Backbone. [volume], February 01, 1905, Image 2

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W% A gm |r r| m] |T\ There Is no magic in license to change MAKE YOUR WORD GOOD. """"■ " 1 " 111 -l .
D Jt\ \m* IV M 3 1/ XU JEL# moral wrong to innocence.” The crim- The Pennsylvania State Temper- A- '■ *
wa ass cedar street st. Paul minn. inality of the saloon system could ance convention, held at Harrisburg JL II JUJI A <Vlt i
» - -• ,— —— hardly be more plainly pointed out. in 1867, declared that “if the adver- ’
b»ued Monthly by the State Prohibition Committer g ut q ot< Folk, like many another poll- saries of temperance shall continue „.L„ .1,., ~ ,
geo. f. wells, editor & Manager tician, stopped just before he. said to receive aid and countenance of
• something. It is to be hoped that he present political parties, we shall not w ~ proiessea unrisuans wins at
PRICE 26 CENTS IN ADVANCE SWhfllr mtr nnlltlll hanHa an «Vil, the Ungodly Will CIOSB both
Five Copies ii.oo. - Twenty Copies, 53.00 will S?w grace. hesitate to break our political bands ’,. ~ “ __ on . aßd +*«
Twelve Copies, $2.00. Thirty-tive Copies, |5.00 and seek redress through the ballot- „ii voi —<
" To the same or different addresses. “N EXT ON THE WORLDS CALEN- box.” Similar resolutions were adopt- “fj" . Co il . bottl
Entered at the Postoffloe at St. Paul. Minn., at second- DAR.” ©d by Other bodies and the Prohibi- q nv hn-ar that’ An*?
class matter, jan. i, taw, under the act of starch *, I*7*. On the day preceding that on which* tion party was the outgrowth of the rr ,,~ ay ’ bow , yoa fiad b
iJi-'-iiLJuin-u .1— he was assasinated, President Lincoln failure of the old parties to take up this i been an eloctlon
iq vntm Riirqpdidtiom Dam m said to Colonel J. B. Merwin, now issue. Tens of thousands —probably around cere lately.
a v r« iv ed j£ or Q f j-jjg American School and hundreds of thousands—of enemies of T . _, . ~x , , .
DATE AND FOR THE YEAR 1905.? College Journal, “After reconstruction the saloon have from time to time de- J*. w ® find tbat oae Political party is
In the last six weeks we have PER- the next great question will be the dared to themselves and others that ag f: nst us Y« e mu v" B1 ?? p< ? rt tbe ot , r *
SON ALLY communicated with A overthrow of the liquor traffic.” Col- if their party should not in a given °®“ Pt First nAliHriaifa— ~
LARGE NUMBER of SUBSCRIBERS onel Merwin believes that had Lincoln year do this or that good thing or if gai .,®’ n At 5 ® pohtlcians * j
S lived 316 would have inaugurated and it should do this or that bad thing, Nat f ioaa]rs rf ( S n 'i M
WHO WERE IN ARREARS, as well i e( j a prohibition movement of giant that they would forsake it forever If the enemies of the saloon should »
as 800 whose renewals were just due. proportions. and ally themselves with the Prohibi- pu^ sa ® tb ? same policy, It would soon ;
At this writing NEARLY 1,000 of If the multitudes who hold this view tion party that could always be trijist- party (
these have resnonded and we EX. would help to bring on the issue with ed. With few exceptions those par- power and I
ü B »T.«T their ba!lot3 > there would soon be no ties failed to do that certain good the saloon out of business.
tend .o them our heartiest other political issue worthy of consid- thing and did that certain bad thing, I
©ration and victory would be not far but in a great majority of cases noth- j"
The letter, however, COST BACK- in the future. ing came of the promises and threats
BONE AND THE PROHIBITION A aA , made by their supporters. If these » t
/'Aiictr rwi cd imaa c.eu i 4. A SALOON'S WORST FEATURE. promises and threats had been made
over $lOO cash for print- Let us not be understood as holding good, they would have caused such an / t
ing, stationery, and postage, to say that a saloon conducted in violation increase of the membership of the it itWM|» l
nothing of SEVERAL WEEKS of work of the laws and ordinances govern- Prohibition party as would have hur- I \2''<J
bv our manager and clerks. Do you ing lt ls so very much worse than r *ed It to power long ago. Isn’t it \IhHIHHk WU
one conducted according to law, if time that these promises and threats
think our cause and Backbone can Buch an one exists . The index Qf the were made good? Haven’t the old- . '■HH
afford this? Are you willing that it character of a saloon is the stuff that parties forfeited their claim to the
should be so? We have been telling is passed across the bar, not whether suffrages of that part of their mem
our peoDle through the Datier that it It; is Bold during legal hours or to bersbip which would promote morals . *
would L n proper (?) persons. If the liquors in politics and which would eliminate LET US RAISE A STANDARD TO
i ® ne esa y unless. Did were as pure a 8 tlie j r advertisements the anarchistic and devilish saloon WHICH THE WISE AND HONEST
YOU do all you could to avoid it? claim, if the saloon were run by the from our civilization? Are you one CAN REPAIR. THE EVENT IS IN
We rejoice that so many have re- angel Gabriel, if the day’s business of those who have made such a threat THE HAND OF GOD.—Washington.
plied. But those who* have not yet on the stroke of the clock as required or promise as we speak of? If so, T~"1. “
HniiA by law, it would still drive the nation’s when do you propose to make good? THE PROPITIOUS SMILES OF
done so have made the expense of col- g £ bjec { a to hell libe gh to the S HEAVEN CAN NEVER BE EXPECT
lecting from those who have responded slaughter. We mention the lawless- THE N p W vnirF’Q mfw mcvp ED ON A nat,on THAT DJSRE
enormously large. BUT PERHAPS ness of the saloon only because U con- T ” E I ; EW J° ICE 8 NEW MOVE * CARDS THE ETERNAL RULE OF
YOU WILL RENEW TO-DAY. stitutes one more reason why it should f f r + . RlGHT.—Washington.
die. If a man have no horror of the * be on al ° r S a u of the Prohibition —:
saloon for any other reason and yet ba ® become also the national r™- ,1,1,
r 2™ "" has high respect for law, let him S£ gaa of tlie Anti-Saloon League. ( Mr. njil r a D *,**«*»
know that the saloon is to-day the Woolley announces Co-operation as jf l|fl Of ||\C A fCSS*
chief An archist of the land. his battle -cry from now on.
The comments are various. Those J
MINNESOTA’S CHALLENGE. leaders in church and state who are *
The editor who quotes Lincoln ns challenge of the Minnesota Bx- opposed to the saloon hut Vho yet vo?”“lalSS
ODDOsed to Prohibition would renre- ecutlye Committee to the other state vote with license parties, hail the an- around.
sent Washington as oimosed to the committees of the land to raise a lar- nouncement as the dawn of an era of Kansas city Leader: it is well to re
indeDendence of the colonies McKin ger amount in proportion to their Pro- good-will. On the other hand the »e“j>er that the bravm and best or tbe ;
ley aaTnfavor of free hlbltlon yote than ■we in the next two choleric Citizen and a few other pa- >««* »y mlnorl- _
an as a champion of the gold standard, years Is receiylng wide attention Not pers think we are sold out. Between Calir< , raL , v „ loe . M „ a(aoturer . „ th .
But let us be charitable* n«rhan<» all brighL enterprising and liberal Pro- these opinions are many shades of trade of the stores that retail your goods
thev don’t know anv better P P hibitionists happen to live in Minne- view. was not pinched by the saloons getting
* sota, although the number of such is Backbone desires to be registered as t^meTs, 6 yoJr S neT wouia^be C m-
Emperor William of Germany an- so great as to almost lead a loyal an agnostic. Nothing would 'delight creased tens or hundreds of thousands of
nounces that his officers may drink son or daughter of the North Star us more than a kindlier spirit on the dollars a year.
his health In water or non-alcoholic stele to imagine so. Depend upon it, part of all enemies of the saloon to- True R eform: Prohibition is a right- B
beverages. The King of England not our challenge will be taken up and we ward each other except such further Inteed^rule 1 of f D B ersoSf conduct a if U de" 1
long ago made a similar announce- must make good and be about it. A increase of co-operation between them mands thkt the sUto shaU and |
ment. Heretofore such officers have fund of $50,000 in two years in Minne- as may be practicable. Party Prohibi- discourage the most prosperous and pes- I
practically been compelled to drink sota means a contribution of $6.66 tionists, while anxious for the union continuing forlorn I 1
the health of their ruler in intoxicat- from each Prohibitionist. Qf course of the largest number of enemies on oni™ ming and oontinuins 11 for rever * u « i
ing liquor. Show this to some one thousands of our men are unknown to a fighting basis and willing to give ■
who thinks that little progress is be- us. It will be necessary for a large up everything but DrinciDle in order P 4
ing made in our movement. number to pay $lO. This amount has to accomplish it, have not been able * 1,111 '4 h
“Candidates A, B and C, Prohibi- be , ea determined upon, in fact as the heretofore to see any basis of exten- RjiJaf RrAltlV fc
| tienists carried this that and the minimum contribution for which we s ive cooperation between the Anti- ICI a,lu Ulaliljf. L
other precinct ” Do you know that wIU Btrive * If we win » there must also Saloon League and themselves. Both M
! this is becoming a very frequent item b ® V ®!I A ma " y more plages of $25, stand for the same thing but their 1 1 gf
of news? Do you know that hnn- * so ’ and upwards than we have methods, while alike under some cir- We ghall not fall _ if we stand flrm we p
{ dreds of Prohibition township, vil- ever thought of In the history of the cumstances, vary widely at what Pro- shall not fan.-l fncoln, Ysbs
1 lag© and county officials have been movement in this state. Are you hibitionists deem the vital point, the Not until th© church of Christ put Lg
i elected? Do you know that Sheriff rea dy” League standing for the support of down the liquor traffic can it regain it* fl
ti Pearson of Portland, Maine, Oliver W. what the y choose to call good men on tempted men.—Frances E. wn- 1
Stewart, a member of the Illinois "WHERE ARE THE NINE?” in the old parties, while the Prohibi- ™ determined to hurt this enemv of
i House of Representatives in 1903, and State Grafton E. Day, New Jersey, tion party is an outgrowth of the fail- order and life (the saloon) in Iny way
many other Prohibition officials have states regretfully that over seventy- ure of such methods and of the belief and every way I can. The goal is con- f v
made not only satisfactory, but re- five per cent of all monies received for in the absolute necessity of a Prohi- « tlo w- i£ at ® b v state.— *,•'
markable records in office? And do state work is contributed by twelve bition party in order to overthrow the T^e P machinerY ]
you know that it is better further on? persons. This is the condition of liquor traffic. press co p m b& e to law a I
: .. things which obtains throughout the We do not see how th© New Voice failure. Then this successful perfidy f
ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE' OR , trUl f. cham I> l ™ U>«»' *»» ">°Te- S5S* ‘diUu L,
UKhANi4b! OnuANiZci OR- to he sure, than in the churches and ments. It may serve as a news paper Chas A. Crane Boston v £■
j, GANIZEI philanthropic organizations, taking in- for both but time and again their pol- "How the prohibitionists of all parties |L
The key to the situation is organiza- t 0 account that they are able to per- icy and ours are widely apart—are and church members can come together” i|
tion. Without it every effort of every 30aally s ®® tb ? 3e fr °m -whom they so- opposed to each other- and if at such matterTo colder H
kind will produce but a tithe of its Ucit contributions while we must de- times the Voice should fail to speak long m poUthSdl
legitimate results. The organization, pend largely on newspapers and circu- and speak plainly, It will lose its In- hlbltlon I can see no way for --prohibi
to bu politically eltoctlTo muzt be pt, £ toYheTon-iolnl “ S6emB to u8 ' an<i fa “ *” ltß
litical.- It must be built from the vast importance to tne wen Deing work. polls where the issue must be decided
ground up. Its unit must be the pre- However we do not know it all. We and'¥re nrohihitinn kIIi < Rroh i b J t,or *
ciact. If any legislative district is of W e b n o w tbe snltitTf our bave been mistaken before and may as a Orwig, Moine” ° m '
- carried it will be carried because ef- ® . ta ® 8p be again. If the League will listen to -r , “
fective organization in the various pro- ?®f« p !f o /?, n Jfl! ? iatf tbis New Voice, ascertain and adver- iam not bound to win but i S j
SSSSSSSSS M u B N O D UN r D o T ?u B o E c B T E R o UE a^ ;M , M
s “ o( tbe s “ 8 SiSsSSSSS tp&ps&sisssi r v r_iL L «:r up ™ —■ I
> large snare or tne voting FroDimtion wben j t ought to stand by them and
NOT ONE OF OUR FOLKS. “ d t “™ “ B w °f' ** g If there were no licenced aaloona.
• Noticing recently that Gov. Folk of there are a few who have special rea- ret nearer toeether TomradA Wool tbe bllr >d pigs would become as scarce
, Missouri had made a declaration in sons why they cannot determine at a jL. may help g them—and us—at that as U®slt stills; In short, prohibition
1 bis inaugural address on the subject given time Just what they can and no y lnt WA wiii wait and sL would prohibit. ’Cause why? Uncle . *
of license, we sent for the document, ought to do. But we think we speak p ‘ Sam would work the prohibiter. See?
and, behold! his pronunciamento Is moderately when we say that in nine —C. E. Carlisle.
against licensed gambling only. He cases out of ten our people can make FIGURE THE PROFIT. s|
says, “The law should not sanction some sort of a response within a week, In 1903 we spent $17.85 per capita M. v. Facey, the honey man, who, by 1L
any practice that pollutes the youth most of them within a day. Let us for liquor and collected $2.87 Interna! tl l e way, is a Prohibnionißt, writes: “My :aM|
_ and degrades the men of the state, more up front in this thing. revenue very r good > reeuit” ~B ackbone has brought I
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