The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-22
TO SAVE Her HOME
Carrie Nation Deserts Washing
ton for Arkansas.
Overlooked Fact That Loan on
Home Is Overdue.
WILL ASK EXTENSION.
Kansas SmaSher Has Been Sup
posed to Be Wealthy.
Has Given Several Small For
tunes to Found Charities.

Washington. Dec. 22.-Mrs. Carrie Ma
ton, veteran saloon smasher, is hurry
ing back to Arkansas to save her little
home in Eureka Springs from going
under the hammer
Mrs. Nation received a telegram urg-
ing her immediate return to Eureka
Springs. The man who holds a deed
of trust upon her house and property
there has insisted upon payment i'm
mediately. With the indomitable spirit
which has characterized her career
Mrs. Nation rose to the occasion and
wired that she would be on the ground
as soon as possible to arrange for an
other loan and to prevent the sale of
her home. At o'clock she boarded
the train at the Union station, where
a week or two ago she smashed up
the bar with her hatchets, Faith"
Hope and Charity"
People seem to think I ma million
-aire. but I'm not said Mrs Nation,
sadly, at the station when she was
making arrangements for her home
ward trip. But I can save my little
home this time. and I'll be there for
Christmas day. 1 can still work, and
as long as I am able to lift a finger L
will advance the cause of prohibition,
and keep roof over my head"
Home for Destitute Old Women.
Mrs. Nation. out of the kindness of
her heart, is giving shelter to an old
woman now at her home in Eureka
Springs This old woman is utterly
destitute. Mrs. Nation took her in and
made her her housekeeper, and the old
lady lives there in comfort. If this
home were to go under the hammer
the old lady would have to look else
where for shelter.
'WhPn 7 die 7 going 70 leave nv
home in Arkansas as a home for des-
titute old women said Mrs. Nation.
There will be some souls glad that
Carrie Nation lived"
An appeal in the case against Mrs
Nation for smashing the station bar
here will be taken to the court of ap-
peals by her attorney, Matthews E.
O'Brien. within a few days. The bill!
of exceptions to the sentence of Judge
Mullowny in the police court has been
signed by the judge.
Il am going to fight that case up to
the highest court in the land" SAID
Mrs. Nation. ut will cost me a lot of
money, but I'll make it somehow"
Praised Reformers' Conclave.
Mrs. Nation spoke in highest praise
been held here during the past week IN
the interests of temperance.
"It has brought together nation
wide organizations under the banner
of temperance" said Mrs. Nation. l
made the last address at the meeting
Friday They said that they wanted
me for a climax. am fond OF eli
makes and other axes, too" said Mrs.
Nation with twinkle in her eye.
eI told them that 1 had the rem
edy, and the only remedy, for the sa-
loon evil in this country. They thought
I was going to suggest the Ratchet.
You know most people think 1 am
a wild woman. They don't know me.
But I surprised them. I said that
the only way in which we prohibit
tionists could win was by the ballot
Get the votes, 1 told them. and we
will have the country.
do you consider perfectly good
clergyman, who lives an upright life.
but votes the Republican ticket,
good friend of the temperance cause?
Do you consider a good clergyman
who votes the Democratic ticket
good friend of the temperance cause?
AS long as those parties tolerate
liquor license laws any one who votes
for their candidates for office is not
a friend of the temperance cause. An
old drunkard, who staggers out of
the station house and deposits his
ballot in the box of the Prohibition
party's candidate, is a better friend
of the cause than either of the clergy
men I have mentioned.
by temperance I mean prohibition.
Temperance means nothing unless it
means prohibition. Every man
ever talked to, whether he was bar
tender, brewer or clergyman. has al
ways talked temperance. The only
way to have temperance is to have
prohibition"
Never Ordered Out of Capitol.
Mrs. Nation was indignant over the
report that she had been ordered out
of the capitol by the capitol police
and told never to darken the doors
of the halls of the national legislature
again.
Nothing of the kind happened and
created no disturbance whatever
at the capitol this week." said Mrs.
Nation. ST furnish enough sensa-
tional news without such a report be-
ing circulated about me-
Mrs. Nation has accepted an invi-
tation to deliver an address in Shen-
andoah, Ia, December %. She says
that from there she will return to
Washington.
81 want to make a number of
speeches here in the churches" said
Mrs. Nation. "I want the people 20
really understand my work"
GAS EXPLODED IN BANK.
ScammOn Institution Wrecked and