The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-10
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editor of the paper called the smasher's
Mail, which was published in Topeka.
She did little smashing outside IF
Kansas. While lecturing in New York
city, she created a sensation by APP
bearing at the horse show in Madison
Square Garden and demanding that
the occupants of the Vanderbilt box
contribute money for a home for
drunkards' wives which she founded in
Kansas City. Kan.
The home was taken over by the AS
ISOLATED Charities at that place re-
Gently.
Appeared in Topeka Jan. ~, 1901.
Mrs. Nation appeared in Topeka on
the evening of Jan. ~. 1901, coming
from Enterprise ostensibly to attend
the meeting of the state temperance
union, but she failed to obtain recog-
milton from that organization. The
following day she called at the gov
ernor's office and had a stormy inter-
view with w. Z. Stanley, then govern
or. She reproached him bitterly for
not closing the saloons in Kansas.
She also visited the county attorney,
Galeu Nichols, with large train of
followers and demanded that he take
steps to close the saloons in Topeka.
He refused. On Jan. 81 she made a
round of the Topeka saloons and
begged the keepers to close their
places. They locked the doors when
they heard Mrs. Nation was coming
but several who were not warned
failed to do so and after delivering her
lectures she left without doing any
damage. On Feb. / she issued an APP
peal to joint keepers, warning them to
close their places or she would begin
smashing. None needed the warning.
The proclamation was characteristic.
1t was as follows:
Warning TO Jointlsts.
ITO the Joint Keepers of Topeka:
MY dear HelI-Bound Sinners: I
have tried to see you and talk to you,
but you do not wish to see one of your
best friends. l want You to appoint
meeting with me at any place you shall
name. and I shall be more than glad
to talk to you. Your master, the Devil,
has you under his thumb, and you
poor sculIions do just what he wants
you to do, and he makes you believe
that there is no escape. Don't believe
him. Listen to me, your friend. Get
out of these hell holes quick and l
Will help you stay out.
81 came to rescue you, as well as
those you are numbering. Do not de-
lay, for he that being often reproved
hardeneth his neck. shall suddenly be
destroyed, and that without remedy.
I'VE invite you to join US in the de-
struction of the machinery hell has
set up here on earth to literally de-
YOUR humanity, for that is the begin
ming. continuing and ending; of your
work. Should you do as L request, you
will be safe and happy; otherwise, you
shall utterly perish; for if any man
falls on this stone, he shall be broken,
but if this stone fall on him, it Will
grind him to powder.
"Affectionately
MRS. CARRIE NATION.
Tho Smashing Begins.
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ing and at o'clock on Feb. 8, just
five days after the warning was is
sued, Mrs. Nation with small band
of followers appeared before the sa-
loon of E. c. Russian at $50 Kansas
avenue. A porter grappled with Mrs. |
Nation and got inside and locked the
door and her followers persuaded her
to desist. Then they marched to a
saloon known as THE Senate" at 4O6
Kansas avenue. The plate glass mir
rOr behind the bar was broken and /
all the liquor that could be found was
destroyed. The floor was covered
with a litter of broken bottles and in
q few minutes negro porter CRAP
pied with Mrs Nation and fired a
revolver to frighten the woman. He
then ran and Mrs. Nation, undaunted,
directed the work of destruction.
Come on girls" sal dshe. don't you
they were not slow to respond.
The place was reopened after the
smashers left the place and souvenirs
were given away with every glass OF
beer. Then Chief of Police Stahl
arrested the men serving the beer
and the place was closed.
Mrs. Nation was arrested by the
police but soon released. She left
the city and went home. A mass
meeting waI held al the auditorium
Sunday, Feb. 10 in which demand
was made that the saloons close.
The Second Raid.
On Feb. 49, Mrs. Nation and 100
followers raided all the places they
could find in Topeka and destroyed
them. She with others was arrested
by the county authorities and placed
in the county Jail. They were con-
victed and sentenced to terms of
Imprisonment for wilful destruction
of property.
Mrs. Nation after her term in jail
smashed no more joints in Topeka.
There has never been an open saloon
hero since that time.
Did Well Selling Her Books.
F. NJ. Stoves of Topeka who had