The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-22
MRS. NATIONS CRUSADE.
Carrie Proves a Drawing Card in the
East.

East.
philadelphia North American.)
Mrs Nation is the reigning attraction
on the lecture platform in the country
today. Everywhere she is being greeted
by immense audiences. People by The
thousand throng to hear her tatk
Wherever this remarkab bic daughter or
Kansas goes. salOonmen quake IN their
shoes. and the police reserves are called
out. for the saloon smasher is boiling TO
get to work with her Ratchet. and J. T.
Furloug. her unlUcky -lanager- Is kept
in a state OF ncrvous terror all day lonS
for he knows that the penalty Ior a
single saloon wrecking exploit PROBABLY
means farewell TO the little mint OF which
he now has control Although Mrs Na-
ton has promised her manager TO be
good. her animOsitv to the saloon people
Is liable to make her break out at any
moment.
Mrs. Nation got out Of. jail in Kansas
through the grace OF friends VINO PAID
her SO fine for her Her first act after
regaininE her freedom was to sign a
contract with Manager Furlong. who IS
a Rochester man, for season Of lecture 3
a $50 lecture. expenses paid and al
the money she might make by selling
big and little hatchets. photographs, and
copies Of her publication, the Smasher' s
The smasher began her engagement By
running away from her manager and
turned up lost in Rochester They took
her to a good hotel She found that
liquor was sold al the bar and SIC
straightway created a scene and left the
place without her baggage At the end
OF twelve hours they found her making
a speech TO crowd in the office of d
temperance hotel, where she had taken
u her abode.
Then Manager Furlong esSaved to as
sumo control, and that night Mrs. Ma
ton delivered her first lecture IN Svrl-
cuse9 at Lakeside park. which is con-
trolled by the street car company. and
drew such q crowd that there was i
blockade OF the system. She has a voice
Ike drill master and the presence IF
a drum ma 1Or. She affects pure white
a white duck suit with a white cape.
carrying Bible in one hand and a bright
new Ratchet in the other
Mrs. Nation absolutely dominates the
mixed audiences drawn to her by cur
oSity When she steps TO the front of
the stage, waving her Bible and hatcbet
above her head. AND calls ont. -.FSve-v
pOoy rlse- everybody rises. Men. VIC
men and children stand and then lock
at one another in sheepish manner.
But the SnaSher with the Bible aI35
natchet giveT them no time for rebellion
enc waves her weapons once more an.i
cries. Every BODY sing America - start
ing the first line Of the familiar song.
singing in a quavering, old-time style.
me audience obeys AID takes NJ the
refrain and carries the air through
Wnile the high priestess OF total abstI-
nencs grotesquely beats time with her
DEtcnef
At the conclusion Of the song she com
mands her audience to be seated sti.c.
without DreIminaTies plunges into her
subject She speaks without preparation
shouts whatever comes into her mind
and filings out many "A rough epigram
woe TO the reading desk before her
for she bangs it with her Bible and
hammers il with her Ratchet until she
makes IL look ike a last years packing
box
1t is her whole argument that the
world must be regenerated with the
Ratchet
After her lecture she sells bright
nickei-plated hatchets. exact counterps ~
Of the famous one she used so effectfvaIv
+ IN Kansas For these she gets . cents
apiece and as they probably cost her less
than 10 cents and she sells 40 to 500 al
edch lecture they form a profitable item
among her exhibits
AS she sells her hatchets the stout old
woman eXhorts her patrons to use them
Leaning over. she viii whisper cOnfiden-
tally ia the ear of boy.
60 smash a saloon with IT, my son
Go smash the demon rum
In her enthusiasm she is willing to lead
q party of raiders at any time and Mr.
FurlOng has great difficulty I'm restrain
ing her
While travelling she insists upon sign.
ing the hotel registers herself She IA l-es
three lines of the book for this import
ant feat. writing Carrie Nation Won
loving defender. Kansas" She has nj
faith In baggage masters. will not CARR
trunk. but transports her belongings fl
a couple OF grips and dozen big paDel
parcels. which she insists upon having ir
k2e seat Y--a her. Therefore she has L