The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-11
DRINK ID HEALTH OF CARRIE NATION Veteran of 113 Arrests Visits
 the Red Light RATCHET IS IN ABEYANCE A Large Crowd Follows the Woman From Place To Place and Listen
 To Tirades Against Sin of
 Liquor Selling.
RATCHET IS IN ABEYANCE

Heres to Carrie Nation, and all her guestsn
 Such were the words which sounded amid cheers and the clinking of glasses at II o'clock last night in a saloon on the corner of Avenue A and Twenty-four<l street.
 Carrie Nation, the veteran of 113 ar- rests and the saloon smasher of hatchet fame, dressed in cravanette coat with g. black bonnet on her head and Bible in her arm, was standing in the middle of the floor heapng damnation upon them that drink the wine when it is red."
 Carrie Nation entered the saloon and looked around on the sotted crowd, some of them lounging, others drinking. and then walked I'D to the bsrkeeper, saying: Are you doing any good?" No he replied, but l don't see that that's any of your business"
 Well, it is my business to stop you from selling this damnable stuff and make a better man out of you and teach you to fear God"
 ''l don't believe in God, and I want to say that you are not a lady, you are not a. respectable woman to come into a saloon. IT you go to smashing up this saloon I'll smash your face with this!'' waiving beer bottle in her face
 While Carrie Nations voice was pitched in high tone, telling them they would repent when hell swallowed them, a man at the bar stepped up to her and asked her to have a drink. Throw the sloppy stuff away, young man." she replied. A moment later a half dozen filled their glasses and with shouts of "Hurrah for Carrie Nation!' drank to her health.
 She did no smashing last night, but from 10 o'clock to midnight she went from one saloon to another, entered num- erous houses and talked to the men and women Some of them welcomed her as an old friend. At one place where she talked to the women she left them all in tears. At other piaces they barred the doors and hurled threats at her, but Mrs. Nation always returned the words You'll repent it in he'll"
 Large crowds followed her from one place to another. On Twentieth street she told a. barkeeper that he ought to be in legitimate business He replied that after January 1 he will begin holding up trains.
 T heard that Birmingham was a bad town and l came to see," she said. T am glad to see you have voted out whisky. Saloons are but the effect of the cause of lawlessness in Washington city. l. have done no smashing since last year in Houston, Tex, where they had a sa- loon named after me. I went in with rocks and hatchet, told them that since it was, named for me it was mine. and | had a right to do what I wanted to do with 1t, and I smashed everything in it.
 Mrs. Nation says that the smashing was to wake the people up, and that she is now on her round up.
 Mrs. Nation speaks tonight at the Sal vation army hall, and expects everyone of her friends to attend. Tomorrow after noon at 8 o'clock she will meet the w. c. T. U. women at the same place.
 Mrs. Nation told one policeman to his face last night that he was drunk, but she has not yet been arrested. Just be- fore leaving Washington she spent three days in the work house, after being ar rested. She refused to pay all fines.