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Show Temperance Wave in Scotland. Edinburgh. The budget has already had its effect in making the Scotch a soberer nation. Official statistics show that since the higher duty was imposed im-posed on whisky there has been a reduction re-duction of two thousand in the number of arrests for drunkenness. In other Scotch cities there has been a similar diminution in alcoholic crime, notably in Dundee, where last year there were 1,864 arrests for drunkenness, compared com-pared with 2,885 in 1908. |