Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-06-01
B A G. K B O N E
victory which certain to win giant
foe until in the enjoyment of it's fruits prob
ably not for generation thereafter.

foe until in the enjoyment of it's fruits prob
ably not for generation thereafter.
If license were not opposed as a great moral
wrong but fought and overthrown a bad
economic merely, the result would be state
municipal control of the liquor traffic For men
would say "This is a great monopoly. Away with
it, and let provide the people with drink at cost
put into the public treasury the profits derived
from it's sale' The present method of dealing with
the saloon is both economic stupidity and heinous
wrong and should be battled against such.
The fact that the Governor of Missouri is a
prominent Methodist did not deter him from max
ing brewer of the police commissioners of st.
Louis. The st. Louis Christian Advocate CMethodisD
protested vigorously against the outrage, closing
article on the subject thus:
"The devil backed by thousand bartenders, and
a thousand bartenders backed by brewer, and a
brewer backed by Methodist governor, is specta-
Gle on which DEVILS men and angels gazing in
amazement and wonder'
The eagerness of officials and taxpayers to share
with saoonkeepers the profits of the liquor business
is in marked contrast with the conduct of Judas who
fastened to get out of his hands the thirty pieces of
silver which had received for beraying his Mas
ter and of the chief priests and elders who would
not dele the treasury with the price of blood but
devoted it to the purchase of cemetery for pau
pers. This would be an excellent use-by the way
for license fees We commend it to the city fathers
of our license-voting municipalities.
If, as is claimed, poverty is often the cause
than the result Of intemperance, these hard times
should show increase in the amount of liquors
consumed. Yet the American Grocer shows that
there has been marked decrease in the consumption
of Whiskey and Wine while that of milder alcoholic
beverages has barely held it's own Seventy million
people in 1896 consumed than fifty-eight
million people in 1881 Though. says the Grocer the
causes for the diminution may have been various
the bicycle for instance lessenng the patronage of
the saoon-this result is chiefly attributable to the
"hard tmes!' Good tmes,' it declares, "fosters the
of alcoholic stmulants'
committee, representing the Christian Minis
ters Alliance of Nashville. recently called upon the
executive committee Of the Tennessee Exposition to
demonstrate against the sale beer and wine on the
exposition grounds.
The fair managers replied that 1.-THE prohibition
test is not made the test of membership in the
churches, and religious people body are not
committed to the prohibition theory"
They evidently thought it unreasonable that the
Christian people interested in the remonst1ance
should expect them to occupy higher moral ground
than that upon which the remonstrants themselves
stood 1t is said that the preachers beat dignied
retreat and it is safe to that they have now
something to think about in their leisure hours
BACK SAUCE.
The wanderers coming home and we all bid
them come.-St. Louis Leader
Amen! They're lot of good fellows and we