The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-07-14
CHAUTAUQUA ENTERTAINMENTS
AND LECTURES MAKE GOOD
Few Disappoinments in Filling ENGAGEMENTS, but Good
Feeling Prevails Part of Chautauqua Workers
and the People Get Good Measure.

Is Carrie Nation a great moral re-
former, a monomaniac of the John
Brown stripe, crank or cunning
CRATER? One can hear plenty of
people arguing for each of these and
other explanations for the utterances
and movements of this remarkable
woman, but we believe the majority
of.those who heard her here last
Tuesday night are willing to concede
that if she is not a religious and
moral enthusiast, she is perfectly
fearless champion of what she con-
ceives to be right.
Mrs. Nations treatment of booty
party in the audience who interrupt
ed her at the outset of her lecture
here, shows that she is as quick to
act and speak in an emergency as
the most ready-witted of campaign
ers, and her account of her expert
ence in taking up the temperance
work after she was forty years old
carried conviction as to its general
accuracy and the sincerity of the
speaker in her past career. Mrs.
Nation, at the outset of her account
of what she termed her awakening
to a sense that she was divinely
called to do certain work. testified
that she saw wonderful manifesto
tons of mysterious shapes rising
about her, much as Joan of Arc
heard her voices" of old and fol-
lowed their guidance. Her conduct
at this time really seems to have
been heroic, whether it was mis-
guided or not.
But the Carrie Nation of today
Jars on the notions of hero worship
pers. One can hardly conceive of
Joan of Arc going about peddling
souvenirs or the story of her life,
bound in paper and in cloth, or of
the sturdy John Brown hawking
wares before an audience after an
imprisoned philippe on behalf of
the slaves. We shall have to con-
cede that Mrs. Carrie is in class
by herself and give her credit for
what she has done and wish her
success in her peddling enterprises.
1t was Gov. Luther Manship's mis-
fortune, at the end of journey be-
gun soon after midnight, to find in
stead of a refreshing rest and a bath
awaiting him, call to appear before
a disappointed audience which had
looked forward to being entertained
by Carrie Nation and to try and
make them forget their disappoint-
ment. Manship came here with
plenty of strong endorsements of
: his ability as an entertainer, to give
I the evening lecture, but though he
did not shirk what seemed his duty,
lit will have to be admitted that the
audience saw Manship at his worst
instead of his best and were not
satisfied. Those who met the gen.
Fleman afterwards and heard some
Of his inimitable southern dialect
1I;tories believe that he is easily
;n,apable of better things under or
llinarily favorable conditions and
,,,now that he is genial, witty and
courteous gentleman.
h. Denton C. Crowds Sam Jones SER
1on did not fail in entertaining the
Wednesday afternoon crowd. Per-
g99;aps it lacked in the power of the
riginal Sam to make people quit
D. meanness, but it set them
paiiinking as to the commonplace hy-
ecricies of humankind as we'll as of
cottmmonplace human kindness.
payrWe are sorry that every school
ty and girl in Redwood county did
btsasseIit hear DR.. McArthur's lecture on
Panama canal. 1t would not
Z y have enlarged their historical
A twledge, but would have been to
st of them a call to real patriot
q Elove of country. By common
sent DIR. McArthur's lecture was
of the strongest features of the
.-utauqua considered as an enter
,flment, and probably the strong
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