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Show w - BILLBOARDS rsiT tLylllil lUh WHISKEY The use or Abraham Lincoln's portrait por-trait on local billboards as a medium ror advertising a certain brand or whiskey has moused a protest and an active crusnde has been started to discourage a practice which has lately late-ly embraced the names and llkonesscs or America's most famous statosmen The local W. C T. U. women hac discussed the matter at several recent meetings and are preparing to tako vigorous action Senator Bristol of Kansas has boon communicated with I on the subject and the natlonnl president pres-ident or the W. C. T. U. will be ap-penlcd ap-penlcd to with a view or making the movement general oxer the country on the supposition that the same printed matter receives wide circulation. circula-tion. The rollowing protest rrora the pen of Mrs S. H. Frey or Ogden has been circulated throughout the cities and towns of Utah In an etrort to arouso a general reeling in support or the crusade. "Time, money and energy aro spent to tench patriotism and Instill In our young the highest respect for strong men In the history of our nation. "February tho twelfth Is obsorved every year as tho birthday and tho 'most gifted speakers arc called upon I to spenll thalr eloquence In commending com-mending as nn example or the American. Amer-ican. Abraham Lipcoln. "Through all history and biography he Is respected as one who stands for religion of the highest typo and waa found often In prayer for his felldw man and tho weiraro of this nation j Ire Is one of our own heroes whom our boys, throughout this bright and blessed land, are counseled to study and pnttcrn arter "Whor. is tho son of American soil, who has forgotten the principles that exalt our noble dead and for greed wonld seek the low privilege of dragging down that namo ami snerednoss of tho likeness of tuo dc-, dc-, parted and lovod face, whoro Is he , who asks, but, where, oh K-hcre, the one who grants In copyright uch a ' privilege? 1 "On many ot the billboards In our own fair Ogden. we find full size portraits por-traits of Abraham Lincoln used as a sign for 01d Empire" filsky. "Many children lurro stopped and questioned this and many who are older grown. "We. as residenU of Ogddn, loyal to our country nnd the memory ot our martyred and beloved pre I clout of this United States, protest the Indignity In-dignity of using the nortrnit of Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln as a whiiky algn. "Ho stood for morality, brotherhood 'of man and all hijfi Ideals, for none or which does whisky stand. "For the lore and honor of oitr rhlldnnt homes and nation, will net puWle santlmcnt remove tho signs? oo |