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

pennsylvania 1l,oUO copies VI Tic Iloiilu
ton paper, the Taxpayers Friend, wer
circulated in one county and it was carrie
for our ticket by plurality Of more tina
$4,000 votes.
Prohibition students everywhere il
schools where no Prohibition clubs exis
are asked to send their names to Clarenc
E. Smith, Rexford Flats, N. Y, Sec.
the intercollegiate Prohibition Association
of the U. S.
Father Cleary of Minneapolis will pre-
side over and Archbishop Ireland will ad
dress the national convention of Catholi
Total Abstinence Societies In Boston, IL
August. A message will be read from Pop
Leo indorsing the movement.
The faculty of the Roman Catholic Uni
| versity of Washington have forced Prot
Joseph Shredder to resign, for the reason
among others that he has been, contrary tt
the resolutions adopted by the Baltimore
council, a patron of saloons.
We are publishing a small monthly in
stead of large weekly so as to reach NOR
people, Help us by sending us your owl
subscription or a club, by paying for few
copies to be sent direct to others, or b!
raising fund for this purpose.
| The Massachusetts Total Abstinence So
ciety keeps a man in the field to visi
schools, address the children, and distrib
ute pledge cards-to be signed if approved
by the parents. In this way the names O.
| 215 900 children have been gathered.
Miss Willard urges the w. C. T. U. tt
"present a petition to every State ane
Territorial Legislature between the ocean:
and to the national Congress, asking fol
prohibition. and that on all questions relat
ing to the liquor traffic, women shall have
the ballot"
When Thorn, one of the latest of New
York murderers, had received his death
sentence, he remarked among other things
'T had no ill-will to the man, but I haG
been taking plenty of beer and was look
ing for fight A vote for the saloon is
vote for murder.
Father Alexander P. Doyle says that al
the Catholic churches of the country nov
pledge the girls and boys at confirmation
to abstain from intoxicating liquors until
they are q years old. The recent conven
ton of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of America determined to make special ef'
forts in behalf of the children by the for.
nation of juvenile societies.
New York Prohibitonists will endeavol
to secure the pledges Of 100000 voters of thai
state to vote the ticket provided that num-
Der of signatures is obtained. Pledges
will also be sought for our county tickets
and assembly tickets upon the understand
ing that the signer will vote the ticket II
one-third of the voters in his county OF
district shall have signed the agreement.
Earnest efforts will be made to secure
the repeal of the Maine and Kansas pro-
hibitory laws. Strange to say, the attack
is planned by the liquor men themselves
the very fellows who claim that blind pigs
sell more liquor than saloons. Probably
they have acquired all the wealth they
want and are now providing against sur
plus which might make their old age mis-
cradle.
| Marshall Field has given an extension
of six months in which to raise the 100000
needed to secure his pledge of $50,0O0 ant
gain the required control on the part of th
National W. G. T. U for the beautiful Tenn
perance Temple at Chicago About $1,000
have been subscribed. Miss Willard ha-
herself contributed $4,000. Contributions
should be forwarded to Miss Cornelia Dow
(who is the daughter of Neal Dow at Port
land, Me-, or to Miss Sara G. Johnson
The Temple, Chicago.
This year congressional elections will b
held in every state in the Union, and gov
errors will be chosen in the states of Ala
bama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Con
necticut, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Maine
Massachusetts Michigan, Minnesota, Ne
braska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jer
sey. New York. North Dakota, Oregon
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Caro-