St. Louis, May 29th, 1900.

Rev. John D. Vincil
City. 

Dear Sir & Brother :-

At the last meeting of the St. Louis Prohibition Union
of Christian Men the gift of $5,000.00 which has been proffered to
the State University by Mr. Adolphus Busch of this city was discussed
and the following resolutions were passed.

Resolved:- That we call upon our good Brother Vincil, President
of said Board, with every confidence, to exert his best efforts to
have this proposed gift rejected and the name of our beloved State 
saved from the shame and disgrace of such complicity with the awfully
iniquitous business.

Resolved:- That we urge all Christian people in both pulpit
and pew to at once enter a vigorous protest by personal word and
letter and every other means in their power against this proposed
additional partnership of state and liquor business.

We trust that, in the name of the higher purity of our public
institutions of learning, who by accepting gifts from such sources,
are estopped from antagonizing the liquor traffic which is the
source of such unbounded evil, your Board will decline the gift.
There is blood on the money.

Yours fraternally

E. E. Israel, Secy.