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作者:谁与争疯      更新:2021-02-19 00:36      字数:9322
  of twenty years of constitutional prohibition。 Topeka has far better
  paved streets and more of them than most other cities of its size in the
  United States; its sidewalks are all brick; and this without a dollar coming
  from bleeding the saloon in the shape of a license! Prosperity without
  the saloon is seen on every hand。 True; some people stay away from
  Kansas because of its stringent liquor laws。 That; however; largely
  accounts for the general intelligence here。 Let them stay away。 The
  West is all right educationally and morally。 Your readers may not
  know it; but the State which has the largest per cent of her population
  in her colleges is a western State。
  The influence of the Nation crusade has spread all over our State;
  and as a result the joints have been suppressed on all sides。 Our legislature;
  just adjourned; gave us the most drastic legislation against the
  liquor business in her history; and with tremendous majorities。 The
  result of the movement started by this brave woman; who is roundly
  condemned in the East; is best summed up in the words of a Kansas
  wholesale liquor dealer; who said recently; 〃A few weeks ago we had a
  very fine trade in Kansas; shipping out many car…loads of liquor; but
  just now they are coming back as fast as they went out。〃 Our city;
  Topeka; has had considerable notoriety all over the country as the center
  of the Nation temperance crusade; and because of the presence of Mrs。
  Nation。 However; we think your readers will quite agree with us when
  we say their eastern cities could well afford such notoriety if thereby
  they could be rid of their debauching and terribly corrupting saloons。
  Pastor; Topeka; Kansas。
  TRIBUTE TO MRS。 NATION。CORRESPONDENT OF THE STATE JOURNAL GROWS
  ELOQUENT ABOUT HER。
  A correspondent of the State Journal who is evidently an admirer of
  Mrs。 Nation has written the following tribute the famous smasher of
  joints:
  〃Carry A。 Nation; prophetess of God and prohibition; came suddenly
  like the furious driving Jehu。 Her cyclonic joint smashing shook
  the rum power of the United States from apex to foundation…stone。
  The great American god Bacchus turned pale on his throne。 Gambrinus
  and his thirty thousand white…aproned priests of debauchery and licentiousness
  trembled in every saloon and bagnio throughout the union。
  No whirlwind; tornado or simoon of the desert ever startled a nation
  as her volcanic career。 From ocean to ocean; from Canada to Texas。
  she faced a storm of relentless criticism and bitter sarcasm from political
  curs; clerical hirelings and editorial henchmen of the murderous liquor
  traffic such as no mortal ever faced before。 A star of hope to the one
  hundred thousand despairing drunkards; already in the death…grasp of
  this licensed Moloch of perdition; volunteer liberator of the hundreds
  of thousands of hapless slaves of this greater 〃curse of curses〃 and
  more than 〃sum of all villainies;〃 precursor of emancipation of the
  millions of sad…faced women and children whose lives are blasted and
  crushed beneath the wheels of this cruel Car of juggernaut; betrayed by
  false friends; imprisoned by the courts; and manacled; no martyr of old
  ever ran the gauntlet of hotter persecution; yet like Banquo's Ghost and
  the Man of Galilee she will not down。 Denounce her as you may; she
  is such an one as heroines and world…wide characters are made of。
  Every one will want a copy of her 〃Life;〃 forthcoming publication。
  The boys and girls will find the Old Kentucky Home plantation scenes;
  interesting as Uncle Tom's Cabin and well worth the price of the book。
  The pictures and portraits of the noted Smasher of joints are more than
  worth the nominal sum。 To every citizen; student and philanthropist
  the legal citations for reference are worth it。 No temperance person
  or prohibitionist can afford to be without a copy。RAY RAND。
  WORDS PROPHETIC。
  The liquor traffic will never see another hour of peace in this
  country。 Mrs。 Carrie Nation has sounded the alarm。 There's a growing
  hatred of the saloon。 The speaker has sworn hostility to an
  institution that feeds on the bodies and souls of men。 I will pay my
  taxes like an honest man and not saddle by my vote; the burden on the
  tempted and weak; who will pay them over the bar and throw his wife
  and children on the charity of the public。
  What shall the harvest be?
  As a people for years we pressed to our hearts the evil of human
  slavery。 It was profitable; we thought; but every drop of blood let by
  the slaver's lash; God made us pay back with blood of our own upon the
  altar。 Many fortunes were built up by slave labor; but how many of them
  were left after the war? 〃Whatsoever a nation soweth that shall it
  also reap。〃 What shall the harvest be from the wild sowing of the
  legalized saloon? Our own country is a partner in the business for the
  of revenue。 I pray God that the liquor traffic may be abolished from
  America; without bloodshed; and yet who dares prophesy that it shall
  be so。 Much blood has been let in these long years by drunken husbands
  and fathers。 Many fortunes have been built up by the traffic。 What
  shall the end be?
  Right shall prevail
  〃For right is right; as God is God;
  And right the day will win。
  To doubt would be disloyalty;
  To falter would be sin。〃
  Listen to the voice of the 20th century prophet as it comes ringing
  down the grooves of change: 〃The saloon is going! Perhaps not by
  your political party or mine; your church or mine; but God reigns and
  his people will awake。 And as it lies dying at last amongst its bags of
  gold; and we stand over it; as I pray we may; if it shall look up into
  our faces and whisper: 〃Another million of revenue for a single breath
  of life!〃 You will say; as I will: 〃NO! Down; down to hell and say
  I sent thee thither。〃
  CHAPTER XIX。
  DR。 MCFARLAND'S PROTEST。KICKED AND KNOCKED DOWN BY CHAPMAN OF
  BANGOR HOUSE。MEDDLING WITH THE DEVIL。TIMELY WARNING TO OUR
  BOYS AND GIRLS。BRUBAKER OF PEORIA。WITCHCRAFT。LAST TIME IN
  JAIL。
  The determination of that rum anarchy in Topeka; Kansas; was such
  that three consecutive times I was put in jail because I went into these vile
  dens。 Dr。 McFarland; pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church of
  Topeka; came down at my last trial to see what the trouble was。 The
  police; when put on the witness stand; swore positive falsehoods and
  Judge Magaw; the republican police judge; appointed there by the democratic
  Mayor; Parker; that these two might unite their force of corruption;
  knew that these police were swearing falsehoods but were winking
  at the crime。 I saw that the Doctor was getting ready to offer his
  protest when the time came; and it came when I was sentenced to jail for
  contempt of court; because I insisted on asking what kind of business
  these dive…keepers were carrying on; which the judge wanted to keep out
  of the witnesses mouths。 Dr。 McFarland arose and said: 〃I suppose you
  want to fine me judge。 I say this is an infernal outrage;〃 repeating it
  the second time。 Judge Magaw said: 〃Yes I will fine you twenty…five
  dollars。〃 〃You may make it a hundred。〃 〃Well; I will make it a hundred;〃
  said Judge Magaw。 I was taken to jail。 Dr。 McFarland was
  not; but walked out and said it was worth a hundred dollars to tell them
  what he thought of such travesty on justice。 Dr。 McFarland had plenty
  of friends who offered to pay the amount but I believe he paid it himself。
  Then he began some investigation of the corruption at the police station。
  He preached a sermon telling of this。 It was published。 I was in jail
  next door to the room in which the mayor; Parker; and the police gathered
  to discuss a suit for slander against Dr。 McFarland; but it was only
  a bluff。 Before this all night long there was loud talking and swearing
  in the room under mine as if around a card table。 After Dr。 McFarland's
  sermon I heard no more of it。 There were several of these poor degraded
  girls in jail。 I knew of actions and words that were not decent between
  the officers and these girls。 This exposure of Dr。 McFarland's was very
  salutary。 Before that; officers would come into my room without knocking
  and address me in a rough manner。 After this they knocked at the
  door and were respectful and even kind。 The Reverend Doctor did a
  great work by that sermon which was to the point and effective。
  I went to Bangor; Maine; to lecture once。 Stopped at the Bangor
  House; run by one Chapman。 Roosevelt had stopped there just two
  weeks before。 I heard this hotel had one of those traps; called 〃dives。〃
  When I went into the dining…room I asked a young lady waiting on me;
  if she could get me a bottle of beer? She said they kept it and that she
  would ask the head waiter to get it for me。 She spoke to him。 He left the
  dining…room and in a few minutes the man Chapman came out of the
  winding way to his dive; the proprietor rushed up to me in a drunken
  rage。 He threw me against one of the pillars; then literally knocked me
  out into the hall in the presence of the guests; perhaps a hundred; then
  he kept knocking me down every time I rose to my feet。 He would not
  allow me to get my things。 I was invited to go home with a prohi