Remembering History: Temperance was a popular movement with women in the late 19th and early 20th century. Few women were as passionate as Carrie Nation, however. She became famous for walking into saloons and smashing alcohol bottles with a hatchet, all the while singing hymns and prayers. Sometimes she even greeted bartenders with, “Good morning, destroyers of men’s souls” before she got swinging.

Temperance was a popular movement with women in the late 19th and early 20th century. Few women were as passionate as Carrie Nation, however. She became famous for walking into saloons and smashing alcohol bottles with a hatchet, all the while singing hymns and prayers. Sometimes she even greeted bartenders with, “Good morning, destroyers of men’s souls” before she got swinging.

Temperance was a popular movement with women in the late 19th and early 20th century. Few women were as passionate as Carrie Nation, however. She became famous for walking into saloons and smashing alcohol bottles with a hatchet, all the while singing hymns and prayers. Sometimes she even greeted bartenders with, “Good morning, destroyers of men’s souls” before she got swinging.