The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-27
a DEATH BLOW.

The Supreme Court and the SatOOn-Tho
Power aud Majesty OF the Law-supreme
Authority from which There 10 No APP
peal.
The saloon reels under the terrific
blow dealt by the Supreme Court Of
the United States in the Kansas cases.
1t reels to and fro and staggers like a
drunken man. and is at its wits end.
Its swagger is for the moment gone.
| Its loud, boastful tones have fallen
into hoarse whisper, and its imper-
tinent challenge to the American peo-
pie has lost its defiant ring. The power
and majesty of law which it has so
often scorned, inspire it with an awe
it never felt before. 1t has made its
final appeal and has found that there
Is no way OF escape for it from the
mighty grip of law. Any State may
now declare it a nuisance and proceed
to abate il, and it has no remedy ex-
ccpt in rebellion. Every phase of the
saloon-the brewery. the distillery,
the groggcry, is subject to the eXer-
else of this sovereign power; and the
| manufacture and the Wholesale and
the retail of intoxicants may be as
vigorously suppressed as any other
| form of nuisance deemed detrimental
to health or morals.
The decision Of the Supreme Court
declares that compensation for dam
| age to property can not be exacted
| from the State when the manufacture
and sale of intoxicants are prohibited.
| This is the great point decided. Every
man, henceforth, who enters into. or
| continues in, the business of making
or selling intOXcants in any State,
does so ut his own risk. His business
may at any time, either by legislative
| enactment or constitutional provision,
! be declared nuisance and be sup
pressed as in Kansas or be prohib-
| tied as in Maine and other States. 1t
| is in effect n notice to every brewer
| and distiller and dealer that he must
be prepared to give up this business
whenever his State commands him to.
Formal action by the popular voice or
| by Legislative pr ocess outlaws his bust
ness, and turns the criminal machinery
| Of the State against him. The moral
force of this fact is irresistible 1t will
crush the saloon rs slavery was
crushed. The supreme interpreter OF
| our Supreme Law has given us this
mighty weapon Of warfare. Let us
WELD il with all our power.
| The decision has robbed the saloon
of strong hope. 1t ''annihilates at
once and forever" says the st. Louis
Anseiger des Westerns. all hope of pro-
lection against the suppression by in-
dividual States of the liquor traffic. and
"extinguishcs irrcvocably" all expecta-
tions of indemnity. 1t Is mot only y
heavy blow to the business interests
directly concerned" says the Balti-
more Duetsche Correspondent, "but
also to the whole movement for the
maintenance Of personal liberty" Mr..
| Thoman, one OF the chief writers for
the brewers. says he has lost ''all con-
fdcnce in the Supreme Court" Louis
Schade, attorney for the Brewers AS
ISOLATION of the United States. says 1t
Is a terrible blow, but the brewers
must submit Ii bars them out OF all
Prohibition States and local-option
counties. Liquor dealers all agree
that it settles the question forever so
far as the courts are concerned. and
that all they can do Is To resist the
progress OF Prohibition.
The contest Is narrowed down and
simplifed by this decision. The sa-
loon. with its whole business is In
effect, delivered into the hands of the
people. The people may do what they
will with 1t. They may support IL or
they may tolerate II; they may cripple
1t or they may destroy II. Their right
10 deal with 1t is honceforth unques-
| toned.
The lessons for Temperance men are
these: LIST. BE Of good cheer. Let this