The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-24
CALL HER HOSTS.
Mrs. Nation Will Move on Wichita
Sept 2S.
Wants 1000 Woman to Enlist
Under Her Banner.
BRING THE HATCHETS.
Will Use the ScOurge OH Rec
reant Officials.
Offers to Pay the Fare of All
Volunteers.
Look out, Wichitai

! your nome Q6-
fender is on your trail. With an army
of 1000 women, armed with hatchets
and scourges, she is preparing to as
semble at S27 North Main street in
Wichita on September 2S. her avowed
purpose being to destroy by force every
murder mill' in the corporate limits
of the Peerless Princess
Mrs. Nation gives full notice of her
/ intentions in a communication to the
State Journal, written on the train en-
route to Lebanon. She offers to pay
the railway fare of every woman who
will meet her in Wichita on September
28 and furthermore, to provide them
with accommodations for sleeping.
1t is believed that Mrs. Nation has
the money to carry out ner pledge, and
if so. things promise to get mighty in
teresting down in Wichita one of these
days. Mrs. Nation will of course be ar
rested by the Wichita police, and thrown
in Jail as soon as she arrives in town.
That is the way the Wichita people
have of treating the leaders of Carrie
Nation movements.
The scourge is a new weapon for the
home defenders, but Mrs. Nation has
found scriptural authority for it. She
expects to use the scourge on the pubic
officials who fail to enforce the prohib-
itory law.
The following is Mrs. Nations procla-
nation:
En- Route to Lebanon to speak at the
fair Sept. u, 1904.
ITO the Mothers Wives and Daughters
of Kansas, Especially of Wichita:
Il nave frequent appeals from poor
heart-b broken mothers all over TO come
help them save their sons, but from no
place have 1 had as many as from
Wichita, Kansas.
Last week two agonizing appeals
came to me that I can not turn a deaf
ear to and / am now resolved to cancel
my dates and by the help of Almighty
God go to that awful city of death and
murder. 1 now ask all women over
the state and elsewhere to meet me
there on the 28th of September, Tues
day of next week. Bring your hatchets
with you. 1 will pay the railroad fare
of those not able and see that you have
place provided for your stay while
there. Now this appeal is made to the
gentle, loving, brave Christian women
whose hearts are breaking with
whose dear ones are being destroyed
before their eyes.
THE gentle are the brave;
'The loving are the daring. -
'.Godsays, Rise up ye women who
are at ease in Zion There are Christian
women who are commanded to dare
and do. If the state is right in hang
ing a man because he kills one man, d
hundred times right are we VINO destroy
the instruments that are killing soul
and bodies by the thousands. The in
tent of this action is to destroy all of
the fiery drink in the % wholesale muir
der mills and the hundreds of smaller
dives of Wichita. The result of this
will be the salvation of the souls and
bodies of hundreds of our precious sons
from drunkardS' graves and drunkards
hells. We will fulfill scripture and
BE a terror to evil doers.' We will
Destroy the works of the devil We
will Resist the Devil We will take
no ones life. We may not draw drop
of blood unless it be from the scourge
of small cords we must have with us,
following the example of our divine
Lord. These Scourges will be for the
backs and faces of the city officials,
the county attorney, the judges, the
chief of police and his force; the mayor
and councilmen and all the rest of the
murderers. We will not harm a saloon
keeper. The smashing of his business
will mean the salvation of his soul and
others. Saloon keepers will not be our
antagonists, but the set of Republicans
who are defending by bribery and per
jury those poor devils. When 1 was
smashing these outlawed dens in Wich-
ita a Republican officer said to Mr..
Burns. Why did you not knock that
woman down?' The dive keeper said, |
God forbid that I should strike a wo-
man.
'sThe saloon keepers neither said nor
did harmful thing that heard of but
Harry Sutton. the policeman struck me
with his fists several times. The time
is short, but with a loving heart, |
good right arm and a consecrated |
hatchet we will earn the Divine COM |
WELL DONE When you |
arrive in Wichita, the 2Sth. report to |
Mrs. Lucy Wilmoth, S27 North Main |
street If you have not the means by |
you to pay your fare, borrow of some |
one that have till 1 meet you. God |
grant US a thousand goodly womeQ to-
this rescue.
1" True merit lies in Drawing the un- |
equal true glory lies in daring to be- |
gin, God loves the man or woman who
seekers of the sequil. fights long and |
well whether they loose or win.
1.-The cry of the loving heart of your |
Home Defender,
CARRIE A. NATION.
''P. S-We want to make Wichita as
decent and safe a place to live in as
Topeka.
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