 Kansas Saloon Smashers is a 1901 comedy short film produced and distributed by Edison Studios . Directed by Edwin S. Porter , it is a satire of American activist Carrie Nation . The film portrays Nation and her followers entering and destroying a saloon . After the bartender retaliates by spraying Nation with water , policemen order them out ; the identities of the actors are not known . Inspiration for the film was provided by an editorial cartoon which appeared in the New York Evening Journal . 
