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Sounds the Slogan for the:
Workingmen in their pol
- ~ ica1 Battle of 1904.

: New York, Sept. 15-Five thousand
cheering people saw the opening Of the
campaign Of the Social Democratic
party at grand: n1assmeeting held at
Carnegie Hall Tuesday evening, when
Eugene v. Debs. Of Indiana, the can
didate for Presidency, delivered a
speech: The doors Of the hall We're
opened. at Z O'clock when the great
crowd began to march IN single file
in the entrance on Fiifty-seventh street.
Police reserves formed, a line leading
into the building, and every one had
to- take their position and march up
the steps and into the hall. The line
at 1890! reached around the entire
building, and ats o'clock the hall was
packed to overflowing.
Many women sat in the boxes, while
on the platform, behind the chairs set
for the speakers, there appeared many
Of the more fashionable set =. The
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DIFFERENCE ] IN TWO
!: pennsylvania TOWNS
York Is Composed of Ten
: Wealthy Men Who Live
; In Luxury.
Twenty Six Tramps Strike For
+: More Food: On. Williams
T.. port Street.

York, Pa.-On 65-acre farm which
he recently bought near Dover, this
county, r. c.. weist, a York capital
list, will build a model village which
will he inhabited exclusively by ten Of
York's wealthiest families, including
that Of the protector, Each beautiful
home will be surrounded by seven acres
OF ground, cared for by landscape
gardeners employed in common by the
Villagers: The model village will have
all the most modern and costly i'm
provernents and ~facilities.-Press Dis
patch 7<" It - -. L., .G.' -
j Willamsport, P-Nearly twenty
six tramps1 at work on the city stone
pile organized a union: yesterday and
struck; declaring they were not: prop
serly fed. When the. chief of police put
them on a bread and water diet and IN
solitary confinement the walking
=delegates'' 'unanim ously y decided e ia
.ca1l*t the strike OFF, Now they are crack
Ing stonesa again.. Tress Dispatch. 4 6
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senger agents of the railroads were
demanded, much to the chagrin Of, the
railroad people, and how finally the
case was. adjourned on account Of a
juror being ILL.,. Mr.. Debs said: Il
never heard the price Of his illness,
but it is ten years ago, and the man
is not we'll yet.'' -
Living issues now became the sub
iect Of Mr.. Deb's remarks, after q par
ting shot at Mr.. Cleveland.
II would suggest. said Mr.. 'Debs,
that Mr.. Cleveland instead of trying
to write about strikes, tell us How to
go to the White House poor and come
out rich'.'
In his speech on the present; sub
jects Mr.. ~Debs said the time was one
when twenty millions Of working
people were nothing more than Twen:-
tieth Century slaves. Something, more
than trades unions were necessary.
/ The present political issues were
moth eaten and did not concern the
workingman. Class struggle was the
main issue:
/ Rubs at the Four Hundred.
The Four Hundred was not spared
by Mr.. Debs, for: in speaking Of the
class struggle he said:
you, Mr.: 'Workingman, are not in
the class of Harry Lehr or J. J. Astor.
You are in class by yourself"
The speaker then dwelt on the plat
forms Of the two political parties. Re-
publican and Democratic: He called
them composite party with the labor
plank in both were Splinter or tooth
pick" ="
Mr.. Debs= summed up President
| Roosevelt by saying:
"oyster Bay is at the feet OF Buz-
Yards Bay" :
In closing, Mr.. Debs said: DO not
be fooled by the 'I"' strike situation
Il Is only until after election that the
! situation is changed Yet the organ.
izing of :capital. goes on and we will
! organize labor IF I am not elected
this Fall 1T will be your fault and no,
lEjne." . ...~. ;;
Overflow: meetings were held outsid,
the hall 1880. 49,. $50 g.
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Socialist band enIiYehed TIE time be-
fore the speakers appeared ~ =,
At $3.50 Mr.. Debs appeared. accom-
panied by DR.. George D. Heron, who
was to preside over the meeting, and
John G. Chase, ex-mayor Of TIaverill,
Mass. Directly behind them walked
Emile Vanervelde, member Of the Bel
GUM Parliament; Senator Lafontaine,
Of Belgium, and Herman Grolich, men,
Der Of the Parliament Of Switzerland,
all on their way to the 1nterparliamen-
tary Congress at st. Louis.
Debs cheered Five Minutes.
At the appearance OF Mr.. Debs the
audience rose and cheered for five
minutes. The scene resembled the
cheering at a National convention
when the nomination speeches end.
Enthusiastic men in the gallery leaned
far over the rail. shouting and waving
their hats. Many women in the
audience threw flowers at the stage
and cheer after cheer rent the building.
It was a glorious welcome and as Mr..
Debs stood bowling his acknowledge
ment, it could be easily seen that he
| was deeply affected.
When something like order had been
restored Mr.. Chase stepped forward
and introduced DR.. Heron as chairman
| OF the evening. DR.. Heron said in
part:
II have the pleasure Of introducing
to you a great man, who will speak
to you on a great subject. AS I know
how very anxious you are to hear
him will take up but a few moments
| OF your time. The great struggle Of
| the laboring man is to own himself.
| He is the man who has done the worlds
| work. He is the man who gets results.
The whole endeavor of the present
time should be to unite the laboring
class and the privilege class, They
should be- one.
mir. Farley and his strike breakers
| are nothing more or less than viola
ton of the law Of the land"
The mention off, Mr.. Cleveland's
name caused volume Of Kisses.
Before introducing Mr.. Debs. DR..
Heron called upon Mr.. Vandervelde
who spoke In French, and then Mr.
j Groellch,' who spoke for ten minutes
in the German language.
! .Cleveland's Name Jeered.
4 Enthusiasm broke loose again. Wher
Mr.. Debs. was finally introduced. Il
seemed as if the audience was simply
satisfied to stand and shout his name
over and over again. It was un-
I paralleled in. the history Of the party
and Mr.. sDebs showed his appreciation
+ Mr.. Debs divided his speech: into two
/ parts. He first reviewed the Pullman
Tstrike Of ten yers ago and afterward
+ touched upo. >nthe.. present. topics. J. Il
Escathing terms he denounced the ar.
ticle of ex-President Cleveland insi;.. {
recent issue Of f.. McClure's, with refer:
ence to the famous American railway
strike: At each mention Of Mr.: Gle.
lYeland's name the audience would lee
and hiss ~: ,.4tzz u u s
/ Never. said Mr.. Debs, has ther,
been a::more righteous cause,and5 u
was ONLY #by the illegal interven tton:;o!
M a S.: cleveland in sending Fedora
Troops into fll1nois Il that Glory =.
turned into defeat or the strikers. MI
sGleYel 1 forts dieat,
IzEim Il |. has ma his Nc;
IS n
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born nan
baby; rocked rs ll111arl Grad 3
when he grows up he IS B TO work .= Ga
Pullman shop, and when he dies 5 he
is placed in TIL p llrnah ~ coffin land
buried IN a Pullman gray ,-.r- = -- -.
1.-THE $500 Deputy Marshals sworn
in py Mr.: cleveland were thte e !: fi !. y
thugs and ex-convicts. It was these
people that caused all violence ana It
was for this reason that they were
hired. Public sympathy was driven
FROM the strikers .sby their acts :ot
violehce, and then the: hue and cry
arose: throughout the land, %'Put down
the strikers aats any cost s*sCars were
then burned and riots began, but
never was a Pullman, car burned. 1T
was always the cars Of other kinds.
Then came the injunctions. Strikers
were Jailed for. not doing what the in
functions said they did. Federal
soldiers came and nailed up the head
quarters Of - the American Railway
Union and broke the strike.
Ex-convicts, az Deputies.
II go. no farther than the reports
of the Chief Of Police, and even Of
MT. Cleveland himself, to prove to
you that the vast majority Of sworn
Deputy Marshals were thugs and ex-
convicts.> These records show that
drunkenness and highway robbery were
charged against these men In great
numbers"
? Mp. Debs. then went on and de-
scribed the trial Of several strikers on
the charge Of conspiracy when the
books and records of the general pas
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But what truth prompts, my tongue
shall not Disguise; r.
The steep ascent must be with toll
; subdu'd: >. !
watchinss and cares must win the >lof-
ty prize,
PROPOSED by heav'n; true bliss, and
real good. '..<
Honous rewards the brave and bold
alone, 49, g. $50:
She spurns the timorous, indolent, and
base: .-..
Danger and toll stand stern before her
~ throne, -, r. 49,. - = 7:
And guard ESQ Jove commands,) the
sacred place. + = - 49,:
Who seeks her must the mighty cost
! sustain, ~.j, -.
And pay: the price Of fame, labor, and
care, and pain.
From the choice Of Hercules" =,
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s1fferings of the colered races he was
as insensible as. an Italian is to the
miseries Of domestic. animals. Yet he
challenged theiadmiratioh of the civil
liked world by Els sturdy strength, his
insensibility to fear and the defiance
he: offered to the greatest power with
which he hadEto do on the continent Of
Africa. The campaign he conducted
will be remembered as long as the for
tines o. the Dutch republic are dis
GUESSED. II The ability manifested by the
president Of thesT ransvaal and his col
leagues is one Of the wonders OF the
world. It Is still a mystery where all
the weapons Of defense came from, and
whittier they went when the war was
over. How did the president become
possessed aof such vast treasures, and
what became Of them when he slipped
away, in ,the night and vanished from
the scenes of his adventures, his glory
and hts downfall q. In. Europe he hal
been merely q poor, broken hearted old
man. Nov that his labors are over,
may he restsi peace
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PAUL. KRUGER.

From he Christian Register: 4 u 3
( His character, Ills theology, his sci
ence, and his Bocial system were allSAt
least 200 years. behind those Of Eng,
land rsthes United tateg.a The modern
eyolut Ion and even the Copper;
Eldcan system sc, All ronorny we're olt 6
sid .Sof Iii. hori ION Is. lis * 6d was the
EJehoxAh sc the book offzS,.uds sIIaX-
Eery. wis nd Vine ms Hut on. and the
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! FOR WEAK AND SORE EYES
aWeak and sore eyes are: not tnfrequent=
with young children; and it will be
found a good plan Ito pour some tea,
fwhichis>alld but cold, into a saucer kept
tor this purpose, and use this toabathe:
1the. eyes with. IL both eyes are, bad,
zone sho,lldsbe finished: and dabbedz dry
before the: other=1s touched and, for The
second one, another rag should be used,
the tea thrown away, and aSfresh sup
ply: taken The rag should be thrown
on the fire directly IT'LL IL done with,
All old white hand kerchiefs ought to
be kept and put where the hand can
ne. readily placed s. pom tt EN-, s. case
of smsrgency,#ast they are fine and soft;
q Estelle I.shud dered when ne pro-
$50
s1IBert ha-zNN so# awkald4sS
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rye is known by many Of :Duluth's
best citizens to be high in quality, and
the vehy best Tor" family use. Try it.
Sold at SOL West Superior street, ~
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Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-05-01
STATE CONVENTION NOTES.

You simply cannot afford to miss it.
In addition to the delegates there will
be many visitors who will feel that it is
too good to miss
There will be two big rallies. Oliver W.
Stewart will speak on the evening of the
14th, and Clinton N. Howard on the 18th.
Plan to hear both.
Howard, who speaks the second night,
is a marvel The work he has done in
Rochester, N. Y, has given him fame the
nation over and across the water as well.
From present indications there will be
no dearth Of candidates for delegateships
to the National Convention. Minnesota
is entitled to a representation of Al.
An equal number Of alternates will be
chosen.
And there will be plenty of timber for
state offices, too. Chas. M. Way Henne
pin, Chas. A. Fowble, Ramsey, D. u.
Weld, Cottonwood, and man who is not
willing that his name shall appear are
being urged by their friends for the first
place.
The congressional nominations will
doubtless be made during the state con-
vention, as has been the custom in recent
years. If this is the intention of the con-
gressional committees, let their chairmen
notify the state committee and Backbone
at once.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-05-01
A RIVER OF BLOOD.

Rear Admiral Walker, president of
the Panama Canal Commission, has
declared that it would be impossible
to secure the requisite number of Ia
borers on the canal without authoriz-
ing the sale of liquor, since it will be
necessary to employ Jamaica negroes
and other tropical laborers who use
alcoholic liquors. He says, however,
that Japanese and Chinese coolie labor
will also be necessary. But these peo-
people do not demand liquor, and will
not unless we train them to it.
The Admirals argument sounds
quite like the insistence of certain
army officials that without the canteen
Uncle Sam could not secure enlist
ments in sufficient numbers. The gov
eminent, which is numbering hun
dreds of thousands of it's subjects at
home and driving unnumbered thous-
ands to their death like sheep in our
insular possessions, is now preparing
for an awful slaughter of weaker and
more ignorant races than we in the
Canal zone. The route of the great
canal ought not thus to be made a
river of blood. Let the people speak.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-05-01
EDITORIAL.

To whom should saloonists be for
hidden to sell liquor, those who have
drunk themselves almost to useless
ness, or men in the prime of life whose
best powers are needed for the world S
great endeavors and whose lips and
lives should be kept pure for the no.
BILE wives and sweet children who
love them?
Many eyes are turned toward Min
neapolis, and the minds of many re-
formers are thinking of June IA and
Is. When Chairman Higgins gavel
falls at 10 o'clock on the first-named
day, he will look over a splendid as
semblage, the superior of which in in
telligence, Christ-like sympathy with
suffering humanity and true, strenu-
GUS American patriotism it would not
be easy to find.
All three of the Chicago car barn
bandits, Niedermeier, Marx and Van
Dine, who were executed the other
day and the youngest of whom was
barely eighteen years old, had drunken
fathers and were frequenters of legal
lied saloons where examples in crime
furnished them early inspiration. Will
the American people remember this?
Will they do anything about it?
c. N. Howard is coming to the State
Convention. He's worth crossing a
state to hear. Eloquent Oliver w. Stew
art will also be with us. With this
array of splendid talent, with such an
assemblage of good-looking, brainy
and enthusiastic men and women
your comrades in the fight, the ques-
ton is not whether you can afford to
come, but whether you can afford to
stay away.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-05-01
ODDS AND ENDS.

Quincy Lee Morrow will make a ten
days trip in the state during July. A
few dates are still available.
N. M. Johnson is putting in the month
in the Thirteenth legislative district, push
ing vigorous and effective campaign for
J. E. Robinson, the legislative nominee.
Secretary Calderwood's speech at the
Indiana convention occupies more than a
seven column page in the convention
number of the PATRICK Phalanx. Those
Hoosiers know goof thing when they
see Cor hear) it.
William R. Bonham, of Illinois, who has
a reputation throughout the Ohio valley,
has been engaged for twenty-five days
by the state committee. He has one Of
the most attractive entertainments and
makes votes. Write the state committee.
Clinton N. Howard, who Is without
doubt one of the most effective speakers
on the Prohibition platform, east or west,
the convention. Any points desiring to
hear him should make application to the
state committee at once.
Prohibitionists will probably take the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and the
Pennsylvania lines to the National Con-
vention and the ST. Louis Fair. Arrange
mentS are as good as made for q ROUND
TRIP FARE OF LESS THAN $500!
Yes, the state committee needs money
and men. But YOU can render q most
valuable service, and hasten the death Of
the saloon without the payment Of dol
lar or the loss of an hour of your other
wise profitable time Ask w. G. Calder
wood, secretary, 702 Sykes Block, MIN
neapOliss
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-05-01
A LEGAL LIQUOR sPILLlNG.

The editor of Backbone has just had
a new and pleasing experience The
new Search and Seizure law provides
that in case of conviction the fix
lures seized in blind pigs shall be sold
at auction for the benefit of the coun-
ty and the liquors destroyed, for the
benefit of the community, doubtless.
On the morning of the 18th inst, the
spilling of the liquors lately seized in
Midway blind pigs took place at the
Fidelity Storage Company's ware
house, st. Paul. With several mem
bers Of the Enforcement League it was
our privilege to assist the deputy sher-.
ifs in the performance of their task.
|, A great quantity of beer, whisky
and wine was emptied into the sewer.
Two and half hours were most cheer
fully spent in this kind of labor. The
Methodist and Presbyterian crusaders
present are motor at least were not
experts in opening beer bottles and
the face and clothing of this writer
were literally dosed again and again
with the vile stuff and even our Office,
on our return, was made redo1ent with
other odors than those of Paradise.
Yet they were very grateful to our
nostrils. The scene was to us pro-
phetic of the day when similar expe-
riences will be common under state
and national law while the saloon is
learning that it must quit and the
people are finding out how to compel
it to do SO.
Judge Hine let off six piggers with a
fine of $50. Yet the decent people of
Midway are not discouraged and are
determined that the traffic shall cease
to exist in their part of the city.
We sympathize with their efforts
Yet we hope and believe that their ex-
periences will open their eyes to the
necessity of putting in power in city,
state and nation party, and officials
nominated thereby, that will not make
it necessary for private citizens to be-
come detectives and to do many diff
cult things and suffer many indignities
because the political parties to which
the officers of the law look for their
bread and butter are mortgaged to
the liquor traffic. AS matter of fact,
Republican and Democratic admins
trations have been equally culpable in
their handling of this matter in the
Midway district as well as in their re-
lation to the liquor traffic in the heart
of the city. Yet the great majority of
these good people regularly put one
of these parties in power in the city
and give little to the only party which
champions their cause except SYM
pathy-and not always that.
Will this condition of things re-
main? Certainly it will not. We hope
it will end speedily.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-05-01
Pith of the Press.

Educator: when the church wakes
up the drink devil will go into mourning"
Defender: 1.-THE Prohibition party does
not simply want the church vote, but the
citizen VOTE"
Dial of Progress: "The only sermon
the devil really fears is the living one on
two legs"
Kansas City Leader: Nothing done
for God is in vain-no vote cast accord
ing to His will is thrown away "
Christian Civic League Record: ''The
hardest part Of our temperance work is
credulity and hateful suspicion"
Patriot-Phalanx: 1T is worse than
irony to be praying Thy kingdom come,
while in the nation we. are turning out
annually 37,500,0 900 barrels of liquors, and
supporting 100000 saloons"
Cornerstone: "The way to get to Wash
ington is to nominate tickets every time
we get a chance in precinct, township,
county, state and nation. In this way
we will get there at no very distant day.
mands the downfall of Sabbath laws, and
politicians always have an ear open to
its demand. The traffic wants the day,
and it will have it unless the political
power of the traffic is broken"
Kansas City Leader: "Watchman on
the wall, do you everlastingly exhort your
flock to have nothing to do with a polit-
ical organization that does not declare
user as eternally opposed to the licensed
traffic in Intoxicating drinks?'
Cornerstone: Gust how the Christian
church can follow her Master in war
against the licensed saloon and her party
in systematic policy of license for the
saloon, is what many very good people
can not understand"
Mountain State Patriot: eff the Lord
had come to your political convention and
found you there in the ranks among the
liquor sellers, would you excuse yourself
by telling Him that you were trying to
lead the saloonkeeper into trap where
you. could fool him and break up his
business?''
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high license policy, local election re-
turns haven't given us much to hurrah
over. Up to that time villages and
cities by the dozen were being added
to the no license column. An annual
bride running up into the thousands,
and often averaging several dollars
per voter, is too severe a test of the
morality of many communities. To be
sure there is a gradual gain in the
number of no license towns. But a
much more hopeful sign is the grow
ing determination to drive the entire
liquor traffic from our nation by en-
throning a party in state and nation
which is committed to that policy.
"Why do you not advocate the Pro-
hibition cause?" "At the present juno
ture," answered DR.. Boyle, 'tthe Pro-
hibition party does not control the
balance of power and I would not like
to lose my vote. More can be gained
by pledging one or the other of the
regular parties to the cause of moral
reform, massing the Christian vote,
Catholic Protestant and Jew."-St.
Paul Dispatch.
The above inquiry was received by
mail by DIR. w. Fl. w. Boyle, pastor of
the House of Hope Presbyterian
church, st. Paul. It concerned his at
titude in the municipal campaign. He
is reported as having made the above
reply to it on Sunday evening, April
%, during one of series of addresses
by him on municipal publication.
DR.. Boyle, we admire your character
and ability and covet you for the Pro-
hibition party where you belong. We
desire to ask you few questions:
What probability is there that the
Catholic vote could be thrown to the
Republican party or the Protestant
element of the Republican party be
induced to support the Democratic
party even in case one of those par
ties should pledge" itself 'to the
cause of moral reform?" How soon
will the Prohibition party control the
balance of power" if men of your class
continue to vote with one or the other
of the license parties? Which of the
regular parties was pledged to the
cause of moral reform" in the recent
campaign? Since neither was thus
pledged by it's character or record or
platform or the character or record
of its candidates, did you save or lose
your vote?