Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1920 — B. C. WET VOTERS WIN [ARTICLE]

B. C. WET VOTERS WIN

PLEBISCITE SHOWS HUGE MAJORITY AGAINST THE DRY 3. Government to Sell Liquor in the Canadian Province—Women Opposed Prohibition. Vancouver, Oct. 22.—Repudiation of the Brlt'sh Columbian prohibition law, indicated by the 15,000 majority already recorded from Wednesday’s plebiscite, brought government officials to consideration of how the liquor traffic shall be administered. The vote was on the preference between prohibition and “An act to provide for government control and sale in sealed packages of spirituous and malted liquors.” Officials here believe that the vote will result in a generous policy in the dispensation of liquor, not in open saloons but in government stores. Under the prohibition act only eight ounces could he purchased, even with a physician’s certificate. W. L. Savage, British Columbia president of the Prohibition party, declared the vc ifccvns the result of confusion of the term “government control." This was particularly true, he said, among woman voters, many of whom thought it meant a better system of government control of the present prohibition act. y