The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation

By Nation, Carry Amelia

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Title:	The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
Author:	Nation, Carry Amelia
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Ebook Library


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Excerpt
Yes I represent the mothers. Rachel wept for her children and would not be comforted because they were not. So I am crying for help, asking men to vote for what their forefathers fought for — their firesides. Republican and Democratic votes mean saloons. There is not one effort in these parties to do ought but perpetuate this treason. Yes, it is treason, to make laws to prohibit crime and then license saloons, that prohibit laws from prohibiting crime. There is not a lawful or legalized saloon. Any thing wrong can not be legally right. Law commands that which is right and prohibits that which is wrong. Saloons command that which is wrong and prohibit that which is right. This is anarchy. There is another grievous wrong. The loving moral influence of mothers must be put in the ballot box. Free men must be the sons of free women. To elevate men you must first elevate women. A nation can not rise higher than the mothers. Liberty is the largest privilege to do that which is right, and the smallest to do that which is wrong. Vote for a principle which will make it a crime to manufacture, barter, sell or give away that which makes three-fourths of all the crime and murders thousands every year, and the suffering of the women and children that can not be told. Vote for our prohibition president and God will bless you. Pray for me that I may finish my course with joy, the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus.

Table of Contents
· A MOTHER'S CRY, · CHAPTER I. MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME AND WHAT I REMEMBER OF MY LIFE UP TO THE TENTH YEAR. · CHAPTER II. MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE NEGROES AS SLAVES. — THEIR SUPERSTITIONS. — A BEAUTIFUL FAIRY TALE. · CHAPTER III. MOVED TO WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY. — ALSO MOVED TO MISSOURI. — SAVED FROM BEING A THIEF. — MY CONVERSION — GOING SOUTH AT OPENING OF THE CIVIL WAR. — AN INCIDENT OF MY GIRLHOOD SCHOOL DAYS. — WHY I HAD TO BELIEVE IN REVELATION. — SPIRITUALISM OR WITCHCRAFT. · CHAPTER IV. MY FIRST MARRIAGE. — A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT. — MOTHER GLOYD. — MY DRUGGED AND WHISKEY MURDERED HUSBAND. — LOSING MY POSITION AS TEACHER. — SECOND MARRIAGE. — LOSS OF PROPERTY. — KEEPING HOTEL. — STRUGGLES FOR DAILY FOOD. — THE AFFLICTIONS OF MY CHILD. — ANSWER TO PRAYER. · CHAPTER V. THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST. — REJECTED AS A BIBLE TEACHER IN METHODIST AND EPISCOPALIAN CHURCHES. — TAUGHT IN HOTEL DINING-ROOM. — VISION, WARNING AND BLESSING. — ENTERTAINING ANGELS. — THE JEWS. — PRAYER FOR RAIN AND ANSWER. — GOD'S JUDGEMENTS ON THE WICKED. — MOVED TO KANSAS. — DEATH OF MOTHER GLOYD. — SERMON OF A CATHOLIC PRIEST. · CHAPTER VII. SPIRITUAL LEADINGS. — JESUS A CONSCIOUS PRESENCE THREE DAYS. — LOSS OF LIBERTY BY COMPROMISING. — THE PRICE PAID TO BE REINSTATED. — DISGRACE TO BE A MILLIONAIRE · CHAPTER VIII. THE DIVINE CALL. — THE JOINT DRUGGIST OF MEDICINE LODGE. — BEER A POISON. — DOCTORS MAKE DRUNKARDS. — SMASHING AT KIOWA. — ATTITUDE OF SOME W. C. T. U.'S OF KANSAS. — SUIT FOR SLANDER. — SMASHING AT WICHITA. — CONSPIRACY OF THE REPUBLICANS TO PUT ME IN THE INSANE ASYLUM. — SUFFERINGS IN JAIL AT WICHITA. — SLANDERS FROM THE RUM-SOAKED PAPERS OF KANSAS. · CHAPTER IX. OUT OF JAIL. — EGGS AND STONE. — SMASHING STILLING'S JOINT AT ENTERPRISE. — WHIPPED BY HIRED PROSTITUTES. — PLOT AT HOLT BY HOTEL KEEPER AND JOINTIST TO POISON AND SLUG ME. — AT CONEY ISLAND. — HAND BROKEN AND HANDCUFFS. · CHAPTER X. LEGAL STATUS OF PROHIBITION AND JOINT SMASHING. · CHAPTER XI. MY TRIAL FOR DIVORCE. — THE LICENSED RUM TRAFFIC THE CAUSE OF SO MANY DIVORCES. — DIFFERENT TIMES AND PLACES I HAVE BEEN IN JAIL. — AT THE CAPITAL OF CALIFORNIA. — WIDE OPEN TREASON. — AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS. — WOOLLEY CLUB AT ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN. — CATHOLIC PRIEST AND CIGARETTES. · CHAPTER XII. WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE · CHAPTER XIII. ECHOES OF THE HATCHET. MRS. NATION AND THE SALOON. · CHAPTER XIV. CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. · CHAPTER XV. SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY FOR MY CHRISTIAN WORK. · CHAPTER XVI. IN NEBRASKA. — WHAT I DID WITH THE FIRST MONEY I GAVE TO THE LORD. — AT CONEY ISLAND. — WHAT I SAID OF MR. MCKINLEY. — IN CALIFORNIA. CRIBS AT LOS ANGELES. — ARREST IN SAN FRANCISCO. — CONDEMNED BY SOME MINISTERS. — WHISKEY AND TOBACCO ADVERTISEMENTS. · CHAPTER XVII. MY VISIT TO WASHINGTON, D. C. — ARRESTED IN THE SENATE CHAMBER. — TAKEN OUT BY OFFICERS. — THE VICES OF COLLEGES, ESPECIALLY YALE — ROOSEVELT A DIVE-KEEPER. · CHAPTER XVIII. PROHIBITION OR ABOLITION. — WHAT IT MEANS. — THE FREE METHODISTS AND OTHER MINISTERS ENDORSE THE WORK. — A CATHOLIC PRIEST'S ENDORSEMENT. — MODERN DEBORAH. — JOHN P. ST. JOHN. · 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. · CHAPTER XX. WHY I WENT ON THE STAGE. — THE VICE OF TOBACCO. · CHAPTER XXI. TRIP ON FALL RIVER STEAMBOAT, FROM BOSTON TO NEW YORK — OFFICERS TRIED TO LOCK ME IN MY STATE ROOM — SEQUEL SATISFACTORY, MADE PLEASANT TRIP AND MANY FRIENDS. · CHAPTER XXII. TRIP TO CANADA, CORDIAL RECEPTION — RETURN TO CHICAGO TO FILL ENGAGEMENT — SECOND VISIT TO CANADA — TRIP TO MARITIME PROVINCES — VISIT CLUB IN CHARLOTTE TOWN — PREJUDICE AGAINST ME OWING TO MALICIOUS REPORTS — SPOKE IN PARLIAMENT IN FREDERICTON — VISIT TO SIDNEY — SCOTT ACT — MY ARREST AND RELEASE — EPISODE IN JAIL. · CHAPTER XXIII. CO