Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-01
NOT SMASHING" NOW
Mrs. Carrie Nation States Her
Mission Here.
COMES TO SAVE THE PEOPLE
Voices Opposition to the Saloon and
Condemns Dancing.
DENIES THAT SHE Is CRAZY
Delivers Address Before the Recha-
bites at Odd Fellows Hall
Watch Presentation.

and their friends in Odd Fellows Hall. on
7th street northwest. last evening. MIS-
Carrie Nation of Kansas delivered stirring
address, giving special attention to the
saloon and dancing. She declared she Is
against both the saloon and dance, because
she stands in the position of mother VINO
does not want to see the young degraded.
She said: 1T is always a pleasure for
me to come before RechabiteS, because
their cause is my cause. 1t is a case OF
heaven against hell, and salvation in oppo-
sition to damnation. l have come here TO
do you good. You have. no doubt. ard
that | am a saloon smasher That is
thing of the past l am not smashing
saloons now. But 1 am a better smasher
than 1 ever was. In a case of smas ns.
she said dynamite would be better than
the Ratchet.
II went to several shows in this city yes
terday. At one l saw picture of ROBBERY,
ho.d-up and a suicide. we must III our
voices against allowing the youth OF the
land to attend such shows l want to I'VE
so He will say, Well done at the last.
At this point Mrs. Nation glanced at the
program arranged for the dance which
was to follow her speech, and SAID:
when | was young | danced the square
dance l see that you have tWo,step
and waltz If you had been where nave
YOU would not waltz. The life of SIN begifls
with a waltz 1t is hardly right for young
man to put his arms around a girl IN the
parlor but what do you think OF such
thing in the ballroom can IL the mug
cling school. 1t is a game that IS not Sdle.
So many strange men are at these dahces;
Girls be careful in your selections. =
would like to smash the round dance the
cigarette the pipe, and the DEAD piIuS upon
tn, hats of women. 1 hate to see corpses
on their hats.
What Her Enemies Say.
that Carrie
Nation is crazy. My enemies have told
Won wrong. | am the defender of that
young woman and of that young man.
Mothers. don't allow your daughters to
dance My modesty always prevented me
from allowing men to place their arms
about my waist.
You NAV have heard to the contrary
but Carrie Nation is not an accloent' am
here by Cod will. He chose a PLAIN noun
er. He raised that mother TO astonism ~
nation. | attack that thing which RUNS.
No wonder that God Almighty picked out a
plain mother What would you 90 II you
saw black snake in your home? why,
you would smash it. of course. 1iat 10 my
mission / have come to smash 1t on the
head / am sixty years of age and VIII
not be before you many years-out curing
that time l want to talk to the tather ana
mother, the sister and brother: am sen
ing my little hatchets. That Is now got
here The proceeds from the sale or my
book and these hatchets have paid over
81 900 in fines and lawyers fees. You know
George Washington said he did IL with ms
little Ratchet But you know he chopped
cherry tree. That was something of value
I never destroyed anything as Valuapie as
a cherry tree. l destroyed five saloons by
throwing rocks before l ever touched d
Ratchet. l am your example OF the arous-
ed heart. When burglar gets into your
home and smashes something he Is gener-
ally caught, or deserts the premises. He
does not stay when there is a smash. The
same way with the saloonkeeper
Fill the offices with RechabiteS and you
will have d President that will not keep his
mouth closed to a thing that destroys over
100000 lives each year. Have President
whose heart throbs for your cause Inc IN
telligent and moral people are my friends
wherever / go. Like Debs and others L
have been in jail-yes. twenty-nine times
You laugh at the statement. but your mirth
is caused by the fact that l got out. Any
fool can get into jail, but it takes something
else to get out. l want to go to jail to keep
you out of hell. My book was written with
my right hand-sometmes behind the bars.
1t tells you something. You can't fool all
of the people all of the time. l would free
ly give a $40 bill to have heard Miss Fran
ces E. Willard, and bills like that are not
very plentiful with me. either
Some day you will hear that Carrie Ma
ton is dead. You will be glad that you
have heard me. l intend to keep chopping.
chopping and smashing. smashing. May
the good Lord give you deliverance. Later
am going down into the red light district
into the Division. The saloons and other
dives are protected by your three Commits
sioners. They under the direction of
Theodore Roosevelt
After Mrs Nation had concluded she held
a sale of books and small metal hatchetS
while the dance was In progress.
Mr.. Cordell Receives Watch.