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

christened with wine, despite the petition
of the North Dakota w. e. 7. Y. to fol-
low the example of King Oscar of Sweden
! and christen his boat with water.
Miss Eva Jones, the efficient state l.
T. L. secretary, will begin a tour of the
state April 1. She plans to stay not less
than week or two in each place visited
so as to thoroughly establish the work
1t is authoritatively stated that $12,0OC
have been paid procuring agents for the
purpose of obtaining girls between the
ages of IL and 20 to be kept at st. Louis
during the exposition for immoral pur-
poses. A vote for the saloon is a vote
for the brothel, it's twin sister in sin.
A course of about twenty lectures on
various phases of the liquor question is
in progress at Augsburg Seminary, Min
neapolis, under the auspices Of the Total
Abstinence Congress, a joint committee,
representing four Norwegian temperance
associations Graduates receive a certifi-
cate.
Rev. A. B. Simpson stated at the re-
cent annual convention of the Christian
Missionary Alliance that for every man,
woman and child in the United States,
$40 is spent annually for liquor and to-
bacco, while 40 cents is the average con-
tribution for missions for each Protestant
Christian in this country.
The total abstinence movement in Aus
tria is making progress. 1t is scarcely
three years since it was inaugurated by
in Vienna, and now there are nine alb
staining societies, two of them being So
cieties of Workingmen in Vienna, and one
of workingmen at Gratz.
P. M. Arthur, late Chief of the Broth
erhood Of Locomotive Engineers, said:
IF it were not for the saloon do you
know, I think that seven-tenths of the
workingmen would have their own homes
h nSead of of Paying Pay G rent ro Km is at the
reason for voting out the saloon.
The saloons of San Francisco cost the
tax payers of that city $18, $780, 900 per
year. The city receives from the saloons
in license $26O,00O or, if you please, the
$1S,240, 900 year more than they get out
of them. And yet people say that pro-
hibition kills a town!-California Voice.
The farm p PROD oct -o Of Kansas in 1903
bank failures, amounting to only O,OOO,
in three years. Only $50 of her own
criminals in the penitentiary. Forty-fi
county jails have no inmates. Over 700
nieWspapers publish no whisky adver,
in 1881.
An idea of the results of the passage of
the license law in Vermont may be got
ten from the following figures: In May,
May, 1908, it had Sc cases. St. Adams,
May, June and July, 1902, 80 cases; 1903,
121 cases. Montpelier May, June and
July, 1902, "a cases; 1903, 1873 cases. Rut-
land, May, June and July, 1902, 81 cases;
1908, ISL cases.
State Chairman Clayton Of Wisconsin,
is determined that the Badger state shall
win one or more of the cash prizes offered
by National Chairman Stewart to the
states whose Alliances pay the largest
amounts and the largest average of dues
during this quarter and each of it's
months. He has offered liberal numbers
of subscriptions to Backbone to the local
Alliances which show the best record in
this matter.
Judge Wolfe, of the district court re-
Gently in session at Clinton, Iowa, issued
permanent injunctions against eleven
persons charged with illegal liquor sales.
Mrs. Meyett, whose husband has been
ruined by drink was the complaining wit
ness. One was arrested for violation of a
previous injunction and, not paying the
$500 fine, was jailed. The life of the sa-
loon anarchist is becoming less joyous
and he hasn't reached the bottom of his
stocking yet.