The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-08
MRS. CARRIE Ma
TION COMING
T 0 A J.
GUST 4
WILL DELIVER ADDRES 3
At MILLER WALKER
HALL ON MONDAY
NIGHT, THE
ELEVENTH
INSTANT.
THE "ANNIHILATION-
list"
FAMOUS SALOON SAASBER SAYS
she is NO TEMPERANCE we-
MAH---BELIEVES In AHsIHILAr-
BGLIQUOR, wIPIHG II OUT En-
TIRELY-,-WILL SPEAK FOR BEN
EFT FLORENCE CRITERION
HOME.

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HOME.
Carrie Nation will be in Augusta
Monday, February 1lth. aud on that
night VIII deliver an address In the
Miller-Walfer hall for the benefit of
the local Florence Cri tenton home. the
contract bringing her to Augusta hav-
ing been made yesterday by the man.
ayers OF that institution.
Atlanta and Augusta are the only
Cwo points which tie famous woman
will visit in Georgia on this trip
whether because they are the most
prominent municipalities or are the
most in need OF her hatchets and ser
| mons, has not been stated.
Mrs. Nation Is travelling through
Georgia fully equipped with saloon
smashing apparatus, but thus far he1
march has been marked with "blood.
'css victories" While she seems to
have given up her erstwhile destruc.
tive methods OF emphasizing heI
teachings. Mrs. Natlon still oca'nuei
to wage relentless WARFARE against
iquOr.
II am no temperance woman. Meth
r am local Optionist," she said. 81
am an annih!lationist. / want i,
wiped cut and a law made so that
liquor cannot be made, sold. battered
or given away.
And | am carrying this gospe
everywhere. Jesus went to hell anC
preached there. Why should | not %
TO dives and brothel and preach fiji,
word? He ate with publIcanS and sin
ners. So Will / go everywhere apC
mingle with the lowly and preach Hi.
gospel
Telling about her latest experienc,
/ short time ago at the white hous,
When she cndeavoled 10 see Presiden,
Roosevelt, Mrs. Nation said:
"See him?" or course didn't S.,
him. First of all, let me say l m anti
Roosevelt. I'm agains him. No, the,
didn't let me see him, but they didn'
throw me out and didn't have me ar
| RI sted, like they did once before. Bn
| | had my say and told them what
thought OF him before / left. l tol,
them that amy bum, thief, rogue, crool
or druukard or cigarette fiend In tn
country could see the president, bu
not Carrie Nation, and told then
what TO ask him. Finally one OF tn
men coming out Of the presidents OF
fee asked me to leave. No. they didn
have me arrested time"
1t has bcen just about a year sipC
Mrs. N; / on Smas Icd her la. t saloor
That saloon was In ii, uStop, Texa!
and vas known as the Carrie Natio
saloon"
81 sent word," said Nrs NstIor
Several times for them TO take th
lsign down from over the door, an
They didn't. So when l went to Hou
ton and was looking over the tel,
phone book / noticed the name.
went into a hardware store and bougt
"a hatchet and a stout sack. Then
gathered some rocks from q plaC
where they were putting up a ne
. buildirg & and started for the place.
, began at the side door huo finished A;
] the front door. smashed every thir
8 In sight, and ordered the bewildert
I bartender to have my name tax,
}. down before noon the next day. TT
n sign was taken down and they didn
s have me arrested that time nor put II
= in jail"
Mrs. Nation uses stones and roc
in smashing saloons for the reas,
D that the Scriptures tell about t
3 stones crying out and she sys TN
= are the means Of carry ng out h
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