A Sweeping Decision

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 7, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 22.

A Sweeping Decision

THE state supreme court of North Dakota has just handed down a decision which will be far-reaching in its effect upon those engaged in selling substitutes for beer in the state of North Dakota. The finding of the supreme court in the famous test case which has been taken before it, is that the prohibition law of that state applies not only to whisky and beer, but to any and every substitute for these liquors, whether or not they contain alcohol.

This decision is one of the most sweeping ever handed down by a state supreme court. In many cases the courts have held that liquors containing more than one per cent of alcohol come under the ban of the law; but this decision puts all substitutes in the same class, even tho some of them may not contain any amount of alcohol.—The Issue.