OBITUARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 327, 14 June 1911, Page 5

OBITUARY.

THE " SAU.ION SMASHER" DEAD. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. New York, June 11. Mrs. Carrie Nation, the well-known temperance reformer, died at Leavenworth. The late Mrs. Carrie Nation was a militant 'temperance advocate with methods of her own, which earned her the nickname of "'The American Saloon Smasher." She went about in America at one time armed with a hatchet, with which she smashed the windows of liquor saloons. In December, 11)08, Mrs. Nation paid a visit to England. The following paragraph from a London newspaper of that time gives a fair indication of the high pressure at which tnis extraordinary woman lived: ''While travelling on the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway yesterday, Mrs. Carrie Nation caused delay to a train between Trafalgar Square and the Embankment Station. Slip appears to have become exasperated on reading a cigarette advertisement, and. borrowing her friend's silver-mounted umbrella, aimed a blow at it. The handle of the umbrella went through the carriage window, and 'the train was delayed. After the officials of the line had taken Mrs. Nation's name and address she was allowed to proceed. Speaking at a meeting of women in Ilawkeston Hall, Westminster, later in the afternoon, Mrs. Nation said that, looking at the cigarette advertisement and another for whisky close to it, her fury boiled over, and so she picked up an umbrella and smashed the thing. She hau lieen in gaol a great many times, an . been beaten and whipped and kicked, but she intended to oppose the groat evils of drink and smoking. Earlier in the day Mrs. Nation took advantage o. many opportunities of rebuking cigarette smokers in the streets.''