The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-06
MAS. NAT1oN APPEARS.

A revival of the once favorite pastime.
which was immensely popular in this
city during the winter of 1890. known az
joint raiding, was threatened yesterday
when the prime factor of all Kansas
joint raids. Carrie Nation, appeared and
instigated a series oS visits to the va
rious distributing places for malt. spir-
itous and fermented liquors. 1t be-
gan to look like the poor. downfredden
sons of sin were going to get the worst
of it. until three brawny policemen
arrived and saved the day. The Home
Defender was incarcerated. and the
White Aproned F'raternityo of Beer Deal
ers drew a breath of relief Queer, ism
it, how sight of that benevolent face
under the little black bonnet will make
a jo.ntist hunt the fire escape or climb
the wall? Since the day when she made
the Carey house bar in Wichita look like
80 cents in confederate scrip, she has
been a terror to evil-doers. She has also
afforded deal Of amusement to the
public at large.
Carrie Nation the benevolent old lady
with the motherly face and kind word is
not the Carrie Nation in the Shawnee
county jail who pounds the furniture of
her Cell into total wreck. objects TO
the sanitary conditions and glares like
a Gagged tiger at her custodian. She is (
duet all by herself
Yesterday when she was leading the
grand march down Kansas avenue she
was wearing placid smile and the
same black bonnet. She was armed with
nothing but good advice and a firm
conviction that she was right Two
years a-o when she made the local
jointists break into sudden activity she
was armed with sharp Ratchet her
black bonnet was on sideways and she
almost frothed at the mouth. A thrash
ing machine running amuck was not
circumstance to the woman who
excited every private citizen who faced
her and then kept the police force busy
awhile longer. 1t was in those days
that the peaceful burg of Sioux CITY
Iowa, had their city council pass a res
olution to resent an invasion of the
Smasher, and protect their saloons and
gambling dens with their hearts blood
Sioux City was not the only town which
stood in fear and trembling of this kind
hearted old woman under the black bon
net. Many schemes for her removal
from the temptation of joint smashing
have been advocated. People who have
seen her in war paint and feathers,
touched up with a glaring eye and shin
ing Ratchet, have advocated the padded
cell at Osawatomie. She win never. go
there, because, if she were brought be-
fore medical commission to determine
her mental condition, they would find
pleasant old woman with nothing but
the love of God in her heart.
Perhaps she might be convicted of in
sanity If a miniature joint We're set up
in the court room and she was armed
with her time honored sniclxersnee, bur
in this case the court would do well to
stay near the fire escape while the test
was being made.
The Ratchet welding woman from
Medicine Lodge who broke into print
and Wichita joint at one and the same
time, has managed to stay in the public
eye ever since. Sometimes she irritates
the public eye, but she doesn't leave its
vision She has a peculiar method OF
reforming the world. but who can say
she has not done lots of goode Surely,
there is a front seat in heaven for the.
destroyer of plate mirrors and cherry
bars. If St. Peter knows when he is
well off, he will take to the tall timber
upon her tumultuous approach. and let
her break in and make herself at homo