The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-02
LEFT ALL ALONE.
Mrs. Nations Old Friends DO
Not Flock to Her Rescue.
Still Languishes in Jail Because
S14S Isn't Paid.
SHE BEWAILS HER LOT
Says Not q Preacher Has Called
Upon Her.
Was Advised TO Smash but Is
Now Deserted.
SHE BEWAILS HER LOT

Mrs. Carrie Nation, Home Defender
and. once the leader of a crusade whose
lighting force was legion,now anguish
es in the county jail hoping for free
dom but unable to obtain it, and 1t IS a
paitry s14s.30 which blocks the road to
freedom.
Mrs. Nation has not the money to Sc
cure her freedom. David Nation, whom
she no more calls husband. can not be
expected to come to her relief. ". c.
Moore, the Kansas City grain merchant
who went on her bond for $1,000 has
not been heard from. OF the hundreds
who marched under her banner and
smashed, but two have interested them
selves in her struggles for freedom.
There were at least l ,483 persons who
believed in her crusade against the
joints and fully that number who COM
mended her actions. It was close to
that number of persons who at differ
ent times followed in her wake and
aided IN leaving behind a trail of
wreckage and split liquors. If each one
Of the /, 4S3 would contribute the paltry
sum of 10 cents Mrs. Nations fine and
costs could be paid and she would go
free.
Am deserted?'' Mrs Nation has
asked that question from behind the
bars in the county jail more than once
during her two weeks as a prisoner. 7
have not seen a person who is interest
ed in the cause of temperance for a
week. said Mrs Nation this morning
II have not seen DR.. Mcfarland nor
Rev. Mr.. Emerson since I got in Jail
Not a minister has visited me. What
are they all doing? 7 don't know what
is going on Tt seems as if I am for
saken. When was smashing there
were hundreds who said good and
keep it up and assured me that they
would stand by me but now in the hour
of need I have not heard from one of
them and they have not contributed a
10 cent piece toward securing my re-
lease. I don't know Whether I can get
out or not IL I had accepted the Of
fers had to go on the stage at $500 a
week or 500 a night I would be well
able to pay this fine and the costs but
my mission has not been to make mon
ey. That is not my work and I could
not keep on with the work for the
cause Of temperance by accepting such
offers SO I refused them. There is no
joy in this world for me except to gain
the end
Mrs. Nation islocked in thelarge hospital
cen cen u Lhe county jail. She has but one
ceilmate. Mrs John Mahana who was
convicted by Assistant Attorney General
of town. And SO the spirit Of temperance
and its bitter foe. the demon rum are
TO live as a happy family. It has been a
case Of the lion and the lamb. Mrs. Ma
ton Is all sympathy for the little frail
creature of q woman who has not one
iota Of the sDunk and determination of
the joint srnasher She stood with her arm
around Mrs. Mahanna and stroked her
thin, pinched face and said: Poor soul :.
Mrs. Nations a mighty good woman
said Mrs. Mahanna. She has converted
me- You know my husband was an ole
soldier. He drank and three years ago
this month he committed suicide. / didn't
know how to make living and they told
me to sell liquor and that It would be all
Mrs Nation is locked in a large hospital
never sell any more"
Mrs. Mahanna is the only prisoner con-
fined in the county JAN serving a SEN
tence for violating the prohibifory law. |
plished. said Mrs. Nation This poor
woman 1s in jail Where she has sold
drops 5ointists in town here have sold
barrels. but they are not paying the pen |
atty. If it was one Of the notorious Joint, |
lists Of Topeka that was in here he would |
would get him out When / came here |
and started smashing it was a new thing, |
novelty, and 4 had plenty of followers, /
but i has worn off; it is no longer new. |
and I am alone
Mrs Nation has missed two important /
lecture dates on account of her impris~ /
0nment. She was guaranteed $50 and her I
expenses to lecture at Huntington, Ark /
July %, and $50 and expenses for a lee /
III additfon fp the money 10 Be MID her T
she would have Melted neat sum by /
selling her papers and souvenir hatchets. /
At Alma Ill, she was paid $50 for. her
the sale Of her hatchets and papers she I
made S117 in one day She has a date to /
lie, Ind, August to s. and dates in New
Z ork and other eastern states to keep her /
busy snntil September, when she Is due I
at Colorado Springs.