mendment.

The Brewers' and Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association of Oregon sent
out from Portland May 21 to the retail liquor dealers and druggists
the following secret circular, printed on its official paper, headed
with the names of thirteen breweries and nineteen wholesale liquor
houses:

Dear Sir:--Two laws are to be voted on at the election June 4,
which are of vital importance to every liquor merchant in Oregon
without exception. The first is woman suffrage. The second is the
amendment to the local option law. The members of this
association have worked hard for a long time on both these
matters ... but, being few in number, they can not by themselves
pass the local option amendment or defeat woman suffrage. That
part of the work is up to the retailers. We write this letter
earnestly to ask you to help.

It will take 50,000 votes to defeat woman suffrage. It will take
50,000 votes to pass the amendment to the local option law. There
are 2,000 retailers in Oregon. That means that every retailer
must himself bring in 25 votes on election day. Every retailer
can get 25 votes. Besides his employees he has his grocer, his
butcher, his landlord, his laundryman and every person he does
business with. If every man in the business will do this we will
win.

We enclose 25 ballot tickets, showing how these two laws will
appear on the ballot and how to vote. If you will personally take
25 friendly voters to the polls on election day and give each one
a ticket showing how to vote, please mail this postal card back
to us at once. You need not sign the card. Every card has a
number and we will know who sent it in. Let us all pull together
and let us all work. Let us each get 25 votes.

The election took place June 4, 1906, and resulted in an adverse
majority of 10,173 in a vote of about 84,000. Besides the money raised
in Oregon the National Suffrage Association expended on this campaign
$18,075. Of this amount $3,768 were used in the preliminary work of
1905. All of the eastern workers except the organizers contributed
their services and several defrayed their own expenses.

The women decided to go immediately into another campaign. The
Legislative Assembly of 1907 refused to submit the amendment and the
State Association again circulated an initiative petition to have it
submitted. Miss Clay contribu