Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-07

! 1000 People Hear Her at the
/ state Fair Grounds.
Not SO bad as she has been painted
in the yellow press Is Carrie Nation. A
plain woman with gray lair. bright,
| quick-moving eyes, firm mouth and
chin, stout figure, elastic step face
wreathed in smiles. she stood before q
600 people at the Fair grounds yester-
day with Bible in hand for authority
and Ratchet for execuo1un
All sorts of sounds heralded her ar
rival from derisive eat calls" to shouts
of welcome from lips tremuous with
enthusiasm. As she stepped from the
carriage which had brought her directly
! from the 3: 20 train to the grounds men
and women and boys surged and
thronged about her. Some 10 welcome,
some to peer sneeringly into her face.
others to see what kind of lookins
woman the saloon smashing apostle of
temperance and decencya might be.
There's Carrie Nation" Hello, Car
rie," God bless Carrie Nation. We'll,
she amt pretty. such were few Of
the shouts that greeted her on her pas
sage through the dense mass of humani-
ty to the platform.
Here she was met by Missionary Bru-
ner, and instantly women stretched
hands over the railing to grasp hers in
greeting Laying down her Bible and
shaking her Ratchet, playfully threaten
ing, at the audience, she was introduced
by Mr. Bruner and at once began speak
ing.
Dear Friends-Before begin ny
lecture | want TO deny" But people
were shouting "sit down" to those who,
forgetful of etiquette In their eagerness
to see her were standing in their seats
and obstructing the view of all in seats
behind them. And small boys were
shouting and stamping Then the
speaker said "Sit down all of you
there. | will speak so you can all hear
me. | will stand over at the end Of
the platform where you who are stand
ing up can see me. Sit down, sit down,
please.
And here was revealed the secret OF
her power. In two minutes or even
less time the audience was under her
control, quiet and attentive. Her per-
sonal magnetism did it, and again she
began:
Dear friends-Before begin my
lecture, / want to deny what those ~
ing devils of the New York newspapers
said about my saying that it was
good thing the president had been shot,
and that ! was an anarchist. There
was not one word of truth in that
newspaper statement. 1t was base
lie. printed to injure me before the
people. | never said the words that
were attributed to me nor anybhing
like them, and hundreds who we're
there and heard me speak say never
said them. Those statements were
printed by the same kind Of people as
those who said, when was In jail in
Kansas for smashing saloons, that
| Carrie Nation was raving lunatic,
that | scratched the jailer's face and
other such nonsensical and lying stor-
| les.
Il am representative woman.
| Men have often made mistakes because
they did not listen to womans coun-
sell Did you ever near OF Rachael,
how. when her husband complained to
the Lord about her advice, the Lord
told him that he had put 1t into her
heart and the counsel she offered was
of God. There's been many Rachaels
! in the world.
"Oh. this terrible rum business, these
wicked saloons. Pow | studied over
way to get rid of them. l exhausted
every human means to do it. But !
found that mans extremity is Gods
opportunity. God revealed to me the
way to do it. | never told living
soul what | intended to do. ! told my
friends that | felt as il was bidding
them a last farewell when they asked
me why, | told them they would know
in a week. You see | expected people
! to turn against me--the high-toned
! good people. oh! when ] see women
sitting in choirs with hats adorned
with murdered birds, and dressed in
tie height of fashion, singing Praise
God from whom all blessing flow
They distort their forms and destroy
| their health. It's dreadful
And the good old lady complacently
looked down over her ample and "un-
| distorted figure.
| Well, went into the saloons and l
smashed them with my Ratchet; ! de-
| stroved those dreadful naked pictures
they always have in saloons. It's al
WAYS our sex, always a woman whose
pictures-nude, lewd pictures. they
| have in saloons and on cigar boxes and
tobacco vertisements-always pic
| lures of women.
Why don't these men make pictures
of themselves-of men-nude pictures,