The Methodist
minister especially was deeply moved. There were two officers who saw
this outrage, but there was no arrest.
Next morning, Mrs. Bettie James, came in two miles from the country,
and had a warrant sworn out against Neighbors, but the case was laid
over to await the action of the "Grand jury," in November, saloon keepers
going on his bond.
I intended to go to Mammoth Cave but remained over on account of
trial, and spoke again that night. Elizabethtown is one of those bad rum-
towns in Kentucky, but there is a fine prohibition sentiment, and great
indignation was felt and expressed that a saloon-keeper even so low and
cowardly as to strike a woman, should be tolerated. I was in bed most
of the day and nearly fainted during the lecture, but I thanked God that
I was counted worthy to suffer, that others might not. I felt some mother
might receive fewer blows--that while my head was bruised and bleeding
to prevent hearts from being crushed and broken, souls were going
to drunkards graves, and drunkards Hells, and this outrage would reveal
the enormous brutality of this curse, bringing a speedy remedy.
In the Spring of 1904, I was in the office of Miss Lucy Page Gaston,
the National President of the Anti-Cigarette League. I saw on the walls
of her room Mr. Roosevelt's picture. I said, "My dear Miss Lucy, why
do you have that picture in here? Don't you know, he is a cigarette
smoker?" She said, she did not know it.
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