Barbour County index., 1910-11-09
Carrie Nation in Virginia

appeared in that paper and The
Index received a marked copy a !
few days ago. 1t will doubtless be
of interest to the people of her old
home town:
eve knew it;and told Mckinney
that If he persisted in staying away
and leaving us unprotected, some
thing would certainly happen, and
it did. Imagine the surprise and
incredulity with which on last Sun
day morning the information that
Mrs Carrie Nation had come to
town was received. Eyebrows arch
ed; eyeballs bulged, and some of
the more guilty ones turned up
their coat collars, pulled down their
head gear, skunk away and were not
seen again that day. Others just
couldn't resist their own curiosity,
with the result that The Virginia,
Mrs. Nations headquarters, was
thronged the livelong day with half
anxious half shrinking seekers af-
ter a glimpse of the distinguished
heroine of the hatchet. Booze?
Well, for one day there was no
booze, to speak of, drunk in Cape
Charles, and as for cigarettes, they
were locked in iron safes, with the
combination turned off. The police
arrests, and but for a few high
crimes and misdemeanors of seven
prior days, the Mayors docket of
Monday morning would have been a
veritable void.
Mrs. Nation is a business-like as
well as restless woman, and could
not spare an opportunity to unleash
a few words of wisdom in Cape
Charles, so as soon as she had plac-
ed her breakfast in proper process
of digestion, visited the pastor of
Bethany M. E. Church with view
to engaging that pulpit for some
hour during the day or evening,
which was graciously accorded her
with the result that at o'clock, p.
m, not a vacant seat was to be
! had in that handsome edifice. Her
address was entitled, Mothers; their
duty, and how they should perform
it, or words to that amount, as
| Doctor VIM. E. Hatcher would say;
and she knew her subject. Just
here, we want to say, we believe
there are few individuals, in the
public eye of to-day, who are more
maligned, or who would find
it more difficult, not to say impos-
sible to get an impartial hearing,
and a just verdict than Mrs. Carry
Nation nor is the reason far to seek
She has been the most uncompro'
missing and militant, if in some in
stances over zelous foe Of the most
powerful agencies for evil of hel
day, and it is no wonder that hel
efforts for good have met the mos1
determined, furious and unscrupu
lous resistance at the hands of the
evil minded, their allies and sym
pathiZers.
" Her address here is convincing
of that, as we'll as the further fac
that if there are any fools in he
family, she is not one of them. Sh'
made a good speech; barring a few
flights which for unusual cando
2 and pugency were rather calculate'
: to quicken the sensibilities of tn
especially cultured and delicatel
tasteful her address was un
; exceptionable; it was from begin
= ming to conclusion unpretentious,f TO
the most part logical, and strongl
persuasive. Mrs. Nation is to ou
mind a woman of perhaps NOR
than ordinary decided views as t
her mission in the earth, and it
: therefore entirely possible that il
7 the absence of otherwise righteou
enthusiasm, she has given too slac
S a rein to some over wrought emo
ton; but it is none the less eviden
that she is by no means the virag
and menace so many have sought t
| picture her, and while we are utter
ly unsympathetic with her hatche
. campaigns-the method, not tn
end, be it understood-she is in ou
opinion doing a power of good i
: this world, and is destined to d
more. So prone seems the world t
misrepresent her, some reports eve
of her address here were so garble
as to impart a grossness Of expire:
sion calculated to discredit tn
u whole thing.
$ Gas matter of fact Cape Charlie
Il gave her one respectful audience
0 and If we mistake not is ready t
u give her another; that answers th
g query as to what impression sh
! made. Cape Charles has hear
Il as good as the best, and knows
e how to judge the merit of a speal
u er."