The National Prohibition Party was a minor party in the

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which advocated the prohibition of alcohol. The party originated in 1887. In April, Axel Gustafson put an advert in the ''Christian Commonwealth'' magazine listing a manifesto closely based on that of the American Prohibition Party. A preliminary conference was held in May, presided over by the Reverend G. Brooks and the Reverend

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. The party was officially founded in December, and joined the World Prohibition Fellowship. The party maintained a low level of activity and did not run a candidate in a parliamentary election until the

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. S. M. Holden stood for the party in the by-election, and gained the backing of Scottish Prohibition Party Member of Parliament Edwin Scrymgeour,"Prohibition M.P. in Whitechapel", ''

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'', 6 February 1923, p. 7 but he took only 130 votes and lost his deposit. From 1933 until 1949, the party published the journal ''Prohibitionist''. It dissolved in or soon after 1949.

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