Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-03-01
Progress Of the Movement.

WoolIey at Moorhead March H. Fergus
Falls 20 and Henning q.
Chas. S. Dean has taken the field as
Organizer of the Prohibition party in Iowa.
Dartmouth College offers 200 scholarships,
worth $50 each to deserving students, out
only total abstainers are eligible.
There is not single bar-room along the Zen
nessee river from Florence, Ala, to Padu-
cab, KY, a distance Of more than 3Oo miles.
The federated Catholic total abstinence
societies of Chicago call upon all friends OF
temperance to refuse to patronize groceries
where liquors are sold
The Hennepin county grand jury declares
that the houses of i'll repute are under
police protection and that blind pigs and
saloons are running riot.
Gov. Griggs, of New Jersey, who has
Just entered President McKinley's caolnet'
boasts Of his anti-prohibition record. But
Bro. Mckinley is a member OF our
church"
The circuit court has ousted from Of
flee Mayor Good, of Springfield, Ohio, for
not including in his statement of election
expenses a beer bill of $91 and other OUTLAWS
amounting to 1898.
The Cook county (Chicago) grand jury
saws: 1.-THE regulation, not to say the OBJ
liberation, of the saloons, would cause an
enormous saving in county expense ana
the lessening of public taxes
One of Miss Wizards latest manltestoes
was her call for the observance of March
20 as Neal Dow's birthday. At the sug-
gestion of the national w. G. T. u, 1t Will
now be observed as Willard Memorial Day.
Rhode Island Prohfbitionists convened
Feb % and nominated state ticket Inc
platform declares for prohibition, woman
suffrage a rest day and several local econ
omic reforms. The campaign will be
hot one.
And now the w. C. T. U. is to receive
five cents for each wrapper from pound
can of Rumford's Baking Powder and half
that amount on the half-pound can. This
is a good article and will "raise the wind
as well as biscuits.
The new German Civil Code will exclude
from the ordinary rights and privileges OF
citizenship all persons who through inebrl-
ty are unable to provide themselves and
their families from falling into danger of
want, or who imperil the safety of others.
AS result of the labors of Alex. Cooper,
the temperance evangelist, at Willmar, 245
persons signed the pledge and the names
of 43 honorary and IL active members were
added to the w. c. T. U. The Union has
ordered B k b on sent for a year to
it's honorary members.
Iowa has let in the saloons, has nearly
100000 in dishonored state warrants out
standing and how to take care of her
criminal population has become trouble
some question. North Dakota, which pro-
hibits saloons, lquidated mortgages in 1897
amounting to 100000.
Speaking of the defeat of woman suffrage
in the Iowa House of Representatives,
Stats Anzeigers a rampant personal lib
erty organ, says: "Thank God, woman suf-
frage was defeated in the House. It was
a close CALL when it ought to have been
defeated by sweeping majority"
A Mrs. Willis, of Brooklyn, after vainly
pleading with officers about a saloon where
her son was being ruined, and after beg
ging the saloon-keeper not to blight her
boy, was enraged at the insults given in
reply and attempted to wreck the saloon.
She was promptly arrested and fined.
A large number of Prohibition banquets
and rallies were held on Washington's
birthday. Two hundred st. Paul Prohibs
were served at Central Park M. E. Church
D. w. Doty was POSTMASTER. Several
speeches were interspersed with music by
the State University Prohibition Quartet
The Demorest contest work has been
united with that of the w. c. T. u. Mrs
Mary c. Greene, Window, is state super