Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1906-01-01
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Four hundred of the strong college men
and women of Texas are members Oh
college Prohibition leagues Tomas
whose face appears in our heading this
Rev. silas c. Swallow. D. D.. has been
elected a member of the American Acade-
my of Political and Social Science.
State Chairman Elwell of the Iowa Pro-
hibition Committee has resigned and j:
S. Ward. Bondurant, has been elected
Irrepressible John E. Main is out again
in southern California with the prohibit
ton wagon. distributing literature ana
Dr.. William A. Taylor, State Chairman
of Michigan, has concluded montns
work in Washington and two weeks IN
Oregon. Much interest Is reported by
the state committee.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas has appointed
eight assistant attorneys to aid law en-
forcement in counties where the snerlIIs
W. T. Stead is empathically of the
opinion that the terrific tragedies which
have been enacted in Odessa and other
place but for drink.
There were organized last year LAT
among the states which made net gain
of over 500 members. Six hundred
pages of literature were distributed.
Rev. Father James M: Cleary, Mime
of the Anti-Saloon League of America
at it's recent convention at Indianapolis.
His address is spoken of as one of great
State Chairman Hoenthal. Conn.,, has
made UP his mind that he will enjoy no
vacation next summer. He seems to pc
very cheerful in the fact that he will
need to devote his whole time to the
work and have a corps of clerks to assist
him.
Gov Bell of Vermont lately declared
ting sick Of license, as shown in the de-
crease from SO to 10 in the number of
licensed towns (out of 240) in the three
years the license law has been in effect.
of the greatest Prohibition rallies ever
held in Indiana in all the leading cities
of that state. Such speakers as Clinton
N. Howard, Homer L. Castle, Eva Mar
shall ShOntZ and John P. st. John are on
the list.
Bishop Vincent Of the M. e. church,
after visiting Norway and closely observ-
ing the work of the Gothenburg system,
said: 'The drink habit is working havoc.
The famous Gothenburg system is not
meeting the expectations of it's advo-
Gates"
On or near February 18th every local
w. G. T. U. is asked to hold meeting
commemorative of the departure of Fran
ces E. Willard and from the proceeds of
that meeting contribute $500 toward the
National Memorial Fund. This will be
used in building up the work in mission
airy territory.
dishonesty, plagiarism and corrupt adj
ministration have been preferred against
Rev. John Wesley Hill, D. D., Pastor of
James M. e. church, Brooklyn, N. Y. This
Minneapolis pastor against whom DR..
Swallow has for several years made SINH
lar charges openly.
her gratitude to God for the recent ruling
of the Internal Revenue department re-
garding the sale of patent medicines con-
tanning a large amount of alcohol. She
living at the same place, as a merchant
there has been selling much Of the stuff
and causing much distress thereby.
During his great London e,ga5
declaration. of his attitude toward the
drink traffic. II am down on the whole
thing" was the answer. But" con-
of prohibition?" Certainly, 1 am pro-
hibitionist; If it is wrong to drink, it must
be wrong to make or sell drink"
The Methodist Temperance Society
asks $1oo from each quarterly conference
and $1.00 from each Epworth League for
the prosecution of it's work. William H.
Anderson, because of his removal to Buff
falo, has resigned the office of Secretary,
and Alonzo e. Wilson has been elected
to fill the vacancy. He may be addressed
at 90 La Sale ST., Chicago.
fornia Methodist Conference, with ESQ de-
legates and alternates in attendance,
adopted a resolution exhorting the tenn
perance committee of each local church
to investigate the character and record
of every candidate for public office and
to make public the results of such investi-
cations.
While addressing a Presbyterian sy-
nod, Field Secretary Scanlon of the Pres
byterian temperance committee was ask
ed what the committee proposed to dc
toward regulating the liquor traffic
Nothing, said he, nothing. Christ
came not to regulate but to destroy the
works of the devil" This was the most
applauded utterance of the session.
In his address at the opening of the
new gymnasium and courts of Dundee
lilly approved of physical exercise but ht
pointed out that it was foolish to be
gathering with one hand and scatter.
ing with the other" That scattering tool
place, said he, where alcoholic drinks