The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
NUISANCE TO RE ARArEp.

que to woman should require the country to put up with such an intolerable nuis. ance as Mrs. Nation makes of herself. Men with a proper conception of what is due to womankind hesitate to deal rough ly or harshly with even such a specimen as she is, and that is just the reason why she tries the patience of well disposed men and goes on her way unharmed. A man who would act as she does would be disposed of in short order. If the law and the officers failed to suppress him some individual would do the job very sudden ly. It can't be done in this case because the nuisance is a woman.
 The papers have given more or less ex- tended accounts of her antics in Wash ington some days ago, and. reading them, one Is led to wonder that any person, man or woman. could continue such reck- less and discredltable conduct year after year almost without any effort to sup press her. For this has been going on for some years. We do not now remem- Der when she first broke loose. but we know that she has been a ramping nuis- ance several years. and tolerance and im- punity only makes her worse. Her mal- ady is the kind which grows and spreads and gets worse all the time. ii
 We know that some argue that If the papers would absolutely refuse to pay any attention to her. or not mention her name she would soon subside. but we do not know whether this would be an ace quate remedy or. not. It is doubtless true that she glories in the advertising and publicity she gets from the newspapers and it might be that she would lose in- terest in her peculiar and unenviable style of entertainment if no notice should be taken of her; but we-are not sure that ig- noring her entirely would tend to put her out of business.
 But even if this were true it is impos- sible. It would be little less than absurd. for example. to expect that the news papers reporters, and correspondents in Washington should fail to take notice of such outrageous performances as she was guilty of in Washington last week If she would confine her operations entirely to saloons, gambling houses and other places appropriate to her kind 1t might be possible for the newspapers to ignore her entirely, and let her be forgotten as soon as possible, and be done with her.
 This is just what she refuses to do. for is magnified in proportion to the kind of places she visits. When she invaded the executive offices and the halls of Congress and created such a disturbance that pub lie business had to be discontinued it was not an occasion for forbearance or silence. It was as impracticable for the newspa- pers to fail to take note of her as 1t was for the doorkeepers and other employees of the Capitol to Ignore her and her racket. The question is, 1t seems to us, whether she shall be allowed to go her own way and so disturb the peace and order of society that the papers will be compelled to give her the notoriety which she so much likes and on which she thrives,. in all probability.
 The fact that she was arrested and fined for disorderly conduct is not likely to have much effect on her future career, So far as suppressing her Is concerned. In fact, the effect may be exactly oppo- site, for she boasts that she has been ar rested a score of times, and apparently thinks it a feather in her cap to be ar. rested for conduct of which no right thinking woman could possibly be guilty That IS one kind of notoriety upon which she thrives. and an arrest and trial is part of her assets.
 But such conduct as that which caused her arrest in Washington is not her worst offence. In some of her Berserker fits she not only destroys private property but has on more than one occasion made vicious and unprovoked attacks on indi- viduals for which a man would either have been shot down in his tracks or beer severely punished, yet she has practically gone her way and followed her own in sane course with little hindrance.
 | If there Is no law to suppress such 8 nuisance as Mrs, Nation Is and to put 8 stop to her outrages there ought to be It is absurd to suppose that she does ol can do any good by her methods. There ought to be some authority which could restrain her and prevent further demon strations of what really appears to be 6 species of insanity. If she is allowed tc go on and grow bolder and more reckless 1t can hardly be a great while till she will be the prime cause of some crime or homicide which may end her career. IL ought to be stopped before 1t reaches that extremity.