Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-02-13
WHAT THEY SAY.
Some Press Gleanings Treating on Mrs. Na
tion's Crusade.

Minneapolis Messenger: Mrs. Ma
ton is probably weIl-intendIng won.
an, and hopes to secure obedience to
the law by violating law herself. but
she is nevertheless pursuing a very
mistaken course. She is animated by
the same spirit as the mob which burn
ed the negro at Leavenworth, and has
less excuse than the mob for commit
ting crime. The saloon keepers are
criminals. and should be punished: but
that does not excuse Mrs. Nation for
becoming criminal.
Atchison Globe: When Mrs. Nation
made her first bid for notoriety. she
should have been quietly arrested, trI-
ed, and sent to the insane ASYLUM.
where she belongs. Instead of that. a
lot of w. Q. L. U. women encouraged
her, and she rapidly became worse.
Mrs. Nation is unquestionably crazy,
and is dIsgracing religion and temper
ance. All oyer the world, respectable
advocates Of religion and temperance
are blushlng.
Lawrence World: Mrs. Nation IS
still destroying what does not exist.
She therefore cannot be violating any
law. If her work results in a temper
ance crusade 1t would he good for the
state. 1t the fixtures of every hellhole
in Lawrence were destroyed by some
determined woman it would do more
to cause public sentiment to be aroused
than anything that could be done.
Sterling Democrat: Sister Nation
treated Brother Stanley to little sur.
prise ard, among other things, called
him perjurer because he had not
closed up the saloons and joints in the
state. The governor didn't seem to
relish the interview to any marked ex.
tent but had to make the most of it.
Lyons Eagle: Mrs. Nations raid
suggests several queries: If Mrs. Ma
ton, not being an officer, can make the
Jointists hide out and shut up. why in
the world cannot an officer who is elect
ed and clothed with power for that pur-
rose, do as much?
Jeffersonian Gazette: Kansas is
bound to keep to the front. Leaven-
worth burned a "nigger," Mrs. Nation
smashes saloons and the Legislature
elected the notorious j. Rats Burton
to tie U. s. senate, all in a week.
Wichita Eagle: Mrs. Nation talks
muct of combating the devil. But
she hasn't met the devil yet, and if she
ever does she will throw that halchet
aside and call for pitchfork.
Concordia Enterprise: Mrs Nations
aims are all right but she will have to
learn that good ends must be sought
only by lawful and peaceable means.
K. G. Times: Since Mrs. N alton and
| her Ratchet came into the saloon
wrecking arena the cantankerous cow
boy and his terrible gun have had to
| take back seat
Topeka State journal: Eastern ex-
changes characterize the meeting be-
tween Mrs. Carrie Nation and Cover
nor w. Eugene Stanley as Joint de-
| bate.'
K. G. Times: Mrs. Nation may be
intensely fanatical, but she is hardly
reckless enough to go to swinging her
Ratchet around in Kentucky.
Topeka Capital: Mrs. Carrie Nation
counts that day lost, whose low de-
scending sun" sees from her axe no
| jointist on the run.
Wichita Eagle: Mrs. Nation is from
Kentucky, but lot of stuff which
she thinks is whisky, which she Is de-
| stroying, isn't.
KIowa Journal: Mrs. Nation has
been offered SIS per week by Chicago
theatrical manager, to play in Ten
Nights in Bar Room" In Chicago ten
nights may be all right. but here In
Kansas one is good and plenty.
K. G. Star: Subject for the Medicine
Lodge debating society: Resolved,
That the Ratchet is mightier than the
search warrant. Mrs. Nation seems
determined to break the Topeka drug
gists of the habit of allowing their
hand made whisky to stand over night.
80. .Beloit has raised 500 to secure the
| services of Carrie Nation. Evidently
Carrie could do thriving business sell
ling turmoil by the gallon.
Sw. IN. E J Advocate, Winfield: The
officers in Kansas would better organ.
ize to protect their friends, the Joint
keepers, or Mrs Carrie Nation will de
| molish them with her little hatcbet.
Mrs. Nation is smasheress with a
particular fondness for joints.
Anthony Republican: If Mrs. Ma.
ton is reported Alright by the newspa-
pers. she IS silly, doddering old WON
an, with insufferable vanity and ego
tism, half mad with her own fancies
concerning moral questions and wholly
mad with her own conceit. Were il
not for the following Of the curious and
tue shouts of the rabble, she would sub.
side, and leave no ripple on the surface
of the waters of oblivion.
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