As well as providing the backing for Wu to run the Independence Evening Post, the Tainan Faction and Wu's children donated the funds to set up the Wu San-lien Awards Foundation as a gift for his 80th birthday, for they agreed with his idea that a special characteristic of literature and art is that they cannot be defeated by might.
除了辦自立晚報，台南幫及他的子女還出錢成立了「吳三連文藝基金會」，當作送給他的八十歲生日禮物。因為他們支持吳三連的一個想法：文學和藝術有個特性，它不是強權所能打敗的。