New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-10
Brooded Over Liquor Traffic.

Brooded Over Liquor Traffic.
Mrs Nation had long brooded over the
OWL Of the liquor traffic. Her husband, the
LAWYER. assured her that the Kansas sa-
looms we're violating the law and that their
property. being used unlawfully, 1t was
perfectly legal TO smash 1t. Thereupon
she took the law into her own hands FOL
lowing her Kiowa debut. she bought
stout hatchet and started on tour Or
general destruction. In Wichita they put
| her in iail. As soon as she was ieie're'
sbe went At II again. Twice more they
Jailed her. without dampenins her ar"'''
At Topeka she was imprisoned seven ''nee
and at Kansas City once 1hen she
emerged from Kansas. 7nd IN the c""ise
of her career Of Ratchet SWINGING S"'
,ar,.ed ,au sentences In Coney Island. Los
| Angeles San Francisco, Scranton w
burg. philadelphia. Bayonne' D De- ""'
cana Rreton-twenty-o in all
Tho Ratchet. her emblem of destru P'''"'
hooame known abroad as well as Az n'i'0'
Cor she crossed the ocean 10 preach "e'
doctrines though only once d'd she t'st
tho noI,ce ~ Europe by concrete use Vi
49,, ,t,o,, She suffered untold abuse
, r,d;orIa. she was called lunatic ana
=. ararcbist But her fanatic belief IN neT
- uros &C strong as that Of John
brown She declared that her "e"'' ~
-. .ba hands Of the liquor sellers
80, 10 tho means Of ending the trani''
And at the end Of nine-yeaT c'''p9
che retired with money enough 'o uu'
,arr, in Kansas Indeed. she i've" W
!, vvidespread prohibition wave SWEEP ~.
aour,rv in which she swung her hatche''
Born in Kentucky.
a., Nation was born in Kentucky Her
-, ouo was Moore. She was Il
",a,,,or and schoolmate of ex-Seha'o'
,,,-.,.,,rr While she was chiIh her
'''" ,ooame insane. possessed with an
,..,,or that she was Queen victoria
,,aa :, an ASYLUM Mrs. Nation was
twice married. -. many
cho was hailed as martyr nN many
,emperance workers. parucu'a,'F
'. ~ more fanatical class. Her SUCCESS
az a campaigner she owed pa'"N ~ a,
,I o,,,t ~ oratory and partly TO N'aoN
for publicity. She pubiisheo o o,,,o
- "Tbe Hatchet." at Guthrie Okla.
vbue on the road she was accoi'P
So, Harry e. Turner. as hnanc'ai "s'"'
y,,,,arever she went she sold httic souNe'"'
.o,cbets TO defray her expenses Oh. VIC"
root student Of the Bible ahd away
,,.,s,ea ON having It in her hama "he' ''e'
,icture was taken. -.
desnite her violent methods she "a
,',,d,y nature. When her first HUSBAND
mr. Gloyd. died. she went to N'e WIN 10
ether and supported her I'LL her "ea'''
a, the age OF ninety. she pa'd DIE w.
~, nv her father She gave away 'i'u'"
money 49,, ,,.,.h ono ok
w Turner declares that. with enc en-
o,.,on Mrs Nation never smashed ."
49,, ,ba, was running legally Ihat one
'a,.io1 was a Texas place facet'ousE
-, ..,rhe Carrie A. Nation. Ihat WAS
TOO much for her
wv" ,..or once told how $1,000 was need
700, hills contracted on behal1 OF
80. or which had not been a paying
| VIZ .,ao and how Carrie Nation decided
.,a, ,ho only thing to do was to pray.
VA 'a',,u,,a NV faith in prayer was great"
! ,,-a "I never had applied II to pub
lion exigency. but my employer word
Nv" ,on, NJ THE Ratchet" Office. There
"" .arc,um we knelt. and Mrs Nation
III u" =. ho Lord with her financial
-, 4 similar prayer was oHered III the
,,as, ~ the family at our home that
,,.,. then the crusader shook hands all
49," '.,a and hogan to pack her trunk. Mrs.
a.o 49," ,s intensely practical Whenever
.,'o nraved for anything she Immediately
an, hmsv 70 help out with the answer. She
80 a,,s.r, about two months. Finally. she
a,,r,od one afternoon tired but trium-
plant o,s .tto a,a {,
| -. Z nnew what that meant. Next