Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1899-09-01
Our last date was prohibition picnic at


Etna.
A prize of twenty-five dollars will be
awarded annually by the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union of Morgantown,
ILL.,, to the student who shall write the
best essay on an assigned subject relat-
ing to temperance reform. The subject
assigned for the year 189S-99 is: 1.-THE
Woman's Christian Temperance Union as
Factor in Social Reform The SUBJ
iect for the year 1s99-19OO: "The Passing
Of Alcohol"
AS result of the International Tenn
perance Congress, a w. G. T. U. of more
than 40 members has been organized in
Paris. Nearly 600 prominent women at
tended the first meeting. After lively
debate, total abstinence was made con-
dition of membership. Protestant and
Catholics are on the board of officers.
When the South Carolina dispensary
system went into effect there were in
in that state GLIB licensed barrooms, while
873 people were paying United States tax
as retail liquor dealers. Today the Ii
censed barrooms are gone, supposedly
replaced by 100 dispensaries, but 652 re-
tail liquor dealers pay the United States
tax, and Sin the streets of Charleston"
says the New Voice, zone sees scores of
barrooms as open and undisguised as on
the Bowery in New York"
triot, pioneer in Alaska, who has done
so much for the material and religious in
terests of that country, has incurred the
displeaSure of certain officials out there
because of his fearless showing up of
their delinquencies and the way that rum
runs riot. They have secured formal
presentation against him by the federal
grand jury. No one who knows DR.. Jack
son will for a moment doubt his triumph
ant vindication.
James G. Woodward, mayor of Atlanta,
threatened with impeachment for drunk
enness, explains that he had not drank
drop for twenty-three years until the
Presidents jubilee banquet, which took
place a few nights after his own election.
Seated at the big round table with the
rest, paying respect to each toast, with
Secretary Alger on one side and General
Shafter sitting in front of me, my enthu-
siasm got the better of my discretion.
But am sure that behaved myself as
well on that night as any other man who
was present"
Ex-Gov. J. D. Grant, of Colorado, con-
Refining company, says: Fifty per
cent of the checks paid to our employees
for years back have been cashed by sa-
loon men and the Cancelled checks will
show it. Over $250O,OOO of the concerns
money has been paid out over saloon bars
amid the fumes Of whisky and BEER
Recently in the City of st. Petersburg,
where drunkenness had become so alarm
ingly prevalent as to attract the attention
Of the government, the permits to sell
liquor were taken away from $4,000 saloon
keepers and 5000 places for retailing in
toxicants were established under control
of the state. In these new retail liquor
shops, the spirits are sold in small bot
ties, bearing government stamp, and
only one is permitted to be sold to per-
son in each shop. If such a proposed
purchaser shows the least sign of intoxi-
cation, he will not be supplied with a bot
tie of liquor at any of them.
Father George Zurcher, the famous
temperance priest of Buffalo, N. Y, was
recently assaulted and seriously injured
in the residence of another priest in that
city. The reverend father will not give
the name of his assailant, but it is be-
lieved to be the pastor of one of the
churches that have allowed beer to be
sold at their church picnics. It was
Father Zurcher's vigorous protests
against this abuse, as it is believed, that
led Bishop Quigley to order him to cease
his temperance work and withdraw from
the Catholic Total Abstinence Union.
Father Zurcher has obeyed, but the union
continues the protest.