The periodical contests which take place under the Temperance (Scotland) Act provide some slight insight into views upon the subject lof Prohibition obtaining in the country. The outsider would not no: mally regard Scotland with its im-Portant distillery industry as by ature friendly to Prohibition, but [there are one or tivo districts which have gone in for the next thing to local veto—and Scotland has the motion of returning the only Prohibitionis, member to Parliament the United Kingdom. Two of he contests upon the question of, licences to which we have referred have just taken place, and they: rath suggest that once launched upon a course, the Scot likes to stick to it, As it happens one of these polls took pin and there by a majority of 282 out of a total vote of 1,493 the town decided to continue "dry."
The other} there by 680 to 207 votes the electors decided that there should be mo change, which means that Yicenees will continue in the same number as' heretofore. Only three
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