Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-06-01
PROGRESS OF THE MOVEMENT.

The National W. C. T. U. convention has
just taken place at Yokohama, Japan.
Mrs. Ulrikka F. Brunn. of Chicago, an
able Norwegian worker, is speaking IN
Minnesota
Four of the six active workers of the
Central w. c. T. u, st. Paul, are aged
60, IS, 70 and 80, respectively.
The grog ration was abolished in the
United States navy in 1862 but beer 1aay
still be bought on our gunboats.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union Will
hold it's national convention In historic
Faneuil hall, Boston, Aug. 1O-13
Subscribers in arrears and desiring to
stop their paper should remit at the rate
of two cents per month. This may be sent
in one and two-cent stamps.
The local option election at New Haven
Conn.,. resulted in heavy vote for license
though the plurality was decreased oS
1000 votes over the last election
Every state in the Union, except VIZ
einia. Georgia. Arkansas and Utah, now
requires scientific temperance instruction.
for all pupils in it's public schools.
The Canadian prohibition plebiscite bill
has PASSED it's second reading in the house
of commons without amendment and with
The Princeton Inn has secured liquor
license for the current year. but the apph-
cation therefor does not bear the sigma
lures of any of the Princeton professors.
The New York Daily Journal, paper
with the largest circulation OF any paper
in the world, says that the drinking OF al
coholic liquors is not only not necessary
but is hurtful.
Daniels Band of America, Temperance
Army, holds open-air and inside meetings.
every Sunday afternoon at Ito Hennepn
avenue Minneapolis. Lively music. Prom
inent speakers. - '''~*~'
The National w. c. T. U. officers have
written to President Mckinley and to Gen.
Nelson A. Miles, urging them to prohibit
the establishment of "canteens" in camps
where troops are assembled.
A Chicago judge recently declared from
the bench that eff it were not for whisky
the city of Chicago would not require more
than one-tenth Of the number Of policemen
now endeavoring to suppress vice and
crime" a.
A mob of 100 men completely demolished
a saloon at Young America, Ind, because
of the barbarous treatment given by the
his father home. Over 200 kegs Of beer
were destroyed.
The great w. c. T. U. polyglot petition
has been presented to the government OF
Canada. The petition was arranged in fes-
ICONS and massive rolls in the largest
church in Ottawa. Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens
made a strong address on Prohibition.
For every dollar that the license fee
brings to the public treasury, the people,
for whose benefit the license is supposed
to be paid, part with at least twenty-five
dollars, to say nothing about the expense
of taking care Of the product Of the gin
mill.
The United States supreme court has de-
clared that the first delivery Of liquor from
outside a prohibition state is not an in
fringement of the state law. Justices Gray,
Harlan and Brown dissented, on the
ground that the state law was valid as
police regulation.
Prohibition party conventions take place
in New Hampshire, June 1; Illinois, June
1 and 2; Iowa, June 1 and 2; Kansas, June
and 8; California, June 8 and 8; New
Jersey, June IA; New York, June % and
%; Minnesota, St. Paul, July rs and n;
Wisconsin, August g.
At a great convention, held on the 18th
ult, Pennsylvania Prohibitionists nominal
ed DR.. S. c. Swallow for governor. He had
previously received an Independent nomi-
nation. 1t is expected that the Liberty
party will also support him. He will make
hot fight against the saloonists and
thieves of the keystone state.