A Sad Day In History

[Subdeacon Joe]

BUTTERMILK JUNCTION (6/7): ☞Today in History – On today’s date 123 years ago, Thursday, June 7, 1900, famous (or “infamous” if you prefer) American Temperance crusader Carrie Amelia Moore Nation (1846-1911) began her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments.

Note: The spelling of Nation’s forename varies; both “Carrie” & “Carry” are considered correct. Official records say “Carrie,” which Nation used for most of her life; the name “Carry” was used by her father in the family Bible.

Carrie A. Nation, who is particularly noteworthy for promoting her viewpoint through vandalism by frequently attacking the property of taverns & saloons with a hatchet, began her career of destruction on the fateful day of June 7, 1900. She gathered a quantity of rocks & broken bricks -- “smashers,” as she called them, & proceeded to Dobson’s Saloon at the town of Kiowa in Barber County, Kansas. Announcing: “Men, I have come to save you from a drunkard’s fate,” she began to destroy the saloon’s inventory with her cache of rocks. It was not long after that Carrie Nation switched from hurling brickbats to chopping her way through the nation’s saloons with a hatchet instead.

A relatively large woman, almost six feet tall & weighing 175 pounds, with a stern countenance, Carrie Nation described herself as “a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn’t like,” & she claimed a Divine Ordination to promote Temperance by destroying bars.

Not long after Carrie Nation began smashing saloons, many such establishments began displaying signs emblazoned with the slogan “All Nations Are Welcome -- Except Carrie!”

The image depicts Carrie A. Nation as the subject of a circa-1901 political cartoon that was published in the Saint Paul Globe newspaper of Saint Paul, Minnesota.

 

[Pat Riot]

Too bad they didn’t have “equal rights” then. A couple of good azz-whoopin’s could have set her straight. 
 

Pat said, tongue in cheek…

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

And an indirect contributor to the rise of Al Capone and his ilk, making them multi-millionaires at the expense of society at large.

[Pat Riot]

I had a history teacher in 7th grade that was a big fan of Carrie Nation. I got a night of detention for telling her my opinion of Nation. My opinion was the only reason she wasn’t shot was because she was a woman. The teacher took issue with this and gave me detention which earned me 3 cracks when I got home. 
The next day the teacher asked if I learned my lesson. I said “Nope”. She said “No MA’AM!” I just sat and glared at her. Got another night of detention.  No cracks at home though. I got a lecture on picking one’s battles instead. 
That teacher would have fit right in today. Moron.