Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-12-01

serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Progress of the Movement.
Theodore Roosevelt denies that liquor
will be sold at the new navy canteens.
The W. c. T. U. of America has con-
tributed about $4,000 to the Armenian Fund.
Hotel Clifton, at LIE Sueur, is the kind Of
stop.
1t will help us greatly if you will mention
this paper when you write or call upon our
advertisers.
There were 81, 200 arrests last year in Guilt
waited Observation-Disclosures each day. The
saloon was largely responsible.
During the last third of this century the
consumption of liquor has increased nearly
three times as fast as the population.
After thirty years of prohibition, the vot-
ers of Maine placed prohibitory clause in
their constitution by a majority of 46,992
Rev. Jno. Gmeiner, the Jealous Prohi-
bitionist Catholic priest, is now located at
South st. Paul. Father Mahoney is at
Mendoza.
Every woman who seeks the well-being of
society should be member of the w. c. T.
u, and every such member should be a
reader of the Union Signal, the able repre-
sentative of that splendid organization.
We are pouring into saloons nearly $100O,-
100000 annually, while the whole interest of
our law makers is centered on getting back
about one-sixth of this amount. Saving at
the spigot and wasting at the bung-hole!
of
land, has gone over to Ireland to enter a
crusade against drinking. Wherever he
goes he is followed by crowds who wish
to take the pledge, or grasp his hand or
crave his blessing.
A clause in the proposed local option bill
of New Zealand provides that every one
convicted of habitual drunkenness shall be
photographed at his own expense, and ev-
cry saloon-keeper in the district where he
lives must be supplied with copy.
w. j. Dean, who has twice been our can
didate for governor, is the head of the firm
of Dean & Co., whose advertisement ap-
pears in our columns. It is a bang-up firm
and our readers wanting farm implements,
wagons or carriages would do well to write
or see them.
In 1890 Governor Burleigh said: 'No
state has so little property under mortgage,
according to valuation, as the state of
Maine. There are whole counties in which
there is not farm under mortgage, and
Maine loans more money than any other
farming state.''
The prohibitory law Of North Dakota is
better enforced than ever before The
father Of the law, Chas. A. Pollock, was
elected judge of the third judicial district
and is showing the people that prohibition
does prohibit. Other judges in the state
seem to be catching the inspiration.
Mrs Fife Burgan, of Princet1 Mimi,
state superintendent Of work among lum-
bermen, says: Instead Of sending old pa
pers, cut out desirable articles and make
scrap-books or decorate some good sized
envelopes to make them attractive and fill
them with good clippings. Send to me for
camp addresses.
The Richmond, Va, Traction Company,
which owns one Of the finest street railway
systems In the world, has just issued the
following official order: sNo motorman.
conductor or dispatcher is allowed to drink
IN barroom at any time, whether on or off
duty, nor within six hours before going on
duty nor one hour after going off duty"
An exchange makes this excellent s,1g-
gestion: Clip out from your Prohibition
papers the best arguments paste them on
good, clean paper, one article to each sheet.
and send or loan them to your friends.