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Show T0MMYR0T. A young man in Chicago, carried away by his zeal for the cause of temperance, has offered a reward re-ward of $50 to anybody who will produce positive evidence that Abraham Lincoln drank strong liquor. li-quor. Just why the offer is made is not clear. If the evidence should be produced, the young man would be out $.10. which he probably needs; and if it is not produced, nothing concerning the personal habits of Lincoln will result. And just what connection con-nection the personal habits of the great emancipator emanci-pator have with the present-day saloon question is beyond our comprehension. What effect upon the saloon question can the production of the requirec1 evidence have.' What difference does it make to hs, forty-three years after Lincoln's death, whether he did or did not touch liquor? Abraham Lincoln was endowed with a big frame and a bigger brain. Common sense was his greatest great-est attribute. He was a man among men. If he drank liquor at all, it was in greatest moderation. And whet hex he ever tasted liquor or not can in no way affect the high place he holds in the estimation of the world, and equally cannot affect the present status of the saloon. The offer of $50 reward for information on this .subject is just tommyrot of the same kind which Lincoln himself was given to expose. |