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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1914)
THE MORTTR OREOOMAJf. SATURD AT", OCTOBER 24, 1914. FOE M A MF The Bvening Telegraixi the "Dry " Committee of One Hundred's organ of abuse, declares that some of the names signed to a certain "Declaration of Principles" opposed to STATEWIDE PROHI BITION are forged. To the Committee of One Hundred: Here Is a New Challenge If the name of a single man is Forged or Not Signed or Authorized by the In dividual Concerned the organization signing this advertisement will donate One Hundred Dollars to any charitable organization for Each Name So Forged. Now let the Dry Committee of One Hundred . back down from the Nasty Insinuations contained in their Paid Advertisements or Prove That Any Name Has Been Forged. The "Dry Committee of One Hundred" (or less) challenged the anti-prohibition forces to produce the names of One Hundred Oregonians (presumably of prominence) opposing prohibition. We gave them, not one hundred, but several hundred names under this caption: To The Committee of lOO (or less): Don't dodge this direct answer. Either back down from your challenge, or make good. YOU MADE GOOD You Have Not! That is not the Prohibition Method. Such a squirming, wiggling, crawling and backing up has never been seen in Portland. You tell us that you are Checking the Names! As a matter of fact, you are not asking One Man of the Nearly 400 names furnished you whether he favors or is Opposed to Prohibition, but whether he is "Sponsor for Some Quotation or Statistics." Your Challenge Reads: (This is a literal copy of the Dry Committee's Challenge.) "So we challenge the wet interests of Oregon to produce a 'com mittee of 100' sympathetic supporters who are, ready to stand out in the open in support of a wet state, and as soon as the names are furnished we shall publish them in every paper in Portland, parallel with the names of the members of this -body, and leave the people to draw their own inferences." Here Is Your Wiggle You fail to make good your own challenge. In your answer you dodge the issue, after receiving a solar plexus reply to your own challenge. You answer us by saying: "The Committee of 100 did not ask for a number of Portland taxpayers who are opposed to the dry movement." That would be silly we know that there are plenty of them. Here Is the Hole Through Which the Committee of One Hundred Is Trying to Wiggle The "dry" Committee of 100 (or less) glibly explains that in another paragraph in their now FAMOUS CHALLENGE was a sentence to the effect that the ONE HUNDRED OREGON IANS whose names were printed by this organization should "sponsor" certain quotations not contained in' the challenge. WE NOW ASK THE FAIR-MINDED MEN AND WOMEN OF OREGON TO BE THE JUDGE OF THIS "CHEAP WIGGLE." What issue really confronts the people of Oregon? Is it the accuracy of a quotation or of some statistics, or is it the PROSPERITY OF OREGON? Do Not Be Misled The issue is PROHIBITION against HOME RULE. No amount of dodging, squirming or wiggling can change it. The NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED (not merely ONE HUN DRED) substantial business men who signed a "Declaration of Principles" OPPOSING STATEWIDE PROHIBITION are being wheedled, cajoled and threatened, in every conceivable manner, in an attempt to induce them , through fear of loss of business or "job," or through some other contemptible force or pressure, to repudiate or discredit their signatures. Don't Forsget the "4 to 1" ChambeK" of Commerce Vote We call your attention to the significant fact that the men, whose lives and work make them most competent, to judge what is best for Oregon Portland's Chamber of Commerce turned down prohibition by a vote of 470 to 111, or over four to one. That organization ' knows what will help and what will hurt Oregon. There is a challenge which the Dry Committee of 100 has been very careful to ignore. IN CONCLUSION We ask the sober judgment of fair-minded men and women of Oregon as to whether or not we met the challenge fairly and squarely, notwithstanding the "fake" promise of the Dry Committee the lists have not been published by them we have met the issue and the . cries of forgery. Sponsoring quotations and their whinings and-snarlings indicate clearly that some one has been. soundly whipped. The Dry Committee's advertisement is now headed "The Brewers Are Desperate.' The so-called desperation has at least not yet driven them to crawling in the holes of cheap evasion and subtle i trickery. - You Backed See How Many own From Your Fprmer Challenge, You Would Not Publish the List, Now Hundred Dollars You Claim for the Names You Say Are Not Bonaf ide (raid Advertisement, State Brewera' Association of Oregon; F". C. Deckebarh, President. Portland, Or.)