By profession, activist
You never know what is going to find floating around the Internet ... One of those things is the story of this woman, a story that shows that, even if you go upstream and people will cross out of carca , finish saliéndote with yours with effort and tenacity. He did not see his dream fulfilled, but his example inspired many, and nine years after his death, they succeeded.
This good woman like Carrie Amelia Moore was born in Kentucky, to 1846. Mental health problems were common in his family (without going any further, his mother from time to time showed he was fully convinced that Queen Victoria, and sent his daughter to sleep with the slaves of the family ...), but was not the case: she found God.
The lady was all a Bigard, it should measure about 1.80 in height, with 80 kg of weight. Still, there were those who wanted it. But her first husband turned out to be an alcoholic first and died a year after the first child born of marriage. Carrie blamed it on alcohol ...
then further marry a certain David Nation, who took the name with which it became famous. They lived happily and ate partridges and she had a revelation: alcohol is bad and you end up with him. His meditation and prayer gave way to action: she and other women of the Union of Women's Christian Temperance began to boycott the liquor stores and bars in your area. His methods, brutal, from shopkeepers and call waiters "destroyers of the souls of men" to enter the classroom to sing hymns with a portable organ (and that Casio did not exist yet ...). But there seemed to be very successful ...
Up One day, while Carrie prayed to God for guidance, He said "go to Kiowa" - a town in Kansas, "I'll be with you." She played the best he could: go to Kiowa to something in their hands and destroy those damn places. And loaded with stones (which affectionately called "Crushing"), and after parrioquianos warn that they would save their destination of alcoholics, destroyed two rooms in the town ...
continued stoning bars, confident in doing the right thing. But thanks to a discovery of her husband, took a step further: it, joking, I said why not use a hatchet next time, to be more effective. She took him to the letter. She was born Carrie A. Nation, a woman who ended up recording his name as a trademark in Arkansas (Carrie A. Nation sounds like "carry a nation", "closed country"). Armed with a hatchet and a Bible, Carrie shattered bars and liquor stores across Kansas and Arkansas. In ten years, was arrested at least thirty times, but escaped from prison thanks to donations made by their sisters of battle (and their supporters), as well as sales of hatchets like yours.
Among other beauties of this great lady, notably their public rejoicing at the assassination of President McKinley in 1901, accusing him of drinking on the sly.
His life ended in 1911, during a speech. She was buried in a grave without a name, but the Union of Women's Christian Temperance gave him a plaque that read "True to the cause of abstinence, did what he could" (word). Nine years later he forbade the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol in the U.S., "Prohibition," a law which was limited to ruin California wine prosperity and shoot the black market, greatly strengthening the mafias.
Panduro This poster swear that I have found on several websites, not a fake xD.
I dedicate this toast to this lady, sure to stir in his grave for it.
