Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1901-10-01
VERTEBRATE

Chairman Stewart wants some good pro
Aibition sor gs and poems for Alliance pro
grams.
The National Anti-Saloon League con-
vention will take place at Washington, D.
G., Dec. 3-5.
The brewers of the country are preparing
to strike for still further reduction of the
tax beer.
Chairman Stewart announces that 14O
Prohibition Alliances have been organized
In 27 states.
Over 200 Dallas, Tex, saloons were raid
ed on recent Sunday for violation of the
Sunday law.
Fine clubs of Backbone subscribers were
secured at the Minnesota and North Dako
ia W. c. T. U. conventions.
Mrs H. H. Paxton will next month sail
for the Philippines as the representative of
the National w. C. T. Z.
All press statements to the effect that
Mrs. Nation has expressed pleasure over the
death of the President are lies.
The dispensary system was conceived
and applied in South Carolina for the ex-
press purpose of preventing prohibition.
The Meneley Quartet are spending Octo
Der in Wisconsin. They will next make a
tour of South Dakota, lasting six weeks.
1t was announced at the recent South
Dakota convention of the w. C. T. U. that
500 new members had been secured during
the year.
Mr.. DUNCAN, Prohibition candidate for
mayor of Indianapolis, received 1856 votes.
+1o IN
for mayor last November.
Sunday, Nov. "a. will be observed the
world over as Temperance Day. Prohibi-
tionists should see that on that day litera-
ture is put into the hands of everyone with
In their reach.
What enlightened America for we'll nigh
thirty years has persistently refused to do
autocratic Russia has done, viz, appointed
q commission to inquire into the effects of
alcoholic liquors.
An auditorium for religious, educational
and prohibition gatherings was dedicated at
Stanton Va, this month. On the follow
Ing day a Prohibition conference was held
and an Alliance organized.
Newark anarchist has been sent to
1aiI for three months for declaring in
saloon frequented by Russians and Poles,
that President Mckinley ought to have
been shot, that Emma Goldman was the
queen of all women and proposing toast
to the health of Czolgosz.
Let it not be forgotten that the assassin
of President Mckinley was reared amid the
anarchistic associations of his fathers sa-
loon, which was the meeting place of this
organized band of human vipers in the city
of Cleveland and that he went from his
quarters in Buffalo saloon to strike down
the President.
Calling attention to the fact that a no
license election was recently lost at Sutton,
w. Va. because certain prominent mem
bers Of the church worked and voted for IL
cense, the Methodist Episcopal Times says
"We now advise that the pastors Of the
churches there go to work and rid their
churches Of all such unworthy members"
The United Brethren annual conference.
In session at Webster City. Ia. resolved
"that we will pray that God will prosper
all wisely directed efforts to overthrow the
legalized liquor traffic: and that in order
that our prayers may be answered we will
not support any person or political party
that does not declare positively against the
legalized liquor traffic"
National Chairman Stewart says: "There
was never more work done to the advau-
tage of the Prohibition party than during
the past two years. There Is no falling
back anywhere and some parts Of the ooun-
try are showing strong gains In the far
West we are gaining every day. Oregon is
stronghold The South is also developing
rapidly along Prohibition lines"