TWO NO-LICENSE FIGHTS AT BURGHEAD AND LOSSIEMOUTH, SCOTLAND, SEPT. 25, 1923.

White Ribbon, Volume 29, Issue 343, 18 January 1924, Page 8

TWO NO-LICENSE FIGHTS AT BURGHEAD AND LOSSIEMOUTH, SCOTLAND, SEPT. 25, 1923.

Mrs Barton, the well-known Temperance lecturer, addressed two large and enthusiastic meetings at Burghead and Lossiemouth, N.B. Mrs Barton spoke of how she had been out in the thick of the tight with the liquor traffic down in the trenches and up in the parapets. She said she had never yet met a person who could give a good reason why Britain sh mid continue giving licenses to thousands of publicans to sell alcoholic liquor as a beverage. She said at her age she deserved to be allowed to rest in her bungalow at Prestwick, but she could not rest, seeing women and children condemned to misery. Why should ’no nation legalise a trade that never did any good to anyone? Much depended the women. Gieat men had led the American nation in its crusade against slavery, but bch.nd these men was the inspiration of a woman, Harriet Beecher Stowe. The future was with the Temperance party. Even with a hostile press, and the press, Mrs Barton declared, was never in favour of reforms till they betaine popular, they would win through. No-License would one day become popular. Then the people would rise in their strength and no longer allow thousands of brewers and publicans to fatten and flatten on their misery. Mrs Barton’s address sparkled here and there with gems of humor. She said she met in a train a man connected with the trade. He said, “If you earr> No-License we will all have to go to the poorhnuse.” “And when you go there,” she replied, “those whom you have sent there will have a chance of getting out.”