The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-01

alone A great many of these preachers
say, Moral s~uasion, moral suasion.' No,
1 says, Mr.. Devil. thank you, / have used
moral suasion enough I said. there Is one
thing the devil hasn't got a corner on. and
that is a Ratchet l exhausted every other
resource. but l believe in the perseverance
of the saints, and I don't believe that any
saint gets to heaven without persevering 10
the end.
POPULAR FROM JAIL LIFE.
Il never was as popular in all my life.
Really. 1 never did amount TO anything un-
til I got in Jail laughter and applausel, 1
never got the people to hear me before.
They have got a brass band at my home,
and they have got everything fixed up TO
give me a big ovation, and they are ready
to fight for me. these very people that used
to tell me 1t was none of my damned bust
ness what they did.
II would not go with a man who would
chew tobacco and spit amber.
There is nothing in this world so mag
nificent as an honest, clean, pure man, and
there is nothing in the world so sweet as
the heart of a woman filled with the grace
of God. ~IApplause.l Don't you wan that
kind of a woman for your wife? Yes, you
do. Don't you want that kind or a woman
to be the mother of your children? Yes,
you do. What do you want? Do you want
a drunken bloat of a husband to bring emil
dren into the world that you have TO SIT
and nurse their eccentricities, Tor a man
instills into his offspring his own defects:
THE ministers nowadays take JUST a 1T
tie bit of a text. and they preach from IL,
and they preach so far from 1t that l 9on I
jest see any connection between IL ana the
word of God. Laughter n applause.l
What made me smash? Because love
these people so well that / can't pear 10
see them tumbled over into hell. L nave
a very kindly feeling for these saloon men;
There is a worse place than the saloon. and
that is the hypocrites in the corners OIL the
churches. These hypocrites in the church
1.-The man III stands behind the bar is
just as good as the man that votes MN
there [applausel. and a great deal better
than a church member that will vote for d
saloon. I will take the chance of a saloon
man every time before 1 will a church
member that votes TO have an open saloon.
l don't want to go to a hypocrlteS nell.
DEVIL MIGHTY WISE.
The devil is mighty wise. He likes
mirrors in saloons, because they make a
drinker think he has plenty of company
L hate a mirror, that is, in a saloon. III
a drunkard has another man with him he
looks in the mirror and thinks there are
four of them.
Il think if you men of Indianapolis can
be saved by a little smashing the women
ought to do a little smashing"
Mrs. Nation gesticulated with her spec
tacles, which she held in her hand, con-
stantly, except when reading from her
lexible-backed Bible. She ridiculed a law
yer for boasting Of his knowledge of the
Bible and at the same time pronouncing
the name of the book of Job as if it were
the word which means a situation. In a
snort time she caused a guffaw OF laugh
ter by herself giving out the ludicrous
pronunciation ''bric-a-braw." She created
no little amusement by relating the incl
dent of a woman striking her In the eye
with her hand and causing the optic TO
remain black and blue for several weeks.
Il walked into a butcher shop close BY
said the lecturer, got a piece of meat.
tied it on my eye, and then went back to
my smashing" At another stage of her
desultory talk she narrated the story or
her trip to Kiowa, Kan, last
her first smashing expedition, asserting
that the Lord told her to go. Il told my
husband l was going to stay all night at
Springer's house. and l did intend to do
Ii, but / had a pretty good trotting horse,
and when he got to S~pringer's gate he just
kept on going, and 1 said: Well, if the
Lord wants you 10 go on, why, just go
on and 1 kept on till l got to Kiowa.
twenty-four miles distant" She continued
to narrate the smashing of three saloons in
klowa, and said triumphantly that the
sheriff consulted the best lawyers in the
town and then told her she could go home.
And now there amt a saloon in that
county, cried the temperance enthusiast.
This statement was received with hearty
applause. In fact, the frequence OF such
outbursts, and their heartiness indicated
that a large portion Of the audience was
in thorough sympathy with the crusader.
MANNER OF DISMISSAL.
Her manner of dismissing the audience
was characteristic. She said: II will dis
miss this congregation by saying God bless
| you. Pray for Carrie Nation" Mr.. Rice
| sang "Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus" and
the meeting came to an End Mrs. Nation
passed a few minutes in shaking hands
with people who crowded to the platform,
but it was soon apparent that she was
eager for 1.-The fray and with her peculiar
suddenness she left her sympathizers stand
ing gaping at her while she scurried down
stairs and bundled into a carriage. which
set off at once for Yves Stout's resort on
West Market street, followed by a crowd
of newspaper men and curiously inclined
heard the lecture.
Messrs. Myers and Zeigler, of the Grand
Opera House, who brought Mrs. Nation to
indianapolis for last nights paid lecture,
are evidently financial losers to a consid-
cradle sum. as they have repeatedly stat
ed that Mrs. Nation was to receive a GER
tain sum regardless of the amount that
might be collected at the door. These gen
tlemen also nave to defray the cost of
advertising the event and the rent of the
hall. Mr.. Myers was confined TO his room
in the Denison Hotel by illness last night
and was represented by his associate in
the venture, Mr.. Schafer Zeigler, auditor
of the Grand Opera House, who looked
their fondly cherished project. Rev. Mr.
Masters, the minister who opened the meet
ing, SAID at its close: "I am in doubt as to
the wisdom of making this lecture take
place on a Sunday night"