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

meSOta, are now at WOFk Ill iowa.
The Ohio State Prohibition Committee
has nearly so college boys in the field.
Georgia will make the prohibition of the
liquor traffic the principal issue in the next
political campaign.
The New York Life Insurance Company
has wheeled into line and established a to-
tai abstinence department
Bishop Warne is trying to organize an
army temperance union in the Philippines
similar to that in the British army.
A. j. Pierce, Grand Forks, stamps Lets
all pulverize the rum power" upon his en-
velopes. Let's ALL do something like this.
Cuba now has, national W. C. T. U.
The membership is about evenly divided be-
tween Spanish and English speaking women.
Benz. F. Shoemaker, who is favorably
known to many in the state has entered
the Third Congressional district as organ
izer
We wish a hundred of our new subscrib
ers would drop us word on a postal how
their seeds and cinnamon vine bulbs are
doing.
1t is proposed to soon hold at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, a Prohibition me-
mortal service in honor of our fallen he
roes.
Hyde Park Chicago, is the largest munic
ipal territory under Prohibition in the q.
S. in proportion to population. 1t has
grown from 10000 in 1890 to $4,000.
The new Voice will run a special train
from Chicago to Buffalo July 80. Several
meetings will be held en- route in Indiana
NH
company the party.
The l. O.. G. 7. electoral superintendent
of Maine asks anyone knowing of any liquor
advertising of any kind in that state to
give him the facts He says it can be stop
ped under the law.
brewery agent working in Kansas is
authority for the statement that since Mrs.
Nation commenced her joint smashing one
hundred and forty towns and cities in Kan
sas have driven out the joints.
In New York State there are 1000 more
saloons than in all the fifteen states of the
South. In the Southern states there are
27OOO,O00 people, and 100000 of them
are living under absolute prohibition.
After reading this issue through for your
own pleasure, please look it over again
from the standpoint of an oldparty tenn
perance man. Is it not what he ought to
have? Will you not have it sent to him?
The city of Gothenburg, which originated
the Gothenburg plan, recently appointed
committee to find out why the convictions
for drunkenness have increased from thirty
one per 900 in 1895 to fifty-four per 1000
in 1899.
OH ~ +ho g
Prohibition League, is endeavoring to place
League speakers in the prayer meetings of
Buffalo n. Y, on the evening of July 81,
just preceding the National Prohibition
Conference.
Secretary Calderwood is at the Epworth
League Convention at San Francisco On
his return trip he will make number of
addresses in California, Oregon, Washing
ton and Montana under the direction Of
state committees.
Rev. J. r. Miller, pastor of the First NJ
r. Church. Manhattan, Kan, is the new
mayor of that place, and has made hot
fight against the joints. AS a result an at
tempt was recently made to blow up his
church with dynamite.
One who is in position to know says that
Backbone now probably stands third in
point of circulation among the temperance
and Prohibition papers of the land. This Is
fine, but not fine enough for Minnesota, the
grandest state in the Union.
The eighth annual convention of the
South Dakota Scandinavian Total Absti-
nence Association was held at the From
Lutheran church, near Webster, July 2, 3.
4, and the meeting was one of the best and
most enthusiastic in the history Of the as
ISOLATION.
The last year has witnessed a marked in
crease in the consumption Of alcoholic bev-
erages Out Of $1,22s, 675,925 expended for