Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-09-01
BACKBONE.

The Prohibition party was never in bet
ter condition in California than now.
King Oscar of Sweden has ordered that
henceforth no champagne is to be used
in the christening of battleships.
The Nebraska State Medical Society has
ordered that no Intoxicating beverages
shall hereafter be used at its banquets or
social meetings
And now the Wabash railroad company
has sent notices to it's division superin-
tendents to instantly discharge all men
in the employ of the company who are
habitual users of intoxicating liquors,
whether drunkardS or not.
President Doran, of the newly organized
Chicago Bartenders and Saloonkeepers'
Total Abstinence Society, says: IF the
man behind the bar drinks with one man,
he must drink with all. He must be q
Statistics show that there are $4,000
families of confirmed drunkards in Ger
many and in Prussia 81, 1881 persons affect
ed with alcoholism are confined In the
hospitals, insane asylums and homes for
inebriates. No wonder that thoughtful
Germans are awakening.
A biographical sketch of Rev. J. N.
Liscomb occupies the entire first page Of
recent issue Of the California Voice.
None of his Minnesota friends will be
surprised that he is vigorously pushing
Prohibition party work at Los Angeles.
The Liquor Protective Bureau has dis
tributed during the year, June 1902, to
June, 1903, 2,515,000 pieces of campaign
Of which have
have been shipped to points where elec-
tons were pending.
Prohibition candidates for the Tennes-
see general assembly are now in the field
in thirty districts. Several of these are
500 cities and towns of the state are now
under license. In only IL Of the Sc coun-
ties of the state can whisky be sold leg
ally.
Bennington, VT, under the new pro-
gram Of license, was recently compelled
to hold a night session of the municipal
court to dispose Of the extraordinary num-
Der Of DRINKS. This editor well remem-
bers when this same city, then his home,
enjoyed the benefits of well enforced pro-
hibition through the efforts of his honored
father.
The Indiana Conference of the Method
list Protestant Church enters it's solemn
protest against any member of this an
ance resolutions before this conference
and then on election day voting for the
party that has by legislative action shown
itself to be in favor of intemperance."
Strickland & Co., an old and we'll es-
tablished clothing firm at Kokomo, Ind,
has gone to the wall. When Miss Carrie
Styers, who had been their bookkeeper
for ten years, began active opposition to
the saloon, SalOOniStS served notice on
the firm that she must be discharged and
this was done. For nearly year tenn
perance people have maintained steady
opposition to this house with the result
above named.
The national convention of the Social
Democratic party Of Denmark approved
the following resolution amid great en-
thusiasm: I'm view of the danger with
which alcoholism threatens the laboring
classes and in view of it's opportunity to
assume the forms which make it an ally
of capitalism, this convention would urge
the workingman to enter the struggle for
the advancement of sobriety and by all
liberal means"
At this writing no number Of the Union
Signal, the national w. G, T. U. paper,
has appeared since August 6. There
will probably be only one or two more is
sues before the national convention. I'm
der recent management this splendid
journal has doubled it's worth. We sus-
pect that the suspension is due to the
fact that too many of it's admirers have
spent their energy in thanking God for
the marvellous improvement in it's make
up instead of in hustling for subscriptions
to make the change permanent POSSIBLE
ity. --
Pelican Rapids, Mimi, Jan. II, 1903.
Publishers Backbone:
Gent1emen:-I send herewith a one dol
lar bill for which please send Backbone
to the accompanying addresses.
did not send for the Hustlers' League
blank, but went right to work hustling.
Yours, c. n. Olson.