CABBIE THE SMASHES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 449, 21 January 1909, Page 3

CABBIE THE SMASHES.

Mrs; Carrie Nation, who has enjoyed k more or less enviable reputation in'the United States for the past seven dr eight years as a strenuous temperance advocate—her method is to enter a drinking saloon with a hatchet and smash everything within reach during the time she is allowed to remain—has arrived in Glasgow. The “Saloonsmasher,” to give her the pet name by which she is known in the States, has come over on a temperance campaign, which will include Dundee, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Eondon, as well as Glasgow. An Express representative who saw her at her hotel says that she is not at all the Amazon one would have thought ■ from her performances in the cause of temperance across the Atlantic, although there is a firmness iti the lines of the mouth which stamp her at once as a woman of great determination. She has kindly laughing eyes, and apparently enjoys a joke. “ You' can guess,” she said, “that I have not crossed the Atlantic just for the purpose of entertaining the people of Scotland and England. I have come to do what I can to fight the curse which is causing so much misery all over the world. lam hopeiul of doing some good during my visit, with the help of the Almighty.” She explained that she had come at the request of the English and . Scottish prohibition parties. , “ I have calls,” she said, “ from numerous places where I am to assist ih r fighting the drink evil.” I

She explained that she had left her notorious hatchet at home.

"“But,” she added with a smile, ‘‘l suppose, I ,can/find a Scotch hatchet. | VI have : no doubt they make as good an article over here as they'do in America. I don’t think, however, smashing 'of saiopns would advance the cause to-day, although it served the useful purpose of arousing people to a sense oi their responsibility, in the past. I used to smash saloons, but now I smash the root cause. . I don’t know exactly what the root cause is in Scotland, but I will find out before long, and then proceed to work for its overthrow.”

Mrs Nation has brought a large number of miniatures of her famous hatchet, which can be used as brooches, and she will distribute them among the friends she acquires in the course of her campaign.