It is notoriously difficult to write upon any aspect of the temperance question—indeed it is This, however, makes all the more important the admission that Canada and the United States "complete success can only attend Prohibit: on when the supplies liquor from illicit and outside sources have been cut off. So long as the taste for it exists, so long as it can be imported, and so long as large profits are derive ed from this illicit trade, smuggling will continue, though probily in a diminishing degree". The Commissioners hold futher that adequate enforcement will not be attained until the present generation of alcohol drinkers has passed away.. Into the profounder human issues of legislation that secks to eliminate from society that Dionysiac clement which has played so large a part in history the Commissioners do not enter. Nor do tizey propose that Scotland should adopt Prohibition. What they are chiefly concerned to show is that progress in temperance _iegislation is a matter of cvolut.on. Sudden changes are disastrous. There must be a phase of education, experiment and adjustment. We in Scotland are still in this educational stage: the coming election is only the second under Local Veto. Three options are placed - before the voter—No Licence, No, Change, and Lim.tation. An important section of the community say that these three options are not suffice ent, that there should be a fourth. It ig probable therefore that, whatever the result of the forthcoming local plebiscite, an attempt will be made by Bill in Parliament to introduce a fourth option, in favour of some form of
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