That Mr. Scrymgeour's Prohibition motion was defeated in the House of Commons at the end of last week will have caused much less surprise than the fact that as many as 14 Members of Parliament were found voting for it. Mr. Scrymgeour. was the one and only Prohibition candidate elected at the last appeal to the country, and it is, or certainly used to be, one of hi leading principles to have nothing to do with the people who were for half measures. Good Templars were as much anathema to him as were the brewers, and Local Veto was a snare and a delusion. How then he has collected a baker's dozen of supporters is somewhat of a mystery. Having collected them, however, he probably goes on his way with confidence. In his early campaigning days, when a candidate for Municipal honours, he did not get so very many more votes at an election: nevertheless -he_ultimately found himself a Town Coun-oiller and now a Member of Parliament. And working on his own lines, he has just as much chance of giving experienced Parliamentarians the shock of their lives seme i day.
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