Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-02-01

Union Signal.
The March number of BACKBONE, which will be is
sued Feb Is, will be local nocense number, intended
as aid in carrying local elections against license will
contain partisan matter which would prejudice the thin
nest skinned voter of any party We purpose make
vote maker Price, mailed separately 81 per hundred
Those whose elections held in April and May those
who vote in March, should order they likely to
be too late.
We can't devote much space to stirring up Prohibition
lists to work for BACKBONE If their spinal columns in
good order they will not need it, This the first step in
the most systematic effort to reach the voters of Minnesota
which has yet been made Do you the point and
you ?"
We fear did not make it clear enough in the January
number that BACKBONE is small, onhy, not from
necessity but that friends afford to give away
number of copies to hopefu s well
who wants the paper afford to take it, Don't imagine
by this that single subscriptions Bless you! If
each who received copy of the January number
had sent his subscription and rs cents would pay for
1OO copies for year. and for the entire time and Office
and field expenses of the manager and this would have
meant at least TO- 900 copies more Single subscriptions
may be sent in and two cent stamps.
Home Plck-ups.
Marshall voted no-license by majority Excelsior Ii
cense by majority.
Theodore Hamm the brewer, among the bondsmen of
The Norwegian Total Abstinence Society of Mnneapo
is denounces the city officers for enforcing the laws
and ordinances enforce which they elected and care
drawing handsome salaries from the honest toll of the
of the people of our CITY,"
Tom Laly of Minneapolis is vice president of the Retail
Liquor Dealers Association of America This is the Lay
whose saloon Harry Hayward bought the flask of wh
ky which nerved Bixts to murder Kite Cling he
highly honored by the Christian Municipality in which he
chooses to do business Why should he not by his pals
The News Elsewhere.
Virginia. Georgia. Arkansas and Utah are now the only
states which without requiring instruction in tenn
perance and hygiene in their public schools.
England 1911 0O 900 invested in breweres in the Unit
ed States year took out of country
receipts So, 100, 900 in gold.
Rev. T. j. Conaty Worcester Mass, who has been ap
pointed rector of the Catholic University at Washington
D. Co. to succeed Bishop Keane is radical opponent of the
saloon.
Of the twelve presidents which the United States Brew
Association has had eight foreigners and three
of the remaining four of foreign descent Most of
barons like the saloon who their dis
tributing agents, among imported evis-Prohbi-
ton News
Chairman Dickie the National Prohibition Committee,
recently said The last go days, following the campaign
have witnessed more prohibition activity than
before following most successful campaigns There
held and arranged for than three
many meetings and conferences before in
like period of our party's history.
Chicago Prohbitlonists making agreat campaign H.
L. Parmelee is their candidate for mayor.
The national committee of Prohibition party asks for
$25, 900 for it's work this year.
Leverings vote 553 Bidwell received 27O 71O-
The by the difference between
these figures tried to settle the money question: one
half of them voting for silver and the other half for gold
Bentley the presidential candidate of the National party
which boted the Prohibition party at Ptsburg receive
r. TAB votes