Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1901-07-01

alcoholic stimulants of which so per cent.
is for beer, 80 per cent. for whisky and 4
per cent. for wines.
In ST Johns, Kansas, a saloon keeper
has been convicted on 40 counts of selling
whisky in violation of the prohibitory law,
and fined $4,000 and sentenced to 40
months in Jail. If he cannot pay his fine
he will, under the same law, have to serve
it out in Jail at the rate of so cents a day.
Charles Steinbrink knows now whether a
prohibitory law prohibits.
1t would be like a cold breeze from the
ocean if during these hot days we should
receive letters from a hundred or a thous-
and of our readers. Tell us what you are
doing or planning to do in your neighbor-
hood for our cause, what you are thinking
about these days. and what you are thinking
about it, what you would like to have us do
and how you would like to have us do it.
Write us.
B. B. Haugan our late candidate for gov
ernor, will attend the National Conference
at Buffalo, filling some engagements in
Michigan and other states en- route. After
the Buffalo Conference he will make a tour
of the East He has been appointed one
of the five representatives of the Prohibit
ton party at the Conference arranged by
the National Temperance Society to be held
in Buffalo Aug and 6.
The governor and attorney general Of
South Carolina have entered proceedings be-
fore the commissioner of internal revenue
to test the question whether the state can
be legally required to take out special tax
stamps as wholesale and retail liquor deal
ers, under their state dspensary laws, and
has made a demand upon the commission
ers for a refund of all such taxes hitherto
paid, amounting to $4,916. While this sum
is not large, it is realized that the principle
at issue is great and far-reaching in i'm
portance.
The supreme court has decided that sa-
loon keepers cannot be prosecuted success
fully on their bonds for violation of the
liquor laws except where actual damages
can be proven. This applies also to other
violations of the liquor laws, so that vio-
lations of the Sunday law, of the hours of
closing, and all other regulations of the
liquor traffic against which the saloon keep
ers' bond is given are Of little consequence,
since it would be practically impossible to
prove actual damages, unless the circum-
stances were very peculiar
The current number of the W. C. T.
u Messenger, of Colorado, contains near
ly two columns of canteen matter from
Backbone and an exhortation by the
State President to secure the publication
of these articles in all papers within
the reach of the Messenger readers. -. :.
w. NJ Wigham, who formerly pub
lished the Prohibition Advocate in Min
nesota, has connected himself with the
New Herald, of Sioux Falls, S. D., the state
organ of the Prohibition party: The pa
per has taken on new life. Its editors show
they know where to get the news by using
Backbone's account Of the Rosenfield muir
ders and suicide and considerable other
matter, for which they give due credit.
The Canadian Royal Templar also draws on
us literally, failing to give credit, however,
for one of our editorials. We don't lay
this to heart. 1t gives us an opportunity
to say that the most honest editor will
sometimes unintentionally use an article
without giving due credit. Sometimes, in
deed, the article has been separated from
the name OF the paper in which it appeared.