The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-03-01
w. T.U. COLUMN
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. L. HOBBS.
Interview With Mrs. Nation.

ing dinner at the home Of friend
on the outskirts of the city. can
truthfully say that Mrs. Nation is
not insane or crazy. She is good
Christian woman, intelligent and
refined, yet terribly in earnest
She is not coarse or manish or wild
eye 4, and is in appearance very un
like the pictures printed in the var
ious metropolitan papers. Mrs
Nation is a motherly soul, with a
great big heart almost breaking ove'
the deadly work of the liquor traffic.
She is veteran w. G. T. U. work
or and has an honorable record III
that organization She is greatly
loved by those who know her best
and is not counted as crank Oh
fanatic. STE is, however, as turbu-
lent as Kansas, as cyclonic and i'm
petuous as Kansas, and two hours
after she arrived at the state capi-
tai the city was in an uproar and
there was blood on the moon. Mrs.
Nation is Of the Helen Cougar type,
and can talk and fight at the same
time If necessary. She looks very
much like Mrs. Clara Hoffman, and
was born in Missouri sixty five
years ago. Mrs Naion is a mother
and gfand mother, and is every
inch a true-hearted woman.
She received me with smile and
great cordialty and b. fore leaving
pinned on her dress as a companion
Of the white ribbon a little red pro
hibition button. She said to me
"It is Gods movement. | cleaned
out saloons in my own county
They tried to stop me. | have
been arrested for slander. 1t is {
woman's war; woman will defenc
her offspring. The men are goini
to back them. This is a warfare
against wickedness in high places
| visited several joints this morning
and at the Apex | found the doc
was locked, but they finally let M
in. The proprietor was a young
man. He wore crepe on his hat
| told him he was making sorrow
for others and that he would have
to shut the shop up. lie admitted
that we were about right in our con.
tention about the joints. | told the
joint keepers thai if they did noI
shut up their places there wouldn',
be grease spot left of them wher
we got through. No one but run
soaked man will strike woman
We are going to have grand par
ade of the women with brass banc
and flags. | am going to stay il
Kansas until l sweep clean my be-
loved state. | will then % TO othel
points, but in the meantime vii
visit several cities to raise money
for promoting this work.
! Mrs. Nation addressed the State
Temperance Union and talked t
about 5000 people. One of thu
delegates jumped up and said tha
|he had $40 to go toward buying ;
|gold medal for the bravest woman
lin Kansas. Within ten minutes
I$117 had been given for that pur
pose. There was the greatest en-
|thusiasm over the proposition, bu
Mrs. Nation very sensibly declined
1.-The honor and asked that the mon
ley be turned into their treasury
This crusader has addressed severa
large meetings in churches. Sever
al Of the pastors and the State Tenn
|perance Union have indorsed he
work. The pastor Of the United
presbyterian Church characterized
Mrs. Nation as the handmaiden 0
heaven and the mother Of Israel
He compared her with Martin Luth
Ter and John Brown. This weel
Mrs. Nation has simply been usins
moral suasion, urging the jointist'
|to close up without using force
IShe announces that the war viii
open next Monday. She called OF
lGovvrnor Stanley and had very
exciting interview with the chic
Executive. The report in the daily
papers misrepresent Mrs. Nation
lShe did not use the language at
Itributed to her; however, the Gov
|ernor heard some very plain talk
|vet insist d that he could not clos'
1.-The saloons in Kansas.
The greater portion OF the tenn
Iperance woman Of Kansas are II
Isympathy with this woman. Sh'
lis fighting outlaws. Property i
being used for wrong purposes ant
has no standing in the eyes OF tn
law. Her case is compared will
that Of Christ in driving out th'
money changers from. the templ'
land also where the swine we're driv
len into the sea. The owners hat