The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-26
Who Were So OverjOyed at Her Brief
Stay i'm Hope They offered
Her Protection.
"EGGED" THURSDAY NIGHT
WHILE EN- ROUTE TO THE RAILWAY
STATION AT ENTERPRISE.
Says She Will Invade other States
and Hatchet Saloons Until the
Rum Traffic Is Abolished.

HOPE, Kan, Jan. 25.-Mrs- Carrie Ma
tion arrived at midnight from Enterprise,
determined to attack the two saloons IN
Hope as she had those at Wichita and En-
terprise. But no committee of temperance
workers had chosen to meet her at the
station, and when she arose this morning
she said she had made UP her mind not
to damage the saloons here because she
was alone. She refused to eat her break
fast because she feared she would be pol
soned and instead talked temperance to
crowd that had gathered in front OF the
hotel At 10 o'clock she took train for
ottawa, saying she would visit friends
there and rest few days. When she start
eo for the station the proprietors of the
two saloons here escorted her to the train,
one on each arm, a crowd following and
cheering.
When Mrs Nation left Enterprise last
night a big crowd followed her to the
depot, hooting and throwing eggs. On the
train en- route here Mrs. Nation talked en-
Enthusiastically. A crowd of Enterprise W.
C. L. u. women accompanied her to the
station. As the train left Mrs. Nation
cried out: "Good-bye; keep up the good
work. Don't let them open the rum holes
again.
She sat down alone in the coach and be-
gan examining her dress, smeared with
eggs. 81 always thank God for the favors
He does" she said. and when asked what
feature of the demonstration she was
thankful for. responded promptly: THAT
the eggs were not rotten"
Mrs Nation began to talk and laugh as
est~~
been cool and collected during all of her
exciting experiences, both at Wichita and
Enterprise, always meeting the sallies of
the crowd that hooted her or pelted her
with stones with prayer or an exhorta-
tion on temperance.
Aren't you afraid?" she was asked.
mo, sir; not Bit she answered, de-
family. I'm doing Gods work"
Her GOODNESS seemed more remarkable be-
cause of the fact that she had been given
warning that a mob awaited her arrival at
Hope.
You'll surely meet with serious mishap.
perhaps be killed, If you keep this up she
was admonished.
81 know it. know how it will end. But
when God is ready for me to die I am
ready to go. don't want to die yet There
is too much good work for me to do. We've
been watching our sons going to ruin and
death through whisky for years." she con-
tinued. We've been praying and waiting
for the laws to be enforced and the traffic
stopped. We've decided to wait no longer
for men to act. If the w. c. Il. u. had
started out twenty-five years ago with
prayers and songs and hatchets there
would not be saloon in the country to-
day. A saloon keeper to me is the same
as the man who cuts another's throat for
his money.
my object in smashing Saloons" con-
tinued Mrs. Nation, lis to stiffen the back
bone of the women against the rum traffic
and set them an example of the only way
the traffic can be stopped. 1 will organize
them into a society of saloon wreckers. If
a saloon opens in a town the women there
if they have not backbone enough them
selves to wreck it, will send for me. i will
send for my aids in different towns They
will be women Of undoubted bravery and
we will go there and break up the saloon
and keep it broken up. After We have
stamped 1t out in Kansas we will go to
Missouri and keep on going. / have letters
from all parts of the country asking me to
come. / hold that under the Constitution
of the United States the saloon cannot
legally exist any place in this country
When the train reached Hope at midnight
a crowd of men and boys jostled each other
to get glimpse OF the saloon wrecker No
women were there to meet her and she
pushed her way through the crowd to an
omnibus and was driven to a hotel. The
crowd ran after the vehicle and thronged
the hotel office to see her. but made no at
tampt at assault