Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-11-01
BACKBONE

Itne CANADIAN pl0DlSClt0, at least 1VUV pro
hibition meetings were held every nigh
Throughout the Dominion.
President Burt, Of the Uaion Pacific, ha.
ISSUED an order closing all saloons In con
Ineotion with eating houses on the line ii
which the company has an interest.
John G. Woolley's three sons are Pro
hibitionists. Ned is our candidate for tn,
Legislature from his district. His run
ming mate for Senator is DR.. Wilson, stat
president of the illinois Christian Endeayoa
Union.
The Seventh International Temperance
i Congress (Which last met, in 1897, in Brus
sels) will meet next in Paris. from April
to 9, 1899 All federated leagues and as
sociations are invited to be represented
thereat. -
The blind pig hoodlums of Littleton
Iowa, have hung Miss Sarah Wilbur In
effigy broken her windows and done other
damage because she instigated a legal
search of blind pigger's premises. oh!
but If they were Spaniards!
| G. w. York, p. G. c. T., is at Napa,
CAL The Garvin Family is talking and
singing for prohibition in Indiana. Mrs.
L. e. Bailey, who did faithful work In
Minnesota in 1886. writes that she will at
tend the National w. c. T. U. convention.
The officers Of the 18th Minnesota have
decided against regimental canteen. It
was Col. Shandrew, then commanding this
regiment, who drove the blind pigs from
the State Fair ground, when his command
was encamped there. The regiment is one
tn <Ia
It has been many a year since Mime
apolis and st. Paul Prohibitionists were
as active as in this campaign. In the
former city clubs have been formed in
nine Of the thirteen wards and ten Of st.
Pauls wards are organized. The work be-
ing done is Of permanent character.
There are number of my neighbors some Of
them members of my church, whom would like
to have know what the Prohibition party belivss
in and is trying to do. BACKBONE contains
about the kind OF matter would like to have
put in their hands, it's as large paper az think
they II read and comes about as often as I think
they would read it," He gave his check for $500
and list of IS names. We consider this the
best commentator our paper has received.
John Wanamaker says that the political
boss Of his party in Pennsylvania has
stolen $4,000, 900 from the state treasury In
the last 20 years. That when, at the be-
ginning Of new administration, he was
unable to return the money stolen from the
treasury, the brewers of Pennsylvania
made the deficit good. And that the GRIM
inal career Of Matthew Quay was made
possible by the organized liquor power Of
the state.
In the United States there have been
killed during $50 years in war 100000 per
sons-yearly average, 1000. Liquor kills
at low estimate $1,000 yearly, or during
the past 15o years, 100000. The great
wars Of the world for twenty-five years,
from 1852 to 1877, including the German
war and our civil war, cost $12, 900, OOO, 900.
The cost Of intoxicants for the same
period in the United States was $780,
100000. or $s,00o,000,o0o more than all the
wars Of the world.
The last saloon was voted out of Isanti county.
MIMI, in 1883. During the last year of cense the
criminal court expenses of the county all told
amounted to $955.71; for the next year the entire
expenses dropped to $4T73, or less than half; in
1891 to SAT in 1895 the liquor cases cost bu.
$14.8 81; and in 1896, when many other counties
were indicting their officials for malfeasance In
office, 600 represents the entire criminal court
expenses for the year, and IT WAS uNNEcEssAHY
TO EVEN CALL THE GRAND JURY TOGETHER. The
county has mere .'box" fora jail, the taxes are
correspondingly low, the people as rule indus
trious and .law-abiding citizens, and the county
can well challenge comparison with any license
county in the state Of the citizens of Isan-
Il county 4346were born in Sweden, and q maiori-
ty of the remainder are the children Of Scandina
Wan parents.
Mrs. A. G. McCurdy, Minneapolis, state
superintendent Of the penal and reforma-
tory department of the w. G. T. u, will