PROHIBITION MOVEMENT

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 124, 21 November 1925, Page 7

PROHIBITION MOVEMENT

(From Our- Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 7th October. A new campaign, with the object of making Great Britain "dry," is about to be launched by the United Kingdom Alliance and other bodies associated with the cause of Prohibition. It wiil be the biggest Prohibition movement of its kind yet attempted in this country. The methods to be adopted are similar .to those which Xivecedcd the introduction of Prohibition in the United States. As was the case in the early days of the movement in that country, the organisers, it is reported, arc not going to talk at iirst about Prohibition. They describe their campaign as one in support of local option for England and Wales. It will be opened in the Breo Trade Hall, Manchester, on 19th October, and later meetings will b.o held in London, Livorpool, Bradford, Northampton, Hull, Newcastle, Cardiff, Portsmouth, Sheffield, Bochdale, and Stoke-on-Treut. In the list of speakers appear the names of Mr. Lcif Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Snowden, Mrs. Lloyd George, Sir*. Donald Maclean, Sir George Hunter, Mr. C. P. Tvevelyan, Mr. William Graham, and several other Socialists. At one time it was expected that j the Liberal Party would bo associat- [ cd with the campaign, but doubts as to the political expediency of such an association seem to have arisen j recently, and the present' intention cf the party managers is to await the effect of the campaign before deciding whether local option is to be made a plank in the party platform. Meanwhile a questionnaire on tha subject is being sent to Liberal branches. .Extensive support for the eampagin lias been obtained from a numbor of Nonconformist bodies, the list including the Wesleyan Chutch, which at its last conference passed a resolution in favour of total and permanent Prohibition. - The keynote of the campaign will bo an appeal to -women, who will be told tlint men's expenditure on drink deprives, them of many things that might otherwise have been bought for them, their children, or then Jirniics. Hero, again, the method to bo adoptod is a close copy of tho Anvu-k(uv plan. The system of local option to be advocated is explained in a 1 private member's Bill presented to Varliiimentf some time ugo by Mr. Loii .!oi|es. Under tlic- provisions vi! iliut Kill a pull would he t»ktn Ir. cvory Parliamentary Irorough to di-rnlc. t.v!h'ther the salu of intox'iiitmts aho'iid bo prohibited in that, locality or not, (lie ppl) to be repeated every tour veal's. , 85, fleet street.