Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1901 — PROHIBITION WINS IN CANADA. [ARTICLE]

PROHIBITION WINS IN CANADA.

The legal fight which liquor men have fought for tho past three years against Manitoba's prohibition laws has ended in a victory for prohibition. Three years ago the Manitoba legislature passed a prohibitory law which forbade the sale or gift of liquor from one party to another. The liquor men held that this was ultra vires, as such laws should only be passed by the dominion parliament. Pending the legal fight all temperance legislation has been at a standstill. The dominant party in every province and territory except Quebec and British Columbia is pledged to prohibition if the Manitoba acts were sustained. The other day the unanimous decision of the privy council as cabled from London is that a province has absolute control in prohibiting the use of intoxicating liquors.