The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-10-08
"AD" QUOTING LINCOLN
FALSE AYERS BAKER
Anti-Saioon League Officer Offers
500 for Proof of Anthem
ITCHY.

ITCHY.
Following is copy of letter sent
recently, signed by E. A. Baker, sup
erintendent of the Anti-Saloon Lea
que, to Abigail Scott Duniway, pres
ident of the Taxpayers and Wage
Earners' League:
Portland, Ore, October 2, 1914.
Abigail Scott Duniway,
President Taxpayers and Wage
Farmers League,
P. o. Box $50, Portland, Or.
Madame:
In paid advertisement in The
Oregonian of this morning, signed by
your organization, Lincoln's picture
is featured, and he is quoted as say
ing:
Prohibition will work great in
jury to the cause of temperance. 1t
is species of intemperance within
itself, for it goes beyond the bounds
of reason in that it attempts to con-
troll mans appetite by legislation,
and in making crimes out of things
that are not crimes.
"a prohibition law strikes a blow
at the very principles on which our
Government was founded. have al
ways been found laboring to protect
the weaker classes from the strong
er, and l never can give my consent
to such a law as you propose to en-
act.
Until my tongue shall be silenced
in death l will continue to fight for
the rights of man."
The above utterance is a pure fab
rication and forgery. Abraham
Lincoln never made such a statement
or anything similar to it.
l will give one hundred dollars in
gold to any charity that you may
name, provided you will furnish
proof Of the genuineness of the above
alleged utterances from Lincoln that
will satisfy the librarian of any rep
utable library in Portland of its gen
uineness as an historical fact.
now call upon you to produce this
proof and get this money, or publicly
acknowledge that you have been
! made the victim Of literary forgery
by INSCRIPTIONS plotters.
l invite your attention to the fact
that your League" Of one member
is posting bills all over Portland rep
resenting Theodore Roosevelt as be-
ing against the dry statewide policy,
when, within a week, Mr.. Roosevelt
made a campaign speech at Toledo,
Ohio, emphatically espousing the
cause of statewide prohibition in that
state, and denouncing the brewers,
your allies and hackers, for their
efforts to defeat woman's suffrage.
invite your attention to the fact
that your alleged League" of one
member is placarding the billboards
of Portland, representing President
| Woodrow Wilson as being against
the dry statewide policy, when, in a
letter to E. w. Grogan of Byers, Tex
as, Mr.. Wilson specifically recon-
mended statewide prohibition for the
states that were ready for that step
| invite your attention to the fact
that your alleged League" of one
member is placarding the billboards
of Portland with libelous statements
against our neighbor Oregon City
falsely representing that city to be
bankrupt when the city officials
themselves declare that the city has
prospered under the dry policy as
never before.
I am addressing you in person for
the reason that, according to the
statements of DR.. Cora c. Talbot
the retiring secretary of the Taxpay-
ers' and Wage Farmers League, you
are the only person left in that or
ganization, there never having been
| but two members.
| am addressing this letter to you
at the address given on your official
letter heads, BOX $50, Portland
Oregon, which is also the official ad-
dress of A. M. Eppstein, the import
ed manager of the eastern liquor cor
porations conducting the liquor cam
paign in this state against the dry
amendment initiated by the people
Respectfully,
(Signed) E. A. BAKER,
Superintendent of the Anti-Sa-