The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-04-20

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ourselves and our posterity, do or
dain and establish this Constitution |
of the United States of America
He then reminds US that, whereas
when the first licenses were granted
alcohol was universally believed TO
be valuable food and medicine, it
is now proved to be a poison and the
cause of idIeness, poverty, crime,
insanity, the destruction of human
life, broken homes, and orphanage,'
court of Iowa. From a decision of
the supreme court OF the United
States he quotes: THE general and
unrestricted sale of intoxicating
liquors tends to produce idleness,
disorder, disease, pauperism and
crime" and again, mo legislature
can bargain away the public health
or the public morals. The people
themselves cannot do it, much less
their servants"
Reduce to a sylogism the argu-#
ment is: The government was es-
tablished to promote public welfare,
and cannot divest itself of the duty;
issuances of licenses to manufacture
and sell intoxicating liquors is in
furious to the public welfare; there
fore it is unconstitutional"
DIR. Hipp says, I'VE have the prin-
ciple of prohibition now, but for the
l. Of
permit men to make and sell the
poison"
Mr.. Herbert C. Shattuck, A. B.,
LII. B. of the New York bar, con-
tributes an article on the legal as
poets of prohibition, in which he
takes up the subject from all sides,
scientific, social and legal, every
statement fortified by references to
authority. To quote his conclusion
entire:
Il. That owing to the essential
difference in character between in
toxicating liquor and other articles
of commerce, owing to it's inherent
danger to the individual and to So
ciety, traffic in such liquor for bev-
erage purposes should not be treat
cd merely as business to be regulat-
ed and perpetuated.
-. That, in view of the close, di-
rect connection between liquor,
crime, disorder, insanity, pauper-
| ism, degeneracy, disease and misery,
| the police power should be at once
exercised to prohibit such traffic
50. That, in view of the fact that
| the veil effects of the liquor traffic
| are not confined to the locality
| where the traffic is carried on, but
| permeates the entire social struc-
ture, local option, by units smaller
| than the state, is wholly inadequate
to solve the problem, but decisive
effective action is demanded on the
part of the state and nation.
"A. That, in order to give prohi-
| bition its full effectiveness, the de-
mand is not only for prohibitory
| laws, but also for an honest admins
| tration of those laws in the hands of
| the officials whose constituency
stand unitedly for such policy"
| Mr.. A. G. Bailey, district attorney,
York county, California, takes up
the question of the soliciting of or
ders of intoxicating liquors in dry
territory. 1t was soon evident that
law was much hindered by agents
who came into dry territory, took or
ders and delivered their good by
common carrier, claiming the pro-
| lection of the interstate commerce
law. Laws attempting to restrain
| them were declared unconstitutional
in many courts. But finally the SUI
preme court Of the United States up
held the supreme court of South Da-
ko-a in conyicting a man named
Delmaer in taking orders in viola
ton of state law and declared that
law to be within the police power
of the state. Since then statues of
that character have been generally
upheld by the courts, and efforts
made for their enforcement.
Let us briefly summarize these
| lawyers views. They emphasize the
evils of the liquor traffic, they make
plain the rights of the individual
state to regulate or prohibit it, but
they also show what a farce this
right is without cooperation of the
federal government. The Webb bill
is a tremendous advance, but it may
be pronounced unconstitutional by
Every friend of temperance should
therefore, bring all possible influence
TO bear on Congress for national pro-