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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-01-28
LICENSES GO BEGGING

Evidently In Pueblo. Colo. the %,
loon agent is not looked upon a. the
advance agent Of prosperity. says Ellis
Meredith In the Union Signal. Five
licenses which had expired were put
up at auction Only one WAS sold. and
that brought but S. When you get a
community" she aptly remarks. "edu.
Gated to the point where a man isn't
willing TO rtsk more than IS on a chance
TO sell drinks. IL 10. In the vernaeular.
some education!' Pueblo, we are
told further. is q little Pittsburgh,
with steel works. smelters. etc. a pop.
ulation OF working people and a good
many foreigners who are supposed to
be unable to get along without their
beer. yet according to the papers the
number OF saloons has decreased from
lao 10 IS In the last ten years"
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-01-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

A masicians' club Of zoo persons has
been recently formed In London
The Oldest account Of . chimney
place IL In Venice in l347.
An ostrich feather which cost $50
. few years ago In now worth SIS.
The value Of imports into Chile By
parcel post during 1914 amounted "a
sl.ss,.ss4-
oleomargarine imports into Ger
many during the first ave months this
year totaled 27.soo. 900 pounds.
Japanese soldiers are nearly al
gymnasts. and every barracks has q
gymnasium. So well trained are they
that In less than half a minute they
can scale q wall IL feet high by simply
leaping on each others shoulders, one
man sustaining two or three others.
The educational buildings In the
United States are valued at sz75. 00o..
900.
Cigarettes imported into China at
Tientsin increased 50 per cent in 1914.
A $4,000, 900 telephone cable 10 to be
laid between England and Holland.
II has been estimated that British
Columbia has an area Of about 3Ss. ooo..
900 acres. Of which about 1.soo. 900
10 composed OF lakes in the interior.
There are 100000. 900 ceres Of timber
land OF no value for farming other
than for stock purposes. and while
II 10 estimated that 100000 acres 10
either under cultivation OF partly 20.
statistics show that the actual yield.
ing average. other than for grazing
purposes. II not more than $4,000
acres.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-01-28
Eiucidstlon.

Now. Thomas" said the teacher.
"can you more fully explain the adage.
Old men for counsel and young men
for war;" 1T means" replied Thorn.
as. that the old men do the quarrel
ing and then let the young men do the
nghtipE"-Fun.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-01-28
AUGUSTA BANQUET.

The press dispatches had the follow,
ing TO ssy Of the banquet held In con,
nection with the recent meeting OF the
Georgia shriners In Augusta:
The banquet IN the nrst OF its kind
ever held lby the shrinerD In the his
tory Of the world. even dating back 70
the days OF ancient history. since Il
vas the only one without spirttuoxs
- malt drink OF any hind
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-01-28
HANDSOME BOOK ON PANAMA-PAClFC INTERNATIONAL
EXPOSITION AND PANAMA CANAL REGION MAILED
TO ALL MoUlRERS FREE or CHARGE.
Sincerely,
N. G. Stevens.

HANDSOME illustrated
"a giving
Exposition he n from
1918 and Of the
the Panama Pacific Exposition
h Q
itors will
whrh b Ia
Of
position buidng fos
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-01-28

Dear Mr.. Potts,
have just run across an old let
ter OF yours, one that you wrote
nearly a year ago, and at this late
date | am going to write you.
So much has transpired since
writing you, that hardly know
where TO begin. However, for the
last ten months we have been placed
at our new station across the river
from the old mission ST. at Luebo.
We are just about two and one half
or three miles distant from the
other station, but the Lulua River
and two hills between US enhance
the difference.
You may doubt the importance OF
having second station so near the
old one, but when you know the
condition the reasons are obvious.
First the Catholics are here, I'd, the
state is on this side; this is Luebo
proper, and the state has called a
good many people from the other
side. and besides there are a good
many villages is the vicinity.
Since coming here, | have been
a Jack OF all trades" and c0nse-
quentiy have had no marked sue
cess in any particular line. I have
been carpenter, carrying on work
that Mr.. Hillhouse planned and COM
menced. He by the way Is jewel
TO have on a mission, where there
is such a need for good common.
practical sense. l may add that as
a result Of his 'lungenyi" (wisdom)
we are living in the best house that
our mission possesses, and I suspect
the best in Congo, any way the most
conveniently arranged. And be-
cause OF his knowledge Of building,
knowing how TO economic time and
space, the house is cheaper than
other houses which are not half so
good.
: Then have been doctor. Every
morning there are some who come
with sores for treatment, and other
patients. or course when there is
anything serious | send the patient TO
DR.. COppedge, or call him TO the
patient
| am also a teacher; we have
school every day except Saturday.
the school runs three months at a
time, and then we rest a month from
il, and both pupil and teacher les
pecially the latter need it. Am
sorry 10 say that our school is not
CONSPICUOUS for its numbers.
On Sunday mornings we have our
preaching service, a congregation OF
about one hundred and fifty or more.
and Sunday School in the after noon.
On Fridays | meet with the evange-
lists and the two elders. This will
give you an idea Of things. | find
that the natives are like some OF
our own people in their indiffer.
ence TO religion.
Surely you have heard OF how our
firm was increased by one about
fourteen months ago, when N. o.,
Jr- made his appearance. He is
now a fine looking youngster. and
Is continual JOY TO US. He is just
walking and few words like "cixi'
(insecU "Cinyi" (what) pretty etc.
We think he is very cunning. He
has pretty brown eyes. and some
OF the natives call him "Mesu
Mimpe" Pretty Eyes"
SO far the war has had no real
serious effect on as. as We had q
fair supply Of food stufTs on hand.
but in lower Congo they have had
a scarcity OF flour. II was once
reported that the American Govern
ment had sent out boat Of supplies
10 US in Congo; but | do not know
whether said report has been Ver-
lied or not. II would be a very
hard matter 10 starve US. We get
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-01-28

when you can, and may the Lord
bless you all. Remember me TO the
people.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-01-28
INTERNATIONAL.
SUNDMSGlOOL
LESSON

OBy " O. sEI.LEhs acting Director %
Sunday School Course Moody Bible In
stNute. chicago.l
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-01-28
LETTER FROM A FORMER PASTOR
OF SILVER CREEK CHAPEL NOW
A MISSIONARY IN AFRICA

Luebo. Congo Beige, Africa,
Nov. ~, 1914.
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vent them from being injurious, and to such reasonable rules and regula- tions established by law as the legiS- !ature, under the governing and con trolling power vested in them by the Constitution, may think necessary and expedient. This is very different from the right Of eminent domain he right of a government to take and appropriate private property when ever the<public exigency requires it. which can be done only on condition of providing reasonable compensa- ton therefor. The power we allude D is the POLICE POWER; the pow CT vested in the Legislature Claw mak ing power) 'tby the Constitution to make, ordain and establish all man ner of wholesome and reasonable laws, statutes and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugt nant to the Constitution, as wealth and of the subjects of the same." Justice Mclean in \ the famous
 icense cases 6 How 58S) said of it (the police power) Tt is a power es- sential to self preservation, and exists necessarily, in every organized com -nrnity. It is indeed the law of na- -l7re, and is possessed by a man in his individual capacity"
 Woollen & Thornton Intoxicating .iouors, Vol. I, Sec S1; ''Unwho1e- some trades, slaughter houses, opera ions offensive to the senses, the de- nosft of powder, the application of steam power to propeI cars, the build ''.~ with combustible materials and the burial of the dead may all be in- terdicted by law, in the midst of dense masses of population on the .rcreral and rational principle that every person ought-to so use his property as not to injure his neigh bors and that private interests must ha made subserviant to the general interest of the community" Rents Commentaries 34O And this is true n reference to the traffic in intoxi- cating liquors This called the police power It IS founo- ed upon the law of self-defense, of the riehtNof society to protect itself, and is older than the Constitution or even than Magma Charta itself. Tt is an axiom of constitutional construction that a State cannot give or bargain away it's police power. w. & T. l. L., Vol. I, Sec S3 94 U. s. 645. In the case of N. Y. ivs. Milen, Il Pet. 1O2, the Supreme Court of the United States said: "All those powers which relate to merely municipal l legislation, or what may, perhaps, more properly be called internal police, are not surrendered or restrained, and consequently in rela- tion to these, the authority of a State is complete. unqualified and ex- elusive" CooFy Constitutional Limi- tations G Ed) TOT; 5 How. 504; 107 1 U. s. 59; 112 U. s. 5S0.
 Woollen & Thornton l., l.. Vol. |, Sec. S6: "The power of the STATES to regulate or even prohibit the re- tail of such liquors within their 1im- it's, is not in contravention of the Constitution of the United States or any law thereof .'' 107 U. $. 59, 112 | U. s. 5SO. "There is no inherent right in a citizen to sell intoxicating l liquors by retail; it is not the privil-
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THE LAW
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arise is on it's conflicting with the fed eral GU. S.) Constitution. In my opinion it does not contravine any provision of the organic law of this nation
 Upon proclamation of Governor Hunt this amendment became a part of the organic law of this state. Ariz. Constitution, Art. ". Sec. 1, Par 5: Any measure or amendment to the Constitution proposed under the hi tiatiye and any measure to which the Referendum is applied, shall be refer red to vote of the qualified electors, zaud shall become law waen pprcTed by a majority. of the votes cast there- son, and upon proclamation of the |. Governor, and not otherwise.
 This language is too unequivocal for interpretation or to require comment except to add that no legislative ac- tioD is required or contemplated to perfect this initiated amendment to the Arizona Constitution.
 Constitution of Arizona, Art. w.. Sec. l, Par. 15, reads:
 'This section of the Constitution, (Sec D shall be, in all respects, self executing" No legislative action is required to complete this amendment. It is a complete law in itself. Though this amendment. in Sec. 2, gives to the State Legislature, power to enact appropriate legislation to carry the amendment into effect, still this am endment being adequate, complete and self-executing, no such enactment by the State Legislature is required bur on that account Sec. 2 does not yitiate, or render null and void the amendment, this section still stand ing to be resorted to should some legislative action in future be deemed eXpedient to render more practical or effective the enforcement of this amendment, upon contingencies which may arise.
 This amendment became law upon proclamation by the Governor of this state but by the provisions of the amendment itself it does not become effective until January l.. 1915. But because it's effectiveness is postpon- ed or stayed by the amendment itself does not prevent its having become a law upo the Governors proclama tion It is the law NOW, to become effective on Jan. 1, 1915, or a law 1n present. to take effect in futuro. This is a recognized mode of exercise oi legislative power, which has met with judicial sanction, in both Federal and State courts.
 The proposition has been advanced in the press of this state and perhaps in the pleadings of the liquor case now before the Federal court at Los Angeles, that if this amendment re quires no legislative action to carry it into effect it is confscatory in its nature, or deprives the liquor dealers of the State, of their property without due process of law and that it is vfo lative of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal GU. S) Constitution These phases of the prohibition ques
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or sale of intoxicating liquors AL
 READY ON HAND unlawful is not
 an ex post facto law, and is valid, al
 though at the time of the acquisition
 of the ownership in them the sale
 or keeping of them was. not an of
 feEse'' ST N B. 103; SS N. E. 695; {; ! 75 s. w. 5S5; 5 s. w. 580. There
 are few cases which hold that a 1 prohibitory law is unconstitutional,s so
 far as it relates to liquor ON HAND, at the date of the adoption, it's ef- feet being to deprive a party of his property without due process of law.
 But it may be laid down as a well es- tablfshed rule, at the present day, that the owner of liquors which he had ON HAND at the time of the adoption of a prohibitory law cannot successfully complain of the law, all though deprived of his power to sell or give it away" 12S U. s. 1; 37 N. w. t64;-36 N. w. 643; 653; 22 N. E.. 424; s. B. 915.
 The Arizona prohibition law does not prohibit person having or keep ing intoxicating liquors in his posses sicn, hence that phase of the ques- tion, though having met with judicial sanction, has no proper place in this discussion.
 Referring to the Fourteenth Amend ment to the U. S. Constitution: :" and this provision has been repeated ly invoked in questions arising con cerning the validity of license and other laws regulating the sale and control of intoxicating liquors, but without avail'' w & T. l. l.. Vol. I, Sec 1OS IS Wall 29; 123 U. s. 623; i; A Amc Rep. 634 "The amendment
 Fourteenth does not take from the States their powers of police that were reserved at the time the origin al Constitution was adopted" w. & T. l. L., Vol. I, Sec 108.
 The power of a State to enact a law or adopt a constitutional amend ment prohibiting the bringing into the State of intoxicating liquors has been decided in the affirmative and is now pending in a Federal court. This right is based upon sound reason and is a proper exercise of the police power, where there is no discrimina- tiCn in favor of or against the citi- zcns of the State in which the prohib- itory law is enacted. I am of the opinion that the Arizona prohibition law does not contravene any Federal law relative to the regulation of com merce between the several States.
 The liquor interests, from their action, evidently have two purposes: One to vest United States court with jurisdiction in testing this amendment and when that court ac- quires jurisdiction to seek an injunc- tion restraining the prosecuting off, cers of the State from enforcing this amendment. The other to secure some legislative action to delay the enforcement of this amendment.
 As before stated this amendment is a complete law in itself as self-exe- cutting and needs no legislative ac- tioE to carry it into effect. There can be no legislative act amending or repeating this amendment, it being a constitutional amendment, which could become effective prior to vote of the people thereon. It being
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ARIZONA COPPER CO.,, Store Department

|
 tior have often. occupied the atten- tion of both Federal and State courts, ano it is well established by the resulting Jurisprudence that to pro- hibit the sale or gift of intoxicatin 2 liquor, ON HAND, at the date of the enactment of a law prohibiting it's sale, is it not conf1scatory In SUD- port of this proposition I quote from the best and latest authority on the subject of Intoxicating liquors. Wool , len & Thornton, Vol I, Sec 79; '"The control of the liquor traffic and all rules and regulations concerning the use and sale of intoxicating liquors, even the prohibition of their sale, | falls within the police power" It is the peculiar province of the STATE, either by legislative enactment, or through authority delegated by muni- cipalities to exert it's POLICE POW FIR for the protection of lives, health and property of the citizens, as well as to maintain good order and pre- serve public morals. It is every where conceded that the traffic in in toNicating liquors affects all these subjects and that it is hence a prope T subject for POLICE regulation '' 22 N. E. 424, GA s. E. 491; S. E. 276; l5SVt. 594.
 If it be once granted, said the S,- preme Court of Vermont, that the rise of intoxicating liquors as drink is worse than useless, and intempeI- ance a/fegitimate consequence of such use, and that intemperance is an evil, injurious to health and sound morals and productive of pauperism and crime it seems to us that a law designated to prevent such con sequences must clearly fall within | a1o nf lou LICE REGULATIONS.
 There are numerous decisions hand ed down, in support of this lproposi- tion, by the supreme courts of moro than 2 dozen states as well as by the Supreme Court of the United States. I dc not deem it necessary for the purposes of this article to cite but a few III S. w 997; 123, U. S. 623; i; 80 N. E. 632; 43 S. E. 558 This is not a power possessed by the United States, U. S. vs. Dewitt, Wall fl.
 "A court of equity will not enjoin the enforcement of a liquor statute although it be void.' J. J. Kelly & Co. vs. Conner (Tenn.) 12S s. w. 622.
 On the subject of the/ police power and the right of a state to exercise it respecting the liquor traffic, I quote from Chief Justice Shaw: we think it is a settled principle, growing out of the nature of wel1-ordered civil SO ciety, that every holder of property however absolute and unqualified may be his title, holds it under the implied liability that his use of it shall not be Injurious to the equal enjoyment of others having an equal right of the Ienjoyment of their property, nor in furious to the rights of the communi ty, All property in this common.
 wealth is held subject to these gen. era1 regulations which are necessary to the common good and general vel fare. Rights of property like all other social and conventional rights, are subject to such reasonable limita- tions in their enjoyment as shall pre-
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an INITIATED measure, the legisla- ture is precluded from amending or repeating it. Therefore the legislature will be powerless, if it should be so disposed, to enact any valid law ] which could amend or repeal this amendment or delay it's effectiveness. If the legislature possessed such power it would hardly exercise it, as a co-conspirator of the liquor inter- ests,-to defeat the will of the people Of the State, so unmistakably express ed by their ballots on this amend ment.
 I do not consider that the United States Court would violate the sound principles of the law nor so dis regard and override the jurispru- dence of both Federal and State courts as to issue injunctions restrain | ing the public officers of this State and the counties thereof from prose cutting persons violating this amend ment. Spelling e Ed.) Injunctions /, and Other Extraordinary Remedies Pg. 506, Par. ell: Tt is another we'll established rule that injunc- tions will not issue to prevent off, l lcers from doing acts authorized by valid laws, enacted with view of promoting sthe public welfare, what ever the opinion of the court as to the wisdom or expediency of such law. Same author Pg. sos, Par. 613: Tn this connection an uncon- stitutional statute is generally regard ed as if no such statute existed. But this is not alone ground for injunc- tion against the performance of off, cial acts under it's provisions; and fwhere that appears as the only ground of complaint the courts of equity await a decision at law on the validity of the statute" Same author Soc. 24: 'Nor have courts of equity Jurisdiction to prevent by injunction the institution of bona fide prosecu- tions for criminal offenses, whether the same be violations of state statu- tes or municipal ordinances" 43 s. w 106S. And it may be stated as a general rule governing courts of equity in administering this form of relief that they will in no case inter- fere with the administration of crim- inal law" Same author Sec. CPS: Nor will an injunction issue to res train an interference by the police authorities with the business of liquor dealer by arresting him and his employees. If the arrests are illegal, habeas corpus and suits for damages afford him ample remedy. This is not intended as legal nIIet HUT as all 0AuduSUV0 Q1ScuSS1On of the subjects here touched upon but merely as means of replying to questions propounded to me, of dis closing my attitude and of expressing my opinion, relative to some of the criminal laws of the State and the enforcement of them. The people, by the law, are presumed to know the law, and such discussion may more fully advise them upon some legal matters of general interest at this time.
 E. E. WALL,
 Clifton, Arizona.
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ege of a citizen of state, or of the United States It is a business at. 1 tended with danger to the community aud may be entirely prohibited. ....
 The proposition has been advanced that the Arizona prohibition law is too drastic. That may or-may not
 be true, depending upon ones view point. But that is a problem for the
 law making power of the State and
 not for the court to solve. And by
 means of the Initiative, under the
 Arizona Constitution, the exercise of 1 Legislative power is reserved to the people qualified electors. w. & T.. II. L., Vol. I, Sec. 90: Whether a statute regulating the traffic in in- toXicating liquors is or is not reason able one is a legislative and not a judicial question. Whether such a
 law does or does not deprive citi-
 zen of natural rights is a question for the Legislature and not for the courts. Cooly Constitutional Limi- tations 4th Ed. 200: "Nor can court declare statute unconstitutional and
 void solely on the ground of unjust and oppressive provisions or because
 it is supposed to violate the natural, social, or political rights of the citi-
 zen, unless it can be shown that su h
 injustice is prohibited or such right is guaranteed or protected by the Constitution.
 The Supreme Court of the United
 States as far back as 1877 held that, I". the right to sell intoxicating liquors is not one of the privileges and fmmunities of the citizens of the United States which by the Four teenth Amendment to the Constitu- tion of the United States were for
 bidaen or abridged See 112 U. S.
 POI; 113 U. S. 27; 123 U. s. 623.
 W. & T. I. L., Vol. I, Sec. 9S: "A
 more serious question, however, is
 the effect upon the ownership of liquors ON HAND within the State, at the time a prohibitory law is adopt ed. If the ownership of the liquor was obtained when a law was in force requiring a license to sell them, and the law provided that a license must be obtained before a sale could be made and this law is repealed, thus leaving it impossible to sell the liquors, there is no question
 that the repeating law is valid and that the license immediately ends;
 for no one has a vested right in a license. ...' g N E. 424; 20
 Amc. Rep. sS; ' s. B. 915; s7 U. s. i25; 31 Louisiana Ann. 663. "The eff feet upon liquors he has on hand is
 to effectually prevent the ex-licensee
 selling them or in any way disposing of them; and of this fact he cannot complain, for he purchased them with
 the knowledge (which he was bound
 to have), that the law authorizing the
 granting of the license could at any
 time be repealed and the liquors Ief. upon his hands. But the law
 goes still further. Although it was lawful for the owner, at the time he
 purchased liquors or acquired proper
 ty in them, to sell or otherwise dis
 pose of them, yet a subsequent law
 may absolutely forbid him either sell ing or giving them away, and thus in a limited extent conf1scating the lIiuuor. law making the keeping