Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-05-01
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ance with the new law requiring instruc
ton in narcotics. These districts were in
formed that public money would be with
held because of such failure
Chauncey Depew says that not one pc
cent. of the 10000 employees of the New
York Central railroad are now discharged
whereas before the adoption of the rul
regarding drinking by employees the los
on this account was 20 per cent.
The new American battleship, the Hi
most powerful vessel of our navy, will cos
almost 100000. The money that we, the
American people, spend for drink in 6
years time would build an Illinois every
working day in the year.
Drunken ball players made so much trou.
BILE in the base ball teams composing the
Western league last year that President
johnson, of that organization, announces
that this year a percentage of each mans
salary will be held back as a guaranty
that he will keep sober.
The regulation governing the enlistment
of men for the United States service con.
tains this clause:
EVERY applicant must produce a salts
factory reference in writing as to his char
acter. A reference from a liquor seller
will not be accepted"
The Cincinnati South West, a leading or.
gan of the liquor dealers, is trying tc
arouse it's fellows to- the Importance OF
extending the circulation of the liquor
press. Speaking of the Prohibitionists, he
says: week in and week out their pa.
pers are creating sentiment and making
votes in opposition to your business
A committee, consisting of twenty-one
prominent Philadelphia professional bust.
ness men, called upon Dr. S. G. Swallow al
Harrisburg and asked him to run for gov.
ernor on the independent platform, ''Thor
shalt not steal" He has since accepted
The Prohibitionists will also undoubtedly
nominate him.
An unsuccessful attempt has been made
to license a saloon on Lexington avenue
st. Paul, the bicycle thoroughfare to Come
Park. Park Commissioner JOS. A. Vince
lock, editor of the Pioneer Press, is re
ported as saying, II am not Prohibi
ZIONIST, am a sport. But don't believ,
saloon out in that district would be
proper thing
Tremendous pressure has been brought t.
bear upon the Canadian government by tn
brewers and distillers, in order to hay
the prohibition issue complicated by tn
addition of such questions as direct taxa
ton and compensation to the promised pie
hibitionists are pleased with the govern
! ment measure.
The state liquor paper evidently hope
that Charles M. Way, recently sued flo
divorce. is the prominent Prohibitionist o
that name. Our contemporary is doome
to disappointment. Our Charles M Wa
and his esteemed wife are likely to figh
the saloon together until it dies or they die
in which latter case their children will cal
ry on their work.
The United States supreme court is t
be asked to decide whether it is constitr
tional to grant liquor licenses. Mr.. Hiral
De Walt, of Philadelphia, has brought
remonstrance against the renewal of til
license of one j. F. Boyle, of that city, O
the ground of the unconstitutionality
! the license system, and declares his Il
tention of carrying it to the highest cour
A certain family consisted of seven DO,
and one girl. When, three years ago, tt
ten-year-oQd boy entered one of the Demo
est contests in prohibition elocution, be
was daily brought into the home, and dral
by all the inmates, and no harm w
thought of it. Being educated at the co
tests, through the orations, of the dangt
beer was banished and the saloon sold.