Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1899-10-01

ers passed a resolution requesting delegates
to the general conference to use all of their
influence to maintain the declared position
of the church against the liquor traffic.
The Prohibitionists of Baltimore, Md,
have nominated full city ticket, headed
by Hon. Samuel D. Schmucker, candidate
for judge Of the court of appeals. Mr..
Schumacher is now a member of that court.
pledged $1.25 toward the increase of
your circulation to $1,000. I am pleased to
inclose double that amount, and will help
again when l can. I wish Backbone might
go into every home in the state.-J. w.
Hilliard, Northfield.
Rev. r. r. KEENAN,, editor of the Free
Baptist, subscribes himself, in a personal
note to this editor, "a Prohibitionist as is
a Prohibitionist." We knew it. His edi-
torials have a swing and a ring peculiar
to those who are license-party free.
The no-license position of Los Angeles,
Cal, is called the sanitary district. Good!
| 1t might also be called the righteous dis
trict, the prosperous district, the happy
home district, the backbone district. Pro.
hibition touches life at many points.
| MIS-. .. M. IL Try, Ill uSI duuIcSS al
the w. C. T. U. state convention, said that
Minnesota made the first organized effort
to carry the gospel to prisons and jails; Sc
cured the separation of men and women in
prisons and established the first free kin
dergarten.
| The local paper administered a scathins
rebuke to the rowdies who recently rotten
egged ]. w. Leedy, Prohibition organizer fol
the Third Congressional district of Mime
sofa, at Goodhue Mr.. Leedy is not easily
scared and will return to Goodhue at ar
early date.
Two men got drunk in saloon of New
York City, smashed the furniture and tried
to assault the bartender. The magistrate
before whom they were brought discharged
the prisoners, holding that as they had TIVE
drinks of whisky in the saloon they wer,
not to blame, and he wished they hat
broken more furniture.
The indianapolis Union, an organ Of tn
allied trade unions, has endorsed the prohi
bition candidate for mayor, Mr.. F. T. Nc
| Whirter. The Union says that it is no
on account of it's special advocacy of Pro
hibition, but because Mr.. McWhirter can b.
depended upon for honest law enforcement
while the position of the other candidate
upon the liquor business is that of an
archy.
The Prohibition Union of Christian Me-
is now conducting series of remarkabl
mass meetings in Rochester, N. Y. Thes
meetings have been addressed by such nc
ted orators as Col. John Sobieski, Presiden
]. w. Bashford, Of Delaware; Col. Georg
w. Balm, of Kentucky; Dr.. A. c. Dixon o
New York, and others. The meetings ar
well attended and have awakened an u1
usual interest in the local elections.
Francis Murphy recently addressed tn
Iowa Liquor Dealers Association at De
Moines. He told them that the ''misundel
standing that exists between liquor me
and temperance men was solely due to tn
temperance men. He urged the saloonkeeI
ers to sign the pledge, as a saloonkeepe
requires to be on the alert at all times
in order to save himself trouble and los
Of money" And a column more of thi
. kind of rot.
On September Sir Wilfred Lawson
leader of the temperance forces in Englan
and president of the United Kingdom A
lance, celebrated his 10th birthday. Nor
than half of these seventy years have bee
spent by Sir Wilfred as member of Pal
: lament, where he now ranks as one of tn
most foremost members. Thirty five year
ago he first introduced his permissive bi
into the House of Commons. From tina
day to this he has devoted the chief enel
gies of his life to the advocacy of the caus
so early espounsed.
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