MRS CARRIE NATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 458, 18 May 1909, Page 3

MRS CARRIE NATION.

ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK. Nkw York, March 22. Mrs Carrie Nation, the professional smasher of public-houses, landed in New York last night on her return from England, and, with a great sigh of relief, she said to the assembled reporters, “ I say. boys, I guess it’s a great thing to breathe the air of God’s own country once again, and chat with God’s own people,” to which the reporters patriotically replied, “By Jove, Carrie, you’re right.” She kept the second-class cabin of the White Star liner Baltic upset pretty much the whole trip and Captain Ranson, above everyone else, was pleased to say farewell to America’s prohibition firebrand. Stewards accused her of snatching cigars and cigarettes from men’s mouths, and clutching people by the throat when she saw them drinking ale. This charge she denied.

Carrie criticised England severely, beginning with the House of Lords and ending with mission workers. Nobody in England, she told the reporters, ever had a single original thought, and if it were not for the Scotchmen, with whom she admitted she had made friends, the country would have gone to the dogs years ago. As Mrs Nation was leaving the liner a tall Englishman, who wore a Carrie Nation hatchet, and had been fortiying himself internally engaged in a wordy duel with the “Kansas whirlwind.” “You sold your hatchets for a shilling apiece among the passengers, and made money, didn’t you ?” was the Englishman’s thrust. “ You’re a hypocrite.” “I’d rather be a hypocrite than a drunkard,’" Carrie retorted. “ Where do hypocrites go?” queried the Englishman. “I know where you’ll go snapped Mrs Nation, ‘ ‘ you’ll go to h .’ ’ The Englishman laughed, and everybody followed his example. Mrs Nation goes from here to Baltimore, and after a week’s rest resumes the warpath and the sale of her hatchets.