Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1901 — RAID BY MRS. NATION. [ARTICLE]

RAID BY MRS. NATION.

Bhe Smashes Two Topeka Places Where _’LL-1L jj. L qnor Is Sold. Accompanied by five hundred of her home defenders, Mrs. Carrie Nation raided joints in Topeka Sunday. Just after the deep tones of a church bell at t 5 o’clock had resounded through the city Withe morning, the army; a fifth of whom, were women, with Mrs. Nation as their leader, marched from their place of assembly at the State House and wrecked a joint at 117 East Sixth street. The crowd was armed with various kinds of weapons, from clubs to axes. The police arrested Mrs. Nation, and her followers marched back to the State House and partially dispersed. Mrs. Nation was released by the police and, gathering anew, about a hundred men and women, raided a livery barn on East Sixth street and smashed three bars which had been stored there. , Still at the head of her followers, she attempted to gain entrance to Moeser’s cold stoi-age warehouse, where the jointists have stored their liquors and bars until the teiuperance crusade subsides. The place was guarded by a large force of police in command of Chief Stahl. Sheriff Cook was also there. Mrs. Nation was ari-ested and taken to jail in the patrol wagon. Mrs. Nation and Dr. Eva Hai-ding, another raider, were, charged with malicious destruction of private property and placed under -bond of SSOO. Mrs. Carrie Nation in a letter to the editor of Leslie’s Weekly suys: “A saloon has no i-ight*in any place. I will smash the saloons ip New York, Milwaukee, St. Louis and Chicago, just as in Kansas. But I must clean up my own home fii-st. The time for the saloon to go has come. We are organizing an army of home defenders, which demands that the murder shop close, or be closed by 1 law. Otherwise we destroy this destroysr by means of anything that will smash.” Miss Susan B. Anthony condemns Mrs. Nation, saying: “The hatchet is the weapon of barbarism; the ballot is the one weapon of civilization.”