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Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1901-04-01
PITH OF THE PRESS.

Iowa Commonwealth: High license will
not elevate a low business.
NJ. Gazette: If drunkenness is dis
ease, why not quarantine the saloon?
Herald and Presbyter: A "doggery'' or
whisky den" is as reputable as wine
shop or a ''gin-palace.' =. 80
Free Baptist Wanted-Voters who will
neither sell their ballots nor throw them
away" in voting for party instead Of prin-
ciple.
Fulcrum Kansas): The only way to
close the joints and keep them closed is to
put the joint keepers behind the bars and
keep them there. 4
Wis. Christian Advocate: If there was
no one in front of the bar, would there be
anyone behind 1T? II there was NO. one be-.
hind it. would there be anyone in front Of
it?
American Friend: The saloon is incom-
parably worse and more inhuman than ever
was American slavery at it's worst. There
is no single thing on the globe which sums
up into itself so much unmitigated evil.
Cornerstone: Think Of it! In this land Of
boosted Christian civilization, Mrs. Carrie
Nation in a Kansas prison cell for smash
ing an outlawed nuisance andsthe men who
Systematically and persistently violate the
law enjoying their freedom. The saloon
smasher goes to jail, the home-smasher is
free.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1901-04-01
SALOON TACTICS.

The Cleveland (Ohio) branch Of the
Royal Arch, a society composed of sa-
loonkeepers and their friends, used it's
influence in the recent campaign to Sc
cure the nomination of both a Repub-
lican and Democratic candidate for
mayor who should be satisfactory to
saloonists. Whichever way the election
turned, they would then have friend
at court. This is only what the
knights of the white apron are doing
on larger scale throughout the entire
country, dividing their strength be-
tween the two great parties, closing the
mouth and paralyzing the endeavor of
both so far as opposition to the liquor
traffic is concerned. It is good poll
tics, too. The wonder is. that shrewd
enemies of the saloon, by the millions,
help them play their game by getting
on one end or the other of their poliu-
cal teeter-board.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1901-04-01
CONCERNING RENEWALS.

! Once quarter we enclose bill in each
paper sent to those subscribers whose re-
newal is due or past due. We stated this
fact last month and requested such sub
May number which, we said. would again
enclose bills. Quite a number have grant
ed our request, for which we are heartily
thankful. Very soon after this (ApriD is
sue is in the mails we shall begin to get
out the bills for insertion in the May num-
who are still In arrears to let us have their
renewals promptly on receipt Of this num-
Der. The time and money devoted to call
ing their attention to the matter should be
otherwise expended. Of course you have
again and again intended to remit. but al
lowing other matters to claim your atten,
ton first. this has been overlooked and
finally forgotten. Although the amount in-
volved is not large, the total is great
enough to greatly help or embarrass us.
The matter is one of no slight Importance
since it concerns the progress of our move
ment in this section. We are fighting your
fight. The odds against us are tremendous.
Surely you are not willing to entail un-
necessary trouble and expense upon us.
As subscriptions are due in advance, we
make out our bills for the ensuing as well
as for the past year. If you desire to stop
your paper, reckon the amount due us at
two cents per r, copy from your last -. e !:
you owe us fifty cents to July, 1901 and
you desire to have your paper stopped at
once, send us twenty-five cents for the year
July, 1899, to July, 1900, and two cents per
month since, eighteen cents, or forty three
cents in all
If you desire to save us time, trouble and
expense and do not know whether you owe
us or not, send US any amount you can
spare and it will be credited to your ac-
count
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1901-04-01

city hall with a red-hot stove They
have both been tried and neither is
above suspicion
The state saloon organ is welcome
to the use of the article containing
Lincoln's defense of saloon smashing
women in Clinton, Ill, in 1889. If It
uses the article it will probably state,
with it's usual truthfulness, that Lin
coin is merely a myth devised by the
cranky Prohibitiopists and other re-
formers for the purpose of bolstering
up their freaky isms.
Archbishop Keene recently told
Dubuque audience that when Bishop
of Richmond he was approached by
three negroes, one of whom inquired
why, if the Catholic was the true re-
ligion, so many Catholics sold liquor
to make negroes drunk? The Bishop
said he; had yet to hear that question
successfully answered. A good many
such questions on the various phases
of this issue are going unanswered
these days.
Whatever may be thought of the
wisdom or otherwise of the Nation
raid, no one has right to criticise
it who is not honestly seeking bet
ter method of destroying the saloon
and bravely attempting to put that
method into operation. It will be no
ticed that most of those who are SO
free to criticise this, that and the
other method of opposing the saloon
are not, as rule, lying awake o'nights
to find out better way.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1901-04-01
EDITORIAL.

In Kansas the very stones cry out
against the saloon. -
The car (rie) nation is flower often
mentioned this year.
The Boston saloon account for last
year was $21,00O,00O. Not much of an
issue, is it?
The Prohibition party will bury the
legalized saloon and the blind pig in
the same grave.
Prohibition is the egg of saloon
suppression. Mrs. Nation and her
followers are trying to hatch it.
The dispensary proposition is fake,
really leaving it in all it's essential
features and giving it, at least in ap-
pearance, more governmental backing
than it now enjoys.
If the Prohibition issue isn't large
enough to build a party upon, it
doesn't amount to enough to bother
God about, has no place in church
resolutions and ought not to be men
toned in the prayer meeting.
If they only knew it, some people
who are very conservative in their
conduct regarding the saloon, have in
them the material out of which very
ardent and useful Prohibitionists are
made. They have only to stir up their
hearts and let their consciences work.
D. Speaking Of the Republican and
Democratic officials, the Chicago
Times-Herald said last month: 80
ofar as the two party gangs are concern
I'd, neither can be trusted alone In the
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but

for the Prohibition candidate, but
what good could come Of that?'
A vote for Woolley meant-a vote
for Woolley and no one else, but even
from your standpoint you are badly
off when you say that every vote
for Prohibition means one more for
Bryan. It may be true cit certainly
was in 1886 that in the East McKin-
ley would have been the second choice
of majority of Prohibitionists. But
Bryan stood equally well with the
Prohibitionists of the West. Nothing
shows more clearly that the great
body of the enemies of the saloon
are throwing away their votes" by
voting with the old parties than the
fact that these saloon haters now
divide their votes about equally be-
tween those parties. BY remaining
in them they postpone the settlement
of the liquor issue and contribute alb
solutely nothing toward the settle
ment of the other so-called issues,
since they vote against each other.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1901-04-01
BRIEF AND BRAINY.

There is only one way to get public
opinion and that is at the polls.-May-
or of Greater New York
ga risen Lord means a buried sa-
loon. "A wall motto at a Rochester,
N. Y, prohibition meeting.
Tell the Prohibitionists of Indiana
that the best way for them to smash is
with their votes. If could cast vote
I wouldn't WELD a hatchet.-Mrs. Ma
ton.
The weakness of the church in the
temperance reform today is, I think,
mainly owing to the fact that so many
Of our good Christian men are pulled
all out Of shape trying to ride prohibit
ton religion and license politics at the
same time-John G.. Woolley.
The worst lawlessness we have ever
experienced in connection with the vio-
lation of our prohibitory law does not
begin to compare in seriousness with
the lawlessness to be found in thou
sands OF. towns where the saloon is q
licensed institution Rev Chas. M.
Sheldon.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1901-04-01

The man who says that Prohibition
is the greatest political question be-
fore the people and yet votes with a
license party throws away his vote.
Every ballot cast for needed reform
counts in bringing that reform to the
front. To settle the liquor issue
rightly, when once the people have di-
vided politically upon it, will be a
comparatively easy matter. Our pres
emit duty is to bring the issue to the
front and every ballot cast for the
Prohibition party counts toward that
end.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1901-04-01

Those who blow their money into
nickel-in-the-slot machines are pleased
at the deep interest which the proprie-
tor Of the place manifests in the
game. Patrons of the saloon speak of
this, that and the other saloonkeeper
as such a jolly good fellow. Bishops,
preachers and editors sound the
praises of Presidents and other poll
ticians who invite them to stretch
thedrs legs under their tables They
are so hospitable and so very affable.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1901-04-01
TIT FOR TAT.

To take your support from the best
man for whom there is a fair prospect
Of election and cast it for another who
cannot by any possibility be elected, is
to weaken the cause of organic right
eousness and help elect an unworthy
candidate.-State Issue, organ South
Dakota Anti-Saloon League.
ITO take your support from the best
man" in the field and cast your ballot
for an unworthy" candidate, simply
because he is less unworthy" than
some other candidate, is to help to
make permanent condition in which
a thoroughly worthy candidate "can-
not by any possibility be elected" and
to weaken the cause of organic right
eousness."
We would have supported the tenn
perance candidate, Woolley, but what
good could come from that? In our
minds every vote for prohibition
means one more for Bryan, and we
don't think much of the Democratic
party ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Advocate,
Plymouth, Mass.
Your argument would have kept the
opponents of slavery in the old par
ties. But they went out-a majority
of them from the better of the two
parties -compelled the nation to line
up on the issue of slavery and thus
nightly fastened the death of that
relic of barbarism.
The vote which you could have cast
for Woolley, or the dozen or hundred
which you could have won for him,
would have brought us that much
nearer the day when no enemy of the
saloon shall say, ri would have voted
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The address Of W. 6. caidsrwood, Secretary Of the
State Prohibition Committee is 322 Hennepin Ave-,
M!nneapoiis, n. W. Telephone Co., Main, 33l2.Li;
Miss. Valley CO.. 1914.
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lssued Monthly by the State Prohibitiou
Committee.
GEO. r. WELLS, Editor and rlanager.
Price As Cents in Advance.

Five Copies, $1.00 Twenty Copies. $500
Twelve Copies, ~ 90. Thirty-fve Copies, g. 90
To the same or different addresses.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-17
FATHER BREAKS DAUGHTERS
WEDDING ENGAGEMENT

The engagement of Mr.. Rumsey and
my daughter Grace is terminated,
the gentleman not proving satisfac-
tory to me. w. l.. Nandeventer."
This formal statement in the news
papers of Quincy threw society into
a fiutter. The marriage of III. Walton
Rumsey of Chicago, and Miss Grace,
daughter of Judge Handkerchief, was
announced to take place Dec. 81. The
young people met at the Chicago Arr
Institute, where Miss Grace was a
pupil. They fell in love and became
engaged after a short acquaintance.
Recently Rumsey visited Quincy and
his conduct while in the city is said
to have been the cause of the rup-
ture between the father and himself.
Judge Nandeventer said the young
mans representations as to his social
and financial standing were perfectly
satisfactory. 1t is understood the
groom has gone TO California.
Rumsey is said to be a Harvard
graduate, - years old, of excellent
connections and wealthy. Miss Grace
is the daughter of Judge Handkerchief
candidate before the democratic pri-
maries for supreme judge from the
Quincy district. She is Is.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-17

Remember the nerves traverse the
entire body, and when they are out
of order. convey their trouble to
some one or more parts. No living
being can tell just where the nerves
will deposit the trouble. but it is
certain they will place il somewhere
in one or more organs.
In some cases disease is slowly
built up, for instance. in the kidneys
or in the brain, or perhaps in the
bowels, and does not make any vio-
lent show for weeks or months, but
it is being piled in slowly and surely
so that when enough diseased cells
are built to make a showing, the
trouble is so far gone that many
times it is impossible to recover.
The only safe pathway for anyone
who cares for health is to throw out
the poisonous drug coffee as soon as
you find some evidence of incipient
disease, shown by aches or ails, or
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-17
First suhmarine cable

Which was made from an ordinary
wire insulated with gutta percha,
was laid across the English channel
about fifty years ago. 1t was also
about this same time that Host
etter's Stomach Bitters, the world
renowned dyspepsia cure, was first
introduced to the public; and its
success as family medicine during
those years almost eclipses that of
the submarine cable, while to-day ii
stands alone as the one reliable re-
medy for dyspepsia. indigestion,
flatulency. constipation. biliousness,
nervousness or insomnia. If you are
a sufferer from these diseases. it is
because YOU have never tried the
Bitters. Try it at once, if you would
be well. 1t will strengthen your en-
tire system, and produce sound sleep,
and good health must naturally
follow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-17
DR.. UDDEN is HoNORED
BY KANSAS SOCIETY

DIR. j. a. Udden, of Augustana col
lege has just been honored by cleo
ton to honorary membership i'm the
State Historical society of Kansas, a
society recently formed. The recog-
milton comes on account of DIR. I'd
denis valuable work in connection
with the early Indian history of the
state of Kansas. Two years ago he
published Il book on Indian mounds,
the scene of the Investigations de-
scribed being near Lynchburg, Kas.
DIR. Udden has also written mdny
pamphlets about his Investigations
and discoveries while in Kansas.
Some of his specimens are now in the
Academy of Science in Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-17

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarah that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure.
f. NJ. Cheney d Co, Props, Toledo,
Ohio.
We the undersigned, have known
f. NJ. Cheney for the last II years
and believe him to be perfectly
honorablein all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by the firm.
West &TruaX, wholesale druggists.
Toledo. o. Walding, Kinnan & Mar
win. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system.
Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists. Testimonials free.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-17

How Are Your Kidneysg
Dr. Hobbs sparagus Pills cure ell kidney ills. Sam
pie free. Add. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or MY
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-17
Saw Death Near.

at often made my heart ache"
writes L. C. Overstreet, of Elgin.
Tenn, to hear my wife cough until
it seemed her weak and sore lungs
would collapse. Good doctors said
she was so far gone with consump-
ton that no medicine or earthly help
could save her, but a friend recon-
mended DIR. Kings New Discovery
and persistent use of this excellent
medicine saved her life" It's 'abso-
lutely guaranteed for coughs, colds,
bronchitis, asthma and all throat and
lung diseases. soc and $1.00 at Hartz
g. Ullemeyer's. Trial bottles free.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-17
Is Coffee Slowly
Killing You?

uncomfortable feelings anywhere in
the body.
Highly organized people are dis
tinctly poisoned by coffee, and think
it hard to give up the drug (for it is
a drug habit. 1t is really no task
whatever to rid ones self of coffee:
if one will take on Postum Food Cof-
fee. the result of the change will be
so pleasing in point of good, healthy.
comfortable feeling. that one is well
repaid, particularly when there is no
self denial, for the taste of Postum
Food Coffee is SO clearly marked and
delicious when it is properly pre-
pared (and that is easy, that the
change from the old coffee is not
noticeable.,
Stop disease when il is small and
you are able to stop it. If you al
low it to grow it will master you.
Postum Food Coffee offers Il pleas
ant and sure way to conquer and be
well.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-17
Advertised Letter List No. 40.

List of letters uncalled for at the
postoffice at Rock Island for the
week ending Dec. II. 1901.
5. Bouman. j. \. Curtis, Ella Diggs,
Mrs. NJ. l.. Frick, Mrs. George Koch,
John Kelly, Otto Otteson, Gus. Over
ton. Tillie Schultz, Alta Smith, II. l..
Smith. Amanda Samuelson, Anna
StoeclIn, Mrs. \. Webster.
When calling for advertised letters
please give the number of the list.
THOMAS ii. THOMAS, p. NJ.
Rock Island, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-17
KoRAK WONDERS
Are Pleasing the People With Their Per-
forInances-

DIR. Rucker, the king of medicine
men, and his fine company of enter
tanners. are still doing big business
at Harper'S theatre. This evening the
company will present East Lynne.
Tomorrow afternoon there is to be Il
matinee for ladies only.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-17

Puts light in the eye. tints the
checks with natures verInilion. loOs-
ems the tension of life, brushes cob
webs from your brain. That's what
Rocky Mountain Tea does. 50 cents.
+. III. Thomas, druggist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-17
Saws He Was Tortured.

81 suffered such pain from corns
could hardly walk" writes II. Robin
son, Hillsborough, Ills, but Buck
lens Arnica Salve completely cured
them" Acts like magic on sprains,
bruises, cuts, sores, scalds, burns,
boiIs, ulcers. Perfect healer of skin
diseases and piles. Cure guaranteed
by Hartz & Ullemeyer. 25c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-17
NOTES OF RAILROADS

Directors of the Chicago. BurIing.
ton d Quincy Railway company.
which has leased the Chicago. Bur
lington & Quincy railroad, met YES
terday in New York and elected the
following officers:
President-George b. Harris.
Vice PRESIDENT. c. Peasley.
Secretary and assistant treasurer
II. f. Jarvis.
Assistant secretary and assistant
treasurer-T. S. Rowland.
Assistant treasurer-A. G. Stan
wood.
Assistant secretary-George H.
Earl.
Darius Miller is also in charge of
traffic.
William Il. Leeds. it appears, in
tends To make Chicago his home for
at least part of every year in order
that he may devote much time to the
management of the Rock Island road,
of which he has just been elected
president. Mr.. Leeds has leased Il
house. in Chicago and will move there
after Jan. l, when he Will assume the
executive Office of the road. 1t is
said on authority that no sweeping
changes will follow Mr.. Leeds as
sumption of the new office.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-17
To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
let's. All druggists refund the money
if it fails to cure. +. w. Groves
signature is on each box. csc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-17

A lazy liver makes a lazy man.
Burdock Blood Bitters is the natural
never-failing remedy for lazy liver.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-06-15

WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT.-There Is
no reason why we people on this side
of the line should get excited and lose
our heads over the rumpus between
McLaurin and Tillman and the COVER
nor of South Carolina.
Still, it is plain enough that the is
sues raised by these men will divide the
Democratic camp in every Southern
state. They will press us for solution,
and they will have to be settled.
Some of us are students of history.
We have not forgotten that the Demo-
cratic party represents the people, and
the people want just what their chang
ing conditions demand. If a protective
tariff, ship subsidies, an isthmian canal
and the disfranchisement of blacks, il
literates and raupers will start this
region on the high road to industrial
and commercial prosperity, then many
of us are ready for the change. In
times past the Democratic party has
favored all of these things, and why
not now?
There will be no more trouble about
the currency. Even the most ignorant
and stupid wage-earner will not run
the risk of industrial paralysis and
panic lasting for years in order to try
the experiment of unsettling the imam
cial policy of the civilized world.-Ws.-
lace P. Reed in Augusta Chronicle.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-06-15

reports indicate that much heavier
rains have fallen in the past, and the
volume of water was carried off with
out injurious consequence. The whole
secret Of the bad effect and extent Of
the flood lies in the deforestration in
the western part Of the state. Along
the Linville river and in all parts Of
Western Carolina, the country is being
stripped Of trees, and this is followed
by the forest fires which sweep away
all vegetation or underground. When
the rains fall on such land there Is
nothing to retard the current Of the
water. With great force it strikes the
river; the velocity Of the Catawba is
increased by the mad violence Of the
water, and the current develops Won
derful and dangerous power. Every
man who lives by the river, said Mr..
Myers says, without hesitation, that
tirely responsible for the serious flood. !
I'm the future" said he "the land
along the Catawba will be more at the
mercy Of the river. The last freshet
tore off vegetation along the banks,
made new channels or cutoffs, and
broke through all the elbows Of the
river. So the farm land is much more
unprotected than formerly, and it is in
the power of a comparatively small
freshet to do vast njury.-Gastonia
N. c., News.