TEMPERANCE IN THE COMMONS
The annual meeting in Manchester of the United Kingdom Alliance is a useful yardstick for measuring temperance dimensions or advance. Mr. R. Wilson Black, J.P. president, took pleasure that there were twelve avowed abstainers in the present Government and that the new House of Commons afforded possibilities from the temperance j>oint of view. He found decided relief in the passing of the late Government in which the vested interests of the drink trade were strongly entrenched. Mr. J. H. Hudson reported on a census of opinion of candidates in the general election. On the question c>t a “limited local option,” which meant a district poll for the guidance of magistrates, favourable replies from those eventually elected were: Labour 143, Conservatives 20, Liberals 9. and In dep**rdents 2. • Temperance, said Mr. Hud on. had 130 "plumpers" in the House of Conun )ns.
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White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 2, 1 March 1947, Page 2
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