Republican farmer., 1919-01-24
FIGHT ID 4 FINISH IS
 PLANNED

Chicago, H., Jan. 1S.-Three hun dred distillers of the United States l in Chicago today decided to fight the dry forces before the Supreme Court of the United States at every possible | angle of attack.
 1 Questions that have not been raised | before in the countrys history will be | put up to the Supreme Court. One is the constitutionality of the consti- 1 tutional amendment article itself. The highest court in the land will be asked to pass on the question as to whether thirtysix or any number of l states can impose rule of personal conduct on other states that are not 1 included in the combine.
 This attack will be based on Ar l ticle ., of the Constitution, which provides that powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitu- ton, nor prohibited by it to the states, shall be reserved to the states respectively.
 Claim of State Rights. 1 Another point to be raised Is 1 whether the Federal Government can | force a state to surrender it's inher- ent right to handle exclusively mat ters pertain to the personal liberty | rights of the individual citizen of a state.
 The distilIers got a little ray Of hope when it was discovered that ci- der cannot be manufactured if the prohibition amendment is ratified by the constitutional number of states required. One report from down East, where they still have apple or cllards. was that the farmers were up iii arms over the possibility of not being permitted to make up the l windfalls of the orchards into cider for commercial purposes.
 Throughout the convention, how ever, there seemed to be a general feeling that the prohibition amend ment would receive the Endorsement of the thirty-six states and that the fight will have to be carried on be- fore the courts subsequent thereto. The distillers also laid stress on the provision of the pending dry amendment that fixes a time limit of seven years in which the ratification by the two-thirds states shall take place. This time element, they were advised, constitutes an unconstiu- tiona1 limitation not contemplated by the amending article of the Federal Constitution. This was the point raised by Senator Borah at the time the resolution was pending in Con gress.
 panger of Socialism.
 It is the belief of politicians and newspaper men that if the dry forces won finally there was danger of the United States going 10 a So- cialist party basis, or the great ma jority of the working classes Hopping over to the BecSer-Stedman- Germer standard.
 This report is said to have been compiled after a survey of the politi- cal rumhlings among the working classes, who are demanding. t is stated that the reformers leave them alone to the enjoyment of their glass of beer. One spokesman for the con vention declared that Russia did no; | revolt until vodka was taken from the working classes, and that Lloyd George. who started out a teetotaler for England. Wales and Scotland threatened an uprising if the ration ing of their beverages went farther
 4 prominent Socialist leader was quoted as saying that he was hoping with all his soul the prohibition amendment would be ratified, as he | counted on at least S,0oo,000 voters among the working classes joining the Socialist ranks as an imn=a5;ate result.