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“Let’s destroy it, let’s destroy it! “For the love of Jesus, let’s smash it!”
A woman in a black dress, up and down, rushes into the bar holding a hatchet and shouting energetic slogans. He broke windows with bricks and bats and trashed the bar with billiard balls and a bat. She threw everything she could find in her hands. The woman in the black dress used the same method to sequentially defeat as many as six bars in one night as if she was touring. While she sang hymns and read the Bible, the bar returned to its original form.
“I ran straight to the back bar. First, I broke the mirror on the bar and threw the liquor bottles on the floor. After throwing down the counter, they broke the faucet of the beer keg refrigerator and cut all the rubber hoses connected to the beer keg.”
“The moment I picked up the slot machine and threw it, the sharp edge hit the oak barrel and alcohol spewed out like an explosion in all directions. “At that time, I was completely soaked.”
This is how the woman with the hatchet described the situation at the time in her autobiography.
June afternoon, 1900. The person responsible for the commotion that occurred in a Kiowa village in Barbour County, Kansas, USA, was Caroline Amelia Nation. Carrie Nation for short. Carrie was an object of fear for bartenders due to her height of 180 cm and weight of 80 kg. She was probably remembered as a hatchet-wielding grim reaper by those who got into trouble while drinking.
Carrie Nation was an American female activist. He believed that her drinking was a social evil and considered her drinking and smoking taboo. As Carrie takes up her ax and Bible and unleashes violence on her drunkards, she begins to get noticed. As a result, Carrie was arrested on-the-spot several times and ended up serving time in prison.
◇Unstable childhood
Born in 1846, Carrie was raised by a father mired in debt and a mother who suffered from mental illness. At the age of 19, she married Charles Gloyd, a doctor, but the marriage did not last long. Gloyd was an alcoholic. Gloyd, who could not wean Carrie off alcohol even during her pregnancy, dies of alcoholic pneumonia two years after her marriage. This was the first time Carrie realized the severity of her alcoholism.
Carrie, who became a widow, raised her children and at the same time graduated from Warrenburg State School in 1872 and received a teacher’s license. But this is not all smooth sailing either. She gets fired because Carrie taught her students her unusual pronunciation. Carrie’s growing distrust of her society meant she desperately needed help right away. In time, Carrie remarried David Nation, a lawyer and newspaper editor 19 years her senior, but the differences in their personalities and their financial problems could not be overcome.
Carrie takes a job as a hotel manager to overcome her financial difficulties. As her years passed, Carrie became increasingly dependent on religion, and her faith deepened when she one day heard her ‘command from God’ to fight alcohol. In that way, Carrie participates in the Kansas branch of WCU (Woman’s Christian Temperance Union), a Christian women’s organization, and becomes active in the movement for women’s rights and the prohibition of alcohol sales.
Women’s rights activists were enthusiastic about temperance. The 1800s was a time when the number of alcoholics increased rapidly as the brewing industry flourished due to Irish and German immigrants coming to the United States. At the time, the biggest victims of alcohol were women and children. Men who wasted all their living expenses in bars and committed violence at home began to be revealed as a social problem.
◇Carry Nation goes bar hunting with an axe
Carrie didn’t start out ‘bar hunting’ with an axe. The beginning was relatively mild. He sang hymns in front of the bar or said to bartenders on their way to work, “Good morning. It was a greeting that said, “You destroyer of men’s souls!” At the time, the perception that alcohol was bad spread throughout society, but it did not lead to prohibition. Carrie, dissatisfied with the results of her temperance campaign, decides she can’t speak her mind anymore, so she picks up an ax and begins smashing up her bars. He himself justified her ways as a ‘revelation from God’ and said he did not feel any guilt. Her second husband grew tired of Carrie’s somewhat excessive appearance and eventually decided to divorce.
Women’s groups in the Christian temperance movement began to support Carrie’s appearance. Thanks to Carrie’s support, the intensity of her brutality became more and more intense. Her dark black-and-white outfit reminiscent of the movie Pulp Fiction became Carrie’s signature attire, and her bible and ax chilled many men. He often took men’s cigarettes out of their mouths and threw them on the ground. He was even kicked out in 1907 after walking up to the front lawn to berate the president for allowing wine in the White House.
Carrie was arrested by the police and imprisoned more than 30 times for vandalism over a 10-year period starting in 1900. However, Carrie accepted everything as God’s will and continued her activities as soon as she was released. As his imprisonment continued, his supporters grew, and replicas of the hatchet that Carey used to hunt his saloons were selling like hot cakes. This allowed Carey to cover his fines through a steady lecture tour and profits from hatchet memorabilia.
But maybe it was because I was too enthusiastic. Carrie ended her life in 1911 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, by collapsing on stage during a speech. Nine years later, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which contained alcohol regulations, was ratified, and on January 16, 1920, Prohibition Act went into effect, making the manufacture, sale, and distribution of all alcohol in the United States illegal.
In fact, Carrie has advocated for the rights of the poor and homeless throughout her life and has also engaged in several charitable activities. It was just because of the extreme way she expressed her aversion to alcohol that she drowned out all other good deeds. Her monument, where Carrie now rests, is inscribed with the words “I did what I could.” That’s what he said at the end of her speech.
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