Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-01-28
And Vet Again-ReStriCted
Licenses

Judge Christian, Of the Corpora
ton Court of Lynchburg, Is restrain-
ed under present conditions from
granting license for the sale OF liquor
i'm this community.
Judge Staples, however, OF the
Corporation Court, OF Roanoke, is
permitted under present conditions
To grant license permitting the Ii1uor
TO be sold in Lynchburg.
Judge Massie, OF the Circuit Court
of Pulaski, is restrained under recent
conditions from granting licenses
for the sale OF liquor in Pulaski.
Judge Staples, however, OF the
Corporation Court, of Roanoke, is
permitted under present conditions
10 grant license permitting the sale
OF liquor TO be sold 10 Pulaski.
And so ii would be easy To go on
naming many communities wherein
the judge OF another jurisdiction
than their own, can effect and par
TALLY defeat their own local policy
through the license granting power.
1t will be answered, that Judge
Staples, of Roanoke, is not vested
with the power TO grant liquor IL
cenSe for the liquor traffic i'm Lynch
burg. lie can only license Roanoke
liquor dealers. \ distinction is here
presented which is technically
sound, but which represents non
substantial difrerence-no suhstan
tial answer to our proposition.
To illustrate:
If Mr. A., II Roanoke liquor deal
er, should appear before Judge Chris
tian with petition to allow him TO
use Lynchburg building 10 distrib-
ute whiskey bought by Lynchbure
purchases through mail orders receiv-
ed in Roanoke, the application
would he promptly refused. And
Why Because the grant of the petit
lion would reflect what is tan a.
mount in general effect, to the car
rying on of the liquor business here
in Lynchburg, policy which was
outlawed by the Lynchburg electo-
rate last December-the only differ
ence being that Mr.. A. would be op-
Grating under Judge Staples license,
and the place of payment would be
Roanoke instead of Lynchburg. The
average reader, whether wet or dry.
will probably admit as much. But
If he does, then he admits our case.
For as n matter of verify, we have
on Main street right here in Lynch
burg a building used among other
purposes for distributing to lynch
burgers the whiskey bought, saw OF
Mr.. a. of Roanoke. The fact that
over the door of that house the sign
Express Company" Is nailed,
makes 1T no less a medium for indi-
rect liquor traflice, than would be
so were the sign, Liquor Empori-
um' nailed there instead. The re-
suits are the same in both cases-and
they are arrived at through pracric-
ally the same general channels. This
being so. we say that Judge Staples
license to sell liquor is operating
here in Lynchburg just about as
effectively as if his license occupied
building here to take orders and
distribute Roanoke wet goods among
Lynchburg people.
Such n condition, we maintain.
ought to be cured, il cure be posi-.
/ BILE.
The News has offered very sim
pie remedy-and very easily un.
derstood one and very practical
one. 1t proposes TO so curtail the in.
iisdition of the license granting
judge that his liquor grant will op-
crate only Within his own jurisdic.
iion--that it will not operate in it.
effect 10 defeat the law of othel
places. An act is now pending i'm
Congress to whose support the Vir.
ignia delegation Is pledged, prohib-
iting the shipment of liquor from