The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-10-27
CARRIE NATION CALLS
THINGS BY RIGHT NAME.


loon smasher. spoke on the evils of
saloons. The people were expecting
something spicy and We're not dis
appointed She called things by their
right names so that there was no mis-
understanding as TO what she meant.
In addition to advertising her paper,
''The Hatcnet" and describing her
methods, she took up the prohibition
question and showed to her own sat
isfaction and beyond the contradic-
tion of the audience (for no one con-
tradicted or questioned when she
called for opinions) that saloons are
the greatest curse in America today.
The principal part of the speech
was an ailegory in which Mrs Ma
tion places on one side the church,
the school and the home, and on the
other the saloon, the gambling house
and the house of i'll fame. She said
that God was on the side of one and
the devil on the other. In voting, she
declared that men cast their lot with
one side of the other. If a man votes
the Republican ticket, she said, he
casts his vote for the saloon, the
gambling den and the house of i'll
fame. In proof of this she cited that
President Roosevelt by a stroke of
the pen put the licensed saloon in
Alaska in the Isthmus of Panama,
and is putting it in Cuba. Further.
Mloons and other such business, she
said were made legal by the Ii
cense from the internal revenue Of
flee, which is controlled by the gov
ernment. which is Republican, head
ed by Roosevelt. She called Teddy
a beer-guzzling Dutcnman, and made
the following classification: Ann
heuser-Busch, Pabst. Blatz, Schlitz,
Budweiser, Roosevelt" She classed
the Dutch and Germans together and
declared that the way this country
was being GermaniZed was shame.
She said there were some exceptions,
and that some Germans were of the
best people, but that as a rule they
were beer-guzzlers. hard, cruel hus-
bands, brutal to their wives when
beersoaked. She said there was more
insanity in Germany, per capita, than
in any other nation, and declared that
it was to this country's shame that
American colleges are being filled
with German professors.
Mrs. Nation said that the differ
ence between the Democratic party
and the Republican party was the
same as between two thieves. The
Republican party is the thief caught
with the goods. The only way out of
the difficulty. sne said, was to vote
the prohibition ticket. She called for
the hands of all the Republicans in
the house, and told them they be-
longed in the crowd with the saloon
keepers, gamblers, keepers of houses
of i'll fame. many who claim to be
respectable, many preachers, thugs,
low class negroes, and others. Then
she called for the hands of the Dem
ocrats in the house, and told them
they belonged in the same crowd.
There was but one Prohibitionist
hand raised when the call was made
for that class, and he was told that
he belonged with the glorious compa-
ny that fights for the home, the
church and the school.
Mrs. Nation said that all Republi-
cans and Democrats were either
knaves or fools. She said that if they
voted the tickets of these parties,
whose platforms contain nothing rel
ative to the prohibition of saloons
they did so either when they want
ed saloons or because they did not
want them. If they vote for them
when they want them, they are
knayes, she said, and if they vote
for them when they do not want
them. they are fools.
The speaker scorched Roosevelt
and his crowd" and Bryan and hi:
crowd" about equally. Her speecf
was filled with many bright, sharp
witty sayings. and was curiously int
eresting throughout. Some declare
her to be a fanatic and her speeche,
without logic or sense, but otner.
declare her to be smart woman,
diamond in the rough, sincere in he
work and worthy of a careful hear
ing She says that she is the agen
of God and that He put the hatcne
in her hands, the same as He pu
the sling in David's hand and tn,
jaw-bone in Simpsons hand. She be
lieves that her work will live afte
her
A collection was taken Up for tn,
speakers benefit, and she takes sub