Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-10-28 | Page 5 | Early Day Smashers

I EARLY DAY Now that Carrie Nation is dead and unable to dispute his word Tom McNeal Mc- Mc McNeal Neal Noal conics comes forward with a story to the tho effect that Carrie wa was vas not the ori originator ina tor or of the tho hatchet l method thod of suppress suppress- ing ing- ng the liquor business busine s says the Jan Han Kana sa a City Journal The plan says McNeal Mc- Mc Neal Nea originated in a little town in Ohio lon long before tho war Iberia was vas wasa vasa a bur burg of about people mostly church members with decided views on the question of booze However one ono citizen concluded that there was in the business J of selling liquor in n that town and opened up what the tho people eople in that time timo called a 3 grog ros- ros gory 1 The Tho he church burch people were filled with indignation on account of this disgrace ace to o the town and the saloon keeper was remonstrated with and nd urged to close his lis place of t business lie JIe did lid not ap- ap ear to see fiCO it in that li light ht however and aud lid intimated that he be was going to stay tay Things s ran non along in this wa way for fora a few v weeks and drunks got ot more plentiful Th Then nice n nI I a i number of women mostly young ladies ladis decided that as tho the men men did id not move moc on the works of the rill PUP my they would They o organized aniz d a ab ah h b hatchet tebet and ax at brigade and nd tro going n to the saloon proceeded at once to busi ness The saloon In keeper s seeing in the oncoming brigade ade tried to bar tar hi his door but a aoun young oun woman Toman leader of the com tom company company pany Pliny broke it in with an au ax and then the tho work of destruction began Barrels Barrels Barres Bar Bar- res of red liquor kegs kes of beer and casks of wino were robed rolled out into the street and th the heads knocked l in in while bile the greater part of the inhabitants of the the tho town were interested spectators of ot ott t tho e scene Iberia was a t typical country tillage Milage 9 where domestic animals and flocks j of f geese es esTere were Tere allow allowed d to roam at willAs will will- As the gutters utter filed filled with the outpoured outpour outpour- ed cd liquor tho the geese decided to sample sampie sam pIe it and ami to in a few minutes there were a few dozen of those birds staggering ta Jerin about with tipsy gravity How now they felt the morning after is is' is not stated Tho The raid was effective In t the the- themore more than fifty years since then no man has had the hardihood to undertake to run runan runan runan an open saloon in that village This raid antedated dated th the raid of Carrie Nation Nation Na Na- tion by nearly half a century