SLANDERING THE DEAD

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1292, 22 November 1911, Page 8

SLANDERING THE DEAD

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S SAYING. [To tho Editor.l Sir,—l notice that the Prohibitionist!) liavo challenged tlio writer of the autiProhibitionist articles in tiic papers to say where lie got the quotation from attributed to President Lincoln, beginning, "J'rohibilioii will work a great injury to tlio cause of Temperance," and that writer is accused of slandering the dead. I take a good. deal of interest in tbo Icmporanco quotlion, and 1 must say that J have seen that quotation before. I was turning over some American papers the other day, and 1 found a report of a. lecture delivered, not by a Prohibitionist advocate-, but by the Tiev. 'Wallace If. Short, lie is iho. pastor of the First Congregational Church, of Sioux City, lowa, and I notice that ho is reported by Iho "Sioux City Tribune" to have innd'o extracts from the samo statement by President Lincoln as was printed in your | columns tho other day, and characterI ised by the Prohibitionist writers and speakers as "a slander upon the dead." T am a great admirer of President Lincoln, and tho Americans regard him after Washington as their greatest • President, and if his memory were maligned by any. one in America it would scon be refuted. Indeed, no American, especially a Congregational minister, would dare*attrihuto a statement to Lincoln he had not uttered. I think under the circumstances it is rnly right to ask you to publish the enclosed extract, as demonstrating tho existence of President Lincoln's utterances.—l am, etc., FAIIiPLAY.