The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-14

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About 800 people, a large majority
of them women, were crowded into the
little auditorium of Willard hall when
Mrs. Nation, escorted by several W. c.
Y. {. leaders, pushed her way down the
aisle to the platform So great was the
crush, in fact, that the meeting was
hastily Adjourned after Mrs. Nation and
one or two others had spoken. Many
women, crushed in the struggling mob
around the door, tainted and were
taken out with great difficulty. Cheers
and applause greeted Mrs. Nation as
she stepped on the platform and united
her bonnet strings.
Speech, speech" shouted the as
semblage.
Yes, / am going 90 talk right now,
said Mrs. Nation.
Mrs. Nation then bitterly Upbraided
TIE w. c. r. II. and church members
in general for their neglect of the
people in the slUms.
Leaving Willard hall, Mrs Nation
was carried off her feet by the crush
around the entrance. There were no
policemen to keep back the crowd and
Mrs. Nation, escorted by Mrs. Al. 3.
Carse of the w c. T. u. and sur
rounded by q cheering, shouting, strug
Cling mob OF men and boys, was practi-
cally showed down La Sale street for
over a block where a cab was secured,
but Mrs. Nation, followed by a crowd
+ of several hundred drove to the city
hall
When informed of Mrs. Nations in
tention of visiting him. Mayor Harri-
son said:
i viii not see Mrs. Nation. Chicago
had d taste of anarchy in Haymarket
Square some years ago and I believe
the city cares for no more of it in the
shape of Carrie Nation and her
Ratchet Meanwhile the police, if they
ere obeying instructions, are enforcing
the midnight closing ordinance and the
best thing Mrs. Nation can do is to
hurry back to Kansas"
Consequently Mrs Nations errand
at the city hall failed
Promises to Return.
Mrs. Nation left Chicago for Topeka
tonight. She is under bonds to appear
in the Kansas capital tomorrow for
[ trial in connection with the destruc-
ton of property in that city. Before
I leaving she announced that as soon as
she had cleaned up things at home
she would come back here, and if
things were not properly taken care Of
/ by the authorities she and her friends
would take matters ia their own hands,
and TO use her own expression, I'VE
viii make souvenirs
Her meeting with the saloon keep
] ers, which she had announced, did not
} materialize, and in default of having
them for an audience she went once
more to the saloon in State street that
( she visited last night, and in which
/ her grandson is manager She de
/ livered a talk to the people she found
/ there-a motley throng, embracing all
/ classes.
/ Mrs. Nation mounted a. table and for
/ fifteen minutes talked with great
energy urging her hearers to abandon
/ both the use and sale of liquor, and
denouncing in the most unmeasured
/ terms all those who permitted its sale.
/ As she left the place she accOsted a
( woman who possessed a rich black
( eye.
+ My, my, what a pity. Who gave that
You better ask your grandson"
was the retort. He knows as much
about the giving of it as I do"
/ To this Mrs. Nation made no reply
and fastened to her carriage.
Visits Dreyfus' Place.
( Previous to calling at this saloon she
I had made d stop in a place at sc State
street owned by E D. Dreyfus. The
proprietor remarked that he was d
/ relative Of Captain Dreyfus Of the
French army.
/ How do you think that he would
/ like to see you in this business?" she
demanded. The saloon keeper replied
( that he was making an honest living
/ This called down a torrent of wrath
l full words, and after she had informed
I him that he was a murderer" Devils
| SculHOn," etc, Mrs. Nation departed.
/ Tonight her meeting at Willard hall
I was attended by about 300 persons,
I nearly all of them temperance people
/ who applauded everything that she
said.
She departed with the assertion that
+ the rum power in this city and ether
| places in the United States is lettering
| TO its fall"
/ Hundreds Of letters, some threaten
/ ing, many cOmmendatOry, and not a
/ are being received by Mrs. Nation.
Among them was one from Battle Axe
! Paddy" Gleason. former mayor of Long
/ Island City, in which the latter, after
/ congratulating Mrs Nation on her
/ work. invited her to come to New York
and placed his battle axe at her dis
/ pcsai