Show BROTHERS VIEW OP OF MRS IRS CARRIE CABRIE NATION i Kansas City Sf Star r Jud Jul Moore a dealer In livestock Jive tock who lives at Fourteenth street and Euclid avenue ue Kansas City is ig a brother of Mrs Carrie Nation A reporter for The TIte Star talked with him last hist night and learned something g of or the history of Mrs Nation and lind the sorrows Forr ws and troubles trou that whisky drinking brought Into her life These The e finally impelled her to become be ome a saloon wrecker The Moore family came camf from Ken tucky before the war and settled on the High Grove farm rann fifteen miles south of Kansas City ctt and six aix miles mUe north of or o f Harrisonville Harris nille During the war wa r the family faintly under Order No 11 moved to Kansas Kansa City and lived he here re till peace was declared Carrie Moores Moore first husband was Dr Gloyd Glo d of Hot Hoi den Mo He was a ver vel very intelligent man and a splendid physician phY but whisky drinking ruined him and caused eau cau ed his death They had one child that tha t died in infancy In those days when Mrs Sr Gloyd Gloy l suffered l for the necessities of life liCe she used often otten to go late at night to the rear doors of saloons and coax her intoxicated husband home Those Tho e were the first t experiences that made her bitter against the whisky hisky traffic Rut But they were not the last lest ones by any means She had a favor ite sister who married a cattle attle dealer worth 15 We and every dollar of this wa was a spent in whisky drinking The Tha cattle dealer de r came cam to utter ruin his love Iove of whisky Several years after alter the death of Dr Gloyd his Ills widow mar lied ried David Nation a a lawyer ayer and ed of Warrensburg Mo MoM Mw Mrs M Nation was wa what hat her called elied a headstrong h woman She hid hd h d a L mind of her own and when she de to do a thing no amount of persuasion could turn her aside In 1876 she brought bought a large tract trat of waste land near I Columbia l ex Her brother ad advised vise against it and told her she was wasting her money but she disregard disregarded ed his b advice and bought the land She Site and Mr Nation lived there and an kept a hotel in Columbia and made a great deal of money They sold out about eight years ago and moved to Medicine Lodge Kan where they have lived L T ever since Mrs 11 Nation has de devoted devoted voted her lift in Medicine edl ln Lodge to helping the poor and working against saloons Six years ago a o she attacked the saloons in Medicine Lodge In the same mute way she has attacked them in Wichita Kiowa Enterprise and other and her brothel broth brother says ays she he made Medicine Lodge Lod p strictly a temperance to town My sister stater er is 8 not not crazy raz said ud Mr Moore M ore last t night On the contrary she Is s a remarkably strong minded woman She has baa seen no so much of or the thee curse e l e of 0 whisky that she believes It is s Ute the poe greatest te levit t evil of our time me and aRd she he has baa ted th the remainder of her life to fighting the whisky traffic c She thinks that whisky robs men of or their manhood shapes up the destiny of girls girte for fer evil and sorrow breaks weaks up happy homes and a sends ends more people I u to ruin than any other influence She has leas might fought the whisky tn all her life lite la I the usual way by Identifying herself with temperance societies and like Uke means meana but in spite of these the e In and i is In spite pit of the laws Jaws of ot prohibiting whisky selling in to Kansas the traffic has ball grown to immense proportions pro proportions portions there hen My sister alster concluded that something extraordinary should be done to call attention to the traffic and to make a fest eat in the courts of or whether 1 selling is I lawful In Kansas She tales I the position that whisky soiling selling being bang outlawed In Kan Xan Kansas Kansas sas aa the Ole tools toots of the trade re the par paraphernalia paraphernalia of or outlawry too and that any person per on has the right to destroy It wherever whenever It is III found in Kansas She Shew wishes w the courts to decide those points and even If It the courts are against her she he has demonstrated to the world that whisky sellers in Kan Ran ar cowards She believes elles l that the temperance people are to in n the thEr r j i h c e majority in all towns in Kansas Kan as and she has bas demonstrated that if the wo women women women men of Kansas will set Ht their minds to it no saloon shall exist t in any town they can stop the traffic in the whole state in four hours and keep keepIt I it stopped went i I I went to Wichita to see my sister I while she was in jail there I found round the jail quarantined because use of small smallpox smallpox smallpox pox and no visitors were admitted I went to a saloon keeper out of or cur curiosity curI curiosity I to see He what he w say I Idid Idid Idid did not tell him at first that I was 1 Mrs Nations brother I asked him about Mrs Irs Nation and he lie said saidI We ye have haye put her In jail and sent senta I t a a smallpox patient over there so as to toi i get a quarantine on the jail and keep t I her thereAfter there thereAfter thereAfter After a 8 while I toW toll him who 00 I was wasand wasand wasand and that I would like to get into the jail jo II to see my sister Bl ter If promise to take her away way a from Wichita Ill get you into the jail in to live flue minutes he said Eaid saidI I did get to see her finally and had hada a talk with her I asked her if she afraid of getting hurt She re cc replied replied I plied Why Vh brother these whisky sellers are the people you ever saw i i All I have bave to do is to walk in the front fronti i i door with a hatchet and they tumble I lover over themselves getting out the backdoor back backdoor backdoor door I 1 expect my sister Meter to visit me here next Saturday She wrote that she was I coming My h position in this matter is 18 that my m sister has gone far enough for forthe forI fora I a the present and she ought to rest now I and not wreck any more saloons till the courts have decided her case in I I Wichita When she comes here I will try and persuade her along those lines but she Is very independent minded I and she may take a notion to smash smashup up a few saloons in Kansas City Kan Mrs Ries Nation is upwards of 50 years old She has a brother C e H Moore loore Moorea a wealthy stockman of Louisburg Kan |