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

The finest saloon ever seen in Minneap-
oils has been opened.
License carried at Marshall and Redwood
Falls and no license at Granite Falls.
The Winship House, Owatonna, is a clean
and comfortable dollar day hostelry.
Miss Clara Parrish has recently added
1000 members to the w. C. T. U. in Japan.
State Prohibition party conventions will
take place in Missouri May 5 and in Illi-
nois June /.
Send chairman Samuel Dickie, Albion,
Mich, the names of the Prohibitionists of
your community.
A Scandinavian Union Christian Temper
ance committee is holding public meetings
monthly in Duluth.
The seventh annual session of the Junior
Scandinavian Grand Lodge of Good Tenn
plars took place in st. Paul.
A national conference of the Prohibition
party will take place at Cincinnati Jan.
&C. Report in Feb. number.
The National Prison Association, which
met recently in Austin, Tex, urges the pro-
hibition of intoxicants.
The government issued 219,822 liquor per-
mits in the year ending June 80, 1897 The
collections in Minnesota footed up $2,2A,-
315.
The Total Abstinence Congress of Mime
sofa, Scandinavian, has made arrange
ments for course of lectures in Minneap-
oils.
In North Dakota blind piggers are being
sent up and the pigs shut up. A recent
Supreme Court decision strengthens our
cause.
In a number of towns BACKBONE goes
to majority of the people. This is the way
to carry your town for no-license this
spring.
The National Temperance Almanac, 10
cents, is brimful of temperance facts and
figures. Nat Temperance Society, SO Reade
ST., New York.
This year will witness prohibition pie
biscite in Canada, to be followed, If sue
cessful, by prohibitory law. The fight is
hot over there already.
The Fargo Argus, speaking of the murder
illegal sale of liquor to Indians nine human
lives have been sacrificed.
The Templar, Canadian Prohibition or
gan, Is now published by the Templar
Publishing Company, $4,000 of whose stock
has just been subscribed for.
The Georgia house of representatives vote
on the prohibition bill stood Is for to GA
hio1, ,oi0 ritU hi
lacked thirteen of a constitutional majority.
Congress is to be asked to pass law for
bidding federal revenue collectors to &C
cept a liquor tax from persons not hay
ing a license from local authorities. 1t is
time.
DR.. S. c. Swallow, who received $4,000
votes as the candidate of the Prohibition
party for Treasurer of Pennsylvania, has
begun the publication of daily at Harris
burg.
Another campaign is before us. Now
not next summers the best time to make
votes. The increasing number of clubs and
subscriptions coming in indicates an ap-
probation of this fact.
After a spasm of virtue, which lasted
just twenty-four hours, the committee on
rules of the U. S. Senate and House of
Representatives authorized the sale of
liquor again at the capitol restaurant.
Nearly 100000 a day goes into the sa-
looms of Greater New York, or $134, OOO 900
year. Carroll D. Wright, the government
statistician, says that 10000 people starve
to death in that city annually No wonder
In an address to the jury recently, Judge
White, of Pittsburg, remarked that after
an experience Of twenty-three years on the
bench, he was satisfied that four-fifths of
all crimes were the direct result of drink.