The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-31
WOULD HURT SALE OF SEATS
THE SALOON sMAsHER HAS A DUE
REGARD FOR FINANCES.
After Her Lecture Tonight IN May
Go a-SIumming-An EGort to
Extort Money.

surveying with hungry eyes an appetizing
luncheon just brought TO the room by a
colored servant, whose eyes protruded
like billiard balls as he gazed upon the
Kansas Terror The boys thus adj
dressed by the joint-smasher were a group
of local newspaper men, who were seated
about Mrs. Nation, note book in hand,
eagerly jotting down the woman's every
Ctterance.
And L don't want any of you to print
it," continued the CRUSADER" for if you
dc it might hurt the attendance at my
my lecture tomorrow night, and l want
them to make a nice sum out of that.
The secret is this, 1 am going to go
Summing right after the lecture. L wanted
to go tonight, but my managers would
not let me. They said IL the people got
to look at me on the streets for nothing
they would not pay to see me and hear
me talk tomorrow night. L am going to
visit a resort here kept by a man named
Stout-Wes Stout, l believe-and several
others. L want TO talk to that class of
people and do them all the good L can"
Your secret has been published in all
of the indianapolis papers for several days
past, Mrs. Nation" mildly suggested one
OF the reporters, whose eyeglasses gave
him the look of a Y. NJ. G. A. young man,
which greatly endeared him to the old
woman'S heart.
Dear me, Is that possible" calculated
Mrs. Nation. Il don't see how they could
have known it, for 1 haven't told anybody
yet"
HER PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
In personal appearance Mrs. Nation is
far from striking. bearing a strong re-
semblance to a familiar type of short,
pudgy old women that are seen at ola
settlers meetings making preparation for
an old-fashioned dinner on the grass"
She is short very stout. has a sallow
complexion, beady eyes that set slantwise
much after the fashion of the excellent
lkenesses" OF Aguinaldo printed in the il
lustrated papers, has iron gray hair done
up IN a funny little knot on top of her
head, and dresses with severe plainness.
When she received the newspaper men
yesterday afternoon she wore the dress
III which she had Travelled, OF some cheap
black material, made without any ruf-
lies or trimmings of any sort. At her
neck she wore a width of plain white
CLOTH, the ends tied in a bow knot. Mrs.
Nation is evidently a great reader of the
Bible, as quotations from that book, made
with more or less accuracy, fall from her
as readily as do her peculiar sayings.
What do you think OF the attitude
the local temperance people have adopted
towards your visit?" the crusader was
asked.
Why. it reminds me of the time when
Jesus healed the withered hand on Sun
day, she replied. and L think hat any
man lndl mas Il WlIneTeQ ndnQ-anU there
ought to be a good many-it ought not to be
any more harm than TO take a collection on
sunday. Jesus said, Lay by in store that
there be no gathering when come and L
think If you lay by in store through my lee
ture 1t is only fulfilling the Bible. Ny mis-
sion is a good one, and they are certainly
assisting me in a good mission when they
pay to hear my lecture
Tell the reporters what you are going to
do with the money you get from your lee
lures suggested Miss NJ. c. Morse, who is
Mrs. Nations manager.
USE FOR THE MONEY.
well, l came out on this little expedi-
tion." said Mrs. Nation, because we are
going to- want TO pay the way of these
women smashers, these bold women that
are willing TO smash, for they have their
own hatchets. but have no money to pay
their way from one town to another. L
want to sc to Leavenworth and pay these
women's way on the cars and their hotel
fares and help to clean up that town,
where there is so much anarchy. The money
Is TO be used in a good cause"
Mrs. Nation was careful to emphasize the
fact that she has a manager, and the man
ager was equally as careful TO keep herself
in the background. When asked her full
name and her occupation the manager re-
piled: Il am Miss Nj. e. Morse and | am one
of the managers OF the Popular Lecture
Bureau, of Cincinnati, but please don't say
anything about me in your paper. L don't
want TO be mentioned in this connection at
all. l am trying 10 keep in the back
ground
There is a certain childish simplicity
about Mrs. Nations manner that possesses
its charm. She seems as delighted with
her new work and the notOriety ii has
brought her as a child with a new toy.
Miss Morse, l wish you would bring up
my valises, she prattled, for L want TO
Smasher's Mail When the valises were
brought the joint smasher rushed 10 them,
opened the one containing the papers, and,
l aNfTQPtinU about a dozen comics OF the ma
per, proceeded TO distribute them among the
reporters. The paper is a curious sort of
publication, being made UP principally of
letters written and received by Mrs. Nation.
The letters she gets from people who SYM
pathize with her work are printed under
| the headline, Letters from Honest Peo-
under the head Of Letters from He'll"
Mrs. Nation began reading out of her pa
per. in which she takes great pride, and
ratified away until checked by a question
from one of the reporters. Later she re-
sumed the occupation that seemed to give
her so much genuine comfort. One of the
Letters from He'll" was signed y. l..
Ward, 321 Illinois street. 1ndianapo-
lis and contained the following choice
gem: Il would like TO be David Nation
Mrs. Nations present husband) for about
four years. I'd land you in the lunatic asy-
lum or chase you home 10 attend TO your
own business These delicate observations
do not seem TO dampen the ardor of the
crusader in the least, but rather arouse her
TO greater effort.
KIND OF ELOQUENCE.
Candor compels the admission that Mrs.
Nation is not a woman OF attractive per-
sonality when her features are in repose,
but when the spirit is on" her eyes light
up with religious fervor, her face hushes
and words come tumbling from her lips
with a Certain sort of eloquence. so that
the whole effect is scarcely disagreeable.
In common with people of her class. Mrs.
Nation is full OF egotism and very fond of
the personal pronoun. When she told OF
having spent Friday night with Mother
Stewart. of Springfield, o, her manager,
Miss Morse, said: did Mother Stewart
ever do what you have been DOING"
20 no; not like - calculated Mrs. Ma
ton, with an air of surprise at the strange
inquiry.
Were there any gatherings at the sta
tions as you came to indianapolis? asked
| a reporter.
"Ovations. you mean. 1 suppose" said
Mrs. Nation. mo, there were no ovatiOns,
| except at two stations near Indianapolis.
You see. my managers asked me to keep
away from the people, for they want q
good crowd at the lecture tomorrow night.
| And 1 want them TO do well. toe. for it has
been a great expense TO them"
Mrs. Nation said she had been In some of
the worst dives in Chicago. but that she
saw nude pictures in Springfield. o., that
| FAR surpassed In vileness anything she had
previously come across. IF / had had a