ORIGIN OF "PUSSYFOOT"

Evening Star, Issue 17324, 12 April 1920, Page 7

ORIGIN OF "PUSSYFOOT"

At a demonstration in the Central Hall, j ] Westminster, on January 17 to celebrate j ' America's "going dry," at which Mr ' Johnson ("Pussyfoot") made a first pub- • He appearance after his recent accident, the chairman. Sir A. Pearce Gould, said it was not generally known how the name originated. It was an honored name given to Mr Johnson by the-Red Indians because \ of lii& skilful and bravo fight against the drink traffic-.in the United States 1 . Wild scenes of uproar marked the meeting. When Mr Johnson ro3e he was immediately met by shouts from anti-Prohibi-tionists. Ultimately the chairman called j for volunteers from the audience to eject j the interrupters. Thre-o men were seized. I and. although they struggled violently, i were put out. Mr Johnson afterwards ' ' succeeded in making himself heard. He . < ■was sure, he said, that he could see the ' < demonstrations they had just made with '' ■ his glass eye. His eye was only one of J : the many knocks that he had" received;' 1 during 30 years of Prohibition work. He ' had a good assortment of scars, and the'; ; marks on the top of his head resembled ] parts of tlw west coast of Scotland. He • looked forward hopefully to the'success of : the Prohibition campaign in EnaLind.