Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-05-01
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polls, Nov 24-27.
North Dakota claims to have more pia-
nos and larger bank deposits per capita
than any state in the union. Prohibition
pays.
exceeded those of the same months last
year by $222,000. This is the way the
dispensary is settling the liquor prob
lem"
A cable dispatch from Berlin by the
Associated Press, April 20, states that
Emperor William has engaged several
than is usual on the condition that they
shall be total abstainers both on and off
duty.
last year went into the manufacture of
drink. If converted into bread, that
AMOUNT would have supplied every yer fam
one for each day in the year. Not much
people the right of the Initiative, direct
legislation, referendum and recall, It is
under this wise provision, which the Pro Pro
hboH party tSS rs that hat
contest against it's saloons
no The 9feg fpe " & q q % have
State ". G. T. =. conferenee viii oc-
cupy June 81, % and on the 10Th the
National Suffrage Association begins a
convention lasting several days. There
National Chairman Jones wants thou
sands Of in June the
is moving backward" A most valuable
24-page "brief'' has been printed, cover
h Ro fde sho OF the bite this Live
Chairman Jones at $50 The Temple, Chi
cago.
series Of meetings in California He will
be at the prohibition assembly at Prohi-
bition Park, Heiberg, Mimi, July 2, 3
at and the e o the 5h he will peaa wsf
gus Falls, is booking him for dates i'm
me ed thereafter. - 49, o,
Prohibition Club of America will meet at
Willard hall, Chicago, June p q, ~; Al
nTted o send he
object is to get Prohibition party women
in line, for the campaign Of 1908 For
particulars address the General Sec, Mrs.
Ohio Prohibitionists have been holding
county conferences at the rate of one
a day. Chairman Mccartney says though
too many leaners and not enough lift
ers' More than go of Indiana's 90
organized and are in battle array
Younger men are now in the saddle as
county officers.
Kansas women have appealed to Gov.
the prohibition law. This movement is
interesting in view of the fact that dur
editorially criticized the governor for
failure to enforce the prohibitory law,
saying that if he were governor and it
was necessary he. would call out the
oswego County, New York, has a Pro-
hibition party enrolment close to 1900.
papers ao on County weehI ba
their circulation now reaches $500 a week.
Chairman Clayton of Wisconsin is CIV
oamp sRefa g. w. seW We will gd h
in June. Rev. J. o. Johnson, the Swedish
Prohibition organizer, is at work in that
state.
Many distinguished men of the empire
and some of the nobility are identified
with the National Temperance League
900 members and publishes the largest
temperance magazine in the world.
4 Prohibition State Conference will
National Chairman Jones land Yolney B.
Gushing of Maine and perhaps DR.. Swal-
low will speak.
The Forum, DIR. Swallows new paper
which succeeds the Pennsylvania Metho
dist. is an attractive weekly magazine
of "a pages DR.. Swallow is assisted by Is
the things for which the Forum stands
are the humiliation of the liquor traffic.
complete purging of our municipal state
adjustment of the differences between
capital and labor.
Oklahoma held Prohibition Territor-
ial Conference May 9-11. National
Chairman Jones was present. Chairman
Wolfenbarger is arranging a big series of
party conferences in Nebraska State
secretary Quincy Lee Morrow of S. Oak.
is at work on a great summer campaign
in country districts, and street corner
rallies in the towns. Cushing, Millican,
Edgar and Morrow are campaigners
therefor.
The Clarions are singing in West Vir-
ginia. William Frost Crispin will give
the most of this year to Kentucky and
has begun his labors there. About 40
Prohibition party candidates for the legis-
lature and several county tickets are in
the field in that state already. Hon. Will
an extensive tour of North Carolina last
month in the interest of the Prohibition
party. c. E. Hopkins formerly the be-
loved secretary of the South Dakota state