may not slay the beast, but aye + Her blows will badly scratch it; + All praise is due the woman true, + Who wields the "home-guard" hatchet. + + When time shall build the marble guild, + That marks man's reformation, + Its arch of fame shall bear the name + Of dauntless Carrie Nation. + Her righteous scorn of rum and wrong-- + May all creation catch it, + And join the "Woman's World Crusade," + Armed with "our nation's" hatchet. + + --Minna Irving, in Leslie's Weekly. Revised and +second stanza added by C. Butler Andrews. + + +THE HATCHET CRUSADE. + +(Dedicated to Mrs. Carry Nation.) + + Oh, woman, armed with one little hatchet. + Fighting for justice and right, + And with your brave mother courage + Knowing your cause was right, + + You've done more to hasten God's kingdom, + And to crush satan's power o'er men, + Than countless numbers of creation's lords, + With the power of the ballot thrown in. + + You've awakened the mothers to action + Whose powers have long dormant been, + While the minions of satan have strained every nerve + To ruin our boys and our men. + + Rouse, mothers, too long we've been sleeping, + Shall one of us let it be said + That we calmly stood by while those who are dear + Were down to destruction led. + + American mothers, hear me, + If you think God will not send the warning + In hieroglyphics upon the wall? + God is not mocked, He is just the same, + + And has given the power to you. + If you're weighed and found wanting our nation will fall + Because you did not your duty do. + Then let us unfurl our broad banners, + Fling their folds to the breezes high, + Let this still be our motto, + "We'll trust in God, and keep our powder dry." + --CARRIE CHEW SNEDDON. + +---------------------------------------- + +"The Use and Need of the +Life of Carry A. Nation." + +Revised Edition. 25,000 Copies. + +Finely Illustrated. +Fancy Paper Covers, 50c. Cloth, $1.00 +BY MAIL POSTPAID. +ADDRESS ALL ORDERS TO +CARRY A. NATION, Guthrie, Okla. +------------------------------------------ +Prohibition Federation. + +Organizers wanted. We want earnest men and +women to take the field and do active, aggressive work +for us. + +Send for literature and instructions to headquarters, +Guthrie, Oklahoma. + + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +YOUR BALLOT +IS +YOUR +HATCHET + +"The word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any +two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and +spirit." + +The Home Defender. +The Home Builder. + + "Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home." + +TO CUT +OUT +THE EVIL +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +The above is the heading of my paper which I am now publishing at +Guthrie, Okla. + +I know that the mass of the people are in the dark concerning my work +and the need of it, because of the misrepresentations of the rum-bought +press. I have written my book which gives the facts of God's calling me +into this work because He loves the people and has heard the mothers' +prayers. + +I want every person who reads this announcement to send for a free +sample copy of the "Hatchet." It will open your eyes. It will make +prohibition votes. + +The aroused motherhood of this nation SHALL rescue her children +and stop the soul-destroying, vote-protected, licensed-for-money liquor +traffic in its annual slaughter of a hundred thousand of her sons. + +If you want a prohibition paper that even the enemies of prohibition +will subscribe for and read, write to "The Hatchet" for terms. It is a +sixteen page illustrated monthly magazine, 25cts per year. It is a "hit" +and smashes where it hits. + +Special offer: Send the names of ten of the most active prohibition +men and women of your neighborhood and ten cents, and you will receive +"The Hatchet" for one year. + +Full time workers can make good wages and many converts to prohibition +by selling my book. "The Use and Needs of the Life of Carry A. +Nation." For terms write "The Hatchet," Guthrie, Okla. + +Special Offer: Send us 50cts and we will send you the book and also +"The Hatchet" for one year. After receiving the book if you are not +satisfied return it in good condition inside of seven days and we will refund +your money. + +DO IT NOW. While you wait, liquor wins! Procrastination is the +thief of time--of votes--of souls! + + Address, "THE HATCHET," Guthrie, Oklahoma + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg Etext Use and Need of the Life of C. A. 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