The Archive · 1921

Bonnie Dundee

One of the most interesting items of the Scottish prohibition fight which has so far come to hand, writes a Scots correspondent, is that Dundee has registered itself wholeheartedly "wet." This is, of course, not surprising to anybody who knows the city of jute and marmalade, but the point worth noting is that Dundee has for years been the centre of prohibition work in Scotland. It uust be 15 or 16 years since the Scottish Prohibition Party received birth there, and, 38 a matter of fact, for a number of years the Town Council has had among its members one or two pledged to prohibition and nothing else. Then at general and by-elections there have been prohibition candidates—generally the organizing secretary of the party—although the electors have never

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