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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 123, 21 November 1911, Page 6

TOBCHLIGHT No. 39. THE LINCOLN LIE." A portrait has recently been placarded round the town which might stand for that of Deeming or Crippen or Powelka, but purports to represent Abraham Lincoln. It is certainly not the Lincoln that we know from a dozen authentic portraits. It is possibly the Lincoln that "we might have known if ho had been, the champion and the victim of the saloon, upon whioh, as a matter of fact, ho had turned his back long before he set his hand to the salvation of the American Dnion and the emancipation of the slave. This libellous portrait has served as the cover to another libel, which has also appeared independently in the newspapers —the mendacious attribution to the great man who lived and died for freedom of an acquiescence in the tyranny of the liquor traffic. The statement that Lincoln said that "Prohibition will work great injury to the Temperanoe cause" is false. LincoJn was a total abstainer all his lifo, and, like all the most distinguished of the he was a Prohibitionist also. He was a lecturer for Temperance and' Prohibition long before he became famous in general politics, and he never wavered in his allegiance. So striot was Lincoln in his principles that when on the day of his nomination to the Presidency some friends thought to save him from embarrassment by providing wine for the celebration of the occasion, he returned the gift, saying "he had never offered wine to his friends, and he could not do it now." In 1852 he took an active part in the agitation for, the enforcement and preservation of' the Prohibitory law ,of his native State—lllinois—as Major J. B. Marvin, who is still alive, has 1 testified. The same authority states that on the very day before his assassination Lincoln said: "After reconstruction THE NEXT GREAT QUESTION WILL BE THE OVERTHROW OF THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC." Such is the record of tho man whom the> advocates of the Trade have been representing as a friend of the liquor Jtraffio! The statement which they attribute to Lincoln is opposed to the whole tenor of his life and thought; it does not contain a single touch that is suggestive o£ his character or his style; and it is not to be found in any biography of Lincoln or any collection of his speeches. Having been forged for the purpose of influencing the negro vote in a Local Option contest in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1887, it was submitted to Mi*. John G. Nicolay, Lincoln's private secretary and biograpiher, and was by him UNHESITATINGLY DECLARED TO BE SPURIOUS. Yeit the lie has done the liquor-sellers of the States yeoman's service in many a subsequent campaign; and, of co.urse, it is quite good enough for the Trade in Kew Zealand to add to its museum of mendacities. Next, please! * STKIKE OUT THE TOP LINE ON BOTH PAPERS. KEEP THIS, AND LOOK OUT FOR NO 40.—Advt.

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