Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-02-01
Vertebrate.

ever before.
Nearly every day. and sometimes often
err, the Topeka chief of police makes ar
rests of jointists.
The State w. c. T. U. is working to
double the Union Signal subscription list
in this state. 1t ought to be done.
No saloonkeeper, bartender or gambler
may now remain in the Order of Odd Eel
lows in Ohio. Keep pinchin' 'em.
There is a wave of prohibition senti-
ty after county is declaring for no IL
cense.
The saloon has been driven out of every
one of the $500 towns of Tennessee, except
counties.
Of course those who subscribe under
any of our low offers will expect to pay
the full price hereafter, unless they stop
their paper.
Prohibition Maine ranks twenty-ninth
in population, fifth in the number of saw
ings bank depositors, and sixth in the
amount of deposits.
Please hand to your neighbors your
copy of Backbone, after reading it,. also
any extra copies you may receive That's
what they are for.
There are now not more than Is wet
counties in Florida, nor more than 120
saloons in the entire state. And still the
good work goes on.
An International Temperance Congress
I. D.
October y and 18th will be w. c. T. U.
days at the exposition
DR.. Watson Gan MacLaren), of Lon
don, says that 63 per cent of the crime
and Is per cent of the pauperism of Eng
land are due to drink.
Blanche BO1es has been convicted of
smashing the windows of a liquor-selling
drug store in Topeka a year ago. There
are five other cases against her.
Jas. D. Richardson, grand commander
of the Scottish Rite Masons of the United
States, urges the Punishment of the wine
glass from the banGuets of the order.
Pasadena, Cal a no-license city of
49, 900 population had only thirty-eight
arrests last year. Stockton, a city of
1900, with plenty Of saloons, had 1914
arrests. .---r
Harper's Weekly states that..the
year in the United States would lila
canal 10 feet deep, 100 feet wide and 700
miles long. ''~7 = e
Of 700 ten-dollar marked bills paid on
tory to it's hands, 400 by the following
Tuesday were deposited in the bank by
the saloonkeepers.
The saloons of Santa Monica, Cal, were
closed last year, and arrests for drunken
ness have dropped eighty per cent. In
three months the bank deposits in the
city increased $46, OOO
The Minnesota w. G. T. U. convention
will meet at Rochester September 1926.
National President Stevens and Anna Cor
don will be present, as also at the North
Dakota convention
Bishop Hartzell attributes rs per cent
of the decentralization Of native Africans
to intoxicants, and Rev. G. s.. Morris de-
clares. that drink destroys 100000 saw
ages in Africa annually.
The North Dakota w. C. T. U. has set
it's stakes this year for 1000 new mem
bers, 100 medal contests, and to double
the subscription lists of the White Ribbon
Bulletin and Union Signal.
Some of our subscribers are. stopping
their subscriptions which we always re-
greet but very many more new and re-
newed subscriptions are coming in
Keep up the merry racket.
Canon WHEREFORE has said that the
city of London alone spends annually
100000 900 for drink, and that three
fourths of this amount comes from the
pockets of the laboring man.
The annual average consumption of Ii
quor per capita in the United States is
it is less than 2 gallons. In 81 counties
in Kansas there is not a criminal case
on the docket.
Massachusetts, is said to be noted for
it's boots and shoes, and Kentucky, for its
counties of the latter state AZ have COM
plete, and 81 partial prohibition. Can
Massachusetts show as good record?
The factories of Kewanee, ILL.,, pay out
$50, 900 a week. The saloons of that place
deposit $4,000 a week in the banks This
Is the kind Of a town where the wives
take in washing, the children are in rags,
and tradesmen cannot collect their bills.
A movement is on foot to rid the city
of Los Angeles of the saloon. The refer
endum prevails in that city under the
charter as amended and a petition will be
presented to the city council asking for
an election. Many predict an early vic
tory.
One of the most prominent saloonkeep-
ers of Chicago lives in a prohibition sub
urb. He says he prefers to bring up his
family as far away from saloons as posi-
BILE. About what do you think the right
distance between the saloon and the
home?
About 30,0OOOO0 people are living in
prohibition territory in this country.