Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-10-01
BACKBONE

Blow after blow has fallen upon the
! liquor vendors. The last one came from
the United States Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca. At the recent national convention
of that body a resolution was passed re-
quiring all saloon keepers who are men,
bers to withdraw from their business or
from the order.
The Ramsey County committee has en-
of work for its. fund When $1,000 have
been secured ($400 has been secured so
far man will be engaged for year to
push the legislative fight Hennepin
others will soon be at it.
At the territorial convention of the
Christian churches of Oklahoma, Sept.
Is, Gov. Ferguson said, 81 hope this rep
resentative Christian body will exercise
all it's power to drive the demon drink
out of the land. The star of Oklahoma
of the brightest stars in the Union
M. w. Savage owner of Dan Patch,
has refused to race the king of PAGERS
on the Toronto race-track because of the
such sale at the track is not in the in
terest of clean sport. At this rate there
will soon be none so poor as to do rever-
ence to our dear friends, the saloonists.
New York state Prohibitionists are
moving for an International Temperance
Congress at Saratoga in 1906 in COM
memoration of the organization of the
first temperance society of the modern re-
form. This was the Temperance Society
of Moreau and Northumberland, estab-
lished near Rochester in 1903 by DR.. Billy
J. Clark.
The Fleischmann Co., the big distillers,
having several distributing points, have
mailed from their Cincinnati office let
ter to a large number of liquor dealers
warns 1.-The trade" against Pattison, the
Democratic candidate and urges active
effort to elect Herrick, the Republican
The Los Angeles w. c. T. U. now num-
bers 1000 members and is the largest
union in the world. The honor of this
S. D. Warner, who has given nearly all
her time in the past three years to house.
toulouse visitation, securing signatures
to the total abstinence pledge and scatter
ing literature.
Congress has appropriated a total of
$1,S33,500 since the passage of the anti
canteen law toward erecting, equipping
and maintaining recreation halls for the
enlisted men in our army. There must
be fair test of the workings Of the anti
canteen law under these circumstances
before the people will consent to the re-
Rhode Island Prohibitionists met at
Providence on the 7th. The state was
well represented. A good ticket was
other things, for the submission of an
amendment to the state constitution pro-
viding for the initiative and referendum
and In favor. of proportional representa-
st. Paul has just witnessed the spec
tacle of one of its. high school teachers
being sued by. brewing company for
was that the pint bottles did not contain
a pint The professor came into court
with a beer bottle in one hand and pint
measure in the other but judgment was
rendered against him.
The Massachusetts state Prohibition
convention declared in favor of govern
mental control of life insurance and other
great public interests and urged Presi-
the prohibition of the sale of alcoholic
liquors in the Panama Canal zone.
full and strong ticket was nominated,
headed by Willard O. Wiley
Ribboner and Prohibitionist. has erected
and will on Dec. LIST open 'The Minnea-
polls" in the charming city of Miami,
Florida. Her friends recently gave her a
interest in the Russell Coffee House and
will be warmly welcomed by her Minnea-
polls friends on her return to the Flour
City next spring.
The Congregational state convention of
Wisconsin resolved chat officers of our
Congregational churches and benevolent
societies should never solicit nor invite
whose gains have been made by. methods
morally reprehensible and socially injuri-
GUS" All similar resolutions were de-
feated at the Seattle meeting of the Am
erican Board of Commissioners for For
eign Missions.
David B. McCalmont, the new state
chairman of Pennsylvania, is one of the
constantly increasing body of voung men
who have never voted the ticket of a
license party: He cast his first vote for
DIR. Swallow in 1893 He has been large
factor in the success of party work in
his own county, famous Venango which
party has earned recognized position
as the second party, polling last fall 400
more votes than Parker received.
PROHIBITION POETRY.