The Topeka state journal., 1901-01-31

Surely all the goodness has not been
drowned out. There are lots or good and
noble men in this business and am am
glad of it but I wish 1 could persuade
them to quit
She had almost completed her speech
at this place as they would not let her
get even SO much as a peep at the bar
and was about to leave when she hap
pened to think of an incident that hap
pened the other night She said she was
standing on the street when a man came
along and she asked him where the
Auditorium was and told him she was
Mrs. Nation
When the man heard the name he
took off his hat and bowed to her she
said and told her that he was a jointist
and kept saloon. She asked him where
it was and what his name was but he
refused to tell her where he conducted
his business but said that his name
was Johnson
Now said Mrs. Nation. Il want to
find his Place. 1 told him 1 would come
and see him and want tc keep my
word If you know where he IS you
will tell me, won't you2
They assured her that they did not
know of Mr. johnson but that if they
learned his address they would give 1t
to her.
she then made her way to the street
where a friend met her and said that
some one wanted to see her at the trans
fer station on important business. Upon
reaching the transfer station she dis
covered that whoever wanted to see her
had not waited.
Being near the Joint conducted by Al
Hayslip at S03 Kansas avenue, the place
she visited Monday night she decided to
go there again. She climbed to the top
Of the narrow stairway and called out:
Let me come in. 1 want to talk to
you like a mother" She could see
through the loophole in the door and
shouted in i don't want to hurt you 1
don't want to pitch the things out I
only want to see and talk to you face to
face If you would be good ] would
fight for you. If you were to get into
Jail 1 would come and care for you and
clothe and feed you But I am afraid
you will go to a Jail where I cannot go
to see you, a jail of he'll. Why don't
you come and let me in If you were to
come and see me / would not treat you
like that I would ask you to come In
If you don't let me come in I will come
back with my hatchet at the head of a
band of women and we will get in .
Leaving here she went across the
street and up nearly a block to the joint
that is conducted at $50 Kansas avenue
in the rear of a. cigar store The crowd
started on a run ahead OF her, and when
she reached the building she found it
nearly filled with men and boys. She
went in, shook hands with the. clerk be-
hind the cigar counter. ''Well.' she
said ..how do you do2 heard you were
running a dive here Are you2 Well. if
you are not. if I were you I would sue
them for slander. VIII you let me in
the back room {? don't want to smash
the bar. out L want 10 see II ana talk
to the proprietor You say I cant go
back? Why, you must be mighty afraid
that will do some harm. only want
a peep at the bar. Why, I tell you. a
man should not be in a business that he
cannot let a lady in to see. repeat it
again, am not going to do any harm.
I declare I believe yen do not want
to let me in back there want to see
so that I may know whether you are
being slandersd- Tell the proprietor that
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