The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-01
THE LECTURE A FROST.
A Small Audience at Tomiinson Hall
to Hear Carrie Nation.

The attempt of Mrs. Carrie Nation TO give
a Sunday night lecture for an admission
fee in Indianapolis in the face or the OPP
position of religious and temperance people
OF the city was a miserable failure In
Tomlinson Hall last night. When the
veteran hatchet-wielder of wild and woolly
Kansas came upon the platform at a lew
minutes after 8 o'clock. she found no one
there to greet her. TO shake her hand or TO
present her to the audience, to whom she
was practically a stranger. Turning to the
audience, or rather the place where the
audience should have been, Mrs. Nation was
confronted with row upon row OF empty
chairs, extending almost to the rear or the
hall. At a point near the exits were a few
rows of chairs filled with people. The bal
cony was almost as barren of spectators
as the lower floor, but there was a fair
sized group in the gallery, where the price
of admission was at the minimum.
"Come up front, people" begged the
grey-haired emale crusader, 81 can't talk
TO empty benches" With a rush the hand
full of people in the rear of the auditorium
pressed to seats near the stage and when
they were massed together it could be seen
that there were about three hundred in
the audience. A woman dressed in mourn
ing and carrying an infant went to the
rostrum and took a chair near the lecturer,
Other women followed quickly, and then a
number of long-haired men, emboldened
by the example of the women, took places
IN the platform. Several men with hair
trimmed in a rational manner lent the aid
Of their presence to form a motley and
striking picture of which the pudgy little
hatchet-wielder was the center.
INTRODUCED HERSELF.
Mrs. Nation introduced herself after the
manner of a noted orator. now dead, Of
whom she did not speak the kindliest words
in her talk. The meeting was opened with
singing Of the doxology by the audience,
led by NJ. Z. Rice, of this city, with Mrs.
Nation waving her hands encouragingly
to the audience. Prayer was offered by
Rev. L.. c.. Masters, a clergyman from
Muncie. The crusader then appealed to
Mr.. Rice to sing a song, saying that she
could always talk better after listening to
a little music. Mr.. Rice granted the re-
quest by giving n parody on Where Is My
Wandering Boy Tonight" entitled Down
in the Licensed Saloon"
Mrs. Nation very candidly admitted that
she is not a lecturer and that she has not
the faculty of stringing together big words.
She said her great dependence was in the
Bible. Sometimes / get so hungry to read
that precious book that 1 just run from my
work to get down my Bible and begin
reading it," The lecture or talk was in the
nature of a Bible reading, interspersed
with characteristic remarks suggested
either by the verse just read or by some
momentary mental process of the speaker
At the outset of her talk she began to read
from the 2Sd chapter of jeremiah. but inn
mediately depressed to say that she had
once been a washer of dishes and an
o~steopathic ~treater. but that the Lord took
her from that kind of work to engage in
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Nations characteristic sayings WERE:
christian science is the DEVILS own doc
trine, 1t is a sidetrack. How do you know?
| am asked, and | says, this is a sure in
you have has to be established by an
| other set of books outside of the Bible. you
can safely say it is a heresy from hell, a
device of the devils to lead people from
the old tracks
WAY FOR MEN TO SPEAK
LET men speak as they are inspired by
God. and not as Ingersoll or as Mrs. Eddy
or other people Of that kind, employed by
the devil.
"The saloon is the direct enemy of the
home, it drains the home. That is the
reason why it lives. 1t lives hat others
may die, and if others don't die it can't
live. Well 1 says. here is one that Won't
live where there is a licensed saloon; 1 will
not live where there is an open saloon /
said, You die or 1 Gle, one or the other,
and l have made nay words good. Laughter
This liquor traffic is right at the door
of the church. l believe there are as many
devils in the pulpit nov as there are am
perance work held back and restrained right
in Kansas. in Wichita, the women would
have gone forward there and would have
swept these hell gates away, but the
| preachers said, Peace. peace when there
was no peace, and they held 1t back right
in Topeka and we had to burst the bonds
there and leave the preachers in the rear.
The saloon keepers said 'riot!' and the
preachers said 'riotv the saloon keepers
said law breaking and the preachers said
law breaking the saloon keepers and the
preachers said malicious destruction of
property when it was destruction of malic-
ious property. lGreat laughter and APP
plause.1
IT would have done some smashing here
to-day-I couldn't have helped it-but /
knew you would put me in jail here If / did
and 1 didn't want my bondsmen TO lose
their money. 1 am out on 5000 bond now 10
keep the peace and 1 have five trials &c
face in Kansas, and that Is the reason why
l did not do some smashing. but am going
TO do with my might what my hands find
to do. Laughter and applause.1
IF you can't drive a mar out OF his evil
ways, just do a little smashing and you
will find that he will begin TO think.
Our Savior was not the seed of a man,
but the seed of a woman. He got His hu-
manity from a woman and His divinity
from God.
! CANDIDATE FOR AUDUBON HONORS
How 1 hate TO see a woman advertise
a cruel disposition by putting a dead bird
and the wings of corpses on their bonnets
Laughter and applause.l 1t don't look
good. I say, that feather looks a good deal
better on the ROSTERS tail and on the bird
that flies in the clouds than on a woman's
bonnet. A fashionably dressed woman is
one of the most hateful things in the world
to me. Why, she is like a mannikin to hans
the fashions of the day on. That is all shS
is. o woman, don't do that The devil
makes fashions, and don't run after him..
was not one woman that ever said a wore
against Him.
W have washed your dirty clothes
many a time and cleaned up your dirty
spittoons and cleaned up after you vomitel
when you came home on a spree. Now la
us clean up after you at the polls.
"A vote is the best kind of a smashel
that you can find. but L didn't have that
and so L had 10 try some other kind OF Z
smasher. and 1 believe L have accomplishec
more with my kind OF a smasher than yo.
men have with yours.
IF all hell was 10 get together and have z
filling its vaults, il would select the liquo,
traffic. Ii could not have a consolidation q
all the meanness and baseness in hell or il
earth that would SO accomplish its purpos.
a. this liquor traffic.
There is nothing in the world hat the
devil wants you to do so much as 10 pro
fess religion and then keep In your place