Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-11-01
BACKBONE

Prohibition Alliance movement, will reside
at Madison, Wis. This ought to make 1t
easier to secure his services In this sec
tion =,
The American Anti-Saloon League will
meet in convention at Indianapolis Nov.
21-24 Father Jas. NJ. Cleary, Minneapolis,
will deliver one of the evening addresses
and Prof. Chas. Scanlon, formerly of this
state and now Field Temperance Secretary
of the Presbyterian church, win occupy an
other evening.
Ole Tongwall was run over by freight
train at Mora He leaves his family in
destitute circumstances. This makes five
accidental deaths and suicides on account
of drink in Mora in as many months.
Nevertheless business men are terrorized
and not many Christian men have got ex-
cited as yet.
Katherine Lente Stevenson, Massachu-
setts president of the W. C. L. U, who
has had wide experience, knows Of many
who have taken up temperance work as a
result of the training which w. Z. L. U.
oratorical contests afford. 1t can also be
made a source of revenue to the organiza-
ton which manages It,
The total sales of the South Carolina
state dispensary for the quarter ending
Aug 81 were $685., 314.42; for local dis
pensaries for the same quarter 1922, 837.55:
In three months time, although some OF
the dispensaries have been closed, the vol
ume of business done at the dispensaries
shows an increase of about 100000.
few of our readers have accepted our
invitation to send us whatever postage they
care to, which we will use in mailing them
from time to time one or more of the
Prohibition papers of the land which we
receive in exchange for ours. This makes
us a little work but we take pleasure in
rendering the service to our subscribers
Homer L. Castle. Prohibition candidate
sylvania, did not get SO excited in his race
for office as to forget the men who put him
to the front. When he had chance to
honor his party he did so in splendid
the gritty little Pennsylvania to the echo.
Our good friend, Rev. S. w. Squire, who
delighted the state W.. G.. ~ y. conyen-
ton with his songs, was billed d. in the pro a
papers have followed suit Fred l.. Squires
is the name of the versatile press superin-
tendent who turns off large amount OF
telling work for National Chairman Jones
The postal department excluded from the
mails Both Sides, bearing date of Oct. 5,
because of a certain poem which it con-
tanned Both Sides is a paper printed in
the interest of the liquor dealers of Min
hardly less offensive than many utterances
of that organ. But what else could be
expected?
Nearly $4,000 have now been subscribed
since Jan. LIST. Only 1886 contributors
have as yet been heard from, hawever.
Chairman Chas. r. Jones, $50 The Temple,
Chicago, makes an earnest appeal for at
least $4,000 in cash during the next thirty
days to meet the expenses of the work
planned for the balance Of the year.
National Chairman Jones thinks that this
revival month ought to be good time for
the preachers of Minneapolis to press home
the truth that if Sunday closing decreases
about 20 per cent and drunkenness ABOUT
40 per cent, then Observation-Disclosures
closing ought to wipe out at least nine
tenths of all the rest and he insists that
the people can do it whenever they say so.
Prohibitionists and W. c.. T. U. and
q. A. Russell a farewell luncheon at Dor
sett's this month. Appreciative words were
spoken by state chairman Higgins and sew
eral others. Mrs. Russell has left for
ter resort hotel. Her return to Mime
apolis in the spring will be warmly well
coined.
Ex-Governor John P. st. John is having
speaking, being interviewed by the dailies
and idolized by reformers. His first visit
to Los Angeles was early in the fifties
when he was exploring California in quest
ton twenty-one years ago, he has made
more than 1000 addresses and travelled
$4,000 miles.
over 900 public Prohibition meetings
have been held by the South Dakota state
committee, during the past year. It is
proportion to it's vote, has raised as much
money for the cause or kept up greater
agitation of the question Although handi-
capped for a while by it's fight to secure
entry as second-class matter, the Beacon
Light now has 1000 subscribers
A series of resolutions understood to
commit the body squarely to the support OF
the Prohibition party was introduced at the
Holston, Tenn. Conference of the M. r.
Church South. They were defended by
Geo. R. Stuart, the well-known evangelist
but strongly opposed by Bishop Hoss, who
was presiding. The resolutions carried by
a large majority and later in the day q
motion to reconsider was defeated two to
| one.