The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-06
Working HER GRAFT
Mrs. Nation Making Big
Money at Lecturing.
VISITS STATE CAPITAL
And Heaps Abuse on Ever
thing Republican.

Topeka. Dec 5.-Mrs. Carrie Nation ar
rived in Topeka yesterday afternoon. She
viii remain only until this afternoon.
when she will resume her lecture tour on
which she has been occupying herself
since June 90 Mrs. Nation says she has
been making a good thing in the lecture
business. She has a regular manager
who arranges dates for her all over the
country at $50 per lecture, or more if he
can get it. She came here from Sioux
City, Ia, where she delivered a lecture
for SIS and came near being mobbed for
abusing the name of President Mckinley.
Throughout Texas her manager charged
$125 for her lectures. Her manager is J.
Z Furlong of Rochester, n. Y. He is
the person who for number of seasons
was the manager of Paderewski.
Since June 20 Mrs. Nation has cleared
S., 900 by lecturing and selling souvenirs.
She says she intends to keep up this
work indefinitely, and when she has
more money win establish a home for the
wives of drunken husbands. She says
she thinks she will establish her first
home in Kansas City, Kan, and later
one in New York City. She says she
has enough money to buy the place in
Kansas City but will wait until she has
sufficient sum to endow it.
The principal object of Mrs. Nations
visit to Topeka this time IS to pay fines
TO the amount of something like 500
which are still due here.
L am here to pay for doing" she said.
''for what those rascals, Stanley, Hazen,
Parker and Magaw swore they would
do, but which they failed to do
Mrs. Nation spoke at the Salvation
Army headquarters last evening. She has
greatly increased her vocabulary of syn
onyms for the saloon and says she longs
and studies for more names to call them.
Butcher shops" "hell holes" "Scul-
lion holes" are some of her new terms.
About as much Of her abuse is now
directed at the Republican party as it is
at the saloon, and the state officers Of
Kansas come in for her share.
4 hate the Republican party worse
than l hate the dewitt said Mrs. Nation
in her lecture last evening. The men in
dice in that party are greater criminals
than the brewers. Governor Stanley and
that vile scullion. that traitor. that man
false to his trust, the mayor of this
city. and Hazen and Magaw are worse
than the persons who hand liquor over
the bar. 1 would like to throw hatchet
at Mayor Parker. But I have quit using
the Ratchet I have learned that I was
wrong and the saloon-keeper is not the
man to blame; and hereafter ! viii fight
the officers in power. The Lord said:
My word is a hammer. Well. mine is
q Ratchet, and hereafter I will fight only
with my lectures.
Mrs. Nation likes to start a row. Last
evening after her lecture she secured a
copy of the Sioux City papers and re-
fused TO be interviewed until she had
read the account of the trouble she had
made in that city a few days ago.
20. it was great she said. There
were men jumping ali around and some
were shaking their fists at me and some
were applauding 1t is just exactly what
wanted, and was the very reason for
which 1 said it,
Although not as demonstrative as she
used TO be, Mrs. Nation does not let a
cnance so by without attracting at
tention if possible. On her way home
from her lecture last evening she snatch
ed a cigarette out of a drunken man S
mouth and reproached him loudly. Quite
crowd edged near her by the time
she had arrived at her hotel.
Mrs. Nations sister. Mrs. Z. L. Can't
well of Louisburg. Kan. met her yester-
day and will be with her until she leaves.
Mrs. Nation says she hasn't heard from
David Nation since they have been di-
vorced. and doesn't care to hear from him.
Topeka Kan, Dec. Mrs. Carrie Ma
ton, the saloon smasher. returned to this
city yesterday and this afternoon made a
tour Of the saloons of the city preparatory
to beginning another smashing tour, as
she expressed it. The crowd following
her grew so large that the police arrested
Mrs. Nation on a charge OF dIsorderly
conduct. She was given a small fine in
the police court this afternoon. Mrs Ma
ton announces that she viii repeat her
old time exploits in this city before long.
LIKE ALL REFORMERS