The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-23
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Is the Nation Woman to Prove Serious Joke.
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oulne virity energetic manhood but glance at tn
local columns of yesterday mornings Eagle would lead t.
the conclusion that thestoBn is depending for its name
fame upon the actions Of two eccentric abnormal
females neither Of whom fact resident Of the city
Mrs Lease who is seeking for divorce having long sine
shaken EVichitas dust from skirts Mrs NatioE
being only resident in her occupancy Of the county jail
where after having been fed the peoples expense fol
destroying personal property she to then
for false Imprisonment
If Mrs Carrie Nation is not insane monomaniac
then she is poor deuded and irresponsible who
ii regorng to violence in the name law herse
nuisance not only but dangerous fact that the
many who syrnpathize with her may inspired adopt
her mob methods and active adherents Only
two or three others Of her sex joined upon
saloon buildings and fixtures night but had
been three or four hundred no could esate
the immediate consequences to life property the
future results to this city.
Let Mrs Nation swing her hatchet sling brczbat
crack her tongueah ahead for there Is Just one
place where this contest should be settled
the supreme court OF the state by the court
Of the United states A town and its authorities either
have the right to protect the property against
rnobs and their methods not the question
should be unequivocally authoritatvey settled.
If the Medicine Lodge woman Is not crazy she
seems she must know that she can curta the
traffic in liquors by smashing than could stop
the sale Of drugs by the destruction Of prescription cases
or the publication Of newspapers by breaking their presses
to pieces It is the demand public the patrons
of all these things which countervahed If there
were no whisky drinkers takers newspaper
readers there would be no saloons drug stores print
ing Offices prohibition from the shOrgrass
country might with persistence her little hatchet
der the Arkansas river dry BY divering its
waters she stay their flow force them
to run back up to their mountain source.
lis Nation woman who IS seemingly utterly void Of
vomanIy modesty prating about welfare Wich-
ats's homes abandons her own home; bewaiung the
temptations to wlcitas husbands negects
band and in publicly protesting agony the
salvation Of wichitas children mother nor
never was 50 far know although popularity believed
to have legally consorted with two men
This crank tramps thirst for notoety Is Of such hank
erng instability as midwinter hundred
miles across the country for the purpose Of destroying prop
erty only that in being arrested the may
sue for damages for Imprisonment otherwise add
TO her nooriey by enoopaszing writ habeas corpus
capital of the state reveal her personality the men and
women of ali states
concedng this staggering high-handed female fury
own conceptions Of her personal prerogayes and her nd
vidual rights and they are but those Of an obscure and
crotchey individual border village as an IN
authorized ana selfconsuted executive Of state prohb-
itory law on one side and the license the United
States government and the police policy Of community
upon the other In her boast that she is commissioned OF
heaven that she is the good right arm omnpotence one
naturally wonders imagfnes hind leg the
devil looks like
The entire episode laughabe were it less seri-
spite the probable to the city and its
people the end laugh the country viii at our
expense with the saving advertisement This
Medicine Lodge experimenting adventures in succeeding
TO notoey herself cannot leave the town that she claims
to love so frantcay which she came to save out Of
equal participation fame she has evolved whether
be Of hnarity of glory or of shame.
In conclusion there no denying that there method
this Medicine Lodge womau's madness. The fame and
which reap can only come in case she
succeeds in getting this city then the people Of
state at large take sides the end Of an an
around grand row which VIII come the strife in
which and kind so delight Whether this forwards
the cause of temperance or not win precpitate aght
which Mrs Nation gather national fame In
the meantime the repetition Of such a whisky war as
Wichita once passed through absorbing pubue In
ters engeuder such antagonsm as viii bring growth and
progress to sandsaH leaving the town in anything but
hopeful spirit or condition not the cause OF tenn
pernee or Of prohibition Of enforcement OF law which
IS SO involved as possible fame for our unbidden
guest for fame which IS TO De won at the expensa ~