The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-03
BROTHERS VIEW OF
MRS. CARRIE NATION

kansas City Starr
JuQ Moore, a dealer in livestock who
/ lives at Fourteenth street and Euclid
avenue, Kansas City. is a brother. of
Mrs Carrie Nation. A reporter for
/ The Star talked with him last night
and learned something of the history
OF Mrs. Nation and the sorrows and
| troubles that whisky drinking brought
INTO her life These finally impelled
I her to become a saloon Wreckprs
The Moore family came from Ken
! lucky before the war and settled on the
! High Grove farm fifteen miles south
OF Kansas City and six miles north of
| HaTr1sonville- During the war
! the family, under Order No. II.
moved To Kansas City and lived here
. Till peace was declared. Carrie MOOre-s
I nrSt husband was Dr. GIOyd Of Hol-
den Mo He was "a very intelligent
man and a splendid physician. but
whisky drinking ruined him and caused
ms death. They had one child that
died IN infancy. In those DAYS when
Mrs Gloyd suffered for the necessities
Of life, she used often to 20 late at
night TO the rear doors of saloons and
coax her Intoxicated husband home
Those were the first experiences that
made heT bitter against the whisky
tratf1c- But they were not the last
ones by any means She had a favor
tie sister who married a cattle dealer
worth $4,000 and every dollar Of this
was spent in whisky drinking. The
cattle dealer came to utter ruin tbro,,e-b
his love of whisky Several years after
the death Of DIT. Gloyd his widow mar
ried David Nation. a LAWYER and ed
itor of Warrensburg. ITO.
Mrs Nation was what her FANNY
called "headstrOng" woman. She hid
a mind of heT own. and when she de-
termined 10 do a thing no a0,oun+ of
persuasion could turn her aside. In 1875
she bought "A large tract Of waste land
near Columbia, Tex Her brother ad-
ViSed against II and told her she was
wasting her money, but she disregard
ed his advice and bought the land
She and Mr.. Nation lived there and
kept hotel in Columbia and made a
great deal Of money. They sold o4It
about eight years ago and moved to
Medicine Lodge, Kan. where they have
lived ever since Mrs. Nation has de-
voted her lift in Medicine Lodge fo
helping the poor and working against
saloons. Six years ago she ATTACHED
the saloons in Medicine Todoa in ~
same way she has attacked them in
Wichita, kiOWa. ENTERPRISE and otba1.
places, and. her brother saws. She made
Medicine Lodge strictly a temperance
town
My sister is not crazy" said Mr.
Moore last night -'On the contra,.,,
she is a remarkably strong minded
woman. She has seen SO u11lcg, Of The
curse Of whisky that she beIia,-es u i
the greatest evil of our time. and she
has consecrated the remainder of her
life 20 fighting the whisky traffic She
thinks that whisky robs men of their
manhood, shapes up the destiny of
girls for evil and sorrow. breaks IN
happy homes and sends more DeoDIe
TO ruin than any other influence she
has fought the whisky traffic all her
life in the usual way by Identifying
herself with temperance societies and
like means. but in spite of these in
huences and in spite of the laws of
prohibiting whisky selling in Kansas
the traffic has grown TO immense pro-
portions there. Ny sister concluded
that something extraordinary should be
done to call attention to the traffic
and TO make test in the courts of
whether whisky selling is lawful i'm
Kansas. She takes the position that
whisky selling being outlawed in Kan
sas the tools of the trade re the par-
aphernalia of Outlawry. too, and that
any person has the right to destroy if
wherever il is found in Kansas. She
wishes the courts 20 decide those
points, and even If the courts are
against her she has demonstrated TO
the world that whisky sellers in Kan
sas are towards. She believes that the |
temperance people are greatly in the /