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THE SMASHER'S MAIL. ii work, and we will never forget you, but you are too good to He in there and if I had the money you should not LETTERS FROM HONEST PEOPLE (Continued from page 3.) stay in there one day. But I am only a poor colored man, but commenced Kansas could vote every saloon out the temperance work in 1876 and I have talked to a good many white and colored in that time. I want to take your paper as soon as it is out and if you ever think of wanting a good colored servant to travel with you let me know, I will do good work with the colored people just the same, there is good work to do in all the Southern states and in the New England states, I have been all back there, but in the South, still I feel that you could do of the state, but they appear as much the tools of the saloon power as the men. The failure of women to vote for morals In Kansas has been a great blow to woman suffrage in the world.

I am glad the leglslatur of Kansas is passing some betters laws, but laws without a party to enforce them are no good. If the people of Kansas want rrohibitlon they must stop electing a political party to power in Kansas, which throughout the entire country is in league with the saloon for power and office. If Kansas wants state laws against saloons enforced, it must elect Prohibitionists to office, and if the women in the towns don't want saloons they must not vote for the nominees of whisky parties. I am yours resp. JOxiN M.

VAUGHAN. goou workthere for the whites and I will look after the blacks. 1 hope that I will hear from you soon and you will be free again. I hope you will not smash any more just yet but talk to them and pray for the Lord will do the rest Good bye this time I hope I will hear from you and you will be free and well and doing well, from, CAPT. HENRY ROBINSON.

Council Bluffs, la. Chicago, 111. Dear Mrs. Nation: THE SENATE SALOON. An hour after the raid led by Mrs.

Nation this notorious resort was open again, selling liquor. The bmall boy In the picture is only 14 years oldThis place was afterward raidal by SheriKCook and ownecls placed in jaii. Th ank God for this bit of work. I wanted to write you because the work of these saloons is awful. I have a young woman named Nell who is going to rack and rum.

Please come nere with your hatchet and help your good work. Come, my dear lady, come. APPRECIATES THE WORK. Emporia, February 26, 1901. Mr.

Nation, Medicine Lodge, Kan. My Dear Sir: For a number of days I have been on the point of wriung you, but till now have hesitated thinking, probably you had sufficient annoyance of this kind already. But I must tell you how warmly I admire your conduct in morally supporting and allowing Mrs. Nation to continue her determined efforts to rid our state of joints and whisky. I read with great pleasure your recent denial of newspaper reports and scath lour believing friend, SUSAN MORSTE.

Atchison, Kan. Dear Mrs. Nation: I have been with you in communion every since you started in this great work, and so anxious I cannot wait the first attack was not at Ft. Sump-ter, but on Wichita. I notice that the fighting and the skirmishing as is it is going on, in the meantime, I see in my vision that both of the main armies are getting ready for marching order, not for Gettysburg, but for Wichita.

This evidently is going to be the main battlefield not only in the eyes of the state or nation, but of the world turned toward Wichita with eager expectation. What will history in the future tell us about Wichita? Who will be inscribed as heroes for the right? God will bring to the front and show us to stand combined with all their iniquity and abominations who are making tnemselves strong and defying the church of God? I say, "Shall these dictate to us or shall we stand to our rights in Christ's stead." Everybody says that church members and their friends are in the majority. If that is so, then God will surely require the blood at our hands of the widows and orphans and the thousands who have fallen victims to these mighty forces of iniquity and if we will not do our utmost then it will prove that we are in partnership with these abdominations above referred tO. my May God help to beaver in the front ranks that will march in strict harmony with heavenly music. J.

D. SCHOIIENBERGER. for your coming to our rescue in this town. There is a dentist in a picture gallery up stairs in the building on Seventh and Commercial who keeps beer by the Keg or box. He invites girls about 15 years to his place and gets them drunk.

God save the un who will lead the not up the ing rebuke to the same. I myself have in the past been a faithful W. C. T. U.

woman, but I believe Mrs. Nation has accomplished more in a few days than the rest of us have uy many years of hard service and I pray the Lord will revJferd you both for air you have "undergone and thatthe people may not cry "The joints must go," but saloons of every name and nature must go. As you are now and perhaps ever will bo a stranger to me I. will only subscribe myself the. friend and well wisher of both yourself and Mrs.

wise girlfrpm such brutes, gojne! a.ni,T)ut in wicniia. i see a snort way tome, uomft- unto victory let the ministers be of one accord, who are the leaders of the people, let them lift up their voices like a trumpet to sound an alarm of danger for our fair sons and daughters of our beloved and boasted America, let the members an friends of the churches be so aroused that they may be enabled to stand up by the thous AN APPEAL. Canton, Illinois. Mrs. Carrie Nation: Dear Mrs.

Nation: Can you spare the time to come to this sin cursed city and smash some of the saloons. They are ruining our young men and affording old men opportunity to get drunk and make a hell of their home. There are 13 saloons in Canton and and, then petition Mayor Ross, who is a good man and tne chief of police and his men in uniform who are under GO AHEAD ADVICE. Old Town, February 20th, 1901. Mrs.

Carrie Nation, Topeka, My Dear Madam: I am so delighted in the work that you are engaged in that I take the pleasure of sending you a newspaper clipping asking you to ad the contents of same to your next Temperance lecture. Trusting tha same will be appreciated, etc. Go on and smash the saloons. Yours truly, SCOTT TWIG. drunkedness is increasing.

Saturday night three men were injured either directly or indirectly by the saloons. oath to enforce the law. nen Christ was here he spoke with authority. We are here as his repre sentatives and have authority toj stand not for the right and beyond Can you not take a day from your busy life and come to Canton. Last night I went to bed without any supper because my husband who works in the all compromising sin.

These men above referred to are the peoples' employees, and are paid by the people and we have a right to say how our work should be done. Are we going shops and spends most of his money in the saioons, had no money left to buy things for the house. God will surely bless you if you come. I dare The Smasher's Mail is a good thing at 10 cents per copy. not sign my name, but oelieve me, A DISTRESSED MOTHER.

Can you come? Send your answer to Mrs. J. care lock box 50, Canton, 111. H. P.

DILLON, President. J. W. GOING, Sec. and Manager Harveyville, February 17, 1901.

Mrs. Carrie Nation, Dear Madam: It is with pleasure that I write these lines congratulating you in your wonderful work in Kansas. We need just such a noble woman as you here in this county as we have a wholesale liquor and beer house in Alma, in this county and it just fills our small towns full every week. Our C. T.

U. met here a few days ago and past some resolutions in regard to the matter you may hear from them soon. JWe see the dreaded deamon most every day, Oh, what can we do to stop this dreaded curse? It is bringing sorrow to the many homes, it is leading our boys away, it is highway robbery, it is worse than the man that steals a horse, and he is allowed to run loose. If a man would come along and steal a pony that would probably bring $10, the citizens would turn out in mob force and mob him and at the same time they have men that they see ery day that is worse than the man that stole tne pony and they look upon him as being a good and great man. Why not stop all this, it can be done, and we are the ones to do it I am a man but I can use a broad ax and have got the ax.

Mrs. Nation, we kindly ask you to come to our county and make us a lecture in the near future if you could come to this place I will arrange to JOAB MULVANE, Vice President, JOHN. R. MULVANE, Treas. EDWAKD WILDER, Auditor.

Wenatchie, Wash. Dear Mrs. Nation: As I have heard so much of your Casl? Capital, $100,000. brave and noble work in Kansas in smashing dives, a thing that I always aid admire, I feel it my duty to address you a few lines of encouragement and also to offer my assistance if needed. The Shawnee Fire I am an atorney at law, and consider myself possessed of superior talent and may be of great help to you if law is required.

I feel that by your side I would plead with such a vim that it would confound the wise men of the east, but if your great work is done in Kansas and you can come to the State of Washington please answer Insurance Company havA ftvervthine in order. You will Dlease let me hear from you, and may immediately and I will arrange every thing for your expenses. We have a great work to do here, but I am a I God bless you in all your efforts to do good wherever you may go, keep up the good work until there is not a "i Company cnnprnnttirn I nnwpr wa pmiid smash I TOPEKA, KAS every devise den in Wenatchie in short ansas- place in Kansas. Don't leave our noDie state till all the work is finished, help us and we will help you. Your True Friend, J.

R. TURNER. Harveyville, Kan. notice. Now my dear Carrie, please answer this as I ask no higher honor than to be by your side, the noblest and bravest woman on earth.

Your friend and admirer, BERT WHITED, Ex-County Attorney of Kiatiss county, Wash. ELLIOTT CRISWELL, IOWA SYMPATHY. Council Bluffs, February 23, 1901. Mrs. Nation.

I am indeed sorry that you are In that place, do take the bonds and be free once more. We want you free once more for you have done good TOPEKA REPRESENTATIVES, COME TO WICHITA. To whom It may concern: 534 Kansas Avenue. Looking over the field as a warrior and a counselor of war I notice that Telephone 505.