The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-03-10
THE SMASHERS OF KANSAS.
WOMEN HAVE BEEN WRECKING SALOONS
THERE SINCE 1855.
Mrs. Carrie Nation Far From Being a Pioneer
Feat Of a schooima'am-A Raid Fol
lowed By Bloodshed Queer Kansas Pro-
hibition women In a Lively Canvass.


TOPEKA. Kan. March s-Since Mira Carrie
Nation and her Ratchet madc their record
in the way Of demolishing saloons old timers
have been coming forward with rcminis-
c.nces which show that she ~ by no means
the first person to engage in this particular
method Of warfare against the liquor traffic
Mrs sheriff. who sprang into brief notorlety
some time ago on the strength OF a small
raid made IN Harper county, and who as
serted her right TO the honor Of being the
pioneer In the movement instead OF Mrs
Nation, also took M the work about forty
years too late to make her boast good
Az well IA can be ascertained the first raid
OF this nature took place IN Lawrence III
the winter OF issG-iss7 This was In Terri
torial DAYS. Then there were no restrictions
on liquor selling. md everything was wide
open Lawrence had 500. or perhaps 1000.
inhabitants. and there were a dispropor-
tomato number Of saloons
After the matter had been carefully dis
cussed at meetings the women made up
their minds to clean the places out, and one
day quite a number of them, attended by n
few men who went along to see that no harm
bcfell them, marched out on their errand Of
destruction They went from ons resort
TO another, and az each place rolled OH
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containing liqnor and poured tho contents
into the cutters.
A Miss Spencer. a schoolteacher. was one
Of the leaders Al one place. where n saloon
was being run In a log cabin. the proprietor
put up an ugly front. and II looked for a few
minutes ms though there might be trouble
But in tho face Of It Miss Spencer, who was
an athletic girl. pushed a ch1lr UP to the bar.
mounted It, from thcro Jumped over 10 the
harkeeper's side, seized a key Of liqnor-al
there was IN the placs-and threw II over TO
her fellow workers, who Immediately de-
molishcd II
The men who accompanied the destroyers
took no part In the work. but stood by to be
IN readiness In case violence was encountered
By the women.
Not more than eighteen months later came
tho raid on the "Pro-Siavery Dossery" at
Trading Post. which had a bloody ending.
Trading Post was n small place In Linn county
about four mllcs from the Missouri line. In the
early davs there was a saloon there which was
the resort OF the pro-slavery fellows from Ms
sour. 1t was always called the "Pro-Slaycry
DogEcry."
In 1853 Gen. Clark drove out the Free State
element with the statement that there was
not room in the county for more than one
party Butin April, 1858, james Montgomery.
a local Jayhnwker chief. appeared at Trading
Post with about twenty followers and called
for a clean house. They raided the saloon.
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