Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-02-22

savage glee while the flesh of th,
victim crackles in the flames. YeriI,
there is such thing as communa
heredity."
MICE TO ROUTE MRS. NATION.
When Mrs. Nation, the Kansa,
joint smasher, goes to Chicago tn,
saloon keepers will be prepared tC
meet the invasion with an army oi
mice. The saloon men are opposed
to force, and concluded to resort Il
more gentle tactics. The feminine
aversion 10 mice is relied upon tC
stampede the female cohorts.
Small boys have been engaged tc
supply mice, aud the price offered is
one cent mouse. All the saloon
men on the levee have a good supply
on hand, and more are coming hourly
Mayor Harrison promises that Mrs.
Carrie Nation viii land in the Bride
well if she attempts any of her
Kansas tactics in Chicago.
"The laws are differen. in Chicago
from the laws iu Kansas" said Mr..
Harrison. "Mrs. Nation will be
locked up aud sent to the Bridewell
if she attempts to start rough house
here. We will not tolerate her for a
minute"
| MRS. NATION IN CHICAGO.
Mrs. Nation in Chicago Tuesday
night spoke at Willard Hall, in
spected the horrors of leyee saloon,
tried to force her way into wine
rooms occupied by men and women
and wound up by shaking hands with
Mayor Harrison at the ball of the
Cook county Democracy.
Mrs. Nation was greatly shocked
to fiud her grandson working as a
bartender in a saloon she visited. She
says she will convert him.
LAwLESSNESS IN KANSAS.
(Richmond Tsmcs.)
j. S. Schilling, of Enterprise,
Kan, whose saloon was demolished
recently by Mrs. Nation, aud whose
wife in turn attacked Mrs. Nation.
has this to say: 81 did not get fair
deal. Myself, wife and child were
through the Galveston storm and
came back penniless. A Junction
City firm gave me some money to
start in business, and l went to En-
terprise to look over the field. l
went to Mayor Emmet Hoffman, son
OF 9. B. Hoffman, and asked him
about it. He said: 'All right; your
fine viii be $50 a month"; l had
two talks with him, and he seemed
entirely friendly to me. After
paid $50 the time was extended to
two months, aud at this rate have
paid. AT any time Mayor Hoffman
had told me to quit / would have
quit gladly, for | wanted no trouble.
Yet nothing was said, and $50 was
paid after / have reason 10 know
that the Hoffmans knew Mrs. Nation
was coming. | am going to ask the
return of this money, and l think
ought to have it. Common fairness
would haveprevented all the trouble"
That tells the whole story. The
prohibition law in the State of
Kansas has not been enforced by the
authorities. On the contrary, viola
tions of it have been winked at by
those whose duty it is to enforce the
law, and men have been granted the
privilege of violating the law upon
the payment of consideration.
1t is very clear from the statement
made by the Kansas saloon keeper,
which we have above quoted, that
the prohibition law in that State has
been openly violated by liquor dealers
with the consent and under the pro-
lection of those whose sworn duty it
is to uphold the law and see that it
is enforced. AS consequence, Mrs.
Nation and her associates decided
that they would take hand at law
breaking themselves, and so they
armed themselves with hatohets and
went into the fray. What else could
the authorities in Kansas expect? If
the officers of the law wink at viola
tions of the law and actually enconr-
age them, how can they expect laymen
to respect and obey it? One act of law
lessness begets another act of lawless-
ness, and it must always be the case,
logically and inevitably, that when
the law is not upheld by the author
tiles the mob spirit will break out.
The Times is opposed to prohibi-
ton laws, and our position on this
subject is so we'll understood by our
readers that we need not go into the
argument. But if the Legislature of
Virginia should adopt a prohibition
law in this State, much as we might
be and would he opposed to it, we
should defend that law and insist
upon its enforcement as much as we
would defend and insist upon the
enforcement of any other law on the
books Law is law until the statute
is repealed, and contempt of law and