Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1899-02-01
PROGRESS OF THE MOVEMENT.

National Chairman Dickie is at work in the
South this month.
The Ohio prohibition convention meets at
Delaware on Washington's birthday.
Miss Jessie Alderman, the w. c. T. u.
round the-world missionary, is licensed Bap-
fist preacher.
Chicago prohibitionists gave a reception to
Frank S. Regain the prohibition member OF
the legislature.
Chairman Dickie, of the national commit
tee, asks for pledges for the current year.
Address him at Albion, Mich.
Send to Mrs. Mary G. Greene Window, for
a copy of the new medal contest clrculai.
Don't forget to enclose stamp.
illinois, Secretary A. e. Wilson and the
Meneley trio are attending them.
John G. Woolley declares that almost the
whole body of general secretaries OF the 4.
M. C. A. are prohibition voters.
Mrs. w. T. Rich, president of the Hamline
w. C. T. u, is editor of the Interurpan' the
local weekly published at that suburb
The Illinois state central committee OF the
prohibition party reports more ana ldfgei
pledges for the work this year than ever be-
fore.
Rev. w. F. Crafts says that personal pro-
tests to newsdealers against the sale OF op-
scene literature usually accomplish the ue-
sired result
Michigan prohibitionists meet at Jackson
March l. to nominate candidates for Justlces
of the supreme court and members OF the
board of regents.
Mr.. c. E. Rumsey of Chicago, treasurer OF
the National Biscuit company, has donatso
$500 to the National w. G. T. U. His wife
and mother are white ribboners.
The Minnesota supreme court has de.
cded that it is not necessary IN Inc case Il ot
10 TT
the purchase was for his own use.
The fate of the Alaska high license bill is
now with the United States senate. FRIENDS
of prohibition are urged to write their sen
ators asking further trial of prohibition.
Mrs. Smith, of Springfield, ILL.,, has given
up her Saturdays for three or four years to
gratuitously drill all school children VINO
would take part in w. G. T. U. contests.
Rev. w. Copp, one of the veterans Of our
cause has returned from trip to Indiana,
having made the round trip by private con-
veyance
Rocks and money are solicited for the Hal
lock Memorial Library and Reading Room az
Sioux City, Iowa, where the martyr iosI c us
life. Address Rev. S. P. Marsh, Sioux CITY.
The recommendation Of Coy; Roosevelt IN
his inaugural address that tine sphere II
which the suffrage can be exercised by WON,
en- be gradually extended has called out
much discussion.
Lincoln's first printed composition. written
when mere boy, was vigorous dsnunc ia =
tion of the evils of intemperance among the
settlers on the frontier, and from that time
he was a total abstainer.
Mayor Gray. of Minneapolis, has raided a
gambling den, ordered the saloons closed at
midnight and has forbidden the sale OF liquor
at dances D eputations are waiting upon MIN
to urge Sunday closing.
Prof. PEBBLES, principal of the Minneapolis
Academy, one of the most favoraply known
schools of it's class in this state, offers the use
of the magnificent stone building, Wnlcn Is
the home Of his school, for prohibition meet
ings.
The Union Signal of Jan. 26 contains an
excellent programme and helpful suggestions
for press meeting. 1t is advised that the
decorations consist of the local newspaper,
telegraph blanks, pencils, shears, ink bottles,
paste pots, etc.
GLOW the Liquor Traffic Injuries the Farm
err was the topic of number OF prize es-
says at the Mclean county farmers Suns nstt 1,an
under twenty-five years of age living on
farm in the county.
The New Voice is in receipt of communi-
cations mot intended for it, however, from
the leading brewers OF the country, ind1cat-
ing their purpose to capture Cuba and Porto
Rico for the beer trade. The saloon is ex-
J panding under Uncle Sans protection.
Fifty-three of the leading residents of Hon
oIulu, business and professional men, native
Hawaians, Americans and Portuguese, have
petitioned congress to prohibit the imporfa a.
ton, manufacture and sale or intoxicating
liquors, gaming and the importation and sale
of opium.
Close investigation hs proving to the kaiser
that the German beer-drinking soldier has
only 80 or IS per cent Of the endurance OF
the total abstainer, and his economists are
calling attention to the bad effects that in
creasing drink habits are having upon German
industries.
It is rumored that the National Liquor
League will for the next two years support
the four saloonkeepers of Akron, Ohio, Gin
order to give the people Of Akron and other
cities an object lesson of the sufferings which
will be entailed on municipalities by the
o1o Of MI We fho