Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-11-01
PROGRESS OF THE MOVEMENT

Illinois expects to double her lowering vote.
The prohibition majority in Canada was 1854.
The Wisconsin Prohibitionists rejected a
suffrage plank.
The Frances e. Willard National Temperance
Hospital in Chicago ia now free from debt.
The Seventh district, where of late years W,
have been rather weak, is coming through with
flying colors.
The Frances e. willard public school building
is INTELLECTUALLY the finest in Chicago and cos
something over $4,000.
Mrs. Clinton B. Fisk presided over the national
convention of the Womans Home Missionary So
ciety of the M. E. church at Minneapolis. She wal
Reelected president.
majority of the states report an increase in
membership of the w. c. T. u, six of them hav.
ing secured 500 or more new members during the
year. Minnesota is one of these.
Geo. w. Norman, of Princeton, Ind. the
Prohibition coroner, who calls spade a
spade when whisky murder occurs, is
making gallant fight for reelection.
A national Purity Conference will take place at
the Plymouth Congregational Church, St. Paul,
Nov. 9 and 10. DR.. Mary Wood-Allen, Worlds
and National Superintendent, viii be in charge.
Lord Roberts says that the total absti-
hence movement in India is worth f6o0OOO
"Give me tee-total army. Mr.. Caine." he
once said at Calcutta, 'tand I will take it
anywhere"
The story, credited to gunner Evans, that tn
gunners Of the Boston were served whiskey dur
ing the battle Of Manila, is pronounced fake by
Secretary Of the Navy Long, and CaptainlWildes
Of the Boston.
Seventy new w. c.. T. Unions were or
ganized in Minnesota during the past year.
There was net gain of 1856 members, MAX
ing a total of 3,096. Money raised for tenn
perance work. $500.
Bishop Tierney, of Connecticut, the new
president of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union, is accustomed to ask all children to
promise they will be total abstainers from
all intoxicating drink during their minor
ity.
The columns of those st. Paul papers which live
by pulling the legs Of candidates. would seem to in
dictate that Ed. Rogers did not stop with present
ing his fellow citizens with $4,000, but that he
is also spending snug sum in advertising his dis
interested generosity.
Sixteen million children now receive hy-
gienic temperance instruction in forty of
the states of the Union. In most of these
states a teacher Of the public schools re-
fusing or neglecting to teach it. as pre-
scribed by law, forfeits his salary as teach
er.
Fifteen cents in stamps will bring you by mail q
package of good envelopes containing this motto
in three colors, and surrounded by Old Glory
'sTne saloon cannot be legalized and the home
protected under the same flag" Address City
Prohibition Committee, 40 East Fourth st. st.
Paul. ~
The General Assembly Of the United
Presbyterian church recommended "that
members of the church be counciled to
carry the petitions, Hallowed be Thy
name; Thy kingdom come, Thy will be
done on earth as It is in heaven, to the
polls" n; 57
A new crusade against vice has been UNI
dertaken by the Chicago Young People
Christian Temperance Union, in conjunc-
ton with the members Of the Christian
Citizenship League and the w. G. 7. U.
Rev. J3lQ. A. Henry has been appointed
leader.
President Hart, of the Chicago Base Ball
Club, selected Waycross, Ca. as the train
ing round for his team this year, and. In
giving his reasons therefor, concludes with
this significant sentence: "Best Of all, tho
town is prohibition" The "cranks" are
multiplying.
A circular Of the South Dakota Retail
Liquor Dealers Association urges its con-
stituents to oppose the pending woman SUI
frage amendment to the constitution, az
it's passage would abolish and shut on
the saloon" That's an excellent reason
why the women should vote.