Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-06-01
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Pennsylvania convention June II.
There is a Prohibition awakening in
North Carolina.
The saloonkeepers and bartenders' to-
tai abstinence societies are increasing in
number.
ganization since the Pittsburg split are
now organized.
Joshua Levering Prohibition candidate
for president in '96, is making a tour OF
the world with his family.
Illinois Prohibitionists are raising 81, 600
from the Prohibitionists of the land for
monument to Hale Johnson.
Six engineers and conductors of the
Santa Fe railroad have been discharged
for entering saloons.
The Liberator, Toronto, will be publish
ed in Winnipeg for a few weeks during
the electoral campaign in Manitoba.
The Democratic party is weakening in
Michigan and Wolverine Prohibitionists
are trying to gather in the scattering
forces.
Lord Roberts has written deprecating
the awarding of wine, beer or spirits as
lions.
Rev. c. H. Crawford of Virginia has
succeeded Rev. R. H. Battey as state
superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League.
South Dakota state headquarters and
the address of state secretary c. e. Hop
kins have been changed from Estelline to
Brookings.
The Kentucky Prohibition convention
voted down a woman suffrage plank.
Twenty legislative candidates are in the
field already.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has pro-
hibited the playing of cards or drinking
Of liquors on it's trains by passengers,
and other roads are likely to follow its
example.
The State w. c. T. U. convention will
be held at Winona September 1928 Mrs.
Alice A. Robbins has been engaged for
years work in this state.
S. R. Coleman, of Champlain, sends us
26 new subscriptions las the result of a
few hours work" This isn't quite as
easy as hand-clapping at prohibition
rally, but it amounts to more.
Forty-four of the one hundred and five
counties in Kansas are without pauper,
and in thirty seven counties there is not
a criminal case On the docket.
Bonsib, the Flying Dutchman." is at
work in Kansas. He writes the Corner
stone of the conditions there as follows:
THE Pop party is dead, the Denis. dy-
ing, the Prohi. party growing"
The Illinois legislature killed the local
option bill, of course. The Saloon-mort-
gagged politicians don't dare to give the
people chance at the saloon.
In a controversy LnaC is De1nS WdSeu Ill
Paris on the question of intoxicants, it is
said that, in a single day recently, the
word 'alcohoP' occurred more than two
thousand times in the twelve journals of
that city.
The Prohibitionists of Indianapolis are
making an especially vigorous campaign
for the election of the city candidates.
George Hits is the nominee for Mayor.
He is making a vigorous personal canvass.
The publishers of Backbone have re-
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copy Of the paper to each participant in
a w. G.. T. U. or Demorest declamatory
contest held in Minnesota.
Nearly four fifths of the newspapers in
Kansas refuse to publish liquor adver-
tisements. Maine has only one newspa-
per which contains liquor advertisements,
and its owner has been brought into court
at least three times in three years to an
swer to that charge.
Mississippi has local option prohibition
in all but about eight counties of the
state. While there has been consider
able trouble from bootleggers and lille
gal sellers, the benefits of saloon expul-
sion have been so marked that state
wide prohibition now seems at hand.
The International Christian Endeavor
convention assemblies at Denver and the
International Epworth League conven-
ton at Detroit in July. There will be a
vigorous temperance and prohibition prop
uganda in connection with each. Raj
lies and literature will be their main
features. Dickie and Woolley are the
orators at the Epworth League rally.
Secretary Moody, Of the navy, gives a
very forcible illustration of what an Of
ficer can do towards crushing the traffic.
Bremerton, Washington, is the seat Of
government naval repair yard. Some
months ago Mr.. Moody advised the peo-
pie of Bremerton that the saloon must be
removed from the neighborhood of the re-
pair yard or no more ships would lay in
at Bremerton. The city council disregard
ed the wish of the secretary, but the peO-
pie arose en- masse and demanded that
action be taken which would again open
their port to the government boats, and
the council capitulated. There are no sa-
looms now in Bremerton.
Rallies at the following places will
be addressed by National Chairman
Oliver w Stewart. limo 81 Kensing-