PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN.
BIG FIGHT IN SCOTLAND. London, September 27. Temperance reformers in Scotland continue to resent the intention of Mr W. K. Johnson (“Pussyfoot”) to assist the prohibition .campaign in -Scotland, saying that they are getting along quite well without American orators. The campaign will end in November, when elections will be held in every ward where 10 per cent of the electors ask for a poll under the Scottish Temperance Act. These poll requisitions will be handed in on Thursday. Aluny areas are not troubling in the matter, but temperance reformers in Glasgow and other big
centres are active. The “Pussyfoots” expect to win a quarter of the Glasgow wards. The publicans meanwhile are active. For months every bottle of beer has carried a label warning the voters against apathy. Scores of meetings are held weekly, children taking part in no-lieense demoustra-
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 29 September 1920, Page 4
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