Backbone., 1899-03-01
PROGRESS OF FTHE MOVEMENT.

providing for the state control and sale
of all liquors.
About 700 Illinois workers have pledged
$500 to state work within two weeks.
The remarkable fact is that these pledges
were solicited by mail and have been re-
ceived in the mail. Probably in no other
state in the Union has this been equaled.
The cost of city government in New
York last year went up to III. 55s.SS32, but
the liquor and cigar bill reached S109, ,OCC,
900, or $32,O00,000 more. This S109,O9U,n 200
would have paid the highest wages to S0,-
900 men in factories, but it is all gone
for nothing.
Preceding the local election, the Bala-
ton Anti-Saloon League held temperance
congress, lasting eight days. Addresses
were made by neighboring ministers. A
good idea. Austin also held weeks
meetings in the armory, addressed by
A. c. Rankin.
The Vermont legislature has adjourned.
and in spite of triumphant assertions OF
the liquor men ut the time of it's meeting,
the prohibitory law is still upon the
statute books of the state, and the peo-
pie are more determined to support it
than ever before.
A Minneapolis policeman found Stella
Robinson, at 2 o'clock in the morning,
trying to kick in the door of a Second
avenue saloon, demanding drink She
was locked up on a charge of drunken
ness, and fought viciously when being
placed in the patrol wagon.
The prohibitionists of Greater New
York celebrated Washington's birthday,
as is their CUSTOM, with a most success
full conference, banquet and mass meet .
ing. From 2 until e o'clock in the after
noon the conference discussed practical
measures and developed no end of enthu-
siasm.
There are now liquor-selling joints,
run with the connivance of government
officials, under the Senate wing of the
capitol building at Washington, another
under the House wing, another in the
magnificent new congressional library
building and another in the national
museum
The W. C. 7. U. of Norway is now plac-
ing in the day schools, as far as possible
throughout the country, cards containing
striking truths about the effects on the
body of alcohol and tobacco. The govern
ment. in recognition of the excellent work
done by the w. c. T. u, made grant Of
800 krone for the further promotion of
the work.
Mrs. B. L. Scovell, state president of the
w. c. T. u, and A. w. Gutridge, Esq,
president of the ST. Paul Christian Tenn
perance federation, spoke at Plym-
outh Congregational church. st. Paul. ON
Sunday evening, the 18th inst. The meet
IL - ,D.s1r - H. l,o1I
by the Federation, which is union of all
the temperance and prohibition organiza-
tions of the city.
The editor of the Murdock Review
states in his paper that, as his resolves
and re-resolves are of no avail and as
he has not the 5000 necessary to take full
treatment at the Kelley institute, he will
prosecute to the full extent of the law any
person, whether friend or foe, who shall
hereafter sell, give or offer him any in
toxicating liquor.
Failing to obtain money to buy liquor
Mrs. Conroy, of Minneapolis, took what
few potatoes the family had stored in the
cellar for their domestic needs. These
she sold for few pennies and bought
whisky, and was locked up on charge
of drunkenness She is the mother Of
seven unhappy children. Her husband
works with section crew
Prof Leonard Stejneger, a United
States government expert, says that
whisky instead of being an antidote for
snake bites, according to the general be-
lief, is really an aggravation of the trou-
BILE, as it accelerates the circulation of
the blood, and hurries the poison through
the veins and arteries with greater rapid
ity than it would otherwise.
Bishop Potter denies that he has made
any defense of the saloon. His plea is
for something better, something whole
some harmless undefiled and undefiling