Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-07-01
BACKBONE.

There are 80 canteens at Camp Thomas, whose
receipts are said to average 500. Col. Shandrew
of the 18th Minnesota, says: "f It 10 possible to
prevent it, not drop of alcoholic stimulants will
be within easy reach of my men while at Camp
Ramsey"
The Cook County (Chicago) board of the Cath
Ollie Total Abstinence Union protests against the
sale of liquors at picnics and balls of the Catholic
Order of Foresters, and of the Ancient Order OF
Hibernians. They call attention to the prohibit
ton of such sale by the third plenary council of
Baltimore.
bronze statue of General Grant was recently
and to celebrate the completion of the event, May
or Ziegenhein of that city, Controller Sturgeon,
and ex-Lieut Gov. O'Meara, drank q number of
schooners of beer before the statue and poured
bucket of the same stuff upon it.
Ten illicit dealers were fined an aggregate of
$4,000 by the District Court at Fort Scott, Kan
sas. The court then put each one of the GRIM
inals under S. 900 bonds to observe the law in the
future. The case was promptly appealed by the
liquor alers, and the Court of Appeals sustained
the decision and action of the lower court
Inc CACnOuC IOGdl "A D5LlnoHCo y ulOu VI IulAols
expressed its sorrow on account of the death OF
Miss Willard, "whom the Lord has seen fit to take
unto himself" pledged the w. c. T. q. its warm
support in lessening the evils of intemperance,
and criticized Catholics who engage in the saloon
business. and Catholic newspapers which adver-
tise the business.
Rev. Mr.. Aked, one of the leading ministers of
Liverpool, England, at the recent annual coun Gil
of the British Temperance Association, said
"English women are drinking today as women
have never drunk on the face of the earth before
as Scotch Welsh and Irish women do not drink,
as French, Creek or even Roman women in their
corruptest days never drank
DR.. Swallow, Prohibition candidate for governor
of Pennsylvania, has challenged Col. Stone, the
Republican candidate, to forty debates. the dis
cussion to be confined to the two charges that the
Republican management of the state affairs has
| been wsstsful and extravagant, and that there is
presumptve evidence that the capitol was fired by
emissares of the Republican bosses. These charg
es constituted the basis of his recent marvellous
| campaign for the state treasurership.
| whisky murder in Todd county; carving by
| a drunken soldier of Fort Smelling in q saloor
near the fort: an intoxicated farm laborer run ov
! er and killed by the Great Northern near Mapl.
Plain; two young men, % and n years of age, fill
| ed up on Madison, Wis, liquor, called at a farm
er'e, demanded money, and on being refused, tor
tured the old couple, and pouring oil over thu
clothing and bed, set fire to them. These ar
some of this month s fruit of legal traffic.
The Presbyterian General Assembly exhortet
members of that church "to exercise increased
diligence and watchfulness over themselves ant
those committed to their care in respect to iEtem
perance; whether as parents, or teachers in GU
schools and colleges, in order that our homes an
schools may be purged of the evil of intemperanc
and the saloon traffic be driven from our land
and this without reflection upon the authorities o
col egiate institutions" The last clause was tn
only reference to the Princeton Inn.
The revenue receipts OF the United States fron
the liquor traffic were, in the year ending June &c
1897, $114 .4S0, 704.99. Taking the last census q
our guide, the amount thus paid to government
would be $1.82 for every inhabitant. Taking tn
states separately, the amount actually paid t
make up that sum is, for example, as follows: :
The state of Illinois, $7.S6 per inhabitant; Ne,
York, 81 26; Pennsylvania, ST AZ New Jersey 81 "a
Ohio, $2.73; Massachusetts, $1.64; Connecticu
+ and Rhode Island, rs cents; Maine, cents and
mile.
An order just issued by Maj. Gen. Miles col
tains the following: "The history of othor armie
t has demonstrated that in hot climate abstinenc
from the use of Intoxicating drinks is essentit
| to continued health and efficiency. Commander
officers Of all grades and officers of the medic.