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

. intendent Send to her for particulars
Every temperance organization should in
augurate this work. 1t provides a splendid
entertainment and is a great maker o.
sentiment.
A dinner costing $500 a plate was giver
| U. S. Attorney General-elect Griggs anC
Acting Governor VOORHEES, of New Jersey
| Liquor flowed like water. Among the
guests were Vice President Hobart and Fran
| lin Murphy, the Chairman of the Repu
| lican state committee. It is a great thing
| to belong to a God and morality party lik'
| the party in power.
The Voice having been called liar tol
asserting that there are % saloons Wilnli
| two blocks of the campus and the green O.
| Yale University, Anthony Comstock lnVes
tigated the matter and found that the mum
Der was not &c but Is! The faculty are be
ing flooded with petitions of organizations
and parents to use their influence for the
outlawing of the cancerous spots.
In the request recently mailed to w. Z
T. U. Secretaries for the addresses OF mem
bers of Christian young peoples societies
we intended to ask that the country ap
pointmenyts of their local ministers be In
cluded. We should also have said thai
we desired the name Of only one young
person in a family. Juniors OF Il years
old and upward should be included.
| The Massachusetts Prohibition State Con
vention will be held at Worcester, June 9
The Massachusetts Intercollegiate Prohibi
ton Association will hold an oratorial con
test ON the evening of the same day. Sew
eraI College Prohibition clubs will com
pete for cash prize of $25, the successful
contestant to represent the Bay State II
the National Intercollegiate Oratorica
contest to be held during their Annual Con
vention at Lake Bluff, ILL.,, July 1920.
The owners of the saloon run on Presi
dent McKinley's property at Canton no
desiring to accept the offer of his agent tt
sell them the ground, the place has beer
vacated and the building will soon be re-
moved to another lot. Exit. In the mean
time the Opera-House saloon, in which the
McKinleys own controlling interest, goes
merrly on corrupting the youth Of Canton
Our Christian President is too busy with
Cuban matters to study his Methodist dis
cipline.
In letter to Lord George Hamilton Lady
Henry Somerset has withdrawn her pro-
Indian army. There is great rejoicing
among the friends of purity. Her blundel
was serious one, but the purity of her in.
tentions cannot be doubted. On hearing oil
her disavowal of her former views, Miss
Willard said, cit is only what we had g
right to expect from our great-hearteG
comrade who has from the first been de-
votedly with us in our purity work.
A national conference of the Liberty par
ty took place at Columbus, Ohio, Feb. %
"a. The platform declares for the initiative
and referendum, prohibition, woman suf
frage, "16 to H. no land monopoly, govern
ment ownership of railroads and telegraph
| lines, national revenues by taxation, NJ
contract convict labor, protected day o.
rest, no public funds for sectarian schools
President and Senators to be elected by
direct vote, pensions for ex-soldiers, revised
| immigration and naturalization laws.
| The office of John P. st. John as vice
| cha rman of the national committee wa
declared vacant, on account of his havins
! announced his intention to support Brva,
| in 1900.
| If you are a Prohibitionist or a "hope
full a minister, and a good templar; i
| your wife is an active w. c. T. U. worker
| your daughter ''Y," and your son mem
| Der of the Christian Endeavor or othe
young peoples society, you are likely tt
| sometimes receive half a dozen sampl
copies of C k n e. Now do you sup
| pose that there is in Minnesota friend Q
our cause so mean that he would Withhold
his subscription to our paper because, il
the way above mentioned, he and his fam
| lily are receiving so many copies free?
The press of the nation recently cor