New Britain herald., 1923-01-26
PROHIBITION WILL
 SWEEP ALL ENGLAND
So Says ScrymseOur, "tht Man
 Who Beat Churchill"

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 essl,-GFeat RTllain's one RFahihi
 iiaalst member ef parliament, EdNi
 heTymge0nF now universally know
 as The man who heat Churchill,
 recently predicted that n the neK
 general election, assuming it Hill hl
 rive years hence, the cause which hl
 represents will sweep the country,
 This sangnlne prophecy was mad'
 by pundee's RsWlyreleeted dry cham
 pian soon after his maiden speech iI
 the house ef commons, not Tn tho
 tones Of dreamer flushed with hli
 flrsl burst Of victory hut in the cool
 deliberate manner Of man whe
 thoroughly believes he knows the
 workings of practical politics,
 Mr, SeFymgeouF made his state
 ment 10 representative Of The Asso-
 eiated Press, He Is kind-faeed
 seotehman, slightly bald, and anpar- sntly about hA years of age, His
 rather large though well.foFmed lins
 hespeak his kind manner, although there Is dehnitc suggestion Of frm- ness in the long, dropping gray mon- staehe which covers his upper lip, Earnest unpreientiousnes is the outstanding description of his general appearance, Clad in an ordinary m. creased Scotch tweed business suit. with a large watch-ehain stretched across his breast, from which a well. worn crueihx is suspended. Mir. serymgeour at once gives the impress sion that ostentation is certainly one characteristic entirely alien 10 his na- ture.
 America has been intensely inter. ested in your victory" said the cor respondent. grasping the large, rough hand of the Scotch.
 50 hear" he replied in an un- mistakable Scotch accent.
 "on what basis do you predict a dry victory in the next general cleo tion?" asked the correspondent.
 Receive Congratulations.
 Well. in the first place." he an swered. since my election I have re- ceiyed every day a stack Of letters that highland he measured with his hands held up to his waist ''congratulating me on my victory. The writers of virtually all these let ters say they are going to bring from their several constituencies to support the bill intend to introduce. If that does not work the people of | this country at the next election, talk ing lesson from Dundee. are going | to nominate avowed prohibitionists, | and my prediction is that there will | be enough elected to force a prohibit tion bill through commons.
 The people Of this country are learning that it's no good supporting candidates on the prom ise to do anything to stop, or even regulate. the liquor traffic. We don't want temperance: it never amounts to anything. What we want is abso- lute eradication, and no other pro- gram will satisfy us.
 Will Make a Start.
 We may not be able to pass bill through this house, but we're going 70 make start. One of the first .hings I intend to do is to draw the attention of the government to the act that. regardless of the rightness ,r wrongness of prohibition, we are Q friendly country, the Tnted States. by countenancing the shipping of vast quantities of liquor o the Bahamas and other British stands off the Atlantic coast. which we know is intended for smuggling nto America. It's ridiculous to , imagine that the amount of liquor low going to these places is only suf- icient for British inhabitants. The ecent correspondence between Mir. Hughes and Ambassador Geddes early indicates that we must be areful not, even tacitly, to interfere with the enforcement of the laws of
 friendly country.
 When Mir. Johnson n''-Mr. Scrym- eour avoided the word Pussyfoot- came here there was a storm of rotest against his alleged interfer- nee with the affairs of this country. { Yell, the same argument should hold rue in our attitude toward the en- orcement of prohibition in the Unit d States. Of course, however, we rohibitionists know MT. Johnson did ot interfere with the affairs of this ountry. He merely came, at our in- itation, to tell us what had been , one in the United States and to let l S draw our own conclusions. It has cen alleged that the anti-saloon ,ague has been helping us in the ause of prohibition. Of course that
 not true. The anti-saloon league as not given us one penny, and we c ont expect any material support \ 'om any American organization. We re quite able to do the thing our lives. although certainly we shall l elcome moral support from what Ter source"