Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-08
IF RS.NATIONCOMES.
Chief Miller Says He Will Not
Stand for ANY of Her
Hatchet Work.
WILL PROTECT THE SALOON MEN
Kansas Crusader to Deliver an
Address at Muscatine
Monday.

Following the announcement in last
| evenings ARGUS that Mrs. Carrie Ma
ton may include Rock Island in her
ssloon-wrecking tour, comes the Off
cial statement in today's Muscatine
| News-Tribune that she will speak in
the watermelon town next Monday
night under the auspices of the Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union.
She is to appear at the Grand opera
house, the new theatre that Promoter
| G.. I'll. Johnston, who has on foot
similar project here, built, the alb
sence of which accommodation might
have resulted in the strenuous Carrie
giving the Iowa town a wide berth
| a pointer that Rock Island should
consider anent the canvass that is now
going on here for new play house.
The report from Muscatine states
that Mrs. Nation will leave there
direct for Chicago. The w. G. L. U.
at Moline is making great efforts to
have her visit that city, and it is
| probable that she will do so either
next Tuesday or on her return trip
from Chicago. She will be at Des
Moines Sunday, Muscatine Monday
and will come to the three cities
Tuesday to Jake the Rock Island Sc
Peoria train for Peoria, where she
may hunt big game in the shape of
distilleries.
Miller Promises Her 8 Warm Reception.
"Well, if Mrs. Nation comes to this
town and starts any of her Ratchet
business, :" said Chief of Police Miller
this morning, s'we'll jug her, and you
can depend upon it that no city attor-
ney nor states attorney shall come
into the station and dismiss the case,
either, as they do out in Kansas.
There will be a couple of officers
pretty close to the depot when she
strikes town and if she starts any
thing, she'll not get very far. The
laws in this state are different from
those in Kansas and saloonkeepers
are bound to be protected the same as
any other kind of business men. If
we knew Mrs. Nation was billed to
come to town at a certain time and
we allowed her to smash up any sa-
loon fixtures, the city would have to
pay for them.
| IF she should get in on us and do
damage to the extent of $50 or more,
we would put her through for malic-
ious mischief, penitentiary offense.
! If the damage were less it would be
ldisorderly conduct. But whatever it
might be, you can bet your life we'd
make it as warm for her as the law
would let u.s.
What KIttiIsen Would Do.
In the event of Mrs. Nation visit
.Y,o NIalt fnh hoc
interviewing Chief of Police Kittilsen
she to start using her little Ratchet
there. Said the chief: ''Why, we
would arrest her if she tried her
saloons here. We couldn't do other
wise according to the law of the state
of Illinois. Here the state and city
give protection to the saloonkeeper
by licensing him and the police pro-
tect the saloon the same as any other |
merchant. Mrs. Nation would be
locked in the police station and given
her hearing before Judge Webb and |
doubtless be bound over by him to
the grand jury on the charge of
malicious mischief in destroying the |
fixtures or liquors of the saloon-
keeper"
at looks very much" continued
the chief, ''as though crusade that
will sweep the country would result |
from the agitation Mrs. Nation has |
inaugurated. The time is about ripe
for a movement, as history seems to |
show that these movements occur
every 20 or % years and with the |
crusades against vice which have |
swept the big cities but little would be
required to fan the flame countrywide. !
at was in 1874 or rs that Moline |
had its last real crusade, when the
ladies erected 3 platform on Eight |
eenth street and held public meetings.
The saloonkeepers tried counter at
traction by driving band wagon
through the streets and dispensing
free beer to whoever desired it. Sew
eral of the saloonkeepers were arrest
ed for violating the law, and / remem-
Der that Oscar Peal and Frank Schrae-
der were sent to Jail for refusing to
pay the fines that were imposed.
When Oscar Peal's time was out
only few days-he was escorted
home in a carriage by brass band
and delegation of saloon men and
driven about the Streets