Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-03-01
BACKBONE.
STATE PROHIBITION CONVENTION.

STATE PROHIBITION CONVENTION.
The State Prohibition convention for the nomination
of a state ticket will take place at the Auditorium
st. Paul, July g. e. The counties will be entitled
to the number of delegates named below and an
equal number of aternates:
Axin !, Anoka q Becker 3, 1, Benton l. Big
Stone Blue Earth g. Brown g. Carlton Carver l.
chippewa Chisago L. Clay g. Cook 1, Cottonwood g. Crow
Wing g. Dakota 6, Dodge Douglas g. Faribaut 5, Fill
more g. Freedom T. Goodhue Hennepin 49,
ton Hubbard Isant Itasca Jackson e. Kanabec
Kandyohi 8, Kittson qui Pare Lake l. LIE sueur
a. Lincoln Lynn Mcleod Marshall Martin
er g. Mile Laos Morrison A. Mower Murray e. Ncollet
2 Mobiles 8, Norman Olmsted g. Otter Tail H. Pine l.
Ppesone 2 Polk g. Pope Ramsey 5 Redwood g. Renvlle
g. H1ce Rock Roseau st. Louis Scott Sherburne
Traverse Wabasha 4, g. Waseca g. Washington
e. Watonwan g. Wilkin I, Wnona s. Wright A. Yelliw Med
1cine B. GEO. W. HIGGINS Chairman.
At the National Prohibition conference at Cncin-
natl Homer L. Castle said anti-saloon leagues are
the confessions of the churches that they under
CONVICTION OF political sn and any good minister will
tell you that sinner well convicted is half convert
ed. Like the in the Bible whose eyes Jesus
touched, they see ''men trees walking" and they
only need more touch of the divine Physician to
be clearly in the light.
The church member who, by patronage by peti-
ton, by vote-who directly Indirectly aids or
aDets the saloon is an agent of the devil and trait
or to Jesus Christ and His church-Word and Way
Prohibition SITS will be wise if they have as little as
possible to do with the fight for supremacy that is
going on between the two parties.-Peoples Tribune
1t was great English brewer and not Mr.. Glad
stone is sometimes stated who said that
intemperance had done more harm to humanity than
war and pest ence and famine combined
We have reached the time when does not need
to be hero to be total absainer on all occasions
Meantime the intoxicating bottle everywhere seek
ing entrance to Christian sideboards and the most
respectable public banquets. It is the same enemy
however, to social ORDER decency and virtue and no
less so because some good people indulge in it.
Midland Chri stan Advocate
The Salt La Ike City Herald says: The great objec-
ton to woman-suffrage is prejudice, and nothing
ese In half of the families of the land it is the wife
who really administers the income of the family and
makes it go much farther than the husband possibly
| could. Few married men take any important step
without consulting their wives and getting their opin-
ion and Judgment Why shouldn't their opinion
and judgment be sought on public matters? 1t would
| be absolutely impossible for women to be greater
failures in Office than many men are. 1t would
also be an impossiblty for women to follow politi-
| cal leaders more bindly than men do. Herein thew
will perhaps always be the superiors of the men.
The final ontest in the first series of essay coll
tests being he Id by the St. Paul Christian TEMPER
Federati on took place on the 9Th inst The
topic was "How may we meet the growing demand
for better enforcement of the liquor law" A. W.
Gutridge representing the Catholic Mems Total Alb
stinence societies, took the honors. The W. c. T.
| U, Catholic Ladies' Total Abstinence societies.
Christian Endeavor societies, Epworth Leagues and
| Prohibition Clubs also represented.