The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-26
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WRECKING GUILD
Mrs. Nation Would Bind WO-
men TO Wreck Saloons.
EXPECTS TO CLEAN
OUT COUNTRY
Will Be on Call With Hatchet
in All States.

Kansas lily -tAU-F Jan =r--ALL1s
Carrie Nation arrived here at mid
night from Enterprise. determined TO
attack the two saloons in Hope as she
had those at Wichita and Enterprise,
but no committee Of temperance work
ers met her and this morning she said
she had made up her mind not to
damage the saloons here because she
was alone. She refused to eat her
breakfast because she feared she
would be poisoned. and instead, talk
ed temperance to a crowd that had
gathered in front of the hotel.
At 10 o'clock she took a train for
Ottawa, saying she would visit friends
there and rest a few days Her last
injunction was.
Don't put too much stress on my
resting too long"
In the crowd that swarmed about
Mrs. Nation in Hope were the pro
Prletors of the two saloons here. When
she started tor the depot, they escorted
her TO the train, one on each arm. the
crowd cheering.
Glad Eggs Are Fresh.
When Mrs. Nation left ENTERPRISE
last night, a big crowd followed her to
the depot, hooting and throwing eggs
at her.
On the train en- route from Enter
prise TO Hope, Mrs. Nation talked
enthusiastically to a reporter. =
crowd of W. Q. T. L. women. among
them Mrs. Hoffman, the local worker
who took part in Wednesdays raid
and yesterdays street fight, saw her
of at the depot.
Goodbye, Mrs. Hoffman" she cried
as the train started. Keep up the
good work; don't let them open the
rum holes again.
She sat down alone in the coach and
began examining her dress. smeared
with eggs. I always thank God for
the favOrs he does" she said to the
reporter, and when asked what fea IRE
OF the demonstration she was thankful
for responded promptly; That the
eggs were not rotten"
Mrs. Nation began to talk and laugh
as gaily as if nothing had happened
She had been cool and collected during
all OF her exciting experiences. both at
Wichita and Enterprise, always meet
ing the saliies of the crowd that hooted
or pelted her with stones, with a
prayer or an exhortation on temper
anCe.
Says She is Not Afraid.
Are not you afraid?'' the reporter
No, sir; not bit" she snapped
defiantly. I'm doing Gods work.
She mad been given warning that a
mob awaited her arrival at Hope.
You'll surely meet with serious mis-
hap, perhaps be killed, if you keep this
up, continued the reporter
L know It'll 7 know how il will end.
but when God is ready for me to die L
am ready to go. / do not want TO die
yet; there is too much good work for
me to do"
Mrs. Nation went on to talk of her
mission We've been watching our
sons go To ruin and death through
whisky for years We've been pray
ing and waiting for the laws to be en-
forced and the traffic stopped. We've
decided to wait no longer for men to
act If the w. G. T. L. had started out
twenty-five years ago with prayers and
songs and hatchets. there would not be
a saloon in the country today A sa-
ICon-keeper to me IS the same as the
man who cuts aEOtheT's throat for his
money
Wants to Stiffen Backbones.
MY object in smashing saloons"
continued Mrs. Nation, is to stiffen
the backbone of the women against the
rum traffic and set the men the exam
pie of the only way traffic can be stop
ped. I viii organize them into a society
of saloon wTeCkeTs. If a saloon opens
in town the women there. if they
have not the backbone enough them
selves to wreck it. viii send for me.
viii send for my aides in different
towns. They will be women of I'M
doubted bravery and we viii 60 there
and break up the saloon and keep it
broken up.
After we have stamped it out in
Kansas we viii go to Missouri and
keep on going I have letters from all
parts of the country asking me to come.
hold that under the constitution of the
United States a saloon cannot legally
exist any place in this country"