The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-05
IRISH POLITICAL FOES UNITED TO CURB DRY MOVE
Nationalist, Orangemen Join Hands to Fight
 Prohibition
HYPOCRISY" IS SCORED
America Pointed Out as Awful Example With
 '"Asylums Full'

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 DUBLIN, April 1.-The Prohibition Party in Ulster is now importing speakers from America to carry "dry" legislation in the Northern Irish Parliament, but the age-long enemies--Orangeme and National ists-are joining hands and appear ing on the same platforms to defeat the contemplated measure.
 MT. T. J. s. Harbison, M. F., gives it as his opinion that prohibition is doomed to failure. In an interview he says that all his life he has been against hypocrisy. "I have always been up against men who preached doctrines they did not practice. How many of the leading lights on the teetotal platform today are them selves teetotalers? Very few, would venture to say. I believe that if prohibition passes it will deal damaging blow to the temperance movement in Ireland. It is bound to lead to abuses hitherto unknown. In America, where prohibition has only been in force a short time, the asylums are full, not through drink ing alcohol, but through drinking poisonous drinks.
 Warns of Lost Revenue "Where will the Northern Govern- ment get revenue if it abolishes the drink traffic?" MT. Harbison asked, "The Government will lose 100000 sterling, besides creating a great deal of unemployment in a province already overburdened with unemploy- ment. I am an Irish Nationalist, and | if I had not the best interests of the people at heart, and if l were selfish politician, I would be the first to support prohibition, because if would destroy the Unionist Party in Ireland, which is about to intro duce it. The Unionist Party is now gerrvmardering the voting districts of Ulster so that it may get local majorities The Cookstown and Dun gannon voting areas, both Of Whlch were anti-prohibition, have now been deserted, so that the prohibi- tionists have a majority there. rms deprives the majority of their rights and if prohibition is carried it will be by packed juries. England is against prohibition. In the latest election, where between 16,OOO and 17,OOO votes were cast, the prohibl- tionists could only get l90. Unionist Lends Support H. L. Garrett, chairman of the Ulster Anti-Prohibition Society, says that, though he is Union1st, he agrees with Harbison. "No one de- fends excessive drinking" he says, "but if the drunkard is to be re- claimed it must be personal refor- mation-he cannot be made sober by Dassing an act of Parliament. Tear down the saloon and the 'shebeen will spring up III US pldce' ueStios the distillery or the brewery and the manufacture of moonshine begins right away, and smuggling will flour ish.''
 It has been declared that in Ameri- ca there were stills in 50 per cent of the homes, and home brewing and home distilling were rapidly on the increase. The reports from sev-
 eral countries where partial prohi-
 bition was in existence were so alarming as to the evil results that some time ago a number of earnest and honest temperance reformers de- cided to investigate. Norway was selected, and Lord Salvesen, an eml- nent Scottish Law Lord, visited the country and gave the results of his impressions
 Lord Salvensen is said to have found that smuggling was an every day occurrence and that private distillation of spirits from sugar and potatoes was being carried on at an alarming a rate