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Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1902-10-01

The Indiana platform asserts that
license Of the liquor traffic by the
Republican and Democratic parties
increases the burden Of taxation to the
extent that for every dollar Of license and
revenue collected from liquor dealers, at
least ten dollars is expended in the care of
the product of the saloon, the equipment
and maintenance of jails, poor-houses po-
lice and in political corruption, whose bull
Wark is the saloon"
1t also declares for the abolition of
contract labor in the penitentiary.
The pennsylvania platform arrraigns
the Republican party for the repeal of
the prohibitory law of Alaska, and
'for the Introduction of the LIQUOR traffic
and it's concomitant evils into the Philip
pine Islands which are under it's absolute
control, by which the native races have
been degraded and the honor of ours as
Christian nation debased.
It declares that however we may diff
fer as to the wisdom Of the expansion of
territory, We are unalterably opposed to
expansion of the liquor traffic by the
importation of intoxicating liquors into
our new possessions, and we invite the
thousands of loyal citizens who in the past
have Intellectually petitioned the president
thus to exercise his authority, to join us
in more practical and effective protest
at the polls"
One plank reads:
While there are many other reforms in
which we are deeply interested, we deem
it wise to concentrate our efforts on the
issue therein defined, confidently believ-
ing that party coming into power on
thls issue will maintain a stable financial
policy, and sufficient and equitable sys-
tenn OF taxation, and will enact and en-
force just and efficient laws for the pro-
lection of all social commercial. indus
trial and political interests; and with this
in view, we invite the support Of all patri-
otto people,
The Kansas platform declares from
bitter experience that the dominant
parties will not grapple with the sa-
loon evil, and charges them with the
responsibility for not enforcing the
law in that state.
Several platforms contain burning
words about the extension Of the sa-
loon curse to our new territory. A
number assert that intelligence rath-
rer than sex should determine the right
OF suffrage. Others demand protec-
ton OF the rights Of workingmen and
The election OF United States senators
by direct vote of the people.
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BACKBONE.
WHY CHRISTIAN CITIZENS FAIL.

w. w. Buchanan is one Of the strong
est of the leaders of the prohibition
movement in Canada. His utterances,
although frequently on the political
phase of the question, are always from
the standpoint Of Christian citizen
ship and breathe firm faith in God
as the wise, righteous and powerful
ruler of the world. At the recent Do
minion convention, in the course of
his address, he said:
We are overcome of evil in politics be-
cause we are afraid that we cannot over
come evil with good. We do not save our
political lives because we are not willing
to lose them. We refuse to do right, be-
cause we cannot see how God is going to
make success of it. We trust Him for
the next world, but not for this. In poll
tics as well as in other realms, the divine
order is Calvary before Olivet The right
may suffer defeat again and again, but
the very defeat is necessary to produce
victory. Men who do not understand this
have missed the very essence of the phil
osophy of Christ. Ideas which are born
of God, which arouse moral passions, are
never overwhelmed; they thrive on perse-
cution, they are enthroned on crucifxion.
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TWO OF THE SAME KIND.
Republicans and Democrats Fighting Nothing Both
Bondage to the Saloon.

AcpuOA1cduS auu democrats are +.
Bondage to
The Republican and Democratic par
ties have adopted platforms, and it is
supposed to be because of their re-
spective positions upon the issues
therein discussed that one will next
month go to power, and the other into
mourning. Yet look at these plat
forms.
Both of them praise the party lead
ers, state and national, living and
dead. Both oppose the merger. Both
favor legislation and constitutional
amendments to equalize taxation, and
approve the proposed increase of the
gross earnings tax on railroads to
four per cent. Both congratulate Cuba
and favor reciprocity with her. Both
oppose the trusts and anarchy. The
Republican platform favors self-gov-
eminent for the Philippine islanders,
so far as practicable, while the Demo
cratic platform condemns Imperialism
and demands that the Republican par
ty shall declare for the independence
of the islands. The Republican plat
form, while commencing protection,
favors modification of the tariff.
The Democratic platform opposes spe-
cial privileges through the tariff and
otherwise. The Republican party con-
dennis those who resist United States
authority abroad or at home (the an
archistic liquor traffic is let beautifully
alone) and condemns attacks upon the
army and navy. It favors the gold
standard and the extension Of our
markets through President Roosevelt's
reciprocity. It approves it's nine con-
gressmen.. OF course the Democratic
party really favors reciprocity. It's
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A BRAVE and BROAD-MINDED PARTY.
Excerpts From Prohibition Party Platforms, 1902.

II
In the earlier days of the Republican
party it's national platforms contained
practically no planks except such as
dealt with various phases of the slav-
cry question. Since 1896 the Prohibi-
ton party has pursued the same
course regarding the saloon ISSUE
State conventions of the party, how
ever, voice local needs and local views
of national issues.
We give below few extracts from
the platforms adopted at state con-
ventions of the Prohibition party this
year:
The North Dakota, platform de-
clares:
There never was a time when there
was SO little at issue between the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties as to-day, or
when the members of those parties were
more hopelessly divided, without princi-
Piles or issues on which to unite.''
It also notes the fact that the North
Dakota Democratic state convention
declared in favor of the re-submis-
sion of the state prohibitory law and
that the Republican convention refused
to commit the party to the support of
the law and therefore asserts that
'prohibitory laws will never be en-
forced except through political party
created for and pledged to that end
The South Dakota platform rejoices
in the death of the canteen through
the agency of the Prohibition party
and other Influences, and also in the
increase of more than 100 per cent in
the party's vote in that state; ex-
presses belief that the party is en-
titled to the support of Christian min
listers, since it proposes to put upon
the statute books the principles which
they proclaim in the pulpit; and after
years of experience with prohibition
in the hands of it's enemies declares
that there is no remedy for the sa-
loon curse but prohibition with a
party behind it,
The Maryland platform likewise de-
clares:
At least one-third of the people of this
country are living under prohibitQry laws,
which are not enforced because their ad-
and Republicans, the political enemies Of
prohibition.
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CONGRESSIONAL.

LIST District. F. G. SLOAN. Steele County.
I'd District. j. E. ROBINSON. Martin County.
Sd District. c. H. BLOOD. Rice County.
5th District. DR.. GEO. d. HAGGARD.
Hennepin County.
7th District. KNIT JOHNSON. Grant County.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1902-10-01

Algot Johnson, Minneapolis: Back
bone was sent me by a friend now en-
close my own subscription. It is good
little paper"
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BRYAN IN THE DARK,

While in Illinois recently DR.. S. G..
Swallow, our gallant PENNSYLVANIA
leader, had an hours conversation on
the train with VIM. j. Bryan. He re-
ports: Il did my best to convince
MIN OF the supreme Importance of di-
vorcing the government from it's CO.
partnership with the greatest criminal
and pauper producing agency of the
centuries, and of the duty of the
Democratic party to cease forever it's
efforts to rival the Quays, Platts and
Greenhuts, Coxes and Clarksons in
that particular meanness that consti-
tutes them the lords of the saloon
vote. He in turn was bent on demon
strating the impossibility of the
Democracy ever championing prohibit
ton because of it's historic opposition
to sumptuary legislation, and further
in showing the supremacy of the
money and anti-imperialistic questions
to all other questions"
o men, Christian men, for the sake
of the hungry and ragged children, for
the sake of the suffering wives and
mothers, for the sake of the thousands
of boys just now entering upon the
downward path to ruin, we beseech
you hesitate no longer to free yourself
from the cursed business of destroy
ing homes and running souls. A vote
for the Prohibition party will put you
squarely against this work of ruin.
It may not stop it, but it will stop
your part of it! Will you stop your
part of it? Not to do it is to consent
to its awful works.. s. Hardin in
Missouri State Leader.
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Both are in


the Saloon.
convention did not dare, if it had de-
sired, to endorse the silver idea. II
the Democratic party had congress
men at Washington, it's convention
would. of course, have been as swift
as the Republican to endorse their ca
reer, even though, as in the case
of the Republicans, their platform
condemns what they labored for.
If the platform committee of the Re-
publican convention had included in
it's report an approval of several things
commended in the Democratic plat
form, such as postal savings banks, in
come tax, municipal ownership, direct
legislation and the organization of la
Dor, they would have been adopted by
the convention.
What horse-play is being carried on
by the two big parties! For a citizen
of our Commonwealth to assert that
he cannot afford to neglect ''the other
issues" in order to vote against the
saloon is mere gibberish.
Give the Prohibition party a chance,
and see how it will clean up the coun-
try. In Maine, wherever there is an
honest mayor or sheriff, the prohibi-
ton law is successfully enforced. In
Williamsport the mayor, and in We
mango county the sheriff, in this state,
found no difficulty in enforcing the
laws. We are a growing party, and
will finally prevail.-Dr. s. G. Swallow
on the stump in Pennsylvania.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-02-20

Andrews and other men who
have done the same thing and
paid back the money appropriat-
ed is that of the detected and un-
detected robber, They are equal
ly guilty before God. The high
way robber is respectable citi-
zen compared with such man.
His operations are less harmful
to society.
''The traffic in options and fu-
lures is gambling. 1t is to le-
gitimate commerce what dueling
is to the lawful settlement of
disputes. The man who kills his
antagonist in duel is a murder
er, even though that antagonist
agreed to stand up to be shot at
for the chance of shooting back.
The man who makes a cent on
the BOARD of trade or elsewhere
through some one else'S loss is a
robber, even though that other
consented to be robbed, with the
chance of robbing in his turn.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-02-20
PRAYED FOR THE MOTHER
Her Little ChiId's lntercession Prevented a
Sentence to Prison.

MUNCIE, Feb. 1a-On bended
knees, the little eight-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Ida Schroeder
yesterday prayed in the Circuit
Court room that the judge might
not sentence her mother to the
peniteutiary after Mrs. Schroeder
had pleaded guilty to the charge
of shoplifting. The child pleaded
with the court for her mother
until the entire courtroom was
tears, and Judge Leffier, though
he had determined to make an
example of the woman, failed in
his effort to pronounce severe
judgment against her and gave
her the llghtest sentence possible
after a plea of guilty had been
made-thirty days in the county
jail. The little girl told the
court that if her mother were
sent to prison there would be nc
body to care for her, as the hus-
band and father was dead. The
child will be cared for until her
mothers release by a man who
was In the court room at the
time of the incident.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-02-20
PLYMOUTH, INDIANA THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20.

citizens of Windfall were on the
stand, and testified that when
the Lafayette Gas Company es-
tablished a pumping station at
that place several years ago, three
miles northeast, the Windfall
Gas Company was supplying the
town with two good wells, within
a mile of the town. In one year
after the pumps had begun draw
ing from the field, the territory
was dry. and the epeople had gone
back to wood.
1t is a fight for life with pipe
line companies, and whether or
not in this case an Injunction is
granted, it has been demonstrat-
by expert testimony, as well as
by farmers whose evidence, even
if not scientific. is truthful, that
pumping stations are not only
showing it away at an enormous
pressure, but that they are pull
ing it from the wells, which the
law says they shall not do.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-02-20
Tour Outlined For a Forty
.Horse-Power Automobile.
PLAN TO GlRDLE THE GLOBE
Leaving Paris the HdVenturcrS VIII
Cross RuSSi0 and Siberi0, Then Mex
iCO and Texas, TroverSing the United
States Through ChiC1go TO New
YORK, T0Rlnd -Four Months.

PARIS, Feb. 10-Starting from
Paris in a few days, an English
man and a German will attempt a
tour of the world in a forty horse
power automobile. Accompani-
ed by member of the London
Geographical society and a Gin
ematograph operator the expert
mentalists will cross Russia and
Siberia to Port Arthur, whence
they will sail for Mexico and
thence cross Texas to Chicago
and New York.
The object Of the trip is to dis.
cover the extent of the useful.
ness of automobiles for rough
travelling III regions devoid Of re-
pair shops.
The automobile 20 be used by
the travellers is model OF ship
shapeness, allowing space for
four cot beds and a dining table.
The reservoir contains 500 quarts
of petroleum. The roof, which
is covered with oilcloth, affords
room for the baggage, canned
food and tools.
The travellers, who will con-
tribute an account of the trip to
the Paris Matin, declare that
they may change their minds and
attempt to crossthe Rocky noun
tains instead of making a detour
through Mexico, although Win
tons experiment almost proves
that the Rockies will always be
the Waterloo of automobiles.
The trip is expected to last four
months.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-02-20
FILlPINOS WANT ANNEXATION
Governor TAFT Says They Are Not Asking
for independence.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17-Gov-
ernor Taft has been giving the
Senate committee some interest
ing information concerning pol
itics in the archipelago the past
week, and has opened the eyes
of some of the anti-imperialist to
the fact that they are insisting
ing that Congress shall do just
the opposite of what the most
intelligent and best educated
Filipinos desire and recommend
for the good of the islands. The
governor has made it plain that
the Filipinas do not desire inde-
pendence, but to continue as a
territory of the United States,
with a territorial form of govern
ment.
This does not rest on the state
ment of Governor Taft alone. but
upon the message to Congress
sent by the Federal party, Or
ganized in Manila a year ago,
with present membership, it is
claimed by the organizers, of up
wards of 100000, and which the
governor says includes practic-
ally all the educated and enlight-
ened Filipinos. This message of
the Federal party and the report
of it's origin and growth is the
best answer that has come from
the Philippines to the demand
Of the anti-imperialists in Amer
ica for Philippine independence.
In this message, prepared by
educated Filipinos, men of prop
erty and holding the confidence
of large part of the population,
it is asserted positively that they
desire neither independence nor
a protectorate. They do not de-
sire either colonial government
nor an independent government
of their own, but a government
such as the United States gives
to it's territories, with the hope of
statehood when prepared for it.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-02-20
AWFUL CONSEQUENCES
The Shamaka Earthquake Destroyed Two
Thousand People.

BAKU, Trans -Caucasia, Feb. IS
"Details, which are slowly ar
irving at Baku from Shamaka,
show that 1000 persons. mostly
women and children. perished as
a result of the earthquake last
week and that 4 1000 houses were
destroyed. Thirty-four villages
of the country surrounding Sha-
maka also suffered.
To add to the terrors of the
neighborhood a volcano near the
village of Marasy, eastward of
Shamaka, has broken out into
active eruption. A great crevasse
has appeared, whence immense
flames and streams of lava are
being thrown out. The course
of the river Geonchaika has been
altered in consequence of its bed
being damned with earth, which
had been disturbed by the earth
quake.
Battalions of guards and de-
tachments with tents have been
dispatched to Shamaka to aid in
the work of rescue. The Red
Cross society is active in alleviat-
ing distress.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-02-20
LARGEST IN THE WORLD
New Office Building IN Chicago to
House Nine thousand People-Six.
teen Acres Under Roof.

CHICAGO, Feb. 18-A permit
was issued yesterday for what is
planned as the largest Office
building in the world. 1t is ex-
pected to house 5000 persons
every day and afford one third
more Office room than the gigan-
tic Monadnock block.
Deputy Building Commissioner
O'Shea's stamp was affixed to the
plans, which are for the National
Safe Deposit company's building
projected by officers of the First
National bank only after a care
full study.
Architect E. r. Graham of the
D. H. Burnham company had the
plans in hand and said: "The
building will cost $3, 600, 900 and
we expect to set to work on it in
the spring. We have 181 feet
fronting on Dearborn street and
231 feet on Monroe street at the
northwest corner. Every floor
will have $4,000 square feet of
space, or more than an acre to
each story. In all there will be
sixteen acres under one roof. The
sanitarv arrangements will be
the finest ever made. The build
ing will be finished-well, before
the postofice is completed. I
think l can promise that"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-02-20
MAKES WATER COMBUSTIBLE
German Chemists Invention May Revo.
OIutIOnize Industries.

BERLIN, Feb. 19-Water can
be endowed with qualities SINH
lar to those of petroleum by
means of an invention patented
by DR.. Karl Lietz, a chemist of
Hamburg, whose supporters as
sert that the process foreshad-
ows an industrial revolution Sec
ond only to the discovery OF cleo
tricity.
DR.. Leltz has manufactured a
fluid which gives to water the
combustible qualities of oil and
renders it capable of producing
intense heat and a pure white
lighttwice as strong as petroleum
flame. The ingredients of the
fluid are nonexplosive and can be
produced either in solid or liquid
form, according as intended to be
used for heating or lighting.
Exhaustive tests5dst complet-
ed at Hamburg have induced ali
English syndicate to buy the in
vention for the purpose of ex-
plotting it on large scale.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-02-20
NEW PLAN TO FIGHT FIRE


NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 16-Chlef
O'Connor has become greatly in
terested in q recent invention by
which tits proposed to extinguish
fires by rapid firing machine guns
instead of by steam fire engines
as is the present vogue.
although l have not heard
this matter discussed at any of
our fire conventions. remarked
Chief O'Connor. referring to the
new invention, ST would not be
surprised if the scheme proved a
success. With wireless tele-
graphy, submarine vessels and
the marvellous accomplishments
of the United States in all branch
es of mechanical science IN the
past few years, | am fully pre-
pared to expect anything in the
direction of labor saving and
marvelously efficient devices in
any line of hum an thought or en-
deavor. l am giving consldera-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-02-20
KENTUCKY WELL WATER HOT
People Are Much Surprised y It usedto
Be Cold.

HARRoDsBURG, KY, Feb. IL
The people of Woodburn have
been greatly puzzled for several
days by the strange action of a
well in that town. The water
in the well has suddenly become
hot without any apparent cause.
The citizens do not know wheth-
er the phenomenon is due to
chemical action Of some kind, or
to heat from the interior of the
earth.
The well is about so feet deep,
walled up, and about three feet
in diameter, and was built by the
Kirby Milling Company. Since
the water became heated it has
risen up to within ten feet of the
top of the we'll, and is perfectly
clear. The temperature is said
to be about 100 degrees.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-02-20

Handed Over TO the Drasoman of
the American Legation
Held Captive Since Last Septem-
ber-Rev. Tsilka Accused Of
Completely In kidnapping.

PARIS, Feb. 16-The Temps
this evening publishes a dispatch
from Constantinopie which an
nounces that Miss Ellen M. Stone
has been released by the brigands
who have held her captive since
September 3 last, and has been
handed over in good health 20
the dragoman Of the American
legation.
The dispatch adds that the
Rev. Tsilka has been arrested on
the charge of completely in the
kidnapping Of Miss Stone. He is
the husband Nine. Tsiika, Miss
Stones companion. It was an
nounced recently that the Turk
ish authorities suspected the
Rev. Mr.. Tsilka Of completely in
the abduction.
The companion in captivity of
of Miss Stone was Nine K. S !
Tsilka, Bulgarian woman, the
wife of Mr.. Tsilka, Macedonian
teacher of Samakov. Miss Stone
while travelling with Nine. Tsilka
and a party of about fifteen
friends, was captured by brigands
in the district of Salonica, Sept.
3. Since that time vigorous ef-
forts have been made by the
United States government and by
missionaries to obtain the release
of the captive. The brigands de-
manded a ransom Of f25,00
Turkish, but only So, 500 was
collected for the ransom and this
sum was paid over to the brl-
gands Feb. 6 by M. Gargiulo,
chief dragoman of the American
legation at Constantinople. and
w. w. Peet, treasurer of the
American mission at CONSTANT
nople, who met the brigands on
the road to the Podrome monas-
tery
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-02-20

CHICAGO, February ia fire,
which burned with such fierce
brilllancy that it attracted atten-
tion through Hyde Park, Engie-
wood, and all of the southern
suburbs, destroyed the four story
Tecumseh apartment building,
Fifty-sixth street and Washing
ton avenue, last night. The
blaze is thought to have started
in the boiler room, next the JAM
itor's living rooms, and from
there spread quickly throughout
the entire structure, containing
twenty. eight flats. Thirty fami-
lies we're rendered homeless.
They found shelter during the
night with neighbors. Several
narrowly escaped in the smoke
and fire, but no one was seriously
injured.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-02-20

BILE attention to the new inven-
ton, and, as | have stated, would
not be at all surprised if before
the century is much older artill-
cry had begun to supersede the
steam fire engine in its appurten-
ances IN all the larger cities of
the country. At any rate
experts declare that this new
problem of converting the en-
gines Of warfare to this novel
and more peaceful function of
battling with flames is feasible
and practical and that its realiza-
ton is almost at hand"