Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-08-01
VERTEBRATE.
Louisiana is swinging into line.

Hale johnson has been elected mayor of
his city.
California Prohibitionists meet at Fres-
no on the '2Sth.
/. In '96 our vote in Oregon was 919; in
> 9S it was 2,219, and this year it is 1851.
The organization of Prohibition glee
n clubs seems to be the order of the day.
Contrary to general opinion, Great
Britain drinks more beer per caIita than
g Germany.
The national committee fund has now
!. reached the $4,000 mark. 1t ought to be
q pushed to $4,000.
% Judge Elliott. who was the chairman Of
s. the California delegation at the national
4 convention, is dead.
= A. E. Wilson, of Chicago, Illinois state
81 secretary, writes that the Satterlee Trio
q is O. K. So say we all.
6 Chas. E. Steele, of New Britain. heads
the Connecticut state ticket. The conven-
y ton took place at Hartford July u.
III Free Methodists and Prohibitionists
jointly arranged for big Prohibition rally
d at a Pennsylvania camp meeting on the
o Goth.
= At least one of the three persons guilty
IS Of the assault upon Edith Watson at
Kasota is a saloonkeeper and another is a
6 bartender
Those who know the conditions predict
. an increased Prohibition vote in Texas
The state convention will meet in Sep
y no n
e Stewart.
From anywhere in the state telephone
z. Secretary Calderwood by the N. w. COM
= pany, Main 3312-L1, or by the Miss. Val
e ley company, 1914. Stick this on the mir
ksror.
- We have greatly enjoyed "Col. John
= Sobieskfs Life Story and Personal Reminis-
Is cences," published by J. L. Douthit &
:" Son, Shelbyville, Ill. There is only one
E. Sobieski.
W We have the usual number of reports of
- robberies, wife beatings and murders on
Psaccount of the saloon, but they go into
n our waste basket on account of lack of
q space.
s If you want to be thoroughly posted
81 on the canteen question and beer expan-
q sion, send % cents to the National Tenn
/. perance Society. and West Eighteenth
= street, New York city.
The national convention of the Young
= Peoples Christian Union of the United
q Presbyterian Church, held at Denver, de-
= manded prohibition and condemned the
d notification of the anti-canteen law.
E. T. LIE Clair has returned to St. Paul
81 from the Rainy Lake region. He at
q tributes the recent trouble largely to
" liquor. Is there any place on earth where
the drink isn't cutting up some sort of
deviltry?
The Prohibition League of the Newark
p M. e. Conference has just held it's fourth
a annual summer rally It is composed of
a eighty Methodist ministers, who vote
= as the general conference resolves. May
:. their tribe increase.
- If the Republican party would declare
n for prohibition, it would lose the saloon
% vote, and temperance Democrats would
g no more unite with the Republicans than
e the Republicans would with the Demo
Gratis; therefore the party would die
e Searchight.
~ The New Voice notes that before the
~ campaign opened, and before it was known
that Mr.. Mckinley had assumed the re-
sponsbility of multiplying the anti-canteen
law, large number of papers condemned
the canteen in plain terms which now
defend it. This is politics.
1t was the meddling of the Christian
religion with politics that liberated 1000
600 Of slaves. And the meddling Of the
Christian religion with politics is the only
power earth that can overthrow the
rumpower. To keep the Christian religion
out of politics is to hasten the day when