Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-04-01
II am bot one;
Bot I am one.
I cannot do everything,
Bot I can do something.
What I can do I ought to do.
And what I ought to do,
God helping me I will do"
PROGRESS OF THE MOVEMENT.

Providence, X. l., has eighteen public
drinking fountains.
A crusade against the cigarette habit is
being conducted in the Chicago public
schools.
March 90 which is Neal BOWS birthday,
was widely observed in his honor and in
honor of Miss Willard
Miss Wizards face will appear in stone
at the head of the grand stairway of the
new capitol at Albany.
The proportion of women who belong to
the w. C. T. U. in North Dakota is 1 to
81, higher than in any other state
In compiling it's report or the amount of
beer sold in the various states in 1896, the
Brewers Journal leaves Maine entirely out
of the list.
John E. George, of the Northwestern
university, says that the drink bill of Chi
cago is $7O,OOOOOO. while the city receives
from license $3,335,0OO. Dead loss, $685. 665, 900.
An Independent movement is on foot
looking to the nomination of Dr. S. c.
Swallow for governor of Pennsylvania. He
will undoubtedly receive the Prohibition
nomination.
The last Chicago grand jury reported that
in no less than six cases which came before
mitted, either in saloons or as the result
Of saloon influence.
M. C. RUSSELL editor of the Riverside,
published at the State Training school, has
offered to pay into the Red Wing city treas
ury $50 per year for five years if no liquor
licenses are granted.
The London Times, in It's annual state
ment, says the drink bill of the United
Kingdom is nearly $17,5OOo0O in excess of
that in 1896, averaging about $1912 for each
man. woman and child.
Mrs. L. NJ N. Stevens who succeeds Miss
Willard as National President of the w. C.
T. u, calls upon white-r1bboners to set
apart Good Friday, April 8, 1898, as a day
of special prayer and conservation.
Princeton Inn is still running wide open
and again selling liquors to students and
to all who apply. On recent Saturday
seven Princeton students were arrested and
fined at Trenton for disorderly conduct.
Mrs. Charlton Edholm, an authority on
social purity, says that the liquor traffic is
the mainstay of the traffic In girls, and
that with the abolition of the former would
come the practical abolition of the latter.
Maj. Lugard, the African explorer, de-
clares that the liquor traffic in Africa is an
unmitigated curse, and calls upon the gov
ernments Of England Germany and France
to come to some agreement which will in
time effectually prohibit the importation of
liquors.
A lively Prohibition campaign is on in St.
Paul. N. R. Frost is our candidate for
mayor, and H. G.. Neal for treasurer. The
platform declares for prohibition law en-
forcement, municipal ownership as rapidly
as practicable, civil service reform and
economy.
We are familiar with the business meth
DDS of every firm advertising in this issue,
and we unhesitatingly commend them. If
our readers when ordering of them, will
take pains to say that they saw their ad-
Vertisement in B a C k b n e. it may bring
us in snug sum.
Two hundred and fifty-five chiefs of DO
lice tell The Voice that GO per cent of their