Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-17
CARRIE NATION DEFEATED
BY YALE STUDENT TACTICS

~
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the Kansas joint
lsmasher. has found the Yale students
Iirrepressible. and after her recep-
tion on the Yale campus she declal-
ed:
Those Yale boys are the worst
ever met / never saw anything like
it i'm Kansas City. / am going To stay
here to talk to those Yale boys, for
they need it
Mrs. Nation having promised to
smash nothing. was given permission
to try to reform the students and
she soon found her way To the cam
pus. Then she made her way To the
steps of Osborne hall at Chapel and
College streets. where the old Yale
fence once stood. and where Yale men
nowadays gather to sit. In less thal
five minutes il was known ON the
campus that Mrs. Nation had cone
to Yale and 1000 students faced her.
They brought along several dogs that
could do some tall barking when
necessary. an Italian with II barrel
organ. and a part of the Yale Glce
club. Right in front of her were
scores of students putting away on
cigarettes. She sailed in:
You have all probably heard of me
before"
You bet we have. All right. LET
her go. CARRIE" shouted a Yale cho-
rus. Her first attack was on the
cigarettes.
Now, look here, young man. Would
your sweetheart allow You to kiss her
| if she knew you had been smoking
that thing?" she said as she pointed
to lusty looking freshman not ten
feet from her. The boys gave her q
wild cheer and the freshman disap-
peared as she kept her finger pointed
right at him. She switched from the
dangers of cigarette smoking to pro
hibition and assailed the whisky
trust.
My. dear boys" She pegan.
! That was as far as she got, for the
students yelled back:
20. Carrie. now don't do that
1t was couple of minutes before
she could go on. and then she said:
In the bible the whisky trust j.
described as covenant with death
and an agreement with the devil
At this point some of the glee club
:.
Carrie, 'and the whole crowd took up
| the words.
When the crowd quoted Mrs Ma
tion briefly told the history of her
career in Kansas and the cities she
had undertaken to reform. how she
had been sued for Islander. how she
had been beaten at times, and about
the period she spent in Jail for her
glorious cause" as she described it.
Before she finished this part of the
address the students broke in again
and again ON her with the Yale cheer
and college wells. She stood her
ground braveIy. When she had an
other chance TO talk she discussed the
saloon evil. The Yale Glee club and
the thousand students began singing
I"Goodbv. Boose," then took up Down
With King Alcohol" and wound up
with ''Show Me the Way to Go HON"
Carrie
These melodies ratified her. for she
sent back to the boys this remark:
you are on the road to hell
| 20. fudge. Carrie" shouted bacl,
the college lads. That settled it, Mrs
Nation couldn't stand it any longer
and she stopped. She walked right
down into the big body of students
and snatched several cigarettes as
she passed through the crowd. "Th"
nasty things she remarked. as she
pitched the cigarettes into the street
Some of the boys shook hands with
her as she walked across Chapel
street to the New Haven house.
| Mrs. Nations plans regular cam
paign of reform here.