Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-06-24
An Eastern Estimate OF Mrs. Nation

her and the following will, therefore, be
OF interest. The article is from tie
Venanso Daily Herald, published at
Franklin, Pennsylvania, where Mrs. Ma.
ton recently lectured:
! expected to see and hear a biz.
two-hsted Mrago, hurting unmannerIy and
uncouth denunciahous, said II. MAY Ir-
WIN to Herald representative last night.
Instead found motherIy woman.
This was about the impression left on
the audience that crowded and jammed
the court house. Sunday afternoon, to
hear the famous Garry A. Nation.
Compared with what Billy Sunday
says In his revival sermons, Mrs. Nation 5
Bible reading was as literary lecture be-
side conversation with base ball fan.
Compared with the value Of some ser
mons, as a means Of getting people to
adopt right living, and giving them an un-
derstanding Of the meaning Of life, Mrs.
Nations address was as the advice Of a
mother put side by side with that Of a
sweet girl graduates essay.
When the famous woman took the
chair Of the Judge, the audience saw
woman attired in white, without adorn-
ment Of any kind. Her firm face wore
an air Of independence. but not of indI-
ference, as her bright eyes sharply but
kindly surveyed the gathering. She In
Wted the people to seats, until the last
place had been filed, and there were
men and women seated on the steps Of
the dais. and the doors and hallway were
choked.
Mrs. Nation kneIt in prayer, and Of
fered such suppGcation as could only
come from one accustomed to talking in
trust and confidence with the Father of
all. 1t was prayer full of Bible phrase
ology. After this she Immediately launch
ed inty her talk. She stated that the
people were curious to know about the
real Cary Nation; the one not advertised
correctly. You can't expect to hear the
truth about me in the papers, she said.
The papers won't advertise whiskey,beer
and corrupt politics and then properly
advertise Cany Nation a.. =, -
Many thnss were ssiia 10, riothers.
and to fathers, about the responsibilities
which are theirs. The fall of all the
nations, said she. has been through fomi-
cation. Our nation is tending that way.
Again and again Mrs. Nation scored
the users Of tobacco. What right have
you to bring children into the world with
nerves all unsGunga You wouldn't do
that with cattle. If you had even male
hog on the place that used tobacco, you d
kill the hog.
This world needs more than any
thing else. mothers. Woman was made
man: guardian. 1t is her place to be
with hun, and guard and care for him.
God saw that man needed woman.
Man was not made for woman. Wom-
an was made for man, to guard him. As
long as man and woman are together,
things are right But when Satan saw
this. he organized clubs, and secret So
ciedes. and saloons. and pool rooms, where
women are excluded. And there men
go wrong. When Satan entered Eden,
secrecy began.
Christ IS the only teacher of relig-
ion who Lifted woman from bondage, and
liberated her, and restored her to her
nshtful place at the side Of man.
God made the mother always a
fighter. Brute mothers fight for their
young. The mother bear will put her
cubs behind her. and face the foe and
fight il she dies. Even the mother hen
vii Eight any foe. Which is it that fiies
IN the face Of the dog. or rises to fight Of
the hawks it not the hen2 The hen
has too much sense to leave her chicken.
IN care Of the rooster. He viii Ely upon
the fence and crow. but she viii eight for
her young. | wish mothers had as much
sense As a hen.s
We breed up our horses and Aock
but we are breeding down our human
stock. As soon as the boy leaves hi,
mothers care, he IS met with murder by
the government The brewers and dis
hllers come to the government and say
what they want. but you be the hands d
the woman. whom God made to guard
the man..
Mrs. Nation then tuned to her Bible
with which she IS most familiar, and read
the laSa chapter Of Proverbs. She said
that the mother Of Sampson was the FRS
wgman to take the w. c. T. u. pledge
and i was condition necessary IN ordel
to bring into the world It's strongest man.
The reason for wearing the bi;
hats.' she declared. is to compensate fo
the little brains under them
Beware Of the wasp-waisted won
an. Shell get you into trouble
4" People who spend 50 much TIM,
adjoining the outside have very little IN