Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1901-11-01
VERTEBRATE.

land) Is total abstainer.
Count Leo Tolstoi, Jr., is an enthusiastic
teetotaer ard blue ribboner.
Prince Edwards Island came under total
prohibition control on June 5.
An official report says there are now 956
licensed saloons in Manila. Shame on us!
Pomona College, Cal, offered two cash
prizes this year for the best temperance
orations
Ohio Prohibitionists observed Sept. IA as
Work Day in the interest of our papers
and funds.
The managers of the st. Louis exposi-
ton announce that there will be no Mid
way at that fair.
New York's county chairmen will meet
in state conference Dec. 10. The state
committee will pay their expenses.
Saloon advertisements will no longer ap-
pear in the Amalgamated Journal, repre-
senting the iron, steel and tin workers.
j. E. Clayton, state chairman of Wis
consin spent recent Sunday in the Twin
Cities. He expects great things to hap
pen before 1904.
President Roosevelt is a woman suf
fragist. In his message to the New York
legislature he recommended the granting
of suffrage to women.
Mendenhall, Florist, lost over $4,000
panes of glass in recent storm. This
gives some little idea Of the extent of his
greenhouse. See his ad.
The Union Traction company, which
controls all the street railways of Phila-
delphia and has a capital of $50, 100000,
prevents the issuance of licenses to sa-
looms near its barns.
Judge Orr Of the municipal court re-
Gently addressed the St. Paul Methodist
Ministers meeting. He said that S5 per
cent of the criminal cases which came be-
fore him are due to drink.
The managers of the South Carolina
dispensary will establish eight dispensaries
on the grounds Of the Charleston exposi-
ton next year. This is the system which
was to restrict liquor selling and lessen
the temptations to drink!
The board of trustees Of the Minnesota
Soldiers home is not likely to establish
canteen at the institution, although the
trustees Of the National Soldiers homes re-
teens at the national homes.
The great convention Of the Christian or
Disciples church. which met last month In
Minneapolis, unanimously adopted resolu-
ton commending the anti-canteen law and
denouncing the methods adopted by the en-
emies of the measure to secure it's repeal.
Rev. B. B. Haugan is arranging for a
series of triangular debates in five Mime
sofa cities in January. National Chair
man Stewart will represent the Prohibition
lists and J. Adam Bede the Republicans.
The Democratic champion has not yet been
named.
The Kansas supreme court has decided
that although drinking places In that state
are by statute common nuisances, this
fact does not justify their abatement with
out process of law. The opinion was rem
dered in the case against Balfe Stark, one
Of Mrs. Nations 'joint" smashers.
Bishop Hartzell, of the Methodist
church, thinks seventy-fve per cent Of the
decentralization of native Africans comes
from drunkenness. Morris. who has
travelled largely in Africa, estimates that
100000 of the savages go forth to die
every year as result Of the traffic."
The Pullman car Pacific" which bore
the remains of President Mckinley to Can
ton, was the one on which Mr.. Woolley
and his party campaigned last year. Just
a year to day from its start on it's ia
nous "Woolley Special" tour it bore the
remains of the assassinated president west
bound
We were about to mention the fact that
a certain state temperance organization
had distributed $4,000 pages of literature
during the past year. Then, realizing that
this would be less than $4,000 four page
leaflets, we dropped the item in the waste
basket We must all wake up on this
matter of literature if we hope to wake
up the nation regarding the saloon curse