A crank? Yes, in the best sense - someone who cranks the engine to create energy, power, and forward motion. She was physically attacked, jailed, fined, and pilloried in the press as "Crazy Carry."Ī crank? Yes, in the best sense - someone who cranks the engine to create energy, power, and forward motion. The sharpened hatchet was her hallmark her demonstrations were called "hatchitations." Newspapers carried stories about her sensational attacks, and she became a celebrity. She took her message across America and even to Great Britain. Nation kept up her radical campaign for nearly a decade. Get out of the way, I do not want to strike you, but I am going to break this place up.”Īnd you can read her speech the following year at Carnegie Hall, " Prohibition or Abolition-What it Means," on the Speaking While Female Speech Bank. Dobson, I told you last spring to close this place, you did not do it, now I have come down with another remonstrance.
You can read her remarkable speech "This Den of Vice" delivered to the stunned saloonkeeper and his early morning customers. Shortly after 8 o'clock the next morning she dropped in on the unlicensed, illegal Dobson's saloon and starting smashing up the place.
That's when she began attacking the so-called "dives." On the night of June 6, 1900, Carrie loaded her buggy with rocks and bricks and rode 20 miles to Kiowa, Kansas.
As Schrad tells the story of Carrie (later Carry) Nation, when she saw wrongdoing, she couldn't keep quiet.Ī Kansas hotel owner and president of Barber County Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, "she had already exhausted every nonviolent means of moral suasion against the liquor men: pleading with tavern-keepers, writing letters, signing petitions, organizing temperance marches, and praying in front of illegal saloons.
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