NOUN
- United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)
How To Use Carry Nation In A Sentence
- For beyond-the-pale rhetoric it's hard to beat Carry Nation, the God-fearing temperance zealot she used a hatchet (and hammers, rocks and bricks) to attack saloons in the first decade of the 20th century who celebrated the assassination of President William O. McKinley in 1901 by calling him a "whey-faced tool of Republican thieves, rummies and devils. Temperance Tantrum
