Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1899-09-01
pROGRESSOF THE MOVEMENT.

come before the national w. C. T. U. con-
venton.
Secretary w. G.. Calderwood gave one
of the course of six popular lectures ar
ranged by the Hopkins Epworth League.
The course netted $780,
The Iowa Commonwealth, of Des
Moines, says that the Republican state
convention brought a boom to the sa-
loon business in that city.
Superintendent Battey, of the Mime
sofa Anti-Saloon League, reports seventy
successful prosecutions of liquor law Of
tenders in the last one hundred days.
The Mora w. c. T. U. had digest of
the state liquor laws printed on a small
poster and posted copies over town and
personally furnished eacn saloonkeeper with
one.
Mrs. Alice Y. Bordwell, of Saltwater,
district president of the w. G. T. u, has
been appointed chief conductor Of the
national convention of the Woman's Re-
lief Corps in Philadelphia.
The federation of labor has issued a
notice to the several labor unions of
Massachusetts, urging support for bill LII,
which would prevent minors from being
employed in the LIQUOR traffic
One result of the throttling of Prohibi-
ton in Iowa by the Republican party is
the opening of a $4,000 saloon in Sioux
City, where Haddock suffered martyr
dom for the sake of this cause.
Bishop Tugwel1, of Lagos, West Africa,
arrested for asserting that Is per cent
of the deaths of Europeans on that coast
are due to excessive drinking, the queens
advocate having entered nolle prosequi.
The Kings county, New York, w. c. T.
u. is moving for a Willard fountain. 1t
is to be presented by the children of
Brooklyn, but they ask the aid of their
friends elsewhere in erecting fountain
worthy of the great name it is to bear.
The State Board Of Pardons has COM
muted the life sentence Of Jesse Neville
to 26 years. and at it's next meeting he will
probably be released on parole. The
ground of the action was that the murder OF
which he was convicted was committed
when he was drunk.
The Pennsylvania Grand Lodge of Good
Templars, refers indignantly to the
Griggs notification of the anti-canteen
law and further resolves: 'That we will
work and vote against any candidate for
public Office who upholds said action of
our government"
The names Of 100 persons per week have
been added to the list of contributors to
the Indiana state fund since the adop-
Jietri Of system
The state committee is now planning
series of county rallies or conferences
covering the whole state.
Bishop Michael Tierney, of Hartford,
president of the Catholic Total Absti-
hence Union of America, has issued an
appeal to the clergy Of the Catholic
church. urging them to continue their eff
forts to suppress the liquor traffic The
appeal asks that energy be displayed in
the war on liquor.
Landlord Doyle Of the Avenue House,
st. Johnsbury, VT, recently pleaded
guilty to IS offenses of liquor selling. AS
a result his fines and cost reached $519. OF
and in addition to This be was given 90
DAYS in the workhouse. prohibition
doesn't prohibit saloonkeepers from
getting their dues occasionally.
The Canadian parliament has shelved
prohibition. The great work done in car
rying the plebecite against such odds has
come to nothing. All the pressure the
prohibitionists throughout the country
could bring to bear on the government
and parliament has effected nothing. 1t
now remains for the enemies of the sa-
loon in Canada to show whether this
cause or the interests of the ruling par
ties are nearer to them.
The editor, accompanied by s. w.
Squire as soloist, completed on the yl.l
inst. three weeks tour of Fillmore and
Houston counties. Sixteen excellent