Backbone., 1901-09-01
VERTEBRATE.

cieties of England have inaugurated twen-
tieth century pledge signing crusade. 1t
Is hoped to secure million signatures.
Judge Scott, Of Brooklyn, Ia, lately
fined lot of Illicit liquor dealers one
thousand dollars each, with costs. The
bootleggers were dazed by that sort of
treatment.
1t was the American Medical Temperance
Association rather than the American Medi-
cal Association, as some Prohibition papers
are enormously saying, which repudiated
the pro-alcoholic doctrines of Prof Atwater.
To maintain the public schools of the
country costs every man, woman and child
little over 80, while it costs a little more
than SIS per capita to keep the country's
gin-mills running.
The Virginia Prohibition ticket is headed
by O. c. Ruckes He is member of the
NJ E. church, south, and an indefatigable
church and Sunday School worker. He is
the leading member of the Bedford county
bar.
Iowa teachers, assembled to the number
of 200 in state convention, have asked the
Legislature to prohibit the sale Of liquor
within five miles of any higher institution
of learning supported wholly OF parlm
the state.
Only 81 abstainers were convicted by
court martial last year in India as against
seventeen times that number of non-ab-
stainers, who were convicted. And yet
the abstainers were third of the whole
Indian army.
In few weeks the women of Norway
will be ready to take part in the local elec-
tiuns as full Hedged voters. Since 1895
they have exercised the right to vote
on questions concerning the local regula-
tion of the liquor traffic.
The New Voice serves notice upon the
canteen cabal in the War Department at
Washington that the present status of the
canteen question is new fight for the aboli-
tion of the infamous government saloon in
the National homes for Old Soldiers.
Keep it before the people that President
Schurmann Of the former Philippine COM
mission said that the spectacle of the
drinking habits of our soldiers in the
Philippines had done more to hinder the
work of evangelization than anything else.
On Labor Day was held the first annual
field day of the Total Abstinence Athletic
Association of Chicago. The Association is
an offshoot of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of Chicago. Next year there will be
a contest between total abstainers and non
abstainers
Marie C. Brenm, national w. C. 7. U.
superintendent of franchise desires sigma
lures of men and women who are of legal
age to the following declaration: 1--WE be-
lieve women should vote on equal terms
with men, Address her at 1414 Manhat-
tan Bldg, Chicago, Ill.
State Prohibition Superintendent Nichols
of Iowa says, 1.-The more am out among
the people the more hopeful l become"
This is the experience Of all our field
workers. Ten of the eleven ministers whom
he met in Jones county vote the Prohibition
ticket. This is about as it should be-not
quite.
The Gaesburg (Ill) Epworth League
district convention opposes the passage of
any further temperance resolutions, until
the voting church places herself at the
ballot box in harmony with the standard of
the Methodist discipline. The time for
resolutions is past the time for action has
come.''
The Dayton, O., canteen sold last year
$685. worth Of beer; Hampton, Va, $4S,-
4OS.15: Milwaukee, $3O,175; Tagus, Me-,
$4O,O6O.15: Fort Leavenworth, Kan, $685.
1915; Santa Monica, CAL, 14,71O-a to-
tai of $247,762.25 worth of beer sold in
the canteens attached to these refuge
homes of veteran soldiers. Shame!
Capt. Joseph G. Morrison, the soldier
preacher who served in the Cuban war as
captain of Co. II, 18th Minnesota Volun-
teers, has been engaged by the State Prohi
bition Committee. He is most effective
speaker and very popular. The Minneso-
to Total Abstinence Society (Scandinavian)