The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-01

sake, come here and help US
Some of you think this smashing
business is strange want to tell you
that every reformation in the old Bible
was started with a smashing. 1t was
the divine command that idols should
be broken and ground to powder. There
are great mountains in the pathway of
righteousness. The young man can
hardly run the gauntlet of this path
way He is first grabbed on this side
and then on that side. The liquor traffic
drains the home. the politician drains
the saloon, and in the end it all comes
off you poor women
1.-The only way is to be uncompronis-
ing in your attacks on these disherS of
hell broth (cries of -'Amen!" 'Amen."
and applause). Selling liquor is worse
than stealing. When we came down to-
night, my brother said to me, Don't
you want to look into the saloons?
said, No I don't want to look unless
/ can jump in and smash en-
God works through human instru-
mentality. The salOOnists laugh us to
scorn now, but let them wait. It's not
only Carrie Nation that's in this re-
form now. Kansas City is now moving
ahead like Kansas. I am almost jeal
Gus because Kansas is tagging behind
your people.
when Judge NcAuley said he would
fine N e $500 l laughed him to scOrn. ]
told him I would come when pleased.
almost feel sorry for Judge McAuley
because of the way your preachers
have roasted him. I believe the judge
understood when he fined me that I
didn't care anything about it. Poor fell
low, he has been roasted considerably.
"a voice, He's been roasted out of his
diamond oh, yes, and we viii roast
him out of his whisky toddies. If we
don't his whisky toddies will roast
him.
Having paid her respects to Judge
McAuley, Mrs. Nation sailed into DR.. J.
E. Roberts, pastor of the Church of the
World. DR.. Roberts criticised her in a
sermon last Sunday. She called him a
"blasphemous infidel," and accused him
of 'spewing infdelity all around here"
perfection beside him. He wouldn't let me
speak in his church. He was afraid of the
empty heads that 60 to hear him. i
would like to meet him. have the Steel
call him a coward, a villain, a liar and
everything else in the world that's bad
After her speech Mrs Nation announced
that she intended to sell some of her pic
lures to raise money with which to pay
want one, and the poor woman was pret-
ty near crushed to death. She had to
throw IN a handshake with every picture,
with large fans which they piled as Wig
orously as they could, were insufficient to
Superintendent Ferguson of the mission
vainly endeavored to get the people to
sit down after the picture and button
sale. but they would not. Mrs. Nation
said she had to catch her train for Wich-
ita at 10 O'Clock, and tried to push her
way to the door, which is on the side of
the room opposite to the platform. But
the people wanted to shake her hand so
badly that they wouldn't let her out
Then an adroit and successful move was
made With her brother / v Moore. in
front of her, and E. z. Richardson, sec
retary of the Kansas City Stock Yards
company, behind her. the smasher
climbed out through a rear window. Like
sheep following their leader. the crowd
started through the window after her,
and fully a hundred piled out of it.
Led by Mrs Nation her brother and
Mr.. Richardson, they struggled over old
the alley between Grand avenue and Nc
Gee street and then down the alley Of
Eighteenth. From this point they were
followed to Grand avenue. whre she
caught a car, by the entire crowd.
Mrs Nation was asked on the car about
the report that her husband had been
robbed in a saloon in Indianapolis She
would neither deny nor confirm it.