Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-09-01
BACKBONE.

The annual convention of the KanSa.
State Temperance Union was an enthusiasts
tic one. Over 600 accredited delegates were
present. Seventeen hundred dollars Were
pledged for the work.
In a total increase Of 5000 arrests in Buff
falo, N. Y, in the year 1897, as compared
with 1896, 80 PER CENT OF THE IN
CREASE rs FOR DRUNKENNESS AMI
DISORDERLY CONDUCT.
For several years the West Concord w
G. T. U. consisted of two elderly invalid'
who persisted in sending their dues ant
thus maintaining the organization. They
now have 80 members. Blessed be grit.
The police commissioner of Kansas CITY
has attempted to administer a rebuke tt
persons making Unnecessary and uncallet
for protests against the issuance Of liquor
licenses" The tools of the saloons will
try to disfranchise us next.
Iowa Good Templars this year resolve
that 1--WE will, as Good Templars, by oul
votes and political affiliations, support sucl
political parties as will embody in law thu
principles Of our order to blot out the 1ega
saloon, asd TINS lift up the fallen an.
save others from falling.'"
The New York Grand Lodge says: 1--WE
recommend that all consistent temperance
men seek utilization with political organ
ization which represents the high mora
and political principles which they, az
temperance men, have assumed
According to the New York Sun forty
thousand women in that city are com
PEELED to accept charity because of the
drink curse. The people of that city aver
age 100000 a day paid into the saloons fol
liquor. Poverty and crime follow in the
wake Of the saloon.
The landlord of a saloonkeeper in Chica
go succeeded in vacating the lease, on thu
ground that liquor was sold on Sunda,
contrary to the statute. An appeal from
the magistrate of the court of common
pleas confirmed the decision.
The Royal License Commission appoint
ed by Parliament has concluded it's work
About 26O witnesses were examined and IL
meetings wer held. The commission wal
appointed for the purpose Of investigating
the liquor traffic. It's report is expected il
October.
Mrs. U. F. Brunn has held thirty-thre,
AA2SSeAAASS L,
organized five new Scandinavian unions
She spent August in North Dakota ane
gives this month to South Dakota, wher
her work will be under the auspices of tn,
state Equal Suffrage Association.
Mrs. x. Jones writes the Union Sig
nal, from Chattanooga: "We only wis]
that the whole nation could realize as W,
women here do, how much of the sickness
in camp and the neglect of sanitary meas
ures and lack of care for the sick is du'
to the intemperance of both soldiers ant
officials in charge. The press freely crit
icises the gross neglect of duty but fails tt
mention the almost universal cause
Sweden contains $1,000 Good Templars
10000 Blue Ribboners, 10000 Templars ant
$4,000 National Good Templars There ar,
also smaller organizations. To these W,
can add the members of the Free Church
of Sweden, who, as a rule, all work fo
the promotion Of the temperance cause
''That the Swedish temperance army to
day numbers in round estimation half
million people is CERTAIN" says a late re
port.
The recent brilliant English victory OF
the Atbara was won by a force composed
exclusively of total abstainers. Fo
months Sir Herbert Kitchner has denie,
all liquors to his troops, with the result
that, in one of the deadliest Of climates
no army has ever had so little sickness
been in such magnificent physical ant
moral training, or won hard-fought battles
after forced marches of such extraordinar,
character.