 The film proved to be very successful , inspiring other films about Nation to be produced by other studios ; Biograph Company made Carrie Nation Smashing a Saloon in April , while Lubin Manufacturing Company had produced a film entitled Mrs. Nation and Her Hatchet Brigade by early March . Siegmund Lubin had attempted to capitalize on the success of Kansas Saloon Smashers by making a film where Nation herself appeared ; when he was unable to contact her , an actress was hired to play her . Lubin arranged with a Camden bar owner to film a staged destruction scene ; however , the actress proved so convincing that bystanders began to destroy the bar for real and Lubin was forced to pay up to seven hundred dollars damage . 
