Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-07-20
CARRIE NATION, Il
SALOON SMASHER
Militant Temperance Advocate
Figured In Lively Episodes.
TRAVELLED OVER THE COUNTRY
hatchet In Hand, she Created Havoc
Among Rum Sellers In Many Cities.
Raised 4 Disturbance at the White
House.

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Mrs. Carrie Nation. the saloon smash
er Of Kansas. who died recently, re-
garled herself as a woman with mis-
sion. She declared that hers was the
right hand of God and that she had
been commissioned to destroy the rum
traffic In the United States. The en-
blem Of her mission was hatchet.
and her campaign against the saloon
was country vide She suffered Inn
prisonment. abuse. ridicule. was even
called insane and at the end Of nine
years retired with money enough to
enable her to buy IL farm In Arkansas.
A good deal of her money was derived
from the sale OF souvenir hatchets
Whatever view one may hold Of Car
r1e Nation and her methods. 1t is not
without interest to note that since she
appeared on the Sceno as q saloon
smnsher prohibition wave has swept
through southern and western states
and the anti-saloon element has gained
the support Of thousands Of voters.
with the result that scores OF new ex
else laws have appeared OH the statute
books. 1t Is possible that Carrie Ma
tion did not little to focus-lublic at
tention upon the evils and ABUSES Of
the liquor traffic.
| Jumped Into Netoriety,
Outside Of her own circle few people
had ever heard of Carrie Nation. who
lived in Medicine Lodge. Kan. until
June 6. 1900. On that day she went
into her back yard aud picked up half
q dozen bricks. These she wrapped
separately in old newspapers and. add
ing four heavy bottles to the colec-
ton. set out in her buggy for Kiowa.
where she smashed three saloons with
her ammunition. She would have
smashed others had. not proprietors
ton stood up In her buggy and in
formed the crowd that the law had
been violated and somebody ought to
be prosecuted-herself or the authority
which permitted saloons to run in vio-
lation Of the law. After this chal-
lenge she drove back to Medicine
Lodge. Next morning. when the news
was scattered abroad. the country
renitzed that new reformer was at
hand.
i Since that day Mrs. Nation had been
In jail at Wichita three times. at To-
peka seven times. at Kansas City once.
at Coney Island once. at Los Angeles
Hen, ,rls
ton twice, at Pittsburg three times. at
Philadelphia once. at Bayonne. n. j..
once and at Cape Breton once. making
a total of twenty-five times she had
paid penalty for taking the law into
her own hands. She understood the
art Of publicity. and whenever she
started on smashing tour her man
ager-she always had one-took care to
notify the newspapers. /!
! Elected From White House.
In 100: she created disturbance at
the White House in an effort to reach
President Roosevelt and was elected
by two policemen AZ she was being
escorted from the building she shout
ed at the top OF her voice: II am go
Ing to pray for 81 prohibition president.
and we will hive one-one who will
represent the people and not the dis
tillers and brewers You may put me
out Of the building. but il brewer
or liquor dealer were here he would
have been admitted ut ouce.
Afterward she went to the capitol
and disturbed the decorum Of the SEN
ate Finally she was arrested aud
fined S25. with an alternative of thirty
days In jail Ii she did not pay. She
promptly appealed for assistance and
easily procured the amount of her fne
by selling hatchets.
Mrs. Nation toured Great Britain In
1908 and attracted good deal OF at
tention TO her. propaganda. She visit
ed public houses in many cities, gave
advice to barmaids and magistrates.
was arrested at Tyne for
saloon ,smashing and appeared IN Lon
don music balls. where she was the
target for had eggs, Before the vices
Of London stand appalled," she said.
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INDIANS PROGRESSIVE.
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