Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-09-01

show where you stand, introduce you
to your fellow workers and open many
a profitable conversation. Better yet,
send for supply and sell them to your
fellow Prohibitionists.
John G. Woolley, our candidate for
president, has just received a royal well
come and held some great meetings on
the Pacific Coast and en- route. He ar
rived in Chicago on the 18th and on the
18th started on the Prohibition special
train.
Swallow and Woolley, and Clark and
Sheldon having declined the nomination
of the United Christian party for presi-
dent and vice-president of the United
States, that party has named ]. F. r.
Leonard, of Iowa, and D. H. Martin, of
Pennsylvania.
In prohibition Maine, where it is said
Prohibition 'is no good,' there were last
year behind the prison bars 81 persons,
total of thirteen for every 10000 peo-
pie; while in Massachusetts,, the best en-
forced license law state, there were 7,451
prisoners, or thirty three for every TO-
| 600 of population.
Dr. S. c. Swallow says that thousands
who voted for Mckinley four years ago
| will this year vote for Woolley and Met
calf; first, because they are competent
| men, and, secondly, to record their pro-
| test against the militarism and liquor
favoritism which have characterized the
present administration.
| Jessie Alderman, round-the-world mis-
sionary of the w. G. T. u, says: ''The
| main street of Manila, which under the
| much denounced rule of the Spaniards,
| was quite a busy thoroughfare for all
| kinds of trade, is now dubbed Saloon AL
ley" Another ship load of Christian
| civilization CD is needed there.
Located in the heart of the wholesale
and retail district of Chicago is Hotel
Veley, headquarters of the Minnesota and
North and South Dakota delegations at
the national convention. Recently en-
larged, remodeled and refurnished
throughout. Rates, so cents to $3.50 per
day. First-class restaurant in connec-
| ton.
Backbone is one of the papers that
read through as soon as it comes to
| hand."-Samuel D. Hastings, Treasurer
Nat Prohibition Committee.
| "Hurrah for Backbone! hear very en-
couraging remarks about it everywhere
I Co.'s. w. Squire.
II like your nerve."-M. Dewitt Mar
tin, Redwood Falls.
Subscriptions to Backbone are payable
in advance. This is necessary because
we have not a dollar of capital, or rather,
our subscriptions are our capital. Most
of our subscribers pay cash for their
| %1,a ic in
the business for the money he can make
Surely they will be willing to do as well
by the publishers of Backbone, who put
back into the paper every dollar it
makes.
A prayer chain among women is under
way which pledges each signer to pray
daily that President Mckinley may be
succeeded by a total abstainer, man
who will not serve liquors at the White
House, and who will put away govern
mental temptation from our soldier boys
by enforcing the anti-canteen law. Mr.
Hanna fears 'the ladies have made a
mistake" and leading Republican papers
and politicians are ,ino doubt. ''whereg1ito
this thing may grow.sso .: -s::s::::'
Life lies in the blood, Strength lies in,
I the iron: Of the blood. Diseases oonsp!ne
Fthe iron; al feSef 8prns and destroys If.
The urine becomes red or brown from
iron which has been devitalized
and secreted from the body through
sickness and disease. Fifty doses
of H. w. Barker's Iron Compound
will supply all the iron needed for
three pounds of blood. 1t is the best
remedy known to medical science and
recommended by physicians. so cents at
drug stores or The H. w. Barker Medi-
cal Co., Elbow Lake, MINI.
The Worlds Temperance Congress, re-
Gently held in London, was the most rep
resentative temperance gathering ever as
| Semhled. In the nreyinls convention no