The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-22

Topeka, she cried 81 saw those signs on
the windows of drug stores and tobacco
shops: Turkish Trophies all made up
in hfdeous, CHASTITY colorS. They are
real bum signs, on real bum houses, and
real buns smoke them, and they make
real buns out of the men and boys.
Whenever a man puts up signs like that
he is fit for treason, stra tagens and
spoils. Why To rather sell burglars
tools than put up signs like that. And
the Republicans have got a whole lot to
do with them. They are responsible.
Why they are the bitterest enemies to
the cause of temperance in Kansas. All
you have to do is send $3.50 to the
Republicans at Washington for a IL
cense and you can keep saloon. When
Kansas opens her eyes, no Republican
IN the state can get an office. Saloons
and their keepers are outlaws, and the
person who believes in licensing them is
a traitor for he destroys the guarantees
which our forefathers gave US Better
license horsethieves than saloons" And
then stopping minute for reflection
from her strange concoction of mixed
metaphors and vindictive war whoops,
she landed on the lumbar vertebrate
Democrats are just as bad-Just as bad.
The Prohibitionists are the good ones
they are the ones to have in office and
they will get there"
But the cause is gaining she trav-
eled on, the cause is gaining. Even
the saloon keepers admit this They
say stop the manufacture of whisky
and we are willing to quit They are
sick of the business. You cannot cruelty
all that is good in a man. Their eyes
are being opened wider every day.
There is good in them, lots, lots, oh,
heaps of it. and it is coming to the
'front.'
She has a world of compliments for
her treatment IN the east. for the
crowds at the vaudeville theaters,
where she appears as a regular attrac-
ton for one week stands. Right there
at the Bowery theater 1 go and tell my
story to those people who come, to
those people-those are the ones. fish
for them. I am a fisher of men. That
is the way to reach Them She has
spent all of her continual absence from
Topeka about New York and New Ha-
ven, Conn.,, lecturing and raking in the
shekels. With the opening of the sum-
mer she is contracting lecture dates at
fairs; and her itinerary is now threat
ening to exceed the number of days of
the summer. While telling of the east
she took a rap at Yale university 81
lectured to the boys and they were
mighty nice to me. But" and she
looked liked Gillette playing Sherlock
Holmes, but do you know, found out
that they served brandy and cham
payne sauce at the university meal
tables three times each week And
exposed all that in my article in
Physical Culture And she settled back
into her chair, satisfied with the expo
sition.
SHE UNFOLDS HER PLANS.
Last night Mrs. Nation met with the
executive council of the W. c. 7. U. in
this city and told them of her plans
about her school and auditorium. This
morning, bright and early. she left for
Kansas City to make an address at
that place today and incidentally look
after her Home for the Wives and
Children of Drunkards" which she
1 b0IIO6f in he
months ago and dedicated to her
cause. On Wednesday she will return
to Topeka to make final ARRANGEMENTS
about the printing of her book, and on
the next day will start for the east to
hibition
She came to Topeka Sunday evening
but no one knew of it until she s<ppear-
and made visitaticns upon the cigar
stores and drug stores around the
transfer station and told the proprie-
tors what she thought of the bum
cigarette signs. A curious crowd fol-
lowed at her heels. What did YOU
find out" was asked of her "Oh. 1
just visited one joint, that drug store
up yonder, the Copeland drug store and
the whisky smelled clear out on the
sidewalk" She tried to get into the
Royal saloon but the door was locked
in her face.
Mrs. Nation is looking very we'll. in
the language of country correspon-
dence. Her reduction in weight, and
the modish cut of her peculiar priest
like, button all the way up and down
gown give her a metropolitan appear
ance- She has more humor than when
she struck terror to the hearts of To-
peka joints in other days-she tells a
lot of good stories that are worth tell
ing over again. Withal she looks pros
/ porous, and more than that mighty
well contented with her success and
lpresent station in life.