The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-03
1HIzksH By
8 MYllES O'HARA, HlJMl)RIST
The Fabrication Of Vice Crusade and Regene-
ration IN Wicked New York.
RIIMORED IMPORTATION OF MRS. NATION
TO MANHATTAN CREATES SOME NEW IDEAS

an defensive. wud the temperance kru-
saders ov. KANSAS. an that in the airly
fall they are goin' to import Mrs. Nation
to New York to praich her temperance
crusaydin' principles. wud the view of
pnrifyin' vice, drinkin' corrupshun an
good guvernmint.''
Anything else, Mangan?"
An that she's goin to clear out livery
bar-room, the two kinds of hotels. attn
houses, an all places ov intertainmint
where they sell the hard stuff. The only
places that will have a chance to make
a lirin' will be the places where soft
drinks are sold with religious motoes in
frames stuck up against the walls. An
mind you, Myles, she's goin' to do the
job with moral swaishon.'
What's that?"
A BIG UNDERTAKING
''Wcli. as near as I kin make it out.
she's goin to praich to all the bar-keep-
ers in New York, Coney Island, Flat
bush, Harlim, Brooklyn, an the borough
ov Richmond, shown thin the evil ov
their ways an akin thin to sthop dis
pinsin' the hard stuff over the bar, an
to close up the family intrinces''
Myles O'Hara smiled. "A purity big
contract. Mangan. May I inquire. is the
Ovid Crusader goin' to how'd a mass
Eoin' to make 4 housc-to-htuse can
viss?"
why. man alive. she's goin' to go
from house to house. Tor shure: that's
the only straight way To implny moral
srraishon.''
'.Mangan." replied O'IIara. with a pc
culiar twinkle in his eye, the day she's
booked to visit Murphy's place. on the
corner down the sthreet, I'm Soin' to
knock off for a half day. wuldn't miss
that visit for anything. You better jine
me an I'll put fur the drinks. FinneGan.
that's Murphy'S bartender, has a fine
free an aisey way dud his tongue, an
its dollars to doughnuts that iv Mrs.
Nation starts to praichin' what you call
moral swaisllon to Finnegan, on evil
ways ov drinkin'. the ovid crusader will
have all she can do to how'd her own
in the first three rounds. Finnegan is a
man ov plain speech. Ov cOorSe, it Wud
not be appreciated at a church strawber-
~ festival. but for gineral effect. or at
a mixed ale party, or in the minis de-
partment ov a political steamboat picnic
excursion. I know no man who kin
how'd a candle TO Tim Finnegan, an I
know a good many min wud good Wurk-
in tongues
DIFFERENT KIND OF SMASHING.
Fright you are. Myles.'
but iv Mrs. Nation intinds to do any
funny bizness, like that which she's bin
dom out West. in Topeka, Wichita, an
other distant towns-well. all I kin say
is that it will be another kind ov smash
in, an they'll be no whiskey split
t.But, tell me. O'Hara, why. whin she
was in Chicago, didn't she thry moral
swaishon there. Shure Chicago is pur-
ty good imitashon ov New York on a
small scale?"
For this raison. N1angan. Afther she
got to her boardin'-house, tired wud
hard days wurk over the bargain count
ers. she got a telegram dispatch from the
ovid man. sayin': Carrie. come home, or
I'll get drunk again. an she left on the
next train
well. now look at that. an he the
husband of the graft temperance crusad-
er. An what has she bin doin' since she
got back to the ovid man, Dunno
"Gettin' into Jail. an-ah, there goes
the whistle